Overview
To ensure that UNICEF Country Offices and the Regional Office in WCA have timely, accurate and disaggregated knowledge on the situation of children, including emerging issues, and a clear understanding on progress and ways to accelerate it towards the achievement of continental, regional and national development objectives for children.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for developing a well-prioritized, resourced and integrated monitoring plan.
- Responsible for updating and adjusting this plan as needed.
- Responsible for ensuring monitoring work is effectively translated into actionable evidence.
- Responsible for providing technical guidance to support national monitoring system strengthening.
- Lead the internal efforts to strengthen RO and CO capacity for monitoring.
- Integrate all levels of monitoring into a strategic comprehensive and adaptive regional monitoring framework.
- Provide technical leadership and quality assurance on program performance monitoring.
- Ensure managerial oversight and enforcement of UNICEF standards related to Responsible Data for Children, Ethical Guidelines, Data Protection Policy and Data Quality Framework.
- Foster cross-sectoral monitoring work.
- Support the generation and use of analytical products.
- Provide managerial leadership and strategic direction for the integration of advanced analytics and innovation.
- Lead RO efforts to strengthen linkages between the monitoring function and other functions.
- Promote systematic use of monitoring evidence to inform strategic planning, programmatic adjustments and policy dialogue.
- Foster knowledge sharing across countries and regions.
- Act as the Regional Office Focal Point for all global and regional monitoring and data initiatives.
- Serve as the Regional Office subject-matter expert for Country Office recruitments related to monitoring, statistics and data positions.
- Increase the external facing role of UNICEF monitoring function by engaging with continental, regional and national partners.
- Provide strategic oversight and quality assurance for regional implementation of child‑centric surveys.
- Support quality assurance and institutionalization of Situation Analyses (SitAns) across the region.
- Lead the RO efforts to increase RO and CO capacity for monitoring national outcome-level and systemic-level changes.
- Lead the RO work to link monitoring of development programmes with humanitarian response monitoring.
- Represent UNICEF in continental, regional and national monitoring platforms and meetings.
- Lead full alignment of regional monitoring work with GOESE 6 priority areas of work.
- Provide end-to-end governance of regional monitoring and analytics evidence.
- Lead regional efforts to align child-related data with SDG frameworks and CRC commitments.
- Working with Global Office of Evidence, Strategy and Effectiveness (GOESE), COEs and EMOPS, lead RO efforts to strengthen national data systems in all sectors.
- Provide strong technical guidance for generation and use of analytical products.
- Represent WCARO in all continental, regional, and national data platforms and initiatives.
- Supervise the development and updating of regional databases for SDG, CRC/ACRWC, situation and humanitarian performance monitoring.
Required Experience
- Professional technical knowledge of minimum 8 years monitoring the situation of children, including through data analysis and interpretation, use of statistical inference methods, forecasting, etc.
- Solid understanding of UNICEF sector programs, including their associated strategies, indicators, databases, etc.
- Solid knowledge of CRC, equity, gender and other child-centered indicators (methodology, interpretation, analysis, etc.) and strong familiarity with humanitarian indicators.
- Solid command of statistical programming and coding with demonstrated experience with STATA, SPSS, CSPro, R, or Python for data analysis and interpretation.
- Familiarity with innovative monitoring methods and tools.
- Experience in Africa or developing countries with similar challenges.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in social sciences, statistics, development or related area.
