^{Position number:460007, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer}

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

To ensure that effective WHO country presence is established to implement WHO country, cooperation strategies that are aligned with Member State’s health and development agendas and harmonized with the United Nations country teams.In the context of Emergency Health and Nutrition Project funded by World Bank (SHARE), the Project Development Objective is to restore access to a basic package of health and nutrition services and preserve the main elements of essential public health functions for the benefit of the population of Sudan.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

During deployment, the duty station may change, and duties may be modified, based upon the technical needs of the Programme.

1. Facilitate the monitoring of the SHARE project, design methodologies, tools, and indicators for monitoring the implementation of projects and operations; evaluating the quality of outputs including the management, coordination, effectiveness, and resource mobilization of multisectoral emergency prevention, preparedness, response and recovery action plans and programmes.
2. Coordinate with TPM of SHARE project to ensure proper collection of data and joint monitoring and evaluation of the implementing partners activities.
3. Provide technical support to the different health clusters in identifying public health baselines, health specific interventions that are evidence based; synergize the integration and incorporation into related work plans, ensuring compliance with existing reporting requirements.
4. Determine the data information elements that are required internally and externally to support the health sector/cluster coordination and decision-making, design standardized methods of capturing and consolidating evidence-based health interventions and document lessons learnt, best practices and trend analyses for promoting accountability, responsiveness, and transparency.
5. Build and strengthen national capacities for monitoring and evaluation of national health programmes, through conducting needs assessment, defining training needs, develop strategies to achieve targets and facilitate implementation of training activities.
6. Assess the impact and effectiveness of responding to health emergencies at the national level, evaluate the relationship between emergency programmes and operational structures in WCO; identify gaps, recommend capacities required to improve effectiveness; suggest remedial actions to allow greater predictability, accountability, and partnerships.
7. Prepare background documents, concept papers, situation analysis, develop monthly technical reports assessing the implementation of related programmes.
8. Facilitate the operational planning and reporting of related health emergencies activities, verify results-oriented formulations and brief technical leads on proper submissions that culminate in approved operational work plans, and their subsequent programmatic monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
9. Perform any other related incident-specific duties, as required by the functional supervisor.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: First university degree in information management, public health, epidemiology, economics, international development, life sciences, public or business administration from an accredited/recognized institute.
Desirable: Advanced university degree (Masters level or above) in information management, public health, epidemiology, economics, international development, public or business administration from an accredited/recognized institute.

Certified training in monitoring and evaluation.

Experience

Essential: At least five years of related experience, at the national and international levels, in the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation strategies, methodologies and tools, including experience in emergency operations or humanitarian context.
Desirable: Prior emergency disaster and health outbreak response or humanitarian working experience at field level, with WHO/UN, health cluster partners, recognized humanitarian organizations or with an international nongovernmental organization.

Skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of principles,disciplines and techniques to implement monitoring and evaluation strategies.

• Good research and documentation skills especially for ‘best practices’ in organizational change.

• Proven ability to make recommendations related to work-processing approaches and procedures which would lead to more efficient systems design.

• Advanced ability to gather, analyse and disseminate information on best practice in accountability and results-based management systems.

WHO Competencies

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Teamwork
Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
Communication
Promoting innovation and organizational learning

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English. Expert knowledge of Arabic.
Desirable: Intermediate knowledge of French.

REMUNERATION

Remuneration comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 68,565 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable) and 30 days of annual leave.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• This vacancy notice may be used to fill other similar positions at the same grade level

• Only candidates under serious consideration will be contacted.

• A written test and/or an asynchronous video assessment may be used as a form of screening.

• In the event that your candidature is retained for an interview, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WHO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and will require individual review.

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• This is a National Professional Officer position. Therefore, only applications from nationals of the country where the duty station is located will be accepted. Applicants who are not nationals of this country will not be considered.

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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements