UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save childrenโs lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job โ it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.
For every child, a future
How can you make a difference?
Purpose for the job:
The purpose of this job is: โ
To ensure that the UNICEF Bangladesh Country Office (BCO) has useful, valid, and reliable information on the performance of UNICEF-supported programmes, including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination, and coherence. To ensure that the UNICEF Bangladesh County Office (BCO) and field offices utilizing valid and reliable information on the attainment of the result of UNICEF, SDGs and other goals to inform decision-making. To assist in establishing a monitoring system aligned to UNICEF Procedure on Monitoring and BCO Monitoring Strategy, which enhances partnership between the UNCT, government and other key players to collectively track progress on SDGs and other international commitments for children. To assist in developing national capacities for programme performance monitoring field monitoring with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of government, community, and civil society stakeholders.Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
1.ย Planning for Monitoring:ย
Ensure that the Country Office, field offices and national partners use a well-prioritised and realistic plan of monitoring activities that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the Country Programme, including tracking and assessing UNICEFโs distinct contribution.ย
Duties & Tasks
Make professional contributions to and provide technical assistance for the planning and establishing the monitoring objectives, priorities, and activities in UNICEFโs multi-year and annual rolling work plan and field office contribution plan, in consultation with implementing partners. Coordinate with programme sections and field offices to prepare monitoring plans based on the rolling work plan and the contribution plan. Coordinate with programme sections in setting the targets for RAM and CSI indicators and provide inputs to RAM 3.0. Make professional contributions to prepare the plan for strengthening equity and risk informed programming and evidence-based performance monitoring. Support in the identification of monitoring objectives, priorities, and activities required for Country Office, Field Office and partner for Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans. In humanitarian response situations, support in preparing a humanitarian performance monitoring plan, which will cover monitoring tools to track the progress, gather data, and plan to cover key data gaps as required for the initial emergency response. Support the development of UNSDCF Monitoring Plans from a sound rights and results-based management (RRBM) perspective. In humanitarian response situations, provide technical support for a rapid assessment (inter-agency or independently if necessary) to be carried out within the first 48-72 hours. Provide rapid and accurate information on emergency programmeโs coverage, coordination, and coherence in close collaboration with partners and in line with the core commitment to children (CCCs).2.ย Programme Performance and Results Monitoring:ย
Ensure that the Country Office has quality monitoring data to assess performance towards expected results established in rolling work plans and contribution plans.
Duties & Tasks
Provide technical support to ensure that a set of programme performance indicators is identified and adjusted as necessary, with inputs of all concerned programme sections, partners in the context of the rolling work plans and field office contribution plans. Provide technical support to ensure that selection of programme indicators and other markers of progress is sufficient to provide data on the coverage, quality and equity of UNICEF supported programmes under rolling work plans and field office contribution plans. Provide technical support to ensure that findings and analysis from programme performance and results monitoring are periodically presented and used in meetings of programme management teams, country management teams, UN Country Teams (UNCTs). Provide technical support to ensure that country office monitor Core Standard Indicators (CSIs). Country programme outcomes and outputs are monitored using the most relevant combination of CSIs and Standard Indicators (SIs). Provide technical support to ensure that offices maintain a record of evidence for programme indicator values reported in RAM and UNINFO. Coordinate with partners to ensure that monitoring systems are properly designed using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, and that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardised across programmes to feed into to programme performance monitoring, with special attention to humanitarian response. Provide technical support to ensure that offices systematically use monitoring data during mid-year and end year programme reviews to improve programme and advocacy effectiveness by informing planning adjustments to the theory of change, results, and resources plan and/or work plans. Drawing on monitoring and analysis of key programme performance and management indicators, provide professional input to management reports, including relevant sections of the annual reports to programme sections and Management to inform decision-making. Assisting in information and knowledge management including quality assurance of sectoral situation, response and funding figures, compiling monitoring information/data, assisting in preparing dashboards and make them available to programme/planning sections.3.ย Programme Implementation Monitoring:
Ensure that UNICEF monitoring plans are designed and implemented to established UN quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders in order to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning.
