I. Position Information
Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer,
UNAIDS
Duty Station: Nairobi, Kenya
Reports to: UNAIDS Country
Coordinator, Somalia
Reports: Regional Director,
MENA
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
- 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:
- Surveillance,
surveys and mapping;
- Analyses of
programmatic and survey data on the response;
- Strengthening of
Monitoring and Evaluation systems;
- Analyses of
status and trends of the epidemic;
- Analyses of the
distribution of new infections by geography and by mode of transmission;
- Triangulation
and modeling of epidemiological and response data to assess impact and
identify programmatic gaps;
2: Promote and reinforce capacity
building of national counterparts
- 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;
- Identification
of best practices during implementation of the NSP;
- Support
finalization and launch of the Somalia Strategic and national and zonal
Operational Plans for HIV and serve as a member of the taskforce;
- Support
development of a prioritized HIV research and evaluation agenda;
- Participate in
National Data Quality Audit and improvement exercises;
3: Plan and coordinator work with
country level partners
- 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;
- Support Global
AIDS Response Progress reporting for Somalia;
- Provide the
following Technical Guidance;
- Support adoption
of targets for the NSP results framework;
- Support
documentation of upto date NSP implementation progress to inform the
review;
- 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;
- 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.
- 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
- 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:
- Demonstrates
integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
- Advocates and
promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN.
- Displays
cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and
adaptability.
- Treats all
people fairly without favoritism.
Functional Competencies:
Development and Operational Effectiveness
- Extensive
knowledge in one or more substantive areas around UNAIDS.
- Commitment to
the AIDS response.
- Demonstrated
ability in fostering collaborative relationships with co-sponsors,
external institutions and across other units and departments at the
management level.
- Solid knowledge
in financial resources and human resources management, contract, asset and
procurement, information and communication technology, general
administration
Management and Leadership
- Builds strong
relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client
and responds positively to feedback
- Consistently
approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
- Demonstrates
good oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrates
openness to change and ability to manage complexities
- Leads teams
effectively and shows mentoring as well as conflict resolution skills
- 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:
- 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.
- Extensive
experience in developing and implementing M&E systems and related
programs in the developing countries.
- Experience of
the Somalian HIV national programme or in another MENA country is an
asset.
- Demonstrated
knowledge of and experience in the UN System is desirable.
Language Requirements:
- 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