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Unicef hires 01 Regional Chief Monitoring & Evaluation

Unicef hires 01 Regional Chief Monitoring & Evaluation

Entreprise/Structure: UNICEF
Ville, Pays: Dakar, Sénégal
Niveau d’études minimum réquis: Non précisé
Expériences professionnelles demandées: 10 ans ou plus
Date limite de dépôt de dossier: 08-08-2017
Publié le 24/07/2017 à 15h47min39s
Email de réception des candidatures : Non précisé
Détails de l’offre:
Regional Chief Monitoring & Evaluation; P5, WCARO, Dakar, Senegal

Job Number: 506102 | Vacancy Link
Locations: Africa: Senegal
Work Type : Fixed Term Staff

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children’s rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world. To learn more about UNICEF, visit www.unicef.org.

For Every Child, hope
Children in West and Central Africa have their rights violated on daily basis to an extreme extent. They die from malaria, diarrheal diseases and vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles. To learn more about UNICEF’s work in the region. The West and Central Africa Regional Office (WCARO) is working to renew its efforts to advance children’s rights which have been impeded by economic and public health crises, and natural disasters. Though child mortality decreased and more children are in school, a high number live in poverty. To learn more about WCARO please visit:
https://www.unicef.org/WCARO

The selected candidate for this post will have to provide Monitoring, Evaluation (M&E) research, surveys (MICS and others) related technical leadership, management advice, and support throughout the region and is responsible for the oversight, quality assurance, technical assistance and capacity building for country M&E and research’s design, planning, monitoring, data analysis, evaluation and reporting in the West and Central Africa Region. She/he will facilitates application, adaptation and operationalization of UNICEF evaluation, research policies, data strategy, directives and standards in close collaboration with relevant HQs Divisions/Offices counterparts. The incumbent will be responsible for the coordination and strengthening of UNICEF contribution to UN UNDAF evaluation, country common analysis (CCAs) support at regional level through work with the R-UNDG WCA QSA/Programme Support Group and counterparts. She / he will Work closely with the Regional Chief Programme and Planning, and in coordination with Regional Advisors, Regional Deputy Director and Regional Director who is accountable for the evaluation and research functions.

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you through your application.

How can you make a difference?
By applying to this position under the guidance of the Regional Chief Programme & Planning, the incumbent will be responsible for the coordination, planning, development and capacity building of the monitoring, evaluation and research functions in WCAR and overseeing the data collection, analysis, monitoring and research functions in the Regional Office. This includes advice to the 24 country offices on evaluation, monitoring, research, data collection and analysis, contributing to global knowledge and experience and supporting advocacy and policy development based on sound evidence.

Strategic Representation: Provides overall leadership and coordination for the implementation and use of evaluation in the 24 country offices and in the Regional Office to contribute to regional priorities for knowledge and advocacy on the situation of children in West and Central Africa and the impact of UNICEF interventions in coordination with UN agencies and other key partners.

Technical Support and capacity building: Support country offices to strengthen evaluation mechanisms, build national capacity for evaluation and research and ensure the role of evaluation, monitoring and research in country programme formulation and design as well as for the Mid Term Review exercise. This includes the coordination and management of technical assistance, links with academic institutions and regional and international networks. In collaboration with the regional chief of programme and planning, guide and support Regional Office and Country Offices in building capacity to plan and conduct relevant M&E orientation/training sessions and staff learning/development activities with focus on results based management and budgeting/RBM-RBB, Management for Results/M4R) and workshops (including regional PM&E and DROPS regional network meetings). In close collaboration with the Regional Advisors and COs and drawing on external M&E networks and technical resources, design and coordinate activities to achieve the results for M&E in WCAR, oversee the development of M&E approaches, research methodologies to high impact child survival and HIV/AIDS interventions, and education and protection interventions, emergencies.

Quality assurance and oversight: Advises the Regional Director and the Regional Management Team on the quality and conformity of evaluations in the Region with UNICEF evaluation norms and ensures mechanism for the review and quality control of evaluations in the country offices and the Region. This includes quality assurance and oversight of MTRs, situation analyses and programme evaluations and research as well as review of resources and capacity.

Knowledge Management: Provides guidance and ensure that the knowledge generated by evaluations, research and data collection and analysis exercises feeds into the Global Knowledge of the UN and UNICEF and also is shared and is accessible to country offices, regional partners, the media and other strategic partners to increase knowledge and understanding of the situation of children in West and Central Africa.

Regional Office Management: As part of the Planning, M&E section, establishes priorities and the work-plans for monitoring, evaluation, research, data and analytics activities on for monitoring and evaluation in the Regional Office and support the ROMT with monitoring compliance and performance standards for the Regional Office Management Plan. Manages the work of the WCAR Research and Evaluation Committee, and major evaluation as well as research activities, and contributes to RMTs

Strategic Partnerships: Develop strategic partnerships with the UN Regional structure, regional and sub-regional (AfrEA, AfDB, national evaluations associations) networks and academic institutions, IFIs, donors and regional structures such as ECOWAS and ECCAS to facilitate and strengthen evaluation, Research and data analyses practices and tools in order to benefit children in the region.

To qualify as a champion for every child you will need to have…

Advanced university degree in any of the following: Statistics, Demography, Social Sciences, Economics, International Relations, Public Health, Education or other fields related to the work of UNICEF.
◾Ten (10) years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international levels in social development, management, monitoring and evaluation, research, data related disciplines.
◾Prior experience working in a UN system will be considered an asset.
◾Fluency in French and English is required. Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish) is considered an asset.

For every Child, you advocate and demonstrate…

Our core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

Functional Competencies:
◾Leading and Supervision – III
◾Formulating Strategies and Concepts – III
◾Analyzing – III
◾Relating and Networking – III
◾Applying Technical Expertise – III
◾Planning and Organizing – III
◾Networking – III

To view our competency framework, please click here.

This position is classified as “rotational” which means the incumbent is expected to rotate to another duty station upon completion of their tour of duty.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Closing Date Tue Aug 08 2017 00:55:00 GMT+0200 (Paris, Madrid (heure d’été))

Apply: https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=506102

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