Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Contract

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

Description of task

* Persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply for this vacancy.

* Only Filipino nationals are eligible to apply.

Under the direct supervision of the Child Protection Officer the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

Monitoring and reporting activities:

• Provide guidance and technical support to partners on monitoring and reporting.

• Develop reporting and indicator guidance to partners and inter-agency groups.

• Compile, clean and analyse monitoring data for governmental and non-governmental partners

• Create monitoring reports, monthly reports and donor reports, develop any other related reports if required.

• Support and provide technical assistance to develop logical frameworks for programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

• Help strengthen child protection networks on the ground, providing capacity building and support to such networks to ensure systems for gathering and verifying information on gross child rights violations are implemented and strengthened; participate in Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism working group at field level.

Planning and capacity building support:

• Liaise with UNICEF child protection programme staff and partners to prepare planning and monitoring plans.

• Support the Section in development of internal work plans and other key planning exercises.

• Support the Child Protection section in harmonizing capacity building interventions for both government partners and non-governmental organizations.

• Contribute towards preparation of the situation analysis by compiling data, analysing and evaluating information and writing chapters of the analysis related to the Child Protection Programme.

• Effectively promote knowledge management through drafting/finalizing key project documents and reports, sharing good practice, lessons learned, organizing webinars, and knowledge/information exchanges, including the new established integrated approach between education and child protection.

Research:

• Contribute to research and analysis of the country situation with respect to children’s and women’s rights.

• Provide technical support to partners and UNICEF to develop quality research, study or survey protocols.

• Support the use of innovative tools for data collection on key thematic child protection areas.

Educational additional comments

• Education, statistics, development economics, community development, social sciences, demography, international relations or similar field;
• A first-level university degree or equivalent in combination with relevant training and/or professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Experience remark

• Experience with project development and management, monitoring and evaluation, human rights-based approaches, capacity development approaches, are all assets;
• Experience in child protection and gender programmes is desirable.

Language skills

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent
• Filipino(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise details

• Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.); familiarity with database management and development (Access); some skills in data analysis and open data kits such as Kobo;
• Professional experience in planning, monitoring and evaluation of development/humanitarian programmes.

Competencies values

Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility, Building Trust, Client Orientation, Commitment and Motivation, Commitment to Continuous Learning, Communication, Creativity, Empowering Others, Ethics and Values, Integrity, Judgement and Decision-making, Knowledge Sharing, Leadership, Managing Performance, Planning and Organizing, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity, Self-Management, Technological Awareness, Vision, Working in Teams

Application procedure

• Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool? First register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup. Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile including contact details and two references and submit it. Incomplete profiles shall not be considered. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply. * Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool? First update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply. Post is for National UN Volunteer assignments ONLY. This is a national UN Volunteer assignment. Therefore only nationals of above-mentioned Country and legal residents with a residency permit, the status of refugee or with the status of being stateless are eligible to apply. For further details, please clink on the link below. Application deadline: 31-07-2021