Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer

UNICEF, also known as the United Nations Children's Fund, is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. The agency is among the most widespread and recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a presence in 192 countries and territories. UNICEF's activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters.

For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection, and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF believes that all children have a right to survive, thrive, and fulfil their potential – to the benefit of a better world. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations, and governments.

Within that framework, Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) is one of its key programme strategies to achieve its results and make the rights of children a reality. SBC programming focuses on community engagement and social behavioral drivers that influence the lives of children and play a key role towards accelerating or reducing the results of UNICEF goals. The area is essential for long-term and sustainable social change and local ownership towards improving the well-being of children and adolescents, their families, and communities. Social and Behavior Change results are central to the SDGs and to UNICEF’s work. The work of SBC in UNICEF is key to strengthening community systems and addressing the key social and behavioural drivers affecting children's rights all across the globe.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Head of Section or his/her designated mandated representative(s), and in close collaboration with all programme sections, the UN Volunteer Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will undertake the following tasks:

Monitoring and Evaluation and general activities:

• Support the management of the development of periodic global monitoring reports on Social and Behavior Change (SBC) and any other reports related to UNICEF operations for SBC across UNICEF programming.
• Work with the SBC Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to liaise with the Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE), Office of Emergency Programmes (EMOPS), and Sectoral Global Programme Division (GPD) Teams for the development of technical guidance, monitoring tools, indicator notes, and other related documents for monitoring of SBC.
• Support the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist in annual reporting on UNICEF’s Global Monitoring Framework, its results, and triangulation with other operational data related to UNICEF corporate reporting.
• Support and provide technical assistance to develop Theories of Change in SBC programming for planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Assist in the identification and specification of indicators for UNICEF Country Offices and GPD teams to facilitate the monitoring of SBC.
• Provide support alongside the SBC Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to Technical Assistance requests from Country Offices.

Research:

• Provide technical support to develop SBC research frameworks, survey analysis, and data visualizations related to SBC programming.

Learning and Knowledge Management:

• Support the development, organization, and ongoing maintenance of the Global SBC communication and collaboration SharePoint sites.
• Provide technical and coordination support for the dissemination of the bi-monthly SBC newsletter, compiling case studies, capacity development initiatives, and other instances to share across the SBC network of achievements and shared learning.
• Gather evidence, draft content, and coordinate submissions for the SBC global newsletter, liaising closely with SBC Global Team leads.
• Support the development and implementation of the ABCs of SBC podcast series, in collaboration with sectoral teams and external vendors, to showcase key issues and areas of SBC programming, advances, or current debates to the larger SBC sector.
• Lead the planning and delivery of the Talking Change webinar series with Country Offices, showcasing their advances and learning from their country’s programming.
• Support the maintenance and updating of the AGORA Learning Channel, as needed.
• Contribute to the population and regular updating of the SBC capacity development online repository.


Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:

• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and taking an active part in UNV activities (for instance, in events that mark International Volunteer Day);
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country;
• Provide annual and end-of-assignment self-reports on UN Volunteer actions, results, and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible