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In the 1970s UNICEF established presence in Yemen to respond to the urgent needs of children in the poorest country in the Middle East. In 1991, Yemen ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and it was enacted immediately.  Since then, the country has been making steady progress for children until it plunged into a brutal conflict in 2015 but even before that, Yemen needed large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

In collaboration with local authorities, non-governmental organizations and community partners, UNICEF is working in all the governorates in Yemen to respond to the needs of children throughout the country with a continuum of services to help children survive and grow to their full potential through the following programmes: Health, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Basic Education, and Child protection.

For more on our work in Yemen, please visit our website: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/

How can you make a difference?

The Planning and Monitoring Officer is accountable for the accomplishment of the stated key end-results by providing professional expertise and assistance to respective field office in programme planning and reviews, implementation and results monitoring, data collection, analysis and partnership review and management for both government and civil society partners; in advocating for a result-based management environment whereby all programmes are supported in planning, monitoring, information and implementing partnership management.

The PMR Officer level 2 will work in a Sana’a Field Office where Planning and monitoring of programme activities is a substantial component of the Country Programme (or CCPD) to support program officers to monitor RWP performance indicators with applying HACT assurance activities and building partners capacity for better results. The PMR Officer reports to the Chief of Field Office (Level 4).

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be assigned primarily, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results.

Programme Planning.

Provide technical support to ensure that field office has proper planning processes in place:

Provide technical support as necessary to the process of developing annual work plans. Provide technical support as necessary in organizing and managing annual/midyear/mid-term/end term country programme reviews ensuring consistency with objectives and goals set out in the CPD and contribute to the Annual Management Plan. Support with the mid-year and end-year reporting. Support the development of a New Country Programme. Programme Performance Monitoring & Information Management.

Provide technical support to ensure that field office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual work plans: Duties & Tasks.

Provide technical support as necessary to identifying and adjusting a set of programme performance indicators, in the context of the multi-year and annual IMEPs, the Annual Management Plan and Annual Work Plans, as outlined in the Programme Policy and Procedures Manual. Provide technical support to ensure that monitoring systems are in place and that key annual programme indicators are tracked and analyzed, including those related to partnerships initiative, and provided regularly to the senior management to guide programme and management decisions. Carry out data collection and analysis from field visits, standardizing them across programmes, to feed into programme performance monitoring. Compile monitoring information/data and make them available to programme sections. Contribute to the preparation of management reports (e.g., relevant sections of the annual reports), drawing on monitoring and analysis of key management indicators. Assist in the preparation of reports on systemic issues, good practices or any other analysis or data related to programme implementation, including programme’s performance, relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, as well as good practices in partnerships and collaborative relationships. Conduct monthly planning and monitoring of implementation of Programmatic Visits. Conduct Implementing Partners Progress report tracking. Implement quarterly monitoring supportive missions. Lead quarterly independent monitoring missions. Support the development and implementation of the Annual Performance Monitoring Plans by Results Managers at the FO and sections. Establish and maintain a centralized database by FO, incorporating all the key performance indicators that are pertinent to the programme sections. In collaboration with FO IMOs, take the lead in producing periodical analytical products (infographics, dashboards, maps, etc.) for programme analysis, programmatic visits, and any key programme interventions. Support and build capacity of IMOs and implementing partners on data analysis, visualization, and dissemination. Implementation Partnership Management.

Provide administrative and technical support in formalization of implementing partnerships with government, civil society organization and other implementing partners in line with relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines and in documentation and reporting on HACT Financial Assurance plans and activities:

Support the implementation of HACT financial assurance activities including downloading from zHACT liquidation FACE forms for field office to support spot checks and audits exercises. Support to follow up on action points for field office registered in eTools (especially high and significant action points with financial action points) to ensure that they are closed by respective Programme officers on time. Lead in the decentralized partnerships review committee processes, acting as Secretariate to ensure the workflow is compliant with relevant policies and procedures and timely documentation of the review meetings. Support the review of results frameworks for partnerships review committee submissions for Field offices. Ensure signed partnerships submissions for Field offices are uploaded and stored on ECM shared drive. On monthly basis, share the tracker/link for each Field office with partnership review committee main/central secretariat for further analysis. Capacity Building:

