Chief Planning

UNICEF Indonesia is looking for a Chief, Planning who is accountable for providing coordination and guidance to the UNICEF Indonesia programme sections and field offices on programme planning and monitoring, including for emergency preparedness and response, risk-informed programming, and environment/climate.

Under the supervision of Deputy Representative, the Chief Planning will deliver the following key end results:

• Accurate, coherent and reliable information collected and reported on the performance of UNICEF-supported programmes including their relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability, and in emergency contexts, their coverage, coordination and coherence.
• Coordination of programme preparation, planning and management mechanisms with Government is effectively conducted, in line with the GoI-UNICEF agreements and regulations.
• Technical guidance and support provided for the collection of accurate, reliable, gender-specific and coherent information for the Country Office to effectively assess programme performance, with the involvement of key partners, in terms of progress towards key end-results established in annual and multi-year workplans, including budget management.
• Technical guidance and support provided to ensure that Country Office Performance is systematically monitored and data for key indicators of the Annual Management Plan and management reports are collected, analyzed and made available to management and the Country Management Team.
• Office is well engaged in UN system-wide planning, strategizing, monitoring and reporting guidelines and compliant with relevant inter-agency guidelines and processes.
• The awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of programme planning and monitoring functions among all staff members are promoted and senior management are committed to it.
• Technical assistance provided for the conduct of inter-agency rapid assessment to define humanitarian response, in line with core commitments for children in humanitarian action.
• Effective cross-sectoral coordination and oversight of emergency preparedness and response activities, including to appeals, response plans, performance monitoring, and reporting. This will include effective oversight to the environment/climate agenda of the office.
• Technical oversight provided to the field offices for planning, results-based management, monitoring, review and reporting functions

Key Accountabilities:

• Leadership of the office planning function
• Ensure the country programme is provided with sufficient guidance and coordination for the strategic planning, annual planning, budgeting, review and reporting functions.
• Programme performance monitoring
• Ensure that the Country Office has quality information to assess programme and financial progress towards expected results established in annual and multi-year work plans.
• Planning and monitoring capacity building
• Ensure that the monitoring capacities of Country Office staff are strengthened enabling them to increasingly undertake quality results-based planning and monitoring.
• Technical support to field offices on programme planning, monitoring and reporting
• Ensure that field offices are provided with regular, coherent and coordinated programme guidance, especially on planning and monitoring functions, and are seamlessly integrated with programme sections.
• Communication and partnerships
• Ensure that all of the above tasks are carried out and accomplished through effective communication and partnerships within the organization:
• Please refer to the Job Profile attached for detail breakdowns of the above key accountabilities.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in international development, development planning, social sciences or other relevant disciplines
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience in programme planning and monitoring including both international and national work experiences
• At least one instance of exposure to humanitarian contexts or emergency programming is preferred, including preparedness planning
• Experience in supporting CO to design and submit a Country Programme Document (CPD) and the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Source:  https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/570359