I. Position Information
Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation
Officer, UNAIDS
Duty Station: Nairobi, Kenya
Reports to: UNAIDS Country Coordinator, Somalia
Contract Type: Service Contract
Current Grade: SC9
II. Organizational Context
The thrust of the UNAIDS office is to effectively contribute to
the national AIDS response with high level policy, strategic guidance and
technical support to scale up towards universal access to HIV prevention,
treatment, care and support.
In this regard, the UNAIDS Country Office will be playing a high
policy driven role, providing intellectual and strategic leadership on AIDS,
high quality technical support, promoting and advocating for sustained high
level policy driven role, providing intellectual and strategic leadership on
AIDS, high quality technical support, promoting and advocating for sustained
high level engagement of government and civil society.
The UNAIDS Country Office has overall responsibility for
ensuring the functioning and accountability across all areas in the division of
labour among the UNAIDS family of co-sponsors on the following matters:
Leadership and Advocacy; Coordination, coherence and partnerships; and Mutual
accountability.
Current UN operations in Somalia are carried out in three zones;
Puntland, Somaliland and South Central. In that regard, UNAIDS co-sponsors have
office presence in each of the three zones.
For UNAIDS to effectively execute its mandate of advocacy,
coordination, strategic planning and M&E, it is necessary that it also
establishes local presence in each of the three zones.
UNAIDS has signed an MoU with UNICEF (Global Fund PR) to support
Global Fund supported M&E work in Somalia including the development of
M&E Framework and tools and technical support to its implementation at
national and zonal levels.
From 2012 UNAIDS has strengthened its leadership and
coordination roles through the revitalization of the Joint Team on AIDS (JUNTA)
in Nairobi and established foundations for zonal level JUNTA coordination
structures.
In Puntland, the JUNTA has been chaired by UNAIDS with other
agencies taking the lead in the three zones. The same arrangement needs to be
replicated in Somali Central and Somaliland.
Apart from the JUNTA meetings, there is need for continued
participation and representation of UNAIDS in key forums and working groups at
the zonal level and coordination of key activities in consultation with UCC.
Other initiatives in need of zonal level inputs include the
on-going efforts to ensure that the UN cares minimum standards are observed by
all agencies at the zonal level and the new focus on integrating HIV in IASC
cluster work with link to emergencies.
The key implementation steps for the activities under each of
the result areas are detailed in the county work plan.
The UNAIDS Country Office in Somalia is seeking the services of
a National Professional Officer (Strategic Information) to be located in
Nairobi with frequent travel to Somalia.
III. Functions/Key Results Expected
Summary of Key Functions
1: Manage and coordinate technical aspects of data collection
and compilation.
2: Promote and reinforce capacity building of national
counterparts
3: Plan and coordinator work with country level partners
4: Proactively provide strategic guidance and advice to UNAIDS
Country Coordinator
1: Manage and coordinate technical aspects of data collection
and compilation
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Manage, coordinate and influence the prioritization, process and
technical aspects of a wide array of data collection and compilation, and
analysis related to epidemiology and the response, in view of informing future
programme efforts, including:
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Surveillance, surveys and mapping;
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Analyses of programmatic and survey data on the response;
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Strengthening of Monitoring and Evaluation systems;
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Analyses of status and trends of the epidemic;
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Analyses of the distribution of new infections by geography and
by mode of transmission;
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Triangulation and modeling of epidemiological and response data
to assess impact and identify programmatic gaps;
2: Promote and reinforce capacity building of national
counterparts
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Promote and reinforce capacity building of national counterparts
in data collection, data analysis, reporting and using evidence for
programming;
·
Work closely with the Zonal NAC Executive Directors to provide
normative guidance on the NSF development process planning and execution as
well as to develop and implement the SI/M&E functions of the zonal
multisectoral responses;
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Identification of best practices during implementation of the
NSP;
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Support finalization and launch of the Somalia Strategic and
national and zonal Operational Plans for HIV and serve as a member of the
taskforce;
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Support development of a prioritized HIV research and evaluation
agenda;
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Participate in National Data Quality Audit and improvement
exercises;
3: Plan and coordinator work with country level partners
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Plan and coordinate work with country level partners including
GFTAM, bilateral agencies, International NGOs on advancing and evidence
informed approach to the national AIDS response;
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Support Global AIDS Response Progress reporting for Somalia;
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Provide the following Technical Guidance;
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Support adoption of targets for the NSP results framework;
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Support documentation of upto date NSP implementation progress
to inform the review;
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Guide prioritization of the strategies by provision of evidence
and application of the UNAIDS investment framework;
·
Revise the National HIV M&E plan in line with the revisions
in the NSP;
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Support an M&E Systems Strengthening assessment and use it
for preparation of a rolling 3 year costed HIV M&E integrated action plan
(IAP) for the remaining period of the NSP;
·
Support gap analyses processes in particular costing of the NSP
and assessment of expenditure.
