Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (WASH)
Organizational Context
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. 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.
Job Purpose
The WASH Monitoring and Evaluation Officer reports to the Chief of WASH for supervision. The Officer supports the WASH Section and the Country Office in generating, managing, and using timely, reliable, and actionable evidence for programme planning, implementation, performance monitoring, accountability, learning, and resource mobilization. The position provides professional expertise in monitoring and evaluation (M&E), data collection and quality assurance, data management and analysis, reporting and data visualization, field and third-party monitoring, evaluation processes, and M&E capacity strengthening, with particular attention to results for children, equity, gender, humanitarian action, early recovery, and systems strengthening.
Responsibilities
Provide technical support to ensure that the Country Office and national partners use a well-prioritized and realistic plan of research, monitoring, and evaluation activities that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the Country Programme, including tracking and assessing UNICEF’s distinct contribution. Provide technical support to ensure that the Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate measurement of change in conditions in the country or region, including monitoring of socio-economic trends and the country’s wider policy, economic, or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to draw conclusions about the impact of programmes or policies. Provide technical support to ensure that the Country Office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual work plans. Provide technical support to ensure that a well-prioritized and strategic selection of evaluations at programme or Country Office strategy level is managed in order that each evaluation is designed and carried out with quality process and products and that evaluation results are useful to the intended audience. Provide technical support to ensure that the monitoring and evaluation capacities of Country Office staff and national partners – government and civil society – are strengthened, enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead monitoring and evaluation processes. Provide technical support to ensure that all of the above tasks are carried out and accomplished through effective communication and partnerships.
Work Experience
At least two years of relevant professional field work experience in programme development and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation activities. At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning.
Skills
Data Collection, Data Analysis, Data Management, Evaluation Design, Evaluation Process, Reporting, Programme Planning, Performance Monitoring, Accountability, Learning, Resource Mobilization, Capacity Strengthening