Re-advertisement: Planning & Monitoring Manager, P-4, Fixed Term Position, ECAMENA RO, Amman, Jordan, #00136982 (Open to all UNICEF personnel)

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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s 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 for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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For every child, the right to a Future

The ECAMENA Regional Office leverages expertise and scale across a diverse and rapidly evolving region that is playing an increasingly important role in shaping global agendas on the realization of child rights, human capital, migration, climate, equity, and digital transformation. It supports the achievement of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan results in the context of rising needs and constrained resources. The region encompasses all country typologies, including high-income, middle-income, and low-income contexts, as well as fragile and conflict-affected settings, each with distinct development trajectories and policy drivers. This requires differentiated approaches, agile business models, strategic partnerships, and strengthened risk management. The region is further shaped by ongoing challenges such as conflict, migration, economic volatility, and varying degrees of political openness and reform. At the same time, countries across the region are connected by shared challenges and opportunities, including investment in the early years, addressing learning gaps and equipping adolescents and young people with 21st-century skills, the need for resilient national systems, and the imperative to strengthen child rights governance.

In this context, the ECAMENA Regional Office acts in line with the organization’s value proposition for Regional Offices through: (i) strategic leadership and governance; (ii) regional and political representation and engagement; (iii) programme oversight, knowledge, and foresight; (iv) digital transformation and innovation; (v) people-centered management; (vi) financial and risk management; (vii) supply and logistics; (viii) emergency preparedness and response; (ix) communication and strategic advocacy; and (x) partnerships and financing.

Within this framework, the Planning, Monitoring and Data Analytics function serves as a core pillar of ECAMENA’s strategic programme oversight, knowledge, and results architecture. In line with the ECAMENA Regional Office Management Plan (ROMP), the function focuses on guiding Country Offices in planning, monitoring, implementing, and reporting country programmes based on data and evidence, while strengthening results-based management, programme oversight, and the use of monitoring data for adaptive decision-making across the region. Its work is organized around three interlinked priorities: planning and monitoring; data and child rights monitoring; and research, foresight and knowledge management.

The Planning & Monitoring Manager leads the planning, monitoring, and reporting stream within this architecture. This post supports Country Offices across all country typologies to strengthen country programme design, programme-cycle management, performance monitoring, results reporting, and alignment with the Strategic Plan, national priorities, and United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (Cooperation Frameworks), where applicable. Within the ECAMENA model, the planning and monitoring stream helps maintain programme quality assurance, planning coherence, and performance monitoring across the region and helps ensure that COE engagement is strategically timed at the most critical moments of the programme cycle.

How can you make a difference

Under the supervision of the Regional Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Data Analytics (P-5), the Planning & Monitoring Manager (P-4) provides strategic and technical leadership for the planning, monitoring, and reporting stream across the ECAMENA region. The post is responsible for guiding Country Offices and providing quality oversight in strategic planning and performance monitoring to ensure alignment of UNICEF country, multi-country, and area programmes with the Strategic Plan, national priorities, and Cooperation Frameworks, where applicable. The post provides strategic guidance on results-based management and supports Country Offices to strengthen their systems and use monitoring data for adaptive decision-making. The post supports key programme cycle moments, including country programme development, CPMP strengthening, work-planning, programme reviews, results coding, performance monitoring, and end-year reporting. It also coordinates the regional Planning & Monitoring Officers cohort, supports ROMP monitoring and annual review processes, contributes to the harmonization of planning and monitoring approaches across the merged ECAMENA context, and helps ensure coherence between development and humanitarian monitoring systems in support of adaptive programme management and results for children.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

• Strategic planning guidance and country programme quality assurance
• CPMP, results-based work-planning, coding, and programme-cycle implementation guidance
• Programme monitoring, performance management, knowledge sharing, and results reporting
• ROMP monitoring, end-year reporting, and regional management processes
• Regional standards, harmonization and capacity strengthening in planning and monitoring
• Cooperation Framework alignment, UN coherence, and inter-agency support
• Humanitarian planning and monitoring interface
• Stream coordination with CoEs and with RO Sections, team management and section coherence

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD_Planning & Monitoring Manager, P4, 136982

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

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in social sciences, development studies, international relations, public administration, public policy, economics, statistics, planning, monitoring and evaluation, or another relevant field is required.
  A Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. This is applicable to internal (FT, Continuing and Permanent) staff only.
• Work Experience: 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience in programme planning, monitoring, results-based management, reporting, or related advisory support in a development and/or humanitarian context is required. .
• Skills: Country programme development and programme-cycle support. CPMP development, work-planning, results coding, and programme implementation guidance. Programme monitoring, annual reporting, and performance management. Quality assurance of strategic planning and review processes. Support to Country Offices across diverse country contexts. Results-based management and the use of monitoring data for adaptive decision-making. Experience supporting planning and monitoring across diverse country typologies, including fragile and conflict-affected settings is required.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Experience with PIDB coding, RAM, organizational performance-monitoring systems, or comparable planning and monitoring tools is highly desirable.
• Experience building or coordinating communities of practice, professional P&M networks, or structured regional learning platforms is an asset.
• Experience working in the context of organizational restructuring, Centres of Excellence models, or comparable programme quality assurance arrangements is an advantage.
• Developing-country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency contexts is desirable
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's 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 are…

(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.

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UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

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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.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.

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Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

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