Planning and Monitoring Assistant

Contract

This is a UNV National Youth contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Youth contracts.

By mid-October 2023, 101,848 ethnic Armenians, including 30,000 children, fled to Armenia following the escalation of hostilities in their region of origin. At the beginning of October 2023, the Armenia Country Office has launched a Humanitarian Action for Children appeal for 12 M USD to respond to the needs of the population affected by the displacement. UNICEF is implementing activities in Education, Child Protection, Social Protection, WASH, and Health and Nutrition sectors. Furthermore, UNICEF is leading the Education, Cash, and Child Protection inter-agency Working Groups to ensure effective coordination of the implementation of the Armenia Refugee Response Plan October 2023 – March 2024. As of mid-February 2024, over fifty percent of the necessary funds for addressing the needs of the affected population have been secured, significantly intensifying the burden of donor reporting within strict timeframes. Monitoring of the implementation and reporting requires dedicated efforts to coordinate, collect, quality assure and process relevant data from implementing partners. For this purpose, UNICEF is actively seeking to hire a Planning and Monitoring Assistant to support the Country Office team by carrying out a range of programme support functions to help develop, implement and monitor the country programme and humanitarian response, ensuring effective and timely delivery that is consistent with UNICEF rules and regulations. The Planning and Monitoring Assistant will work in close collaboration with programme and operations sections of UNICEF, external partners, and agency counterparts in support of programme design and delivery. S/He will provide regular feedback on the status of projects through monitoring milestones and advises on improvements to keep activities on track.

• Support Planning and Monitoring Officer in organizing and delivering trainings and workshops for UNICEF’s staff and implementing partners (IP). • Monitor timely and quality reporting by IPs. Provide assistance and technical support to IPs on reporting through available platforms on UNICEF humanitarian response for refugee children. • Support Programme teams in development of programme cooperation agreements (PCAs) and Programme Documents (PD).
• Support in monitoring the status of spot checks, programmatic and field monitoring visits. • Support the Planning and Monitoring Officer in researching, compiling, and analysing qualitative and quantitative data and information from a variety of sources on subject matters relevant to the work of the Programme sections to facilitate programme delivery as well as preparation of donor reports, working papers and presentations.
• Prepare monitoring and reporting information, briefers, and presentation on key performance indicators to drive more efficient management and accountability for results. • Regularly monitor budgets expenditures and open commitments within donor-funded grants, prepare summary tables, keeping supervisor informed and advised on actions for decision and/or follow up.

(UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values.

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

relevant area. • Knowledge of the most common administrative processes. • Strong organizational, planning, and prioritizing skills and abilities. • High sense of confidentiality, initiative, and good judgment. • Ability to work effectively with people of different national and cultural backgrounds. • Strong office management skills. • High attention to detail and ability to learn fast. • Ability to effectively manage and organize distribution of documents and other printed or electronic materials. • Good analytical and time-management skills. • Experience using MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other software such as SharePoint. • RBM and technical IM skills, experience in humanitarian/emergency response with NGOs/UN system is an asset.

As of March 2024, National UN Youth Volunteers in Armenia receive AMD 299,398/month as their Volunteer Living Allowance.

Other benefits and entitlements include: 1. Pre-assignment - Entry lump sum - USD 400 Relocation costs -$200 at beginning and end of assignment if duty station is outside of commuting distance (as determined by UNV)

2. During assignment Volunteer living allowance - AMD 299,398 / month (as mentioned above) Learning - Access to UNV's learning and career development resources and participation in an assignment preparation training provided by UNV Annual leave - 2.5 days per month Insurance - Comprehensive coverage for health, life and malicious acts for the UN Volunteer and health insurance coverage for up to 3 eligible dependents . See the Conditions of Service for more details on eligibility criteria.

3. End of assignment Exit allowance (paid on successful completion of the assignment)

Yerevan is safe city with occasional public unrest related to the current situation. The climate is continental, with hot and dry summers, cold and snowy winters. The air pollution high during winter time months. The city offers a huge variety of restaurants, cafes, clubs, and other possibilities of diversion. Usually culturally highly active, all over the year one can enjoy on-going programmes of theatre (also international), classic and modern music, ballet, concerts, at everyone 's average. Art expositions are organized quite often, and spring and autumn programmes of international cinema are shown at the National Gallery. Water and electricity are mostly available everywhere in the city, and shops offer all kind of goods (though mostly of local production). Health facilities are good though were overloaded at the time of covid-19 situation.

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials.

You can check full entitlements at the duty station at https://app.unv.org/calculator. The complete UN Volunteer Conditions of Service is availableat https://explore.unv.org/cos.