United Nations Children's Fund
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Below the supervision of the Training Supervisor, as a part of the Methods and Help Unit (SSU) inside the Training Part in Kabul, the Training Specialist helps programme planning, coordination, monitoring and reporting between the UNICEF Kabul-based staff each from schooling and provides sections, and the counterpart groups at UNICEF Zonal Workplaces (ZOs) and Implementing Companions (IPs), roping within the schooling specialist (roving) or varied Engineers who’re being onboarded in varied zonal places of work of UNICEF, as vital.
Within the Training Part, college building and rehabilitation are funded below totally different grants (together with these from the Authorities of Japan, the World Financial institution, the Asian Growth Financial institution, the European Union, and JICA), and managed by the Training supervisor and Head of the Unit. Implementation of actions, monitoring of interventions and the majority of expenditures for these programmes are decentralized to the UNICEF Zonal Workplaces.
The Training Specialist will guarantee extra environment friendly communication and coordination horizontally throughout the totally different models of the Kabul workplace to assist programme planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting, but additionally vertically between the Kabul workplace and the Zonal Workplaces. This position contains, pro-actively working with building unit (inside Provides part) and SSU unit (inside Training part) and implementing companions each NGOs and corporations to coordinate undertaking initiation, implementation, and closure in accordance with UNICEF and donors’ necessities. The incumbent additionally gives coordination assist for web site inspection, high quality assurance, and different technical actions led by the engineering corporations and/or building unit. It additionally requires coordination throughout totally different specialised models inside UNICEF such because the gender unit in addition to environmental and social safeguards specialists for instance. Lastly, it requires competences in grant monetary administration, to assist Zonal Workplace colleagues and implementing companions.
Key features, accountabilities and associated duties/duties
Abstract of key features/accountabilities:
Programme planning, engagement and coordination with authorities:
Within the Training Part, college building and rehabilitation are funded below totally different grants (together with these from the Authorities of Japan, the World Financial institution, the Asian Growth Financial institution, the European Union, and JICA), and managed by the Training supervisor and Head of the Unit. Implementation of actions, monitoring of interventions and the majority of expenditures for these programmes are decentralized to the UNICEF Zonal Workplaces.
The Training Specialist will guarantee extra environment friendly communication and coordination horizontally throughout the totally different models of the Kabul workplace to assist programme planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting, but additionally vertically between the Kabul workplace and the Zonal Workplaces. This position contains, pro-actively working with building unit (inside Provides part) and SSU unit (inside Training part) and implementing companions each NGOs and corporations to coordinate undertaking initiation, implementation, and closure in accordance with UNICEF and donors’ necessities. The incumbent additionally gives coordination assist for web site inspection, high quality assurance, and different technical actions led by the engineering corporations and/or building unit. It additionally requires coordination throughout totally different specialised models inside UNICEF such because the gender unit in addition to environmental and social safeguards specialists for instance. Lastly, it requires competences in grant monetary administration, to assist Zonal Workplace colleagues and implementing companions.
Key features, accountabilities and associated duties/duties
Abstract of key features/accountabilities:
Programme planning, engagement and coordination with authorities:
- Collaborate carefully with Zonal Workplaces and Implementing Companions to plan and execute college building and rehabilitation tasks.
- Set up clear timelines for monitoring and knowledge compilation on the regional stage, guaranteeing correct reporting on the nationwide stage.
- In collaboration with the SSU staff: assist in capability constructing of Zonal Workplace colleagues and Implementing Companions in utilizing college building and rehabilitation instruments, databases, dashboards, templates and many others. to facilitate extra real-time monitoring of implementation progress, expenditures, provides and many others.
Programme Administration, Budgeting and Reporting:
- Liaising and speaking with Zonal Workplaces on monetary administration and monitoring of expenditure (comparable to mushy and onerous commitments, for instance) for improved grant administration, monitoring and reporting.
- In collaboration with focal factors from the related models inside the schooling and provides part (particularly the development unit), assist the administration and operational features of faculty building and rehabilitation tasks.
- Take part in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme opinions and annual sectoral opinions with zonal places of work and implementing companions and put together reviews for the Chief of part.
Operational assist for programme implementation, together with humanitarian preparedness, and communications with ZOs and IPs for inside and exterior reporting:
- In collaboration with the M&E/IM specialist, develop shut collaboration between schooling and provides/building grant managers, zonal workplace focal factors and IPs by means of involvement in operational assist for programme implementation particularly associated to highschool building and rehabilitation, in addition to monitoring to gather well timed knowledge and data for inside reporting (to the UNICEF workplace) and exterior reporting (to donors).
- Help the M&E/IM Specialist within the operationalization of methods, instruments and dashboards for use throughout schooling and provides models, zonal places of work and IPs to standardize knowledge codecs and reporting on college building and rehabilitation and related duties.
- In collaboration with KM Officer, assist the preparation of (donor) reviews by guaranteeing the correct and well timed submission of high-quality knowledge and qualitative data from zonal places of work and implementing companions in a standardized, deliberate and arranged method.
Networking and partnership constructing particularly with IPs:
- In collaboration with related schooling and provides models and focal factors, interact with nationwide implementing companions (IPs), nationwide engineering corporations, and related authorities departments (e.g., Division of Infrastructure and Amenities) to handle college building and rehabilitation undertaking challenges and bottlenecks and construct on current partnerships and networks.
Innovation, data administration and capability constructing:
- Help the SSU IM/M&E Specialist to socialize all revolutionary methods and options developed internally for higher monitoring of packages, expenditure monitoring and many others. inside all zonal places of work and inside IPs as wanted.
- In collaboration with related focal factors inside the schooling and provides part and different sections of the workplace as required (comparable to WASH and gender on gender applicable building design and implementation, SPEAR on environmental and social safeguards, and many others.), interact with related committees which comprise the World Financial institution, different UN companies and NGOs to operationalize UNICEF’s assist.
- Help the capability constructing of faculty building and rehabilitation IPs to watch their packages and report on progress based on requirements and codecs developed by the SSU.
To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…
- A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Training, Worldwide Relations, Info Know-how, public administration, monetary administration or some other related research.
- A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in program planning, coordination or administration within the schooling sector
- A primary College Diploma in a related area mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma
- Expertise with Monetary and Outcomes Primarily based Administration of huge grants with complicated donor necessities, together with utilizing devoted instruments/methods/dashboards will be an asset.
- Expertise working in complicated context with a number of companions throughout totally different geographical areas is an asset.
- Expertise with organizing work and knowledge flows from a number of sources for donor reporting is an asset.
- Expertise supporting the administration of complicated grants from WB and/or EU, in addition to World Funds comparable to GPE, ECW, World Fund for Well being is an asset.
- Fluency in English is required, and native languages (Dari & Pashto) is an asset.
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