Programme Analyst, Quality Assurance, Quality Programming Branch, Programme Division (PD), Nairobi, Kenya, P-2

Organizational Context

The Programme Analyst, Quality Assurance supports the UNFPA's country, regional, and global programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic plan priorities and quality standards. Reporting to the Programme Specialist, Quality Assurance, the role contributes to results planning, monitoring, and reporting. UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled, focusing on key outcomes for population and development.

Job Purpose

The Programme Analyst, Quality Assurance plays a crucial role in enhancing the quality and effectiveness of UNFPA's programming. This position contributes to the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and tools, including AI-powered solutions, to support robust results planning, monitoring, and reporting. The role provides essential analytical inputs for guidelines and standards related to quality programming, and supports strategic visioning processes. By coordinating quality assurance exercises and producing evidence-based analyses, briefs, and presentations, the incumbent informs programming reports and advisory notes, ensuring alignment with UNFPA's strategic objectives and field-centered responsiveness.

Responsibilities

The Programme Analyst, Quality Assurance is responsible for contributing to the development, revision, and implementation of organizational policies, procedures, guidelines, and tools, including AI-powered solutions, to support results planning, monitoring, and reporting. This includes ensuring programme documents align with UNFPA strategic plan priorities and established standards. The role provides analysis and substantive inputs for guidelines and tools related to quality programming and supports strategic dialogues and theory of change processes. Additionally, the incumbent supports the planning and delivery of quality assurance exercises, produces evidence-based analyses, briefs, and presentations on programming quality, and coordinates the maintenance of key communication products and databases on programming quality.

Work Experience

Requires at least two years of relevant experience in international development, public health, or related fields, with prior regional or country-level experience being an asset. Experience in data management, statistical analysis, and quality assurance is essential. Demonstrable expertise in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, application of AI and digital solutions, and monitoring and evaluation are highly desirable.

Skills

Core competencies include integrity, commitment to UNFPA and the UN system, embracing cultural diversity, and change. Functional competencies encompass programme management, data analytics, working knowledge of data management software, and excellent office application skills, including the use of AI and digital solutions. Analytical and strategic thinking, teamwork, and communication for impact are also key.

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