Deadline: 2 March 2016
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Chief Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation in Bamako, Mali.
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.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Chief Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation will perform the following function-
- Make professional contributions to and provide technical assistance for the planning and establishing the major research, monitoring and evaluation objectives, priorities, and activities in UNICEF/Mali’s multi-year and annual IMEPs; support the development of UNDAF M&E Plans from a sound results-based programming process; identify the M&E objectives, priorities, and activities required for effective CO and partner Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans.
- In coordination with other stakeholders, support the collection of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and other key social development indicators (through MICS or other surveys) to improve national planning; support partners in the establishment and management of national statistical databases (e.g., DevInfo), ensuring that key indicators are readily accessible by key stakeholders for uses in the Situation Analysis, Common Country Assessment, Early Warning Monitoring Systems, and Mid-Term Reviews.
- Assist government authorities in developing adequate information system to collect and analyze data on the situation of child rights of survival, development and protection.
- Support 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 and provide technical support to global reporting obligations including national reports on progress toward the MDGs, and toward CRC and CEDAW fulfillment.
- Assist the Deputy Representative and the Chief Social Policy in advocating with national counterpart to take in account the above data analysis for development and implementation of national development and poverty reduction policies.
- Provide technical support to ensure that a set of programme performance indicators is identified and adjusted as necessary, in the context of the multi-year and annual IMEPs, the Annual Management Plan and Annual Work Plans; coordinate with partners to ensure that monitoring systems are properly designed, and that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized across programmes to feed into to programme performance monitoring, with special attention to humanitarian response; drawing on monitoring and analysis of key program performance and management indicators, provide professional input to management reports, including relevant sections of the annual reports.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Advanced University Degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Planning Development, Planning.
- Eight years of relevant professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Developing country work experience.
- At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning.
- Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred.
- Practical experience in community-based research.
- Fluency in English and French required, speaking and writing.
- Fluency in the national language of the duty station an asset.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit UNICEF.
