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Planning & Monitoring Specialist, P3, Post # 86300, Kathmandu Nepal

  • Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
  • Location:
  • Grade: Mid level - P-3, International Professional - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Operations and Administrations
    • Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Planning
  • Closing Date: Closed

The Specialist supports the regional office in quality assurance, planning and oversight processes; maintain effective knowledge of innovation and management and key planning products in the region; support preparation of UNICEF key planning and programming events.

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.

For every child,

Within this complex and volatile context, the Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) planning, monitoring section is supporting countries/COs in advancing equity-focused policies, programs and interventions for children in the region. Special attention is given to strengthening risk informed, conflict sensitive, equity-focused programming and developing inclusive policies and programmes towards greater social cohesion and resilience of systems and communities. Our capacity to accelerate progress for children will also depend on our capacity to seize the opportunities of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to influence government and partners to strengthen national policies programmes and results for children. In this regard, and in the context of the UN-reform, strengthening UN inter-agency collaboration through the Regional United Nations Development Group (R-UNDG) and the Delivering as One (DaO) approach is essential to support United Nations Country Teams (UNCT) in operationalizing quality and sustainable programmes, yielding results for children and young people in the region.

How can you make a difference?

Under the supervision of the Regional Chief of Programme and Planning, support the regional office quality, planning, and oversight processes; maintain effective knowledge of innovation and management and key planning products in the region; support preparation of UNICEF key planning and programming events included but not limited to preparation of submissions of CPDs, and related documents for submission to the board, syntheses/writing of key programme and planning documents: Country Offices Analysis Reports (COAR), Regional Office Analysis Reports (ROARs), Programme Strategy Notes (PSNs), Workplans, Annual Management Plans (AMPs); contribute & support to the regional office planning such as Mid-Year Reviews (MYRs), End-Year Reviews (EYRs), Mid-Term Reviews (MTR) of the Regional Office Management Plan (ROMP), analysis and reporting of the regional and country offices KPIs in the context of management for results.

Strategic Planning, knowledge management and capacity building

Provide technical guidance and strategic inputs to the design of key regional meetings (Regional Management Team, Deputy Representatives and Operations Managers, Social Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation network) as well as of staff trainings on UNICEF Programme, Policies and Procedures (PPP, RBM) ensuring that these learning events contribute to the development and implementation of policy and programmatic standards and priorities across UNICEF Programmes in the region.

Support to regional office planning, monitoring and reporting

Coordinate the development, planning and monitoring of the Regional Office Management Plan, including preparation of the Regional Office annual planning and reporting exercises, regional review of Country Office Annual Reports and preparation of the Regional Office Annual Report, as well as overall guidance for knowledge management services within the Regional Office.

Contribute to the preparation of Regional Strategic documents, including briefing documents, statements and information for the Regional Director for the Executive Board sessions and other missions as required.

Setting regional standards for programme performance planning

Support Country Programme Planning processes (midterm reviews, country programme preparation, Situation Analysis) with a focus on regional quality assurance mechanisms to ensure that Country Programme Planning exercises are in alignment with the latest guidance and organizational priorities.

Provide technical assistance to Country Offices and contribute to policy dialogue on key UNICEF policies and procedures to ensure the highest standards in programme design, implementation and reporting.

UN Coherence and inter agency collaboration

Provide inputs to UNICEF country offices for the development of UNDAFs and participate in inter-agency meetings and missions as required to support UN coherence initiatives, particularly as they relate to the integration of RBM into Common Country Assessments (CCAs) and UNDAFs in line with the Sustainable Development Goals through the Regional UNDG Peer Support Group.

Programme & Planning & Monitoring Internal Planning and Reporting

Coordinate internal planning and reporting for the Programme & Planning Monitoring section.

Networking and partnership building

Inter-act as needed with key relevant divisions in UNICEF Headquarters and Planning Units in the other UNICEF Regional Offices to exchange knowledge and ideas and to contribute to global and regional learning focusing on effective approaches, challenges and lessons learned in programme planning, review and reporting.

To qualify as a Planning & Monitoring Specialist, for every child you will have…

  • Advanced university degree (Master's degree) in social sciences, international relations, public administration, public policy, community development or another related field required.

  • Five years progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in social development, management, planning, monitoring and evaluation. 

  • Relevant experience/exposure to emergency is an asset
  • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

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.

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.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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

 

This vacancy is now closed.
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