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The Rohingya refugee crisis was one of the largest and fastest-growing humanitarian catastrophes in recent memory. Arriving in Bangladesh in the hundreds of thousands, their needs were massive and ranged from psychosocial support to access to basic social services for water, health, nutrition and education. Together with the international community, UNICEF and its partners are responding to these needs at scale.
UNICEF is committed to results-based management to strengthen its ability to deliver and demonstrate results for children within the Rohingya crisis response. Guided by the Core Commitments for Children (CCC) in humanitarian action, UNICEF works with partners to ensure that the situation of children and women is monitored and analyzed; a system for performance monitoring is established and functional with a focus on accountability to the affected population; and that humanitarian action is regularly assessed against CCCs, policies, guidelines and UNICEF quality and accountability standards.
How can you make a difference?
PURPOSE
The post holder will support the planning, monitoring and evaluation functions of Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) Team of UNICEF Cox's Bazar Field Office (FO). The purpose is to ensure that systems are in place to monitor and verify UNICEF programming in the field and ensure that reliable and timely data and information is available for programme planning and evaluation purposes.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS
- Support local development planning processes
- Liaise and advocate with district administrative to improve local governance for children, including ensuring the prominence of disaster risk reduction on the local agenda.
- Actively participate and engage in preparing the integrated District Development Plan (DDP) with all UN agencies in Cox's Bazar, enhancing relevance in responding to people's needs and identifying sectoral and geographical gaps, with a particular focus on children.
- Coordinate UNICEF participation in local consultations and planning meetings and inputs into draft documents towards the development of the DDP.
- Assist to rationalize the equitable distribution of resources across sectors and Upazilas, more strategically guide investments and monitor progress.
- Support systematic situation monitoring of children in camps and host communities
- In collaboration with sectoral colleagues, build systems to regularly monitor the evolving situation for children in the Rohingya Camps and Cox's Bazar District.
- Analyze data coming from situation monitoring systems and ensure it is looped back into decision making, programme planning and design.
- Coordinate with UNICEF Site Coordinators to systematize and analyze real-time data coming from the field, and ensure it feeds into programmes.
- In coordination with Communications and Communications for Development colleagues, support media monitoring efforts, with a special focus on COVID-19 and its impact on social cohesion in the district.
- Support systematic programme performance monitoring
- Introduce, pilot and scale up innovative monitoring mechanisms, including in remote mechanisms required in response to the COVID-19 situation.
- Build the capacity of UNICEF and implementing partner staff on the use of real-time data collection tools.
- Support and coordinate the team of DEVCO field coordinators to monitor and improve the integration and targeting of efforts to increase access to basic services for the refugee and host communities.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- A first level university degree in a relevant field such as social science of geographic sciences/ data science or information management and statistics
- A minimum of 2 years of experience with either the UN and/or NGO related to planning, monitoring and evaluation.
- Previous experience in humanitarian response especially in a monitoring or information management capacity.
- Strong knowledge and experience in using GIS and manage databases and Strong knowledge of Excel, ODK, KOBO and other mobile data collection.
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with L3 emergency is considered an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
The functional competencies required for this post are...
- Formulating strategies and concepts (I)
- Analyzing (II)
- Applying technical expertise (II)
- Learning and researching (II)
- Planning and organizing (II)
View our competency framework at
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf
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.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
How to apply:
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 organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=532167