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For each child, Advocacy

UNICEF South Africa

UNICEF South Africa Country Programme (2020-2025) is aligned with the Government of South Africa’ National Development Plan for 2030 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). The programme helps the Government of South Africa to satisfy its dedication to respect, defend and fulfil kids’s rights in step with worldwide conventions and requirements. The nation programme is guided by the ideas of kids’s rights, fairness, gender equality, inclusion and resilience, and helps evidence-based, integrative and modern programming. The imaginative and prescient is that ‘all girls and boys in South Africa, especially the most disadvantaged and deprived, realize their rights’.

The programme focuses on: early childhood improvement; early studying and high quality schooling; adolescent improvement and participation; social and child safety; social coverage and child rights advocacy and programme effectiveness (planning, monitoring, analysis, HACT, innovation, exterior communication and partnerships).

The programme relies on ‘leaving no child behind’, realizing ‘rights for all children in South Africa. Programme planning, monitoring and evaluation in line with key UNICEF programming principles is increasingly critical to the delivery of results for children in South Africa, given the particular relevance of UNICEF programming principles – (1) leaving no one behind, (2) human rights-based approach to development or (3) gender equality and women’s empowerment – to the South African context. Innovation, together with expertise for improvement (T4D), can be more and more very important to attaining sustainable and scalable outcomes for kids, as challenges linked to local weather change, lack of employment alternatives, damaged academic methods, inequities, elevated disparities and digital divides are persevering with and rising with velocity.

With planning, monitoring and analysis (PME) and innovation as vital, cross-cutting capabilities that contribute to programme effectiveness outcomes, this submit is accountable for offering strategic management to planning, monitoring, analysis and innovation throughout the workplace and for offering in-house technical help in planning, monitoring, analysis and innovation for programming by all sections.

How are you able to make a difference? 

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Representative, the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager ensures that UNICEF South Africa has strategic and results-based programme planning methods and paperwork; helpful, legitimate, and dependable info on the state of affairs of kids’s and girls’s rights; related, efficient, and well timed use of programme monitoring info and insights for strategic and programmatic choice making, together with insights for protection, coordination, and coherence in emergency contexts. More particularly, the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager will lead the primary space, guaranteeing the alignment of programme planning, monitoring, and company reporting.

Summary of key capabilities/accountabilities:

1. Programme Planning and the Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Plan (IMEP):

• Support the Country Office and nationwide companions to develop a well-prioritised and practical programme plan, and monitoring and analysis actions, collaboratively to ship outcomes for kids.
• Lead improvement of the Country Programme Document (CPD), Country Programme Management Plan (CPMP), Results Framework, Programme Strategy Notes (PSNs), and Country Office Programme Workplans.
• In coordination with the Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Plan (IMEP)Committee, make skilled contributions to and supply technical help for the planning and establishing the most important analysis, monitoring and analysis targets, priorities, and actions in UNICEF’s multi-year and annual IMEPs, in session with child-rights and implementing companions.
• Support growing and coordinating the United Nations Sustainable Development Framework (UNSDF) M&E plan and reporting necessities from a sound rights and results-based programming course of.

2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment:

• Ensure that the Country Office and nationwide companions have a well timed and correct measurement of change in situations within the nation or area, together with monitoring of socio-economic traits and the nation’s wider coverage, financial or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to attract conclusions in regards to the affect of programmes or insurance policies. 
• In coordination with different stakeholders, help the gathering of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and different key social improvement indicators information to enhance nationwide planning.
• Support companions in establishing and managing nationwide statistical databases, guaranteeing key indicators are readily accessible to key stakeholders. Potential makes use of embrace Situation Analysis, Common Country Assessment, Early Warning Monitoring Systems, and Mid-Term Reviews.
• Develop a Situation Monitoring and Assessment system owned by all key companions which helps the preparation of country-level statistical and analytic stories on the standing of kids’s and girls’s rights points; and permits, when alternatives emerge, to affect developmental and social insurance policies.
• Provide technical help and coordinate world reporting obligations, together with nationwide stories on progress towards the SDGs and Key Results for Children (KRC)fulfilment.

