Country: Kyrgyzstan
Closing date: 07 Nov 2018
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.
Purpose of the Position:
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Key Accountabilities and Duties & Tasks:
Strengthen monitoring and evaluation capacities of national, regional and local partners, from the government, the parliament and civil society. Independent child rights institutions and mechanisms are enhanced and stakeholders have at their disposal disaggregated evidence to influence, develop, implement, monitor and evaluate international commitments, national, regional and local policies, allocations of resources and programme implementation models, focusing on child- related disparities and inequities.
Duties & Tasks
2. Situation Monitoring and Assessment
Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate measurement of change in the conditions of disadvantaged and excluded children in the country or region, including monitoring of socio-economic trends and the country’s wider policy, economic or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to draw conclusions about the impact of programmes or policies on equity for children.
Support SDG monitoring and reporting, providing expertise towards the tracking of equity gaps and identification of critical bottlenecks to the achievement of child rights.
Duties & Tasks
Support partners in the establishment and management of national statistical databases (e.g. SDG reporting platform); and in their contribution to regional and international databases (e.g. TransMonEE, CRING, global and national SDG reporting), ensuring that key indicators on children are readily accessible by key stakeholders. Potential uses include the Situation Analysis, Common Country Assessment, Early Warning Monitoring Systems, SDG Voluntary National Reporting, and UNICEF Mid-Term Reviews.
Develop a Situation Monitoring and Assessment system owned by all key partners which supports the preparation of country level statistical and analytic reports on the status of children’s and women’s rights issues and of equity gaps; and which allow, when opportunities emerge to influence developmental and social policies. This is to include technical support to global reporting obligations including national reports on progress toward international commitments for children including SDGs, and toward CRC and CEDAW fulfilment.
3. Evaluation
Ensures that UNICEF-supported evaluations (such as joint evaluations of public policies and programmes or impact evaluations of pilots) are strategically selected and conducted in accordance with UN quality standards. Ensures that the results of these evaluations are planned, implemented and disseminated in a timely fashion to internal and external stakeholders to inform public programme design and performance and contribute to national and corporate learning.
Duties & Tasks
In collaboration with CO colleagues and national partners, identify, design and manage strategic evaluations in compliance with UNEG evaluation norms and standards. This may include joint evaluation of public policies and programmes, impact evaluation of models and pilots and participation in strategic multi-country evaluations.
Monitor and ensure the quality of the field work and data management during the evaluation implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase as per UNICEF evaluation policy and guidelines.
Disseminate evaluation findings and recommendations to the intended audiences in user-friendly methods. Ensure that effective participatory feedback is provided to community and civil society stakeholders.
4. Knowledge Management
Ensure that UNICEF contributes to national, regional and international learning on child rights by sharing knowledge, good practices and lessons and by supporting national partners and civil society to share the same with other countries.
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5. Contribution to Networking and Advocacy
Ensure that the UNICEF partnerships, networking and advocacy are effectively supported by relevant and evidence-based research and knowledge related to children in the country, focusing on the most vulnerable children.
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6. Child Rights Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Planning
Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have a well-prioritised and realistic plan of research, CRM monitoring and evaluation activities, developed collaboratively that provides relevant and strategic information needed to guide national policies and promote child rights in the country (including SDG monitoring).
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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=516847