NAFASI MPYA ZA KAZI ZA UNICEF 2017 Job at Unicef, Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist

Description
Purpose of the Position

The post incumbent will provide strategic leadership to the country office work on statistical system strengthening, situation monitoring, data, research and evaluation.

Leads strategic research and analysis on child poverty and emerging issues with the objective of generating evidence to inform policy advocacy, planning, budgeting and programming.
Coordinates UNICEF support to national statistical system strengthening to ensure high quality national estimates on key child indicators, including capacity building on specific areas of data analysis and strengthening mechanisms for SDG monitoring.
Supports development and strengthening of M&E frameworks for key national policies and plans, including capacity building to government.
CO research and evaluation oversight, quality assurance and capacity building.
Impact and Key Results

The post leads and coordinates the data and evidence output of the social inclusion programme. Through strategic child rights focused research and analysis, the office will have high quality evidence for use in policy advocacy and sector planning and budgeting, particularly in the area of child poverty. Well-coordinated support to the national statistical system through capacity building and support to data collection exercises will strengthen quality and availability of data for evidence based programming and planning. The post incumbent coordinates quality assurance of CO research and evaluation, thereby ensuring that these are of high quality and comply with the organization's policies and guidelines.

Key Accountabilities and Duties & Tasks

1. Ensure that the Country Office produces high-quality strategic research and analysis on child poverty and child rights, including new and emerging areas.



Conduct research and analysis on child poverty and child rights, including key emerging issues, to strengthen evidence base on child poverty for guiding policy decisions, public spending, and sector programme direction.
Ensure a strategic research plan is in place.
Develop, manage and oversee the Country Office Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Plan (IMEP).
2. Support national statistical system to collect and analyse data on the rights of children, including SDG monitoring at national and sub-national level.

Oversee technical support to national household surveys under TSMP, with emphasis on including child rights indicators to enhance the availability of quality data on the fulfilment of children's rights for evidence based planning and reporting.
Coordinate capacity building on measurement of relevant child rights related indicators to strengthen national capacity and enhance availability and quality of data on children's rights.
Provide technical support to developing systems for SDG monitoring to strengthen national evidence base and facilitate SDG monitoring.
Oversee support to the preparation of country level statistical and analytic reports on the status of children's and women's rights issues when opportunities emerge to influence developmental and social policies. To include technical support to global reporting obligations including national reports on progress toward the SDGs, and toward CRC fulfilment.
3. Ensure that UNICEF-supported evaluations are designed and implemented to established UN quality standards.

Technically support programme partners to formulate Terms of Reference and evaluation designs of high quality in compliance with the organization's programme evaluation policies and guidelines.
Oversee the quality of field work and data management during the implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase.
Monitor and ensure that a management response to the findings and recommendations of the evaluation is completed, recorded, and followed up for implementation. Ensure evaluations are uploaded in the Evaluation Data Base, with full accompanying documentation.
4. RME capacity building and strengthening of M&E frameworks for key national plans and policies to ensure robust monitoring of progress against targets.

Technical support to M&E frameworks for national plans and policy documents to ensure inclusion of indicators related to child rights, poverty reduction and social protection, to strengthen the quality of frameworks and capacity of government for tracking progress toward national targets
Ensure that the research, situation 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 research, monitoring and evaluation processes.
Qualifications of Successful Candidate

Advanced university degree (Master degree) in Social Sciences, Demography, Statistics, or directly-related technical field.
Five years of progressively responsible professional work experience at national or international levels in research and evaluation, statistics.

Prior experience with national household surveys, child rights monitoring, and research & evaluation capacity building and process management is desirable.

Demonstrated experience with social protection and/or child poverty is an asset.
Fluency in English (written and verbal) is required.
Competencies of Successful Candidate

Core Values

Commitment
Diversity and Inclusion
Integrity
Core competencies

Communication [ II ]
Working with People [ II ]
Drive for Results [ II ]
Functional Competencies

Leading and Supervising [ II ]
Formulating Strategies and Concepts [ II ]
Analyzing [ II ]
Applying Technical Expertise [ II ]
Planning and Organizing [ III ]

Application Instructions
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Application Deadline: 19-03-2017

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