International Consultant – Monitoring and Evaluation, Seconded to African Union Commission (AUC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (260 working days for Non-Ethiopian Nationals solely)
Job no: 577365
Position kind: Consultant
Location: Ethiopia
Division/Equivalent: Nairobi Regn’l(ESARO)
School/Unit: Ethiopia
Department/Office: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Categories: Health, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
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Ethiopia is located within the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous nation on the continent with an estimated inhabitants of 115 million. It borders six African nations: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 sq. kilometers. Approximately 85 % of the inhabitants lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of historic cultures with Middle Eastern and African cultures evident within the spiritual, ethnic, and language composition of its folks.
Over the previous two years, kids and their households throughout Ethiopia confronted a number of and complicated emergencies, such because the battle within the northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of individuals in want of pressing humanitarian help. UNICEF has programmes in Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, and Education and serves over 15 million kids in Ethiopia. Join UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to enhancing the lives of youngsters and ladies.
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Background:
The African Union, a Pan-African continental physique headquartered in Addis Ababa, is charged with spearheading Africa’s fast integration and sustainable growth by selling unity, solidarity, cohesion, and cooperation among the many peoples of Africa and African States, in addition to growing a brand new partnership worldwide.
The mandate of the Health Systems Diseases and Nutrition division is to oversee coverage and technique growth and supply on implementation of AU selections. Further it responds to very important generic well being points associated to well being coverage and supply techniques, vitamin, inhabitants and different associated public well being points and challenges that require a concerted and coordinated method at a continental degree. The HSDN division performs a number one position in coverage growth, advocacy, coordination, monitoring and analysis and sources mobilization within the given thematic areas beneath Health, Nutrition and Population.
Agenda 2063 of the African Union was adopted by the twenty fourth Session of the AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa in January 2015 beneath Assembly/AU/Dec.565(XXIV). The agenda embodies the aspirations of the African folks, framed in a collective ambition thus: “The Africa We Want in 2063”. Strategic Objective 3 of Agenda 2063 ensures a wholesome life and promotes vitamin.
Agenda 2063 of the AU is operationalized by way of a sequence of 5 Ten-Year Implementation Plans, with the primary plan straddling 2014 to 2023 and the second spanning 2024 to 2033. The second decade of Agenda 2063 locations emphasis on acceleration of implementation, constructing on the primary that primarily centered on convergence.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitor, consider and put together studies based mostly on evaluation of the statutory implementation of current insurance policies, frameworks, commitments, and plans of motion which have been adopted.
- Ensure that AU’s sources are effectively allotted and used based mostly on information and proof on anticipated influence, assessed wants, priorities, and gaps.
- Provide technical inputs for growth of continental M&E framework and harmonization of indicators for the AU coverage frameworks together with however not restricted to Maputo Plan of Action and Abuja Call as beneficial by the Executive Council and Assembly.
- Support administration of AU information and reporting platforms corresponding to STATAFRIC, Health Stat and AMERT.
- Develop and strengthen monitoring, and analysis procedures and instruments to facilitate monitoring of all venture actions, expenditures, and progress in direction of attaining the venture outputs. Further help growth of monitoring and influence indicators for the venture success.
- Support the AUC in getting ready annual venture critiques and planning workshops and help the Head of division in getting ready venture studies.
- Coordinate the event of strategic plan and annual venture planning practices of the division and compilation of periodic actions implementation studies in step with the set targets and KPIs.
- Coordinate with different AU Directorates together with Strategic Planning, Programming budgeting and finance and Partnerships Management and sources mobilization to guarantee efficient monitoring of division’s plan and funds.
- Preparation of all division studies and help in getting ready different departmental studies
Work Assignment Overview
Tasks/Milestone:
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Standardize Data Collection Tools: Develop and make use of standardized information assortment devices and protocols to guarantee uniformity and decrease variations in information high quality throughout areas and groups.
