Planning & Monitoring Specialist, NOC, Fixed Term, Amman , Jordan country Office, #0017507

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, all over the place, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each little one,  an advocate.

The Planning and Monitoring Specialist studies to the Chief of Programme Planning, Monitoring and Analysis for the final steering and route.  The place will contribute to environment friendly and efficient nation programme supply by guaranteeing results-based programme planning, monitoring and reporting on outcomes for youngsters in step with the newest nation programme administration process and particularly, the nation programme planning steering and the programme monitoring process.  The place will help availability of high quality and well timed knowledge to facilitate the correct efficiency measurement of progress in direction of nation programme, work plan, humanitarian response plan and programme doc outcomes with specific deal with the areas of well being and vitamin; schooling; little one safety; water, sanitation and hygiene; social safety and coverage; and adolescents and youth improvement.

How will you make a distinction?

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each little one, all over the place, in the whole lot the group does — in packages, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all kids have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favouritism. To the diploma that any little one has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be rising proof that investing within the well being, schooling, and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all kids the chance to fulfil their potential but in addition will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. For this reason the deal with fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.

Job organizational context:

The Planning and Monitoring Specialist studies to the Chief of Programme Planning, Monitoring and Analysis for the final steering and route.  The place will contribute to environment friendly and efficient nation programme supply by guaranteeing results-based programme planning, monitoring and reporting on outcomes for youngsters in step with the newest nation programme administration process and particularly, the nation programme planning steering and the programme monitoring process.  The place will help availability of high quality and well timed knowledge to facilitate the correct efficiency measurement of progress in direction of nation programme, work plan, humanitarian response plan and programme doc outcomes with specific deal with the areas of well being and vitamin; schooling; little one safety; water, sanitation and hygiene; social safety and coverage; and adolescents and youth improvement.

Objective of the job:

•  To offer technical help on nation programme efficiency monitoring by guaranteeing that the UNICEF Jordan Nation Workplace has helpful, legitimate, and dependable info for measuring progress in direction of achievement of nation programme and work plan outcomes for youngsters and use monitoring findings and classes for adaptive programming. 

• To offer cross-sectoral discipline monitoring help to Programmes, analyse, validate, collate, and visualize collected info to help choice making.

•  To help within the improvement of nationwide capacities for monitoring and analysis, with particular consideration to the curiosity, concern and participation of youngsters, adolescents, authorities, neighborhood, and civil society group stakeholders.   

III. Key capabilities, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties

Inside the delegated authority and beneath the given organizational set-up, the incumbent could also be assigned the primarily, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or a part of the next areas of main duties and key end-results. 

1.  Built-in Monitoring, Analysis & Analysis Plan (IMEP) 

In collaboration with the Analysis Specialist, be sure that the Nation Workplace and nationwide companions develop and implement a well-prioritised and sensible plan for monitoring, analysis, analysis and studying actions that can present probably the most related and strategic info to handle the Nation Programme, together with monitoring and assessing UNICEF’s distinct contribution. 

Duties & Duties

• Make skilled contributions to and supply technical help for the planning and establishing the foremost analysis, monitoring, and studying aims, priorities, and actions in UNICEF’s multi-year and annual IMEPs, in session with child-rights and implementing companions.

• Likewise, help the event of UNSDCF analysis, monitoring, analysis and studying plans from a sound results-based programming course of.

• Determine the monitoring and analysis aims, priorities, and actions required for efficient CO and companion Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans.

• In humanitarian response conditions, throughout the first month, draft and advocate a easy one-month data-collection plan to cowl key knowledge gaps as required for the preliminary emergency response, working in shut collaboration with the humanitarian cluster companions.   

• After the preliminary humanitarian response, help administration of the medium-term response with a revised IMEP

 2.  Scenario Monitoring and Evaluation 

Be certain that the Nation Workplace and nationwide companions have well timed info to facilitate correct measurement of change in circumstances of youngsters within the nation or area, together with monitoring of socio-economic tendencies and the nation’s wider coverage, financial or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to attract conclusions in regards to the influence of programmes or insurance policies.

Duties & Duties

• In coordination with different stakeholders, help the gathering and evaluation of information for monitoring Sustainable Growth Aim (SDG) and different key social improvement indicators (by DHS or different surveys) to enhance nationwide planning.

• Help companions within the institution and administration of nationwide statistical databases, guaranteeing that key indicators are readily accessible to key stakeholders. Potential makes use of embody the Scenario Evaluation, Widespread Nation Evaluation, EPP, and Evaluations. 

