Planning Specialist, NOC, Appointment (6 months), Amman, Jordan, MENA Regional Office

Contract

This is a NO-3 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-3 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, dedication.

Since 2011, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has undergone a dramatic transformation. What was once a middle-income region, where UNICEF was implementing mostly upstream work, has now become the region with the greatest concentration of humanitarian needs in the world with two Level 3 emergencies (Yemen and Syria) and many countries that are facing protracted conflicts as well as civil unrest and/or political transition. The role of MENARO is to support all countries in the region in a more deliberate, consistent and value-added way, explicitly allocating the vast majority of programme and cross-cutting staff time and resources to country office technical assistance and quality assurance.

How can you make a difference?

Under the direct supervision of the Regional Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, the Planning Specialist is accountable for supporting Regional Office (internal) and Country Office (external) programme planning and monitoring processes; including providing technical assistance, oversight and quality assurance on all aspects of programme planning across Country Programme and Regional Office Management Plan cycles. Specific tasks are highlighted below:

1. Provide policy guidance, technical support and quality assurance to Country Office in all elements of their Country Programme cycles. By doing so supporting the Planning team in ensuring all COs have up to date CPD guidance documents, adequate roadmaps (and monitor these), support Strategic Moments of Reflection, support coordination of Regional Office feedback to Country Offices on their programme rationale, and CPDs.
2. Provide support to Country and Regional Office on results defining and indicator setting as per global standards and the Results Based Management (RBM) principles, monitoring and reporting, in so leading efforts on UNICEFs Results Assessment Module (RAM) technical support and quality assurance.
3. Provide technical support to Country Offices during their Mid-year and Annual Reporting requirements.
4. Provide technical, coordination and quality assurance support to the Regional Office during its Mid-year and Annual Review and Reporting requirements, including review of Country Office Annual Reports.
5. Support the Planning team in organizing key events and meetings such as the Regional Management Team and Deputy Representative and Chief of Operations meetings, in addition to RO mid-year/end-year reviews.
6. Other tasks as deemed required by supervisor and/or Planning team.

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

Education: An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Development studies, Social Sciences, International Development, Project/Programme Management or another relevant technical field. A first-level university degree in a relevant field combined with seven years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Experience: A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience, at the national and international levels, in programme planning, implementation, management, and/or monitoring is required.

Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

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 offers a wide range of benefits to its personnel, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. The UNICEF MENA Regional Office has an elevator as well as accessible bathrooms. Core hours in MENA Regional Office are from 09:00 to 15:00 (excluding lunch break), from Sunday to Thursday.

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.

UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.

Remarks:

This position has been assessed as an not elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is neither: a role with direct contact with children, works directly with child, is a safeguarding response role or has been assessed as an elevated risk role for child safeguarding. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) applies.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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