Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 01 Apr 2016
VA/2016/03/01
Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
NO-C
Juba
Fixed-Term
1st April 2016
Purpose of the post
Under the general guidance of the PME Specialist, to assist in the establishment and maintenance of a monitoring and evaluation tools for the UNICEF and Government of South Sudan’s country programme, which enhance partnership between the UNCT, government and other key players to collectively track progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other international commitment for children.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
§ 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 in the development and humanitarian responses.
§ 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.
§ Ensure that the Country Office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual work plans and humanitarian response plan. Provide support to Sections and partners to ensure that monitoring systems are properly designed, and that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardised across programmes to feed into to programme performance monitoring including the humanitarian response.
§ Contribute to the quality design and implementation of UNICEF-supported evaluations and ensure that 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 in consultation with the regional office; Monitor and ensure that a management response to the findings and recommendations of the evaluation is completed, and uploaded to the Evaluation portal.
§ 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.
Minimum qualifications & experience required.
Advanced university degree (*) in Social Sciences, Demography, Development Planning, Statistics or a related technical field. (*) A first level university degree with a relevant combination of academic qualifications and experiences may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Work Experience: Five years of progressively responsible professional work experience at national and international levels in programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, particularly within UN environment.
Language requirement: Fluency in English and local working language of the duty station required. Knowledge of other UN language an asset.
How to apply:
Submission of Applications:
Applications from qualified South Sudanese nationals, accompanied by updated CV in English and a completed United Nations Personal History Form, (which can be downloaded from our website at www.unicef.org/employ) should be sent to the address below by on or before Friday 1st April 2016. UN/UNICEF staff members are requested to enclose their 2 most recent Performance Evaluation Reports with their applications. Send application to: Human Resources Officer
UNICEF South Sudan Country Office, Juba. OR PREFERABLY: Email:jubavacancies@unicef.org
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