UNICEF Chief Planning & Monitoring Jobs in Ethiopia

UNICEF Chief Planning & Monitoring Jobs in Ethiopia

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.

The Chief Planning & Monitoring will ensure that the UNICEF Ethiopia Country Office has useful, valid and reliable information on the situation of children’s and women’s rights in Ethiopia and the performance of UNICEF-supported programmes. This will include programme relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence.

The Chief will work within the UN country team (UNCT) to support their goals for delivering valid and reliable information on the attainment of the SDGs and other goals, and on the performance of UN-supported programmes.

They will also assist in the establishment of monitoring an evaluation tools to enhance partnership between the UNCT, government and other key players to collectively track progress on SDGs and other international commitment for children.

How can you make a difference?

Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Plan (IMEP) - Ensure that the Country Office and national partners use a well-prioritised and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the Country Programme, including tracking and assessing UNICEF’s distinct contribution.

Situation Monitoring and Assessment - Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate measurement of change in conditions in the country or region, 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.

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

Evaluation - 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.

M&E Capacity Building - Ensure that the monitoring and evaluation capacities of Country Office staff and national partners – government and civil society – are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead monitoring and evaluation processes.

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.

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

Advanced university degree in social sciences, statistics, planning development, planning.

A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.

Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring and evaluation activities as follows:

A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant professional work experience, including developing country work experience, is required.

At least one (1) instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

How to Apply

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