Chief Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME), Windhoek, Namibia 157 views0 applications


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.

Strategic office context and purpose for the job

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does – in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children’s rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life – in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions – her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged citizens – addressing inequity – not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

This position serves to ensure that the UNICEF Namibia Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on the Situation of children’s and women’s rights; and performance of UNICEF-supported programmes including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence. The incumbent works with the UN country team to support UNCT goals for delivering valid and reliable information on the attainment of the SDG’s and other National goals, and on the performance of UN-supported programmes. He/she assists with the establishment of monitoring an evaluation tools which will enhance partnership between the UNCT, government and other key players to collectively track progress on SDGs and other international commitment for children. The post will assist in the development of national capacities for monitoring, evaluation and research, with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of government, community, and civil society stakeholders.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks: Summary of key functions/accountabilities: 1. Programme Planning

  1. Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Planning
  2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment
  3. Programme Performance Monitoring
  4. Evaluations
  5. M&E Capacity building
  6. Coordination and Networking

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES and DUTIES & TASKS

  1. Programme Planning

Ensure that the Country Office and national partners develop evidence based and coherent programme plans.

Provide technical support for the development and updating of the situation analysis to establish a comprehensive and current data and information for programme development, policy advocacy, decision making, and monitoring and evaluation.

Provide technical support to the process of program formulation, planning and preparation of the Country Programme ensuring harmonization of approaches and alignment with the UNICEF Strategic Plan, corporate guidelines, policies/procedures and regional and national priorities.

In close coordination with management, provide technical and quality assurance support in the development of the Annual Workplans, Annual Management Plans, as well as the preparation and stock-taking of periodic programme reviews including Annual Reviews, Mid-term Reviews and revisions of the Programme Strategy Notes.

Collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues on UNPAF operational planning and preparation of programs/projects and to integrate and harmonize UNICEF position and strategies with the UNPAF development and planning process.

  1. Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Planning

Ensure that the Country Office and national partners use a well-prioritised and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities developed collaboratively that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the Country Programme, including tracking and assessing UNICEF’s distinct contribution to UNPAF outcomes.

Make professional contributions to and provide technical assistance for the planning and establishing the major research, monitoring and evaluation objectives, priorities, and activities in UNICEF’s multi-year and annual IMEPs, in consultation with child-rights and implementing partners.

Support the development of UNPAF M&E Plans from a sound results-based programming process.

Provides technical support and quality assurance of Terms of Reference, inception- and draft final reports for evaluations, research and studies commissioned by Country Office.

Provides technical advice on research/evaluation design and methodologies.

Identify the M&E objectives, priorities, and activities required for effective CO and partner Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans.

In humanitarian response situations, within the first month, draft and recommend a simple one-month data collection plan to cover key data gaps as required for the initial emergency response.

  1. Situation Monitoring and Assessment

Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate measurement of change in conditions in the country, including monitoring of socio-economic trends and the country’s wider policy, economic or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to draw conclusions about the impact of programmes or policies.

In coordination with other stakeholders, support the collection of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and other key social development indicators (through DHS or other surveys) to improve national planning.

Support partners in the establishment and management of national statistical databases, ensuring that key indicators are readily accessible by key stakeholders. Potential uses include the Situation Analysis, Common Country Assessment, Early Warning Monitoring Systems, and Mid-Term Reviews.

Develop a collective Situation Monitoring and Assessment system owned by all key partners which supports the preparation of country level statistical and analytic reports on the status of children’s and women’s rights issues; and which allow, when opportunities emerge, to influence developmental and social policies.

Technical support to global reporting obligations including national reports on progress toward the SDGs, and toward CRC and CEDAW fulfilment.

  1. Programme Performance Monitoring

Ensure that the Country Office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual work plans.

Provide technical support to ensure that a set of programme performance indicators is identified and adjusted as necessary, with inputs of all concerned partners to assess progress towards expected annual and multi-year results in the context of the multi-year and annual IMEPs, the Annual Management Plan and Annual Work Plans, as outlined in the Programme Policy and Procedures Manual.

Coordinate with partners to ensure that monitoring systems are properly designed, and that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized across programmes to feed into to programme performance monitoring, with special attention to humanitarian response.

Drawing on monitoring and analysis of key program performance and management indicators, provide professional input to management reports, including relevant sections of the annual reports.

  1. Evaluations

Ensure that UNICEF-supported evaluations are designed and implemented to established UN quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders in order to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning.

Technically support programme partners to formulate Terms of Reference and evaluation designs of high quality.

Monitor and ensure the quality of the field work and data management during the implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase.

Disseminate evaluation findings and recommendations to the intended audiences in user-friendly manner. In particular, to ensure that effective participatory feedback is provided to community and civil society stakeholders.

Monitor and ensure that a management response to the findings and recommendations of the evaluation is completed, recorded, and followed up for implementation. Submit electronic copies of all evaluations to NYHQ via the Evaluation Data Base web portal, with full accompanying documentation.

  1. M & E Capacity Building

The monitoring and evaluation capacities of Country Office staff and national partners ‘government and civil society’ enhanced with the contribution of UNICEF knowledge partners meet the expectations and requirements of their positions and responsibilities.

Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of M& E function among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities organization-wide.

In close collaboration with partners, ensure that an M&E capacity building strategy for UNICEF/UN staff national partners and institutions exists in the context of the IMEP, or UNPAF M&E plan.

Collaborate to implement capacity building strategies as a joint commitment with other developmental partners.

Actively seek partnerships with knowledge institutions for the identification of capacity gaps and development of strategies to address them.

Support the review of data systems and interoperability of data systems towards improved data systems for children.

  1. Coordination and Networking

Ensure that the UNICEF office is effectively linked to wider UNICEF M&E developments in a way that both contributes to and benefits from organizational learning on effective M&E management.

Collaborate with Regional M&E Advisers and HQ Evaluation Office for overall coordination of priority research, monitoring and evaluation activities, especially those of regional scope requiring the coordinated effort of multiple countries.

Ensure that current and accurate M&E data and results are included in regional reports, multi-country studies, and knowledge sharing networks.

Undertake lessons-learned reviews on successful and unsuccessful M&E practices and experience at the national level, and ensure they are shared as appropriate.

Widen M&E knowledge networks to identify innovations and lessons learned that may be relevant for the CO and partners to improve their M&E function.

Impact of Results

UNICEF Namibia is a leader and key advocate on information generation on the situation of children and women. Furthermore, it’s able to influence relevant studies, research and evaluations for alignment and incorporating of child rights perspective and contribute to UN-wide effort to monitor progress towards the SDGs. The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to programme preparation and planning and implementation will contribute to efficient programme management. Success in reporting requirements and credible research will contribute to maintaining/enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to provide programme services for mothers and children that promotes greater social equality in the country. This in turn contributes to enhancing the ability of UNICEF to fulfill its mission to achieve sustainable, locally-owned and concrete results in improving the survival, development and wellbeing of children in the country.

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.

The competencies required for this post are: Core Values

  • Commitment
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Integrity

Core competencies

  • Communication (II)
  • Working with People (II)
  • Drive for results (II)

Functional Competencies:

  • Leading and Supervising (II)
  • Formulating Strategies and Concepts (II)
  • Analyzing (II)
  • Applying Technical Expertise (II)
  • Planning and Organizing (II)

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 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.

Remarks: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Advertised: May 31 2019 Namibia Standard Time

Application close: Jun 23 2019 Namibia Standard Time

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UNICEF is a leading humanitarian and development agency working globally for the rights of every child. Child rights begin with safe shelter, nutrition, protection from disaster and conflict and traverse the life cycle: pre-natal care for healthy births, clean water and sanitation, health care and education.

UNICEF has spent nearly 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Working with and for children through adolescence and into adulthood requires a global presence whose goal is to produce results and monitor their effects. UNICEF also lobbies and partners with leaders, thinkers and policy makers to help all children realize their rights—especially the most disadvantaged.

The United Nations Children's Fund is a United Nations (UN) programme headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is one of the members of the United Nations Development Group and its executive committee.

UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December 1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. The Polish physician Ludwik Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder of UNICEF and served as its first chairman from 1946. On Rajchman's suggestion, the American Maurice Pate was appointed its first executive director, serving from 1947 until his death in 1965. In 1953, UNICEF's mandate was extended to address the needs of children in the developing world and became a permanent part of the United Nations System. At that time, the words "international" and "emergency" were dropped from the organization's name, making it simply the United Nations Children's Fund, or popularly known as "UNICEF".

UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors, UNICEF's total income for 2008 was US$3,372,540,239. Governments contribute two-thirds of the organization's resources. Private groups and some six million individuals contribute the rest through national committees. It is estimated that 92 per cent of UNICEF revenue is distributed to programme services.UNICEF's programmes emphasize developing community-level services to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in 2006.

Most of UNICEF's work is in the field, with staff in over 190 countries and territories. More than 200 country offices carry out UNICEF's mission through programmes developed with host governments. Seven regional offices provide technical assistance to country offices as needed.

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0 USD Windhoek, Namibia CF 3201 Abc road Fixed Term , 40 hours per week United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

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.

Strategic office context and purpose for the job

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does - in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The equity strategy, emphasizing the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, translates this commitment to children's rights into action. For UNICEF, equity means that all children have an opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life - in its social, political, economic, civic and cultural dimensions - her or his rights are violated. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education and protection of a society's most disadvantaged citizens - addressing inequity - not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. This is why the focus on equity is so vital. It accelerates progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the equitable development of nations.

This position serves to ensure that the UNICEF Namibia Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on the Situation of children's and women's rights; and performance of UNICEF-supported programmes including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence. The incumbent works with the UN country team to support UNCT goals for delivering valid and reliable information on the attainment of the SDG's and other National goals, and on the performance of UN-supported programmes. He/she assists with the establishment of monitoring an evaluation tools which will enhance partnership between the UNCT, government and other key players to collectively track progress on SDGs and other international commitment for children. The post will assist in the development of national capacities for monitoring, evaluation and research, with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of government, community, and civil society stakeholders.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks: Summary of key functions/accountabilities: 1. Programme Planning

  1. Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Planning
  2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment
  3. Programme Performance Monitoring
  4. Evaluations
  5. M&E Capacity building
  6. Coordination and Networking

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES and DUTIES & TASKS

  1. Programme Planning

Ensure that the Country Office and national partners develop evidence based and coherent programme plans.

Provide technical support for the development and updating of the situation analysis to establish a comprehensive and current data and information for programme development, policy advocacy, decision making, and monitoring and evaluation.

Provide technical support to the process of program formulation, planning and preparation of the Country Programme ensuring harmonization of approaches and alignment with the UNICEF Strategic Plan, corporate guidelines, policies/procedures and regional and national priorities.

In close coordination with management, provide technical and quality assurance support in the development of the Annual Workplans, Annual Management Plans, as well as the preparation and stock-taking of periodic programme reviews including Annual Reviews, Mid-term Reviews and revisions of the Programme Strategy Notes.

Collaborate with inter-agency partners/colleagues on UNPAF operational planning and preparation of programs/projects and to integrate and harmonize UNICEF position and strategies with the UNPAF development and planning process.

  1. Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Planning

Ensure that the Country Office and national partners use a well-prioritised and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities developed collaboratively that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the Country Programme, including tracking and assessing UNICEF's distinct contribution to UNPAF outcomes.

Make professional contributions to and provide technical assistance for the planning and establishing the major research, monitoring and evaluation objectives, priorities, and activities in UNICEF's multi-year and annual IMEPs, in consultation with child-rights and implementing partners.

Support the development of UNPAF M&E Plans from a sound results-based programming process.

Provides technical support and quality assurance of Terms of Reference, inception- and draft final reports for evaluations, research and studies commissioned by Country Office.

Provides technical advice on research/evaluation design and methodologies.

Identify the M&E objectives, priorities, and activities required for effective CO and partner Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans.

In humanitarian response situations, within the first month, draft and recommend a simple one-month data collection plan to cover key data gaps as required for the initial emergency response.

  1. Situation Monitoring and Assessment

Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate measurement of change in conditions in the country, including monitoring of socio-economic trends and the country's wider policy, economic or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to draw conclusions about the impact of programmes or policies.

In coordination with other stakeholders, support the collection of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and other key social development indicators (through DHS or other surveys) to improve national planning.

Support partners in the establishment and management of national statistical databases, ensuring that key indicators are readily accessible by key stakeholders. Potential uses include the Situation Analysis, Common Country Assessment, Early Warning Monitoring Systems, and Mid-Term Reviews.

