Report Specialist, NO-C, Fixed Term, Amman, Jordan, 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, learning.

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.

UNICEF response has grown substantially across the country offices (COs) to keep pace with the increasing needs across the Region. The UNICEF COs across MENA, including those mentioned are responding to large humanitarian caseloads, managing large budgets, with significant implications on their data collection/management, analysis, reporting responsibilities and MENARO oversight. The scale of the emergencies in MENA demands high volume and quality data/information processing, analysis and subsequently reporting.

Each of the UNICEF Country Offices (COs) in the affected countries has a different level of information management (IM) capacity and needs, so continued robust IM capacity is required from the Humanitarian Section in the MENA Regional Office (MENARO). There are also a wide range of capacities in the Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Sudan COs to respond to IM needs, all of which require some degree of support to coordinate. Some COs may also require surge support which the IMO will need to respond to.

How can you make a difference?

This post will be responsible for report drafting and quality assurance, including for humanitarian situation reporting, reporting on UNICEF accountabilities as cluster lead agency and under the relevant UN Security Council resolutions in the Syria crisis. Donors have increasingly been asking for aggregated results reporting, quality assurance on country office reports including improved and standardized proposals, and visibility particularly on the Yemen crisis response to allow for justification of their large funding disbursement. The post will also provide support to quality assurance of donor reporting and funding proposals. The post will reinforce the system to report on humanitarian performance monitoring across the MENA region. Specific tasks are highlighted below:

1. Lead Production and Quality Assurance of UNICEF external and internal humanitarian Situation Reports

• Provide quality assurance for humanitarian SitReps across the region as required, including feedback to country offices.
• The post will provide inputs to external SitReps and updates for agencies such as UNHCR and OCHA.

2. Production and Quality Assurance of UNICEF and Cluster/ Sector Information Products

• Prepare and systematically update UNICEF information materials, including Infographics, Fact Sheets, Communications Q&As, human interest stories, and presentations.
• Support the UNICEF lead cluster/ sector coordinators in MENARO to develop regular information products

3. Lead Production and Quality Assurance of the Humanitarian Team Planning and Reporting

• Lead the consolidation and follow up of the Humanitarian Team’s work plan design, monitoring and reporting
• Lead Section’s inputs into RAM and Fiori
• Support the Section in preparing necessary inputs for ROMTs, ROMP design and revision.
• Support other reporting as required.

4. MENARO humanitarian section coordination activities

• Record minutes of humanitarian coordination meetings including the CMT, EMT, and regional meetings.
• Support the humanitarian section and the programme sections to compile and analyze reports and data on systems including eTools and SharePoint.
• Compilations of internal reports including Briefing Notes and presentations.

5. Support Finance Management

• Support the drafting and finalization of donor reports for which MENARO is accountable, including the annual Consolidated Emergency Report and the Humanitarian Action for Children.
• Provide quality assurance for donor proposals, reports and project documents.
• Support the section’s PA in analysis the MENARO HAC Income and Fund Utilization

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

Education: An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: communications, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and reporting on results and/or any other relevant discipline is required. A bachelors degree with at least 7 years of professional experience can also be considered in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Experience: A minimum of five years of professional experience in communication, programme planning, management, reporting and/or monitoring and evaluation is required. Experience working in a developing country and relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization as well as in Monitoring & Evaluation, and field experience and experience in working with UNICEF is also considered as an assets. Excellent writing skills in English; proven ability to conceptualize, plan and execute ideas, as well as impart knowledge and teach skills.

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.

The functional competencies required for this post are...

• Leading and Supervising, Level 2
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts, Level 2
• Analyzing, Level 2
• Applying Technical Expertise, Level 2
• Planning and Organizing, Level 2
• Relating and Networking, Level 2
• Coping with Set-back and pressure, level 2

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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 Jordan Country Office has an elevator as well as accessible bathrooms. Core hours in Jordan Country Office are from 09:00 to 15:00, 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.