Planning & Monitoring Officer, NO-2, Aden, Yemen

Contract

This is a NO-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-2 contracts.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, results.

In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and it was enacted immediately. Since then, the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference?

The Planning and Monitoring Officer is accountable for the accomplishment of the stated key end-results by providing professional expertise and assistance to respective field office in programme planning and reviews, implementation and results monitoring, data collection, analysis and partnership review and management for both government and civil society partners; in advocating for a result-based management environment whereby all programmes are supported in matter of planning, monitoring, information and implementing partnership management. To make a difference, the Planning & Monitoring Officer will ensure:

1. Programme Planning and Reviews
2. Programme Performance Monitoring
3. Implementation Monitoring
4. Information Management
5. Planning and Monitoring Capacity Building
6. Communication and Partnerships
7. HACT and Partnership Management

For more information of the Job Profile, please press CTRL & double-click this file: Specific Job Profile_Planning & Monitoring Officer, (NO-2), Sana'a, Yemen #118501.docx

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education

• A Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, development planning, planning, evaluation, survey implementation, advanced statistical research and related areas of discipline.

Experience

Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including planning and monitoring activities as follows:

• Two years of relevant professional work experience
• Experience in field work related to planning and monitoring
• At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning.
• Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred.

Language

• Fluency in English and Arabic are required.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

The UNICEF Competencies required for the post are:

i) Core Competencies

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

ii) Technical Knowledge

a) Specific Technical Knowledge Required (for the job)

• Knowledge of Project and Activity Monitoring.

• Professional technical knowledge/expertise in Data Collection

• Professional technical knowledge/expertise in Planning & Monitoring Process Management

• Follow-up on Recommendations and Dissemination of Planning & Monitoring results.

b) Common Technical Knowledge Required (for the job group)

• Professional technical knowledge/expertise in demography, statistics, and data management.

• Methodology of M&E, theories, standards and models, quantitative/qualitative/mixed methods, validity/reliability testing of data, data analysis and interpretation, and statistical inference methods.

• Professional technical knowledge/expertise in activity planning & monitoring, data analysis, and reporting.

• Gender equality and diversity awareness.

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, suitable female candidates from industrialized countries will receive preferential consideration and selection, as long as they meet the eligibility requirements stated above.

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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.