Job Title: Planning Specialist
Organisation: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Grade Level: P-4
Reports to: Deputy Representative
About UNICEF:
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 60 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.
Job Summary: The Planning Specialist will offer leadership
to the Planning Section and guidance to the PCR Managers, Chiefs of Field
Offices, Zonal and Sectoral specialists
on all aspects of the country programme needs for planning, monitoring and
evaluation, including those related to UN Delivering-as-One in Uganda. Work
closely with the Chief of Social Policy and Evaluation to ensure timely
implementation of all planned studies, assessments and evaluations during the
country programme period, including the MTR, rolling situation analysis and end
of cycle evaluation, and integration of results/outcome in the rolling
work plans and budgets, and annual
programme progress and other reports.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Keep continuously abreast with the situation of children and
women in Uganda, and ensure collection, analysis and dissemination of updated
data and information on child survival,
protection and development in the country,
with emphasis on updated human
rights-based district specific situation analysis for the 58 UNICEF districts
for additional emphasis.
Ensure continuous flow of information on the situation to
the Dep. Rep, the Representative and the PCR Managers for policy development,
planning, advocacy and resource mobilization.
Provide substantive technical support to the Deputy
Representative for the new country programme process, including preparation of
strategy note, country programme document (CPD), country programme plan of
action (CPAP) and coordination of UNICEF inputs to the UN Country Assessment,
UNDAF strategies/outcomes or UNDAF Action Plan and Joint Programmes, ensuring
coherence with UNICEF CPD/CPAP and emerging needs of children.
Responsible for the development and continuous updating of
HRAP based planning and monitoring guidelines for the country programme and
ensure that they also reflect
decentralization of government planning procedures, participatory
planning approaches and indicators for community and district monitoring.
Ensure timely preparation and integration of UNICEF inputs into the District
Development Plans for the 58 districts
of additional emphasis, GOU Sector plans and
UNICEF/GOU Rolling Work Plans for
both districts and nationwide support.
Ensure synchronization of the UNICEF support with the GOU
planning cycles.
Provide guidance and procedures to the area programme
managers and project officers, districts on all aspects of program planning and
monitoring according to UNICEF’s, policies, guidelines and operational
procedures, especially those specifically developed for the CP.
Ensure timely implementation and effective monitoring of
UNICEF inputs (cash, supply, contract, training, and travel) and participate in
quarterly and annual reviews and planning exercises for the 58 districts supported by the CP on a rotating
basis and the national level meetings when needed.
Undertake frequent CP monitoring visits to the 58 districts
to assess the effectiveness and cost efficiency of UNICEF assistance to the
districts for planning monitoring and adjustment of strategies and approaches.
Ensure establishment of an effective district based
monitoring system for regular assessment of community and district specific
targets and outcomes related to CP goals and ensure linkage between lower
government and district and national monitoring systems.
Establish capacity building monitoring system at district
level which reflects UNICEF’s contribution to the individual districts in terms
of training, management support, communication and logistics and other items
which are supposed to enhance and facilitate country programme implementation.
Provide backstopping to the Reports Specialist to ensure
timely submission of donor, progress and any other reports requested by the
Deputy Representative or the Representative’s office
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The applicant should hold an advanced university degree in
Social Sciences or other related field.
Eight years of relevant work experience at the national and
international levels in social development, management, monitoring and evaluation.
Fluency in English and another UN language. Knowledge of the
local working language of the duty station is an asset.
Personal Competencies:
Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including
during formal public speaking.
Sets high standards for quality of work and consistently
achieves project goals.
Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment.
Good leadership and supervisory skills; co-ordinates group
activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear.
Analyzes and integrates potentially conflicting numerical,
verbal and other data from a number of sources.
Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of
possibilities.
Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.
Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups;
maintains an effective network of
individuals across organizational departments.
Contributes and tries out innovative approaches and
insights.
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.
How to Apply:
If interested in working with UNICEF Uganda in the above
portfolio, Please visit the web link below to review job requirements and if
satisfied Click Apply Now on this page
www.careers.unicef.org/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?
Deadline: 5th August, 2013
