Planning & Monitoring Specialist, P3, Health Section, Programme Group, NYHQ

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 140,639 USD and 184,155 USD.

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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, hope

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life — in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

Job organizational context

The Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) was launched in April 2020 with the aim of accelerating development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines. ACT-A brings together governments, scientists, businesses, civil society, philanthropists and global health organizations.

UNICEF plays a substantial role in all three ACT-A pillars (diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines), and in the Health Systems connector. UNICEF’s ACT-A/COVAX coordination team sits within the Health Section, Programme Division at UNICEF Headquarters, New York. This Temporary Appointment- Planning and monitoring specialist (P3) will provide strategic planning, monitoring and reporting support to the ACT-A/COVAX coordination team.

Purpose for the job

Under the supervision and guidance of the Senior Adviser, Health, the Planning and monitoring specialist (P3) is responsible for executing a variety of tasks related to planning, monitoring and reporting within the ACT-A COVAX team, requiring solid technical skills and knowledge of UNICEF processes and policies.

How can you make a difference?

Tasks will include the following:

1. Strategic planning for ACT-A/COVAX

   • Supports strategic and operational planning for the ACT-A/COVAX unit, including annual work planning, budgeting, monitoring and tracking progress against milestones and recommends corrective actions as needed

   • Leads mid-year and annual reviews and related reporting

   • Prepares and/or coordinates inputs for reports, fundraising proposals and other requests

2. Monitoring of grants managed by the ACT-A/COVAX

   • Leads the accurately and timely monitoring of programme implementation and financial utilization of multi-country grants managed by the ACT-A team

   • Establish monitoring mechanisms and ensure consistent tracking and reporting on ongoing activities and deliverables.

   • Analyses and evaluates programme and financial data and prepares data visualizations

   • Provides timely updates to relevant global, regional and country colleagues on grant implementation

   • Analyses data and provides inputs for reporting on UNICEF’s contribution to ACT-A

3. Partnerships

   • Supports effective partnerships by coordinating and preparing high-quality reports and timely responses to requests from partners

   • Provides guidance to Regional and Country Offices on report preparation, donor proposals and concept notes

   • Participates in partner and coordination meetings and present data and provide insights.

   • Provides inputs, including on technical data, monitoring and evaluation, to fundraising proposals and concept notes to support resource mobilisation

4. Information and knowledge management

   • Establishes, maintains and updates data and information related to ACT-A-related grants, making this available to internal and external stakeholders as appropriate using web-based content management systems, Sharepoint sites, etc

   • Supports the collation of inputs, analyses and resources so that document libraries are up-to-date.

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

• Completion of advanced degree in Social Sciences, Public Health or related degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible work experience at national or international levels in programme management, planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Excellent communication skills, multitasking and result driven as well as ability to manage competing priorities, are required.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respective, Integrity, Trust and Accountability.

For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF's Entitlements' page. If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator

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

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, appearance, socio-economic status, ability, age, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”