Provide technical support to ensure that the planning and monitoring capacities of Field Office staff and national and sub-national partners – government and civil society – are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead planning and monitoring processes:

Contribute to the collaboration of a planning, monitoring, and implementing partnership capacity building strategy for national/local partners and institutions. Provide technical support for implementation of capacity building strategies as a joint commitment with other developmental partners with special attention to the interest, concern, and participation of primary stakeholders. In close consultation with senior managers, contribute to formulation of staff capacity development strategy and plans, and exercise effective leadership in implementing them, ensuring that Field Office staffs have the basic knowledge and skills to fulfil their planning and monitoring responsibilities, and training is planned and carried out to fill identified gaps. Promote and provide support to ensure that Field Office staff and national and subnational partners are aware of and have access to UNICEF planning and monitoring learning resources. Contribute to liaise with knowledge institutions to seek partnerships for the identification of capacity gaps and the development of strategies to address them. Communication and Partnerships.

Provide technical support to ensure that all the above tasks are carried out and accomplished through effective communication and partnerships, as elaborated below:

Facilitate or contribute to joint planning and monitoring activities with national/local partners, the UN agencies, and the wider international community, wherever possible in the context of the above processes. Provide technical support to field office staff and national/local partners on data collection, data management and data analysis for basic planning and monitoring. Facilitate learning from the results of monitoring within the field office, as well as among national/local partners and other key stakeholders. Seek advanced or in-depth technical support on planning and monitoring from the Planning, Monitoring & Research Section as necessary. Collaborate with the Monitoring Specialists at the Country Office level to ensure the availability of current and accurate monitoring and data and results. Collaborate with Monitoring Specialists at central level for overall coordination of priority planning, monitoring and research activities.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have the below requirement:

Education:

University degree in social sciences, development planning, planning, information management, statistics.

Work Experience:

Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including planning and monitoring activities as follows:

Two years of relevant professional work experience. At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred. Exposure to complex humanitarian programming context, proven knowledge about humanitarian-development nexus and resilience programming considered as advantage. Familiarity with Result Based programming is an asset. Familiarity with data collection, analysis and dashboards is an asset. Language Proficiency: Fluency in English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability (CRITA) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter Here

Competencies required for this post are...

Builds and maintains partnerships. (1) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness. (1) Drive to achieve results for impact. (1) Innovates and embraces change. (1) Manages ambiguity and complexity. (1) Thinks and acts strategically. (1) Works collaboratively with others. (1)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: Here

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.

Female candidates are especially encouraged to apply and please take a look at some of our entitlements for our female staff members:  Female Entitlements Edited2.jpg

While UNICEF seeks to recruit the best talent in the Yemeni labor market to be able to deliver the best possible services for the children in Yemen, we would like to make it clear that we never use any third party in any of the recruitment processes for all junior and senior positions advertised. All received applications are treated with high level of transparency and professionalism. Only applicants whose profiles meet the advertised job requirements will be considered and only within the announced deadline.

في حين تسعى اليونيسف لإستقطاب أفضل الكوادر في السوق اليمنية لتتمكن من تقديم أفضل خدمة للأطفال في اليمن، تود التنويه إلى أنها لا تستعين بأي شخص أو جهة (قد يقدم نفسهـ/ـا) كوسيط أو طرف ثالث في أي من عمليات التوظيف وفيما يخص جميع الوظائف، باستثناء الإعلان عبر وسائل الإعلام والمواقع الإليكترونية. إن اليونيسف، منظمة الطفولة، تعمل بمستوى عال من الشفافية والمهنية. ولا يتم التواصل إلا مع المتقدمين الذين توافقت مؤهلاتهم وخبراتهم مع الوظائف المعلن عنها والتي تقدموا لها في الموعد المعلن.

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We offer a Compensation, benefits and wellbeing | UNICEF Careers including parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation for job candidates and personnel with disabilities | UNICEF Careers, UNCIEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

“UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles”.

Remarks:

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

The successful candidate for this emergency recruitment MUST be available to commence work within 31 days of receiving an offer. 

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

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