Deadline: 29 April 2021
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Monitoring & Evaluation Officer in Costa Rica.
UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.
Key Job Responsibilities
The Monitoring & Evaluation Officer will perform the following functions:
- Country Reporting and Validation Exercise (CRAVE) is prepared and in place to provide strategic priority and realistic plan of activities for M&E
- Contribute to provision of technical assistance for the planning and establishing the major research, monitoring and evaluation activities in multi-year and annual CRAVE, which is to be reflected in UNDAF M&E Plans.
- Participate in management studies and support/participate in thematic/strategic evaluations to improve development & organizational effectiveness.
- Situation Monitoring and Assessment
- Support management of available baseline information on national statistics and key indicators through established databases for easy access and use.
- Prepare country level statistical reports on the status of children’s and women’s human rights issues and provide a technical support to global reporting obligations including national reports on progress toward the SDGs, toward CRC fulfilment, and toward CEDAW fulfilment.
- Programme Performance Monitoring
- Provide technical support as necessary to identifying and adjusting a set of programme performance indicators, in the context of the multi-year and annual CRAVE, the Annual Management Plan and Annual Work Plans, as outlined in the Programme Policy and Procedures Manual.
- Provide technical support to ensure that monitoring system are in place and that key annual programme indicators are tracked and analysed, including those related to partnerships initiative, and provided regularly to the Country Management Team/ Senior Management Team to guide programme and management decisions.
- Strategic planning activities
- Support in the development of capacities of the programs for the implementation of models, programs, projects in the logic in GBR / ToC and Monitoring and Evaluation Systems.
- Provide support in the operationalization of action plans and development of policy monitoring systems (Public Policy for the Young Person PPPJ and National Policy on Children and Adolescents PNNA)
Provide technical support in the implementation of the roadmap for the development of the new National Policy on Children and Adolescents PNNA.
- Evaluation
- Provide support to ensure that the relevant programme partners participate and formulate Evaluation Terms of Reference and design of high quality.
- Provide technical support to ensure that evaluation design and management meet quality standards as outlined in UNICEF Programme Policies and Procedures and related stand-alone Evaluation Technical Notes, when necessary provide assistance to seek expertise of knowledge institutions.
- M&E Capacity Building
- Contribute to the collaboration of an M&E capacity building strategy for national partners and institutions and corresponding activities for implementation in the context of the CRAVE or UNDAF M&E plan.
- Provide technical support for implementation of capacity building strategies as a joint commitment with other developmental partners with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of primary stakeholders.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant must have:
- University Degree in social sciences, development planning, planning, evaluation, survey implementation and/or advanced statistical research.
- Minimum 1 year’s professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Fluency in English and Spanish.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit applications through online process.
For more information, visit UNICEF.