Develop a collective Situation Monitoring and Assessment system owned by all key partners which supports the preparation of country level statistical and analytic reports on the status of children's and women's rights issues; and which allow, when opportunities emerge, to influence developmental and social policies.

Technical support to global reporting obligations including national reports on progress toward the SDGs, and toward CRC and CEDAW fulfilment.

  1. Programme Performance Monitoring

Ensure that the Country Office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual work plans.

Provide technical support to ensure that a set of programme performance indicators is identified and adjusted as necessary, with inputs of all concerned partners to assess progress towards expected annual and multi-year results in the context of the multi-year and annual IMEPs, the Annual Management Plan and Annual Work Plans, as outlined in the Programme Policy and Procedures Manual.

Coordinate with partners to ensure that monitoring systems are properly designed, and that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized across programmes to feed into to programme performance monitoring, with special attention to humanitarian response.

Drawing on monitoring and analysis of key program performance and management indicators, provide professional input to management reports, including relevant sections of the annual reports.

  1. Evaluations

Ensure that UNICEF-supported evaluations are designed and implemented to established UN quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders in order to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning.

Technically support programme partners to formulate Terms of Reference and evaluation designs of high quality.

Monitor and ensure the quality of the field work and data management during the implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase.

Disseminate evaluation findings and recommendations to the intended audiences in user-friendly manner. In particular, to ensure that effective participatory feedback is provided to community and civil society stakeholders.

Monitor and ensure that a management response to the findings and recommendations of the evaluation is completed, recorded, and followed up for implementation. Submit electronic copies of all evaluations to NYHQ via the Evaluation Data Base web portal, with full accompanying documentation.

  1. M & E Capacity Building

The monitoring and evaluation capacities of Country Office staff and national partners 'government and civil society' enhanced with the contribution of UNICEF knowledge partners meet the expectations and requirements of their positions and responsibilities.

Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of M& E function among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities organization-wide.

In close collaboration with partners, ensure that an M&E capacity building strategy for UNICEF/UN staff national partners and institutions exists in the context of the IMEP, or UNPAF M&E plan.

Collaborate to implement capacity building strategies as a joint commitment with other developmental partners.

Actively seek partnerships with knowledge institutions for the identification of capacity gaps and development of strategies to address them.

Support the review of data systems and interoperability of data systems towards improved data systems for children.

  1. Coordination and Networking

Ensure that the UNICEF office is effectively linked to wider UNICEF M&E developments in a way that both contributes to and benefits from organizational learning on effective M&E management.

Collaborate with Regional M&E Advisers and HQ Evaluation Office for overall coordination of priority research, monitoring and evaluation activities, especially those of regional scope requiring the coordinated effort of multiple countries.

Ensure that current and accurate M&E data and results are included in regional reports, multi-country studies, and knowledge sharing networks.

Undertake lessons-learned reviews on successful and unsuccessful M&E practices and experience at the national level, and ensure they are shared as appropriate.

Widen M&E knowledge networks to identify innovations and lessons learned that may be relevant for the CO and partners to improve their M&E function.

Impact of Results

UNICEF Namibia is a leader and key advocate on information generation on the situation of children and women. Furthermore, it's able to influence relevant studies, research and evaluations for alignment and incorporating of child rights perspective and contribute to UN-wide effort to monitor progress towards the SDGs. The efficiency and efficacy of support provided by the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to programme preparation and planning and implementation will contribute to efficient programme management. Success in reporting requirements and credible research will contribute to maintaining/enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to provide programme services for mothers and children that promotes greater social equality in the country. This in turn contributes to enhancing the ability of UNICEF to fulfill its mission to achieve sustainable, locally-owned and concrete results in improving the survival, development and wellbeing of children in the country.

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.

The competencies required for this post are: Core Values

  • Commitment
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Integrity

Core competencies

  • Communication (II)
  • Working with People (II)
  • Drive for results (II)

Functional Competencies:

  • Leading and Supervising (II)
  • Formulating Strategies and Concepts (II)
  • Analyzing (II)
  • Applying Technical Expertise (II)
  • Planning and Organizing (II)

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 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.

Remarks: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Advertised: May 31 2019 Namibia Standard Time

Application close: Jun 23 2019 Namibia Standard Time

2019-06-24

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