Planning & Monitoring Specialist (P-3) , PFP - Geneva, Switzerland

Job no: 494180
Work type: Fixed Term Staff
Location: Switzerland
Categories: Monitoring and Evaluation, Planning, P-3

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

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 is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

Purpose of the Position

The incumbent of this post will ensure that the Private Fundraising & Partnerships (PFP) Division has useful, valid and reliable information on the performance of private sector fundraising & private sector engagement (non-financial) activities, including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.
The incumbent will support PFP goals for delivering valid and reliable information on the attainment of work and plan strategic plan goals.
The incumbent will assist in the establishment of monitoring and evaluation tools which enhance partnership between the PFP, National Committees, country offices and select corporate partners to collectively track progress on goals and commitments for children.
The incumbent will assist in the development of divisional capacities for monitoring, evaluation and research, with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of PFP, National Committees, country offices, HQ partners and stakeholders and other partners.

Key Expected Results

Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Planning

The PFP division has a well-prioritised and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities, developed collaboratively that provides all the relevant and strategic information needed to manage the Private Fundraising & Partnerships Strategic Plan.

Situation Monitoring and Assessment

A Situation Monitoring and Assessment system collectively owned by all key PFP stakeholders and partners is in place, through which the stakeholders and partners have timely and accurate measurements of progress toward work plan and strategic goals; this information is available to facilitate planning and measure impact of activities and investments.

Performance Monitoring

The Strategic Planning and other sections of PFP have quality information collected and disseminated with the participation of all concerned stakeholders and partners to assess progress towards expected annual and multi-year results.

Evaluation

Evaluations attain established UNICEF quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders for improving performance and contributing to divisional learning.

M&E Capacity Building

The monitoring and evaluation capacities of PFP staff and partners enhanced with the contribution of UNICEF knowledge partners meet the expectations and requirements of their positions and responsibilities.

Coordination and Networking

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

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

• An advanced university degree (Master's) in Social Sciences, Management, Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Statistics, Demography, Development Planning, or a directly-related technical field(s) is required.
• statistics, and/or a directly-related technical field is required.
• Prior knowledge and experience in monitoring and evaluation, demography, statistics, data management, data analysis and/or reporting is required.
• Prior knowledge of Project Evaluation is highly desirable
• Prior expertise in research methodology, including theories, standards and models, quantitative/qualitative/mixed methods, validity and reliability testing of data is considered highly desirable.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required. Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, - French, Russian, Spanish) is considered an asset.

Competencies of Successful Candidate

• Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking.
• Creates and encourages a climate of team-working and collaboration in a multi-cultural environment.
• Consistently achieves high-level results, managing and delivering projects on-time and on-budget.
• Has good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear.
• Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.
• Analyzes and integrates potentially conflicting numerical, verbal and other data from a number of sources.
• Demonstrates, applies and shares expert technical knowledge across the organization.
• Sets clearly defined objectives and plans activities for self, own team or department.

HOW TO APPLY:

To view our competency framework: http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf
To apply: http://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/#/job/494180

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.

Advertised: 14 Mar 2016 W. Europe Standard Time
Applications close: 28 Mar 2016 W. Europe Standard Time