National Consultant to support programme monitoring and knowledge management, 150 working days, (Open to Zimbabwean Nationals only)

job Description

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.
For every child, protection

UNICEF has been operating in Zimbabwe since 1982. We are a team of passionate professionals committed to the protection and fulfillment of children’s rights.

Supporting the Government’s vision of a prosperous and empowered upper-middle-income society, the country programme is aimed at contributing to sustainable socioeconomic development that provides all children, including adolescents, with opportunities to fulfil their potential, lead a healthy life, access quality learning and protection and meaningfully participate in society.

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How can you make a difference?

UNICEF Zimbabwe is inviting applications for a national individual to support the UNICEF Zimbabwe Country Office (CO) in the implementation of monitoring and knowledge management activities for the UNICEF as well as support to Government and implementing partner capacities.

BACKGROUND:
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the Organization does in programmes, in advocacy and in operations. The Programme Planning and Monitoring (PPM) Section ensures that the UNICEF Country Office has reliable data regarding the situation of children and women and the performance of UNICEF supported programmes. This includes collaborating and liaising with Government and other partners in providing up to date information for various systems. Furthermore, PPM also supports Government and partners in development of national capacities of planning monitoring, and knowledge management for evidenced-based decision making.

Duties and Responsibilities

ASSIGNMENTS:
Support to Performance Monitoring, Reporting, Data and Information Systems:
-Ensure support to the Country Office programme data collection systems and analytics in support of tracking and managing programme results, partnerships and budgeting.
-Support development and maintenance of office-wide databases to manage key programme data, to support Country Office programme planning and monitoring.
-Support update of UNICEF's Results Assessment Module (RAM), UN Inter-agency information systems (UN Info) and the government information system (DevPromis) with UNICEF programme planning and monitoring data.
-Support programme data visualization systems to support the Country Office management in tracking and managing the Country Programme
-Develop as requested and support clear and concise programme data visualization products (e.g. maps, dashboards, infographics and financial/resource analyses) to UNICEF managers and partners.
-Support the programme sectors in development and maintenance of databases to manage key programme data, to support planning and monitoring, and ensure linkages with national information management systems.
-Support production of sector data reports.
-Produce monitoring data reports to support office-wide reviews and decision-making include those related to field monitoring and supply-end user monitoring.
Support strengthening and scale-up quantitative and qualitative Field Monitoring and accountability to beneficiaries at all stages (design, collection, analysis, and visualization of data), including through quality assurance and production of regular reports.
-Contribute to development of programme monitoring frameworks.
-Support the programme components to effectively monitor and report on the sectoral, intersectoral and cross sectoral programme component results to facilitate programme coherence and convergence where appropriate.
-Support the quality of child rights-based programmes through consistent and effective planning, design, implementation, monitoring and/or evaluation of programmes and projects.
-Support programme teams with indicators related to the implementation of programmes.
-Support the CO to ensure linkages with national information management systems supporting standards and quality.
-In humanitarian response situations, coordinate data-collection systems and consolidate humanitarian performance monitoring efforts.
-Produce humanitarian data for emergency reporting (SitReps).
-Support to Capacity Building
-Support the understanding and capacity building of monitoring and knowledge management for UNICEF staff members, implementing partners, and Government through communication, training, learning and development activities.
-In close collaboration with partners, ensure that a capacity building strategy for UNICEF/UN staff national partners and institutions exists.
-Collaborate to implement capacity building strategies as a joint commitment with other developmental partners.
-Utilize a range of appropriate skills building strategies including self-learning, seminars and workshops and practical experience in order that UNICEF and UN staff have the basic knowledge and skills in understanding and applying new programme monitoring policies, tools, methods to fulfil their responsibilities.
-Similarly, design and implement strategies suited to the skills needs of national partners.
Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of the planning and monitoring function

-Support to Information Sharing, Learning, and Knowledge Management
-Support the Country Office in documenting key updates and decisions emanating from various programme and management team meetings.
-Support the country office’s Data and Information Management agenda, in order to continuously adapt programmes and improve effectiveness based on evidence of successes and failures.
-Document the development of effective methods and platforms to standardize and share data and information and disseminate internally and externally
-Support coordination with other UN agencies in the country and share lessons on information data, management and coordinate in supporting partners.
-Support coordination the country office’s Knowledge Management agenda, in order to continuously adapt programmes and improve effectiveness based on evidence of successes and failures.
-Support the development and improvement of tools, modalities and processes to standardize the Office-wide approach to documentation, including identifying, collecting, documenting and disseminating lessons learned and good practices.

Qualifications and Experience

Education:
-University degree in in social sciences, statistics, planning development, planning or any other relevant field of discipline.

Experience:
-Professional work experience in programme development and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation activities as follows
-Two years relevant professional field work experience.
-At least two years exposure to gender-based programming. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
-Professional technical knowledge/expertise in demography, statistics, and data management.
-Professional technical knowledge/expertise in methodology of data, information management and monitoring, including theories, standards and models, quantitative/qualitative/mixed methods, validity/reliability testing of data, data analysis and interpretation, and statistical inference methods.
-Professional technical knowledge/expertise in activity monitoring, data analysis, and reporting.
-Professional experience in trainings on monitoring and data analysis.
-Gender equality and diversity awareness

Desirable
-Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including programme 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.
-Mastery of UNICEF’s M&E policies and procedures.
-Latest programme monitoring and evaluation theory, methodology and tools.
-Understanding of UN Mission and system, current key UN topics; and International Code of Conduct.
-Understanding of UNICEF Mission Statement and UNICEF Guiding Principles.
-UNICEF strategic framework for partnerships and collaborative relationships.

Language requirements:
-Fluency in English is required , and the language of the local duty station.