Position Title: Programme Officer,
Planning, Policy M & E, (Temporary Appointment –TA)
Level : NO-B
Location : Nairobi
Duration : One-year
Reporting to : Planning, Policy M&E Specialist
Justification
Kenya’s long term
development plan -Vision 2030 aims at creating a cohesive, equitable and just
society based on democratic practices that recognize equality among all people.
The social pillar also emphases the right to education, health, water and
sanitation and housing. Kenya's Ministry of State for Planning, National
Development and Vision 2030 launched the Social Budgeting Guidelines in June 2010.
These guidelines are well in line with
the latest constitution which empowers the citizen to demand for more social
accountabilities as evidenced through Chapter 4 on the Bill of Rights.
Specifically, Article 43 on Economic and Social rights which includes: Health
Care, Housing, reasonable sanitation, Freedom from hunger and adequate food,
Clean and safe water, Social security and Education. The Social Budgeting initiative is one key
step towards ensuring more equitable social development via engagement of the
‘claim holders’ as well as “duty bearers” to promote transparency, citizen
participation and shared accountability for human rights fulfilment. The Social
Intelligence Reporting (SIR) is a data gathering tool prescribed under the
social budgeting guidelines and that provides the evidence for engagement. The
social intelligence reporting process and tool is increasingly beginning to
play a crucial role in safeguarding the rights of the people particularly
children and women who are more vulnerable to unfavourable social and economic
changes.
One of the core components
of the Social Budgeting Initiative is the establishment and strengthening of
sectoral, sub national and claim holder capacities to demand, utilize and allocate
resources and increasingly take charge of their own development. Within the
GoK-UNICEF programme of Cooperation 2009-2013, UNICEF-SPME has supported the
Ministry of State for Planning and National Development in rolling out Social
Budgeting and Social Intelligence Reporting (SIR) in 47 districts with the aim
of scaling up to all districts/counties by 2013 . In order to facilitate the
scale up of quality social budgeting and social intelligence reporting to
sectors, districts and counties, UNICEF-KCO plans to recruit a temporary
programme officer who will support the SB/SIR scale-up activities for a period of
one year.
Scope of Work/Responsibilities
Under the guidance and
supervision of the Planning, Policy M&E Specialist, the staff member will focus
on addressing the thematic areas within the section that facilitate and empower
children, women and communities to claim their rights under the Social
Budgeting (SB) and Social Intelligence Reporting (SIR) framework. This temporary
appointment will contribute to the intermediate result 2: National and sub-national authorities
allocate and utilize sufficient public resources to prioritize equity in child
rights and gender for education, nutrition, health, WASH and social protection
by 2013.
Specifically, this position will:
·
Provide coordination and analytical support towards the roll
out of social Budgeting and Social intelligence reporting to counties and
districts including sectoral observatories and analysis of their readiness to
implement SB/SIR
·
Support the SB/SIR quality assurance activities including the
follow-up of actionable points, monitor their closure, provide technical
quality control in SIR reports and document lessons learned including
identification of challenges for further
upstream policy engagement
·
Support the updating of the national SIR database, setting up
county/district databases including the
online PDA data upload from county/district offices with the support of
the MoPND/districts/county offices;
·
Support the routine activities related to the production of
the biannual MoSPNDv2030-SPD SIR newsletter by analysing SIR data and report
writing.
·
Support the review of SIR design including the manual and
data gathering tools/review process and the initial evaluation of SB/SIR
·
Provide technical support and coordination of other social
budgeting planned and on-going national and county activities, focusing on
overseeing quality of SIR review process and data including SIR capacity
building activities and evaluations.
·
Support the advocacy activities for SB/SIR leading to the
development of 2 advocacy products (Factsheets and videos).
·
Mapping of other partners engaged in social budgeting and
social intelligence reporting related work, and support the sharing of
knowledge and lessons learnt at national and sub-national levels.
The position will work in
collaboration with the various focal persons in the various Counties/districts as
well as focal persons at the Ministry of State for Planning, National
Development and Vision 2030 and other government ministries/departments where
applicable.
Expected Deliverables
1. Coordinate/support the roll out/ up scaling
of social budgeting/social