Planning and Monitoring Officer

The Planning and Monitoring Officer will provide technical support throughout Cox’s Bazar Field Office planning and monitoring function. This will include support to programme performance monitoring, preparation, and monitoring HAC and JRP of the Cox’s Bazar field office, as well as in information/data collection, statistics and data analysis, preparation of reports to enhance the use of data, and in implementing training programmes for camp-level and sub-national data collection, monitoring, planning and capacity building with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of primary stakeholders. The Planning and Monitoring Officer will also lead the information management, Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM), Implementation monitoring and partners’ reporting functions of the Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) Team of UNICEF Cox’s Bazar Field Office (FO).

The purpose of this job is: 

• To ensure that the Cox’s Bazar field office 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 Cox’s Bazar field office is 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 planning and 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, other international commitments for children both at humanitarian and development context.
• To assist in developing sub-national capacities for planning and humanitarian & development programme performance monitoring, field monitoring with special attention to the interest, concern and participation of government, community, and civil society stakeholders.

Major duties and responsibilities:

Planning and collaboration: 

• Ensure that the Cox’s Bazar field office and sub-national partners collaborated well to prepare a realistic plan aligned to joint response plan, UNICEF’s strategic priorities, and use a well-prioritised & realistic plan of monitoring activities that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the programmes at Cox’s Bazar, including tracking and assessing UNICEF’s distinct contribution.

Humanitarian Programme Performance and Results Monitoring: 

• Ensure that Cox’s Bazar field office has quality monitoring data to assess performance towards expected results established in joint response plan, and contribution plan.

Programme Implementation Monitoring and data/information management:

• Ensure that Cox’s Bazar’s monitoring plan is designed and implemented to established UN quality standards, and the results are capture, data/information are managed and disseminated in a timely fashion to stakeholders in order to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning at development and humanitarian contexts.

Planning and Monitoring Capacity Building:

• Ensure that planning and monitoring capacities of Cox’s Bazar field office staff and sub-national partners – government and civil society – are strengthened, enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead planning and monitoring processes at development and humanitarian contexts.

Coordination and Networking: 

• Ensure that Cox’s Bazar field 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 at development and humanitarian contexts.
• If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: Download File TOR – Planning and Monitoring Officer NOB TA CxB.pdf

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Minimum requirements:

Education:

• First university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in social sciences, social work, statistics, development studies.

Work Experience: 

• 2 years of relevant professional work experience in programme implementation monitoring, reporting both in development and humanitarian context in UN is preferred.
• Demonstrated analytical writing and presentation skills are desired.
• Exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred.
• An 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.

Language Requirements:

• 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/574254