3. Programme Performance Monitoring and Reporting:

• Ensure the Country Office has high quality info to evaluate progress in direction of anticipated outcomes established in annual work plans, together with emergency plans.
• Coordinate evaluation of high quality info collected and disseminated with the participation of all involved companions to evaluate progress in direction of anticipated annual multi-year outcomes and oversee the gathering and evaluation of related and strategic info wanted to handle the Country Programme.
• Strengthen and harmonize the Country Programme Monitoring methods, the Monitoring Information Systems (MIS) upkeep, biannual programme critiques, and company programme reporting (RAM, KRC, CRAVE, CSIs, UNINFO)Provide technical help to make sure that a set of programme efficiency indicators is recognized and adjusted as mandatory, with inputs of all involved companions to evaluate progress in direction of anticipated annual and multi-year ends in the context of the multi-year and annual IMEPs, the Annual Management Plan and Annual Work Plans, as outlined within the Programme Policy and Procedures Manual.
• Coordinate with companions to make sure that monitoring methods are correctly designed and that information assortment and evaluation from discipline visits are coordinated and standardised throughout programmes to feed into programme efficiency monitoring, with particular consideration to humanitarian response.
• Drawing on monitoring and analysing key programme efficiency and administration indicators, present skilled enter to administration stories, together with related sections of the annual stories.

4. M&E Capacity Building:

• Ensure that the monitoring and analysis capacities of Country Office workers and nationwide companions – authorities and civil society – are strengthened, enabling them to extend and lead monitoring and analysis processes.
• Enhance the monitoring and analysis capacities of Country Office workers and nationwide companions – authorities and civil society – to satisfy the expectations and necessities of their positions and obligations.
• Develop and keep steerage, instruments, templates, and supplies for planning, monitoring and reporting within the UNICEF SharePoint website, the hub for all planning, monitoring and reporting actions.
• Promote the notice and understanding of the shared duty of M&E perform amongst all workers members by way of communication, coaching, studying and improvement actions group huge.
• In shut collaboration with companions, be certain that an M&E capacity-building technique for UNICEF/UN workers nationwide companions and establishments exists within the context of the IMEP or UNSDCF M&E plan. Pay explicit consideration so the capability wants of nationwide companions resembling skilled analysis associations shall be strengthened with involvement in analysis processes and probably by way of particular capacity-building initiatives.
• Collaborate on implementing capacity-building methods as a joint dedication with different developmental companions.
• Utilise a spread of acceptable skills-building methods, together with self-learning, seminars and workshops and sensible expertise to construct the data and expertise of UNICEF and UN workers in understanding and to apply new M&E insurance policies, instruments, and strategies to fulfil their obligations. Similarly, design and implement methods suited to the abilities wants of nationwide companions.
• Actively search partnerships with data establishments to determine capability gaps and develop methods to handle them.

5. Networking, Knowledge Management and Sharing:

• Ensure that the UNICEF workplace is successfully linked to wider UNICEF M&E developments and the UNSDCF M&E system that contributes to and advantages from organizational studying on efficient M&E administration.
• The UNICEF workplace is linked to wider UNICEF and UN M&E developments in a manner that each contribute to and profit from organizational studying on efficient planning, M&E, and outcomes administration.
• Collaborate with Regional M&E Advisers and HQ Evaluation Office for general coordination of precedence analysis, monitoring and analysis actions, particularly these of regional scope requiring the coordinated effort of a number of nations.
• Partner with the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Adviser to make sure that present and correct M&E information and outcomes are included in regional stories, multi-country research, and knowledge-sharing networks.
• Undertake lessons-learned critiques on profitable and unsuccessful M&E practices and experiences on the nationwide stage, and guarantee they’re shared as acceptable. Similarly, take note of M&E data networks to determine improvements and classes realized which may be related for the CO and companions to enhance their M&E perform.
• Support coordination of UNICEF inputs to UN-wide planning, monitoring, and reporting necessities.
• Coordinates data administration and strengthen the documentation of greatest practices and guarantee efficient sharing and technology of data between UNICEF South Africa and different world & regional actors.

Impact of Results:

The effectivity and efficacy of path offered by the PME Manager to the Country Management Team and the wide selection of stakeholders contribute to the profitable results-based planning and monitoring of programmes that in flip, outcome within the improved nation workplace and nationwide stakeholders’ improvement planning, efficiency, and achievement of concrete and sustainable outcomes for kids in South Africa. Effective planning, monitoring, and reporting improve UNICEF’s capability and credibility in delivering extremely efficient programmes and concrete and sustainable outcomes that instantly enhance providers to moms and kids within the nation.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have…

Minimum necessities:

• Education: Advanced college diploma in social sciences, statistics, planning improvement, planning, or associated social science discipline.
• Work Experience: Eight years of progressively accountable skilled work expertise on the nationwide and worldwide ranges in programme planning, and monitoring. Practical expertise in emergency programming, together with preparedness planning and lively involvement in a humanitarian disaster response programme, is an asset.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language is taken into account as an asset.

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency. 

For each Child, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drives to attain impactful outcomes (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

Functional Competencies:

• Analyzing (III)
• Applying Technical Expertise (II)
• Planning & Organizing (III)

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UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to kids (individuals beneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based mostly on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, non secular or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.

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Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s lively dedication to range and inclusion is vital to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate candidates are inspired to apply.

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