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The Planning and Monitoring Specialist reports to the Deputy Representative (Programme coordinator) under the MCO Programme Coordination working group, supervising the Planning and Monitoring Officer (Reporting), NOA, located in Belize, the Planning and Monitoring Officer (Reporting), NOB, located in Guyana and the G7 Senior Planning Associate in Suriname. This Coordination working group acts as the strategic backbone for managing all phases of the multi-country programme cycle — from design to delivery of results — ensuring that the Caribbean MCO operates as “one programme” across 12 countries. It provides integrated coordination on planning, budgeting, implementation, HACT assurance, monitoring and reporting, so that programme resources are aligned with funding realities and managed with strong value-for-money and compliance with UNICEF standards.
This position provides specialized technical expertise in programme planning, work planning processes, and planning quality assurance across the Caribbean MCO, contributing to the MCOwide PMR function. At NOC level Planning & Monitoring Specialist contributes to multi-country planning frameworks, and leads Annual Work Plan design and coordination, and the integration of equity and results-based management principles into planning cycles — supporting coherent, evidence-informed programme planning across the 12-country platform. Key monitoring activities are also part of this role including situation monitoring and assessment, programme performance monitoring and planning and Monitoring Capacity Building as well as networking and partnership building, innovation, knowledge management and capacity building.
The Planning and Monitoring Specialist provides professional technical and operational guidance throughout the planning and monitoring process, preparing, executing, managing and implementing a variety of technical and administrative tasks to contribute to planning, implementation, oversight and reporting to ensure that programmes are carried out and monitored according to national and field office plan, including according to agreed quality criteria and schedule.
Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:
- Setting standards for programme development, planning and performance Monitoring
- Situation Monitoring and Assessment
- Programme Performance Monitoring
- Networking and partnership building:
- Innovation, knowledge management, Planning and Monitoring capacity building
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: NOC P&M Specialist Jamaica.pdf
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Minimum requirements:
Education: Advanced university degree in economics, social sciences, statistics, psychology, or other social science fields is required
Work Experience:
- A minimum of five years of professional work experience in programme development and implementation including monitoring of programme implementation and results activities is required.
- Experience with development and implementation of analytical and measurement frameworks is required.
- Experience with developing programme monitoring framework is required.
- Demonstrated experience supervising teams is required
- Developing country work experience is desired.
- Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred is desired.
- Experience in data management and statistical analysis using statistical software like R, SPSS, Stata, and data visualization tools like Power BI and others, is an asset
- Technical Knowledge and
Skills
Specific Technical Knowledge & Competencies Required:
- Knowledge of programme monitoring
- Emerging international good practice in monitoring partnerships.
- Common Technical Knowledge Required (for the job group):
- Professional technical knowledge/expertise in monitoring, demog