• Develop a collectively owned Scenario Monitoring and Evaluation system which helps the preparation of nation degree statistical and analytic studies on the standing of youngsters’s and girls’s rights points; and which permit, when alternatives emerge to affect developmental and social insurance policies.  To incorporate technical help to international reporting obligations together with nationwide studies on progress towards the SDGs, and towards CRC and CEDAW fulfilment.

• In humanitarian response conditions, present skilled help for a number of fast assessments (inter-agency or independently if vital) to be carried out throughout the first 48-72 hours, working in shut collaboration with the humanitarian cluster companions.

3. Programme Efficiency Monitoring 

Be certain that the Nation Workplace has high quality info and knowledge to evaluate progress in direction of anticipated outcomes established in annual work plans, humanitarian response plans and programme paperwork.

Duties & Duties

• Present technical help to make sure that a set of programme efficiency indicators is recognized and adjusted as vital, with inputs of all involved companions within the context of the multi-year and annual IMEPs, the Annual Administration Plan and Work Plans, as outlined within the Programme Coverage and Process Website (PPPX). 

•Coordinate with companions to make sure that monitoring programs are correctly designed, and that knowledge assortment and evaluation from discipline visits are coordinated and standardised throughout programmes to feed into to programme efficiency monitoring, with particular consideration to humanitarian response.

• Drawing on monitoring and evaluation of key program efficiency and administration indicators, present skilled enter to administration studies, together with related sections of the annual studies.

4.  Outcomes-Primarily based Administration Capability Constructing

Be certain that the planning, monitoring and reporting capacities of Nation Workplace workers and nationwide companions – authorities and civil society – are strengthened enabling them to more and more have interaction in and lead results-based programming processes.

Duties & Duties

• Promote the notice and understanding of the shared duty of planning, monitoring, and reporting perform amongst all workers members by communication, coaching, studying and improvement actions group extensive.

• In shut collaboration with companions, be sure that the monitoring and reporting capability constructing technique for UNICEF/UN workers nationwide companions and establishments exists within the context of the IMEP, or UNSDCF M&E plan.  Pay specific consideration to strengthening the capability of nationwide companions by involving them in participatory monitoring processes and probably by particular capability constructing initiatives.

• Collaborate to implement capability constructing methods as a joint dedication with different developmental companions. Make the most of a spread of applicable expertise constructing methods together with self-learning, seminars and workshops and sensible expertise so that UNICEF and UN workers have the essential information and expertise in understanding and making use of new monitoring and reporting insurance policies, procedures, instruments, strategies to fulfil their tasks. Equally, design and implement methods suited to the abilities wants of nationwide companions.

• Actively search partnerships with information establishments for the identification of capability gaps and improvement of methods to deal with them.

6.  Coordination and Networking 

Be certain that the Jordan UNICEF nation workplace is successfully linked to wider UNICEF Monitoring developments in a manner that each contributes to and advantages from organizational studying on efficient programme administration.

Duties & Duties

• Collaborate with Regional Planning and Monitoring Advisers and HQ DAPM workers for general coordination of precedence analysis, monitoring and reporting actions, particularly these of regional scope requiring the coordinated effort of a number of nations.

•  Associate with the Regional Planning and Monitoring group to make sure that present and correct Monitoring knowledge and outcomes are included in regional studies, multi-country research, and information sharing networks. 

• Undertake lessons-learned opinions on profitable and unsuccessful monitoring practices and expertise on the nationwide degree, and guarantee they’re shared as applicable.  Equally, take note of monitoring information networks to determine improvements and classes realized that could be related for the CO and companions to enhance their Monitoring perform.

• Contribute to United Nations planning, monitoring, and reporting collaborative mechanisms in help of the United Nations Sustainable Growth Coordination Framework implementation.

• Work intently with the Division of Statistics on knowledge era, evaluation, dissemination and use for programme enchancment.

 

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have…

• Training:            

  •  A sophisticated college diploma in one of many following fields is required: statistics, economics and demography, different related social sciences and improvement research.  

  Expertise:         

  • A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in programme design, implementation monitoring, reporting and analysis within the social discipline in Jordan is required.     

  • Confirmed expertise in designing discipline monitoring instruments, programs, and approaches, managing knowledge assortment and evaluation is required.

  •  Related expertise in a UN system entity is taken into account an asset.

  •  An publicity to emergency programming, together with preparedness planning and humanitarian efficiency monitoring is an asset.

  Language necessities:   
  Fluency in English is required.  Data of one other official UN language or native language of the responsibility station is taken into account an asset.

• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Youngster, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin the whole lot we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

 

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to attain outcomes for influence (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

[add the 8^th competency (Nurtures, leads and manages people) for supervisory role]

Throughout the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. 

Remarks:

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will likely be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Must you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice will likely be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background verify.

Authorities staff which can be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.