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Participate in the development of the Global Fund application
including description of the epidemic and writing of the performance framework;
·
Provide SI/M&E technical advice and assistance to other
experts from government, civil society, academic institutions and bilateral/UN;
4: Proactively provide strategic guidance and advice to UNAIDS
Country Coordinator
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Proactively provide strategic guidance and advice to the UCC
about specific programmatic actions and reprogramming informed by strategic
analyses that identify programme gaps;
·
Participate on behalf of UNAIDS in the national technical
working groups (TWG)
·
Convene UN partners as Chair of the UN JT M&E committee to
review midyear progress on the UBRAF and to harmonise and consolidate UN
support to the National HIV M&E system;
·
Support writing of a joint UN programme for AIDS and its M&E
Framework.
V. Impact of Results
The key results will have a direct impact on the overall
effectiveness and success of National Strategic Plan development and
operationalization and subsequently the contribution to the achievement of the
Global Targets of the UN Political Declaration of HIV/AIDS
VI. Competencies and Critical Success Factors
Corporate Competencies:
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Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical
standards.
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Advocates and promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals
of UN.
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Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age
sensitivity and adaptability.
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Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
Functional Competencies:
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Development and Operational Effectiveness
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Extensive knowledge in one or more substantive areas around
UNAIDS.
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Commitment to the AIDS response.
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Demonstrated ability in fostering collaborative relationships
with co-sponsors, external institutions and across other units and departments
at the management level.
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Solid knowledge in financial resources and human resources
management, contract, asset and procurement, information and communication
technology, general administration
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Management and Leadership
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Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and
result for the client and responds positively to feedback
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Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive,
constructive attitude
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Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills
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Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage
complexities
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Leads teams effectively and shows mentoring as well as conflict
resolution skills
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Remains calm, in control and good humoured even under pressure
VII. Recruitment Qualifications
Education: Advanced university degree in epidemiology,
statistics, demography, public health or social science
Experience:
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Minimum 4 years’ experience in the design, development,
operational application and evaluation of AIDS programmes in developing country
settings, with experience in providing strategic direction and developing
functional M&E frameworks based on consolidated analytical inputs.
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Extensive experience in developing and implementing M&E
systems and related programs in the developing countries.
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Experience of the Somalian HIV national programme or in another
MENA country is an asset.
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Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in the UN System is
desirable.
Language Requirements:
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Fluency in written and spoken Somali and English. Knowledge of
Arabic is an asset.
VIII: Terms of Service
This is a non-staff contract under the service contract modality
of UNDP.
Individuals engaged under a service contract serve in their
individual capacity and not as representatives of a government institution,
corporate body or other authorities external to UNDP.
The incumbent shall not be considered as staff of UNDP.
The UN common system or the government and are therefore not
entitled to any diplomatic privileges or other special status or condition
How to apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their
application to http://jobs.undp.org/ orhttp://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=40031