Vacancy Announcement: Planning & Monitoring Officer, NOB, Fixed Term, Unicef Jordan Country Office, Amman

Entry Monitoring & Evaluation Programme & Policy

Overview

Provide technical and operational support in planning and monitoring for children's welfare.

You have:

• A first University Degree in economics, psychology, sociology, education or other social science field is required.
• A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in social development analysis and programming at the international and/or in a developing country is required.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

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, Planning

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is leader in the region for the rights of its children. Working closely with the Government of Jordan, civil society, the private sector and communities, UNICEF Jordan Country Office aims to sustain results achieved for children to date, and strive to further improve policies, national institutions and programmes, for the well-being of every child in Jordan, in line with Jordan's Vision 2025 and the National Human Resources Development Strategy (2016-2025) towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Our programmes focus on improving the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children in the Kingdom, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or background. Our main pillars include: Child Protection; Education; Water, Sanitation & Hygiene; Adolescent and Youth Engagement; Health and Nutrition; Social Protection; and Operations.

How can you make a difference?

Under the close supervision and guidance of the Planning and monitoring Specialist, the Planning and Monitoring Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the planning and monitoring process preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative tasks to contribute to the overall goal and results of the country office. Specific responsibilities are highlighted below:

1. Setting Standards for Programme performance planning and monitoring

• Provide technical support as necessary to the process of developing and monitoring Annual Work Plans, including reporting on progress of the equity and gender marker as outlined in the Programme Policy and Procedures Guidance
• Provide technical support as necessary in organizing and managing annual/mid-year/mid-term/end term country programme reviews ensuring consistency with objectives and goals set out in the CPD and contribute to the Annual Management Plan.
• Monitor follow-up actions based on management decisions resulting from Country Office performance monitoring and evaluation.
• Support the programme components to effectively monitor and report on the intersectoral programme results, cross sectoral programme component results and field office results to facilitate programme coherence and convergence where appropriate.
• Contribute to development of programme monitoring framework for the learning zones including technical backstopping to the field team for convergent programming.
• Provide technical support to programme sections to effectively monitor and report on the intersectoral programme results

2. Support to the preparation of the integrated monitoring and evaluation plan (IMEP)

• Participate in planning and discussions and support the development and completion of IMEP through research, collection, analysis and reporting related information/data to facilitate integrated planning and priority and goal setting.
• Provide technical and operational support throughout the planning process by executing/administering a variety of technical, operational and administrative transactions, preparing related materials/documentations and complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support evaluation results based planning (RBM) monitoring and assessing results.
• Prepare required documentations/materials/data to facilitate planning, implementation and reporting.

3. Networking and partnership building

• Provide technical and operational support to a wide range of stakeholders and evaluators on UNICEF policies, practices, standards and norms.

• Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate monitoring and build their capacity for planning, monitoring and implementation.

• Participate in appropriate inter-agency (UNCT) meetings/events on evaluations to collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues on UNSDCF operational planning and preparation and to integrate and harmonize UNICEF position and strategies with the UNSDCF development and planning process.

4. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

• Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned from evaluations for integration into broader knowledge development planning and management efforts.

• Research and report on best and cutting edge practices for development planning of knowledge products and systems for monitoring.

• Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies of clients/stakeholders.

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

• Education: A first University Degree in economics, psychology, sociology, education or other social science field is required.
• Experience: A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in social development analysis and programming at the international and/or in a developing country is required. Relevant experience in program/project monitoring and evaluation in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
• Languages: Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. 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. For the position, suitable female candidates will receive preferential consideration and selection, as long as they meet the eligibility requirements stated above.

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

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

Remarks:

For international posts: 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.

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