Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist (Innovation), P3 – Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden – #129012 (Fixed-term appointment)

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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For every child, innovate…

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF’s and all its partners’ expertise and resources against key children-outcomes bottlenecks, with a view to continuously ideate and scale the most effective solutions with transformational potential at scale to achieve the child-related SDGs.

The office is doing this by continuously exploring new ways of accelerating results for children, investing across a range of early stage solutions, and harnessing internal and external expertise towards continuously iterating and finetuning the most promising solutions for children through a systematic portfolio management approach, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation energy, knowhow and resources from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector and non-governmental organizations. This takes place across 160 country offices.

The P3 Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist (Innovation) works to support innovation-appropriate monitoring, evaluation, and evidence generation agenda and to capture and communicate insights derived from innovation solutions and portfolios.

How can you make a difference? 

Under the general guidance and direction of the P4 Innovation Manager (Evidence/Knowledge Management), and in close collaboration with Portfolio Managers across OOI, the post is responsible for evidence generation and performance management of global innovation portfolios.

1. Develop and Implement Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Strategy
   
   – Create and execute a comprehensive strategy for monitoring, evaluation, and learning for global innovation portfolios.
   – Ensure the strategy includes a well-prioritized plan for research, monitoring, and evaluation activities that support scaling and organizational learning.
2. Aggregate and Communicate Insights / Thought Leadership

   – Distill and facilitate the communication of insights and learning from individual activities and portfolios.
   – Regularly share insights, learning, and progress internally and externally to foster transparency and knowledge dissemination.

3. Learning and Capacity Building

   – Develop and deliver learning resources, toolkits, and capacity-building experiences to enhance awareness and competency in evidence-building methodologies.
   – Create mechanisms to support offices in applying evidence methodologies effectively, including decision support, LTAs, rosters of practitioners, and technical assistance.
   – Develop and leverage LTAs or rosters of practitioners to support evidence methodologies and implementation.

4. Design and Manage Performance Management Plan:

   – Develop annual performance management plans for Portfolio, Culture, and Scale (PCS) team.
   – Monitor performance, undertake corrective actions, and report on Office Management Plan (OMP) and Annual Performance Plans (AMP) KPIs.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist (Innovation)_P3 – 119012.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: An advanced university degree in Social Sciences (Statistics, Economics, etc) or Humanities, Innovation-related field, International Relations, or another related technical field.
• *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• Work Experience: A minimum of five years of relevant professional experience is required at national and international levels in the areas of performance management, monitoring and evaluation, and/or innovation.
• Skills
  • Technical certifications in project management, innovation, or monitoring and evaluation would be considered an asset.
  • Demonstrated experience with performance management, KPI development, results-based management, logic model, theories of change, review/evaluation management is critical.
  • Demonstrated expertise in innovation practice, spanning start-up to scaling innovations, especially in the social and/or development sector is important.
  • Professional work experience in monitoring and evaluation activities with a focus on measurement of innovations/innovation programmes is a critical asset.
  • Experience in evaluating the scalability and sustainability of innovative solutions, including assessing potential for replication and long-term impact in various context is a substantial asset.
  • Practical experience applying or familiarity with design thinking or human-centered design methodologies is an asset Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
  • Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

 For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (1)

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (1)

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact (1)

(4) Innovates and embraces change (1)

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

(6) Thinks and acts strategically (1)

(7) Works collaboratively with others (1)

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, such as paid parental leave, time off for breastfeeding purposes, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s active commitment to diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason. 

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

In case of any questions, contact us at swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org