Reports Specialist, P3, MENARO, Jordan #118627 Temporary Appointment (11.5 months)

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 104,359 USD and 136,650 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, Justice

How can you make a difference?

The Middle East and North Africa region is facing significant challenges. Some 32 million children, including 5.8 million refugee children and 6.8 million internally displaced children, are affected by conflict, protracted emergencies and the climate crisis. The UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Office will continue to support the most vulnerable children and families with humanitarian assistance. In the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, UNICEF will reach 47 million people with risk communication messages and 2.8 million children with back-to-learning activities in Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Morocco, Oman and Tunisia. The humanitarian response will also improve accountability to crisis-affected communities, localize emergency response, prevent sexual exploitation and abuse and prioritize protection. Building shock-responsive systems and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities will remain critical.

Each of the UNICEF COs in the humanitarian affected countries in MENA has a different level of humanitarian management and reporting capacity, so continued robust humanitarian support capacity is required from the MENARO humanitarian section.

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 Humanitarian Appeals. Donors have increasingly been asking for aggregated results reporting, quality assurance on country office reports including improved and standardized proposals. The post will also provide support to quality assurance of donor reporting and funding proposals. The post will reinforce the system to report across the MENA region including on humanitarian performance monitoring (HPM)

The incumbent will work closely with Regional Advisors who provide leadership in all programme/technical areas and with the Planning team in the regional office, to ensure consistent approaches are adopted in regard to managing for results across regular programmes and humanitarian situations.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

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.
• Lead the capacity building efforts toward improving COs reporting quality.
• 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
• In collaboration with the IMO officer, strengthen data collection and humanitarian data strategies across the region.

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.
• Compilation 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, international affairs, international development, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and reporting on results and/or any other relevant discipline is required. A bachelor’s degree with at least 7 years of professional experience can also be considered in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Work 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 is considered as an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Experience in Monitoring & Evaluation, and field experience, are assets
• Excellent writing skills in English.

Proven ability to conceptualize, plan and execute ideas, as well as impart knowledge and teach skills.

Language Proficiency

Fluency in English is required and knowledge of French or Arabic are assets.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

Core Values

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability

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)

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 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.

Remarks:

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.

This position is not considered an elevated risk role. However, UNICEF reserves the right to conduct further vetting/ assessment within the scope of child safeguarding as appropriate.