Planning & Monitoring Specialist, P3, Health Section, Programme Group, NYHQ, #117407, Temporary Appointment

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, hope

How can you make a difference?

Tasks will include the following:

1. Strategic planning for ACT-A/COVAX
   • Supports strategic and operational planning for the ACT-A/COVAX unit, including annual work planning, budgeting, monitoring and tracking progress against milestones and recommends corrective actions as needed
   • Leads mid-year and annual reviews and related reporting
   • Prepares and/or coordinates inputs for reports, fundraising proposals and other requests
    
2. Monitoring of grants managed by the ACT-A/COVAX
   • Leads the accurately and timely monitoring of programme implementation and financial utilization of multi-country grants managed by the ACT-A team
   • Establish monitoring mechanisms and ensure consistent tracking and reporting on ongoing activities and deliverables.
   • Analyses and evaluates programme and financial data and prepares data visualizations
   • Provides timely updates to relevant global, regional and country colleagues on grant implementation
   • Analyses data and provides inputs for reporting on UNICEF’s contribution to ACT-A
    
3. Partnerships
   • Supports effective partnerships by coordinating and preparing high-quality reports and timely responses to requests from partners
   • Provides guidance to Regional and Country Offices on report preparation, donor proposals and concept notes
   • Participates in partner and coordination meetings and present data and provide insights.
   • Provides inputs, including on technical data, monitoring and evaluation, to fundraising proposals and concept notes to support resource mobilisation
    
4. Information and knowledge management
   • Establishes, maintains and updates data and information related to ACT-A-related grants, making this available to internal and external stakeholders as appropriate using web-based content management systems, Sharepoint sites, etc
   • Supports the collation of inputs, analyses and resources so that document libraries are up-to-date.

• Completion of advanced degree in Social Sciences, Public Health or related degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible work experience at national or international levels in programme management, planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Excellent communication skills, multitasking and result driven as well as ability to manage competing priorities, are required.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…   

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respective, Integrity, Trust and Accountability.

For more information on remuneration and benefits, please visit UNICEF’s Entitlements’ page.  If you would like to find estimates for entitlements, you may use the online Salary Estimate Calculator

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

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, appearance, socio-economic status, ability, age, religious, and ethnic backgrounds, 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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

“UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”