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Rigorous Data Validation: Establish strong validation mechanisms, together with information cross-checks and comparisons with historic information, to determine and right inconsistencies early within the information assortment course of.
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Commission Reports for 2025: Prepare and submit annual studies documenting achievements, challenges, and suggestions in step with the African Union’s strategic well being objectives for the 12 months.
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Strategic Plan and Program Budgeting for 2025: help the event of a complete strategic plan for the well being sector, accompanied by an in depth program price range for 2025. The plan ought to align with the AU’s broader well being aims and define the allocation of sources for key well being initiatives.
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Monitoring and Evaluation Procedures: Establish strong monitoring and analysis (M&E) procedures and instruments to observe venture actions, expenditures, and progress towards attaining venture outputs. This contains common monitoring and reporting mechanisms to guarantee venture alignment with outlined well being targets.
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Preparation of Division Report: Compile a report detailing the achievements, challenges, and outcomes of the Division’s well being-associated actions over the 12 months. The report ought to function a key doc for inside evaluate and future planning.
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Preparation of Department Report: Prepare a division-vast report highlighting the progress, outcomes, and strategic route of well being-associated applications for 2025, offering an outline of accomplishments, classes discovered, and future aims.
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Monthly Division Coordination Report: Collaborate with strategic planning, finance, and different departments to produce a month-to-month coordination report. This report will present updates on the Division’s progress, price range utilization, and coordination efforts throughout completely different groups.
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Update AU Data and Reporting Platforms: Regularly replace AU information platforms corresponding to STATAFRIC, Health Stat, and AMERT with related well being information and progress studies, guaranteeing that key well being indicators and statistics are mirrored precisely in regional reporting instruments.
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Capacity Building for Member States on STATAFRIC: Organize and facilitate capability-constructing workshops or coaching classes for AU Member States on the well being part of STATAFRIC, enhancing their skill to accumulate, analyze, and report well being information successfully.
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Quarterly Status Report on AMERT: Prepare and submit quarterly standing studies on the replace and progress of AMERT, highlighting enhancements, information assortment progress, and areas needing additional help.
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Final Consultancy Report
Deliverables/Outputs:
- First Draft of Data Collection Tools (21 days)
- SOPs for information validation and validated model of Data assortment instruments (22 days)
- Annual Report for the Commission (22 days)
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Strategic Plan and Program Budgeting for 2025 (21 days)
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- SOPS for M&E accessible (22 days)
- Division Report ready and accredited (22 days)
- Department Reports Prepared and accredited (21 days)
- Monthly coordination assembly Reports (23 days)
- AU information and reporting platforms Updated (23 days)
- Capacitary constructing Reports for member states (19 days)
- Quarterly Status report on AMERT (23 days)
- Summary Consultancy report (21 days)
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…
- A minimal of 5 (5) years of expertise within the Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Health coverage-associated work with concentrate on Public Health in both/or each at nationwide and worldwide degree,
- At least 3 (three) years of expertise within the fields of Strategic Planning, Program Management and Monitoring Evaluation inside a global group, with reference to the African context.
- Knowledge of and expertise working with multilateral or intergovernmental organizations in Africa is most popular.
- Computer information is a should particularly in MS-Excel and Statistical Data software program’s.
- Experience within the UN system and information of UNICEF’s work is very desired.
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, OFFICE BASED.
Please notice that purposes submitted with no payment price won’t be thought-about.
For each Child, you exhibit…
Core Values:
- Care
- Respect
- Integrity
- Trust
- Accountability
- Sustainability
Core Competencies:
- Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
- Works Collaboratively with others (1)
- Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
- Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
- Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
- Drive to obtain impactful outcomes (1)
- Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
To view our competency framework, please go to right here.
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UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict baby safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates might be anticipated to adhere to these requirements and rules and will due to this fact endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to present extra data to conduct a background test.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “staff members” beneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (corresponding to depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their situations of service might be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of absolutely vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met prior to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.
Advertised: Nov 21 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
Application shut: Dec 05 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