ย Duties & Tasks
Provide technical support to ensure regular tracking and responding to progress towards key interventions and country programme outputs, implementation of work plan activities, programmatic risks, and bottlenecks, the end-use of supplies, advocacy objectives, feedback from affected populations and the evolving context (including unintended effects of programmes). Also, ensure the minimum coverage of field monitoring that includes programmatic assurance is determined by programmatic risk. Lead the process of rolling out of Field Monitoring Module (FMM) across all programmes and field offices of UNICEF BCO. Lead the process of reviewing and updating programme implementation monitoring tools, methods aligned to global guidance and procedure. Provide technical support to ensure that findings and analysis from programme monitoring are regularly presented and used in programme section meetings, field office meetings and programme management team meetings. Also, support to ensure that office use localized monitoring data to adapt programme implementation. Provide technical support to ensure that office use digital systems for programme monitoring, field monitoring, and partner reporting to capture, manage, analyse, and support use of monitoring data by sections, field offices and implementing partners. Ensure periodical review of implementation monitoring plans and adjust the plans based on the findings and learning from implementation process. Monitor and ensure the quality of the field work and data management during the implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase. Assist in the preparation of reports on systemic issues, good practices or any other analysis of qualitative and quantitative data related to programme implementation, monitoring, including programmeโs performance, relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability; as well as developing dashboard on country office performance and generate KPIs for CMT, PCM on regular basis. Consider the use of innovative tools for data visualization including through use of GIS, Power BI, Tableau, etc. and other real-time visualization tools as relevant/applicable.4.ย Monitoring Capacity Building:
Ensure that the monitoring capacities of Country Office staff and national partners โ government and civil society โ are strengthened, enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead monitoring processes.
Duties & Tasks
Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of monitoring function among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities. In close collaboration with partners, ensure that a monitoring capacity building strategy for UNICEF staff, national partners and institutions exists in the context of the rolling work plan or UNSDCF joint M&E plan. Organize sessions on CSI monitoring, RAM indicator monitoring, data reporting for programme sections and field offices. Collaborate to implement capacity building strategies as a joint commitment with programme sections, field offices and other UN agencies as part of UNSDCF. Utilize a range of appropriate skills building strategies, including self-learning, orientation and workshops and practical experience in order that UNICEF and partner staff have the basic knowledge and skills to understand and applying new monitoring approaches, tools, methods to fulfil their responsibilities. Support the planning and conduct of Right and Results-Based Management (RRBM) training for both BCO and Field Office staff as well as implementing partners to fill identified gaps and enhance adherence to sound RRBM principles in planning, monitoring and evaluation activities. Provide technical support and capacity building of Field Office staff, third-party monitors and implementing partners on data collection, data management and data analysis, including through data quality assessments, for enhanced monitoring and evaluation.5.ย Coordination and Networking:ย
Ensure that the UNICEF office is effectively linked to wider UNICEF monitoring developments in a way that both contributes to and benefits from organizational learning on effective programme performance, implementation monitoring management.
Duties & Tasks
Collaborate with Regional Planning and Monitoring team and HQ monitoring team for overall coordination of monitoring activities. Partner with the Regional Planning and Monitoring team to ensure that current and accurate monitoring data and results are included in regional reports, and knowledge sharing networks.ย Undertake lessons-learned reviews on successful and unsuccessful monitoring practices and experiences at the national level, and ensure they are shared as appropriate. Similarly, pay attention to monitoring knowledge networks to identify innovations and lessons learned that may be relevant for the BCO and partners to improve the monitoring function.To qualify as an advocate for every child you will haveโฆ
โข Education:
Advanced university degree in social sciences, social work, statistics, and development studies.ย ย
โข Work Experience:ย
2 years of relevant professional work experience in programme implementation monitoring, reporting both in development and humanitarian context At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme is preferred. Advanced level of skill and expertise in MS Excel is required. Working knowledge of Power BI is required, Professional technical knowledge/experience in quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, validity/reliability testing of data, data analysis and interpretation, and statistical tools/ methods. Demonstrated analytical writing and presentation skill is desired.โข Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.ย Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.ย
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEFโs Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this post areโฆ
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people.
Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.
UNICEF is here to serve the worldโs most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.
UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.
Remarks:
As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity
The selected applicant will have an initial two (2) year fixed-term contract, with the possibility of extension, subject to satisfactory performance.
UNICEFโs active commitment to diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.
Internal candidates who are legally permitted to work for UNICEF in Bangladesh, independently of UNICEF appointment, will also be considered.
Visa residence requirements: UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and working authorization for candidates under consideration for positions in the national officer category.
Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.ย
UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicantsโ bank account information.
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.
Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.