If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, 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. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, 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. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Purpose of the Position
Under the general supervision of the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, you will manage overall planning and coordination, and monitoring and evaluation of the total programme commitment of a medium size country office with a broad range of projects, including programme/project formulation, design, planning and management, and monitoring and evaluation.
Key Expected Results
- Effective knowledge management and system, information exchange and the development of training and orientation materials developed and deployed for strengthening of country programme management and activities.
- Situation Analysis prepared/updated, critical programme intervention point/measures identified, and programme work plans/recommendations prepared and incorporated. Programme reports prepared as required.
- Programme funds optimally used.
- Programme monitoring and evaluations effectively conducted to improve programme performance, and programme status report timely prepared.
- Rights-based and results-based programming approach fully incorporated into all phases of programme and projects processes.
- Commitment and institutional capacities of the national and local partners gained and established.
Qualifications of Successful Candidate
- University degree in social sciences, international relations, government, public administration, public policy, social policy, social development, community development, or other relevant disciplines, with specialized training in conflict resolution
- Two years of relevant professional work experience, including international and developing country work experience, in programme design, planning and implementation
- Knowledge and experience of real time monitoring and end-user monitoring is an advantage.
- Background/familiarity with Emergency.
- Fluency in English and local working language of the duty
Competencies of Successful Candidate
Core Values
- Commitment
- Diversity and inclusion
- Integrity
Core competencies
- Communication
- Working with people
- Drive for results
Functional Competencies
- Formulating Strategies and Concepts
- Analyzing
- Applying Technical Expertise
- Learning and Researching
- Planning and Organizing
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested and qualified candidates are requested to submit their application to the links as stated below no later than 21 August 2016.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all South Africa nationals, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
Only South Africa Nationals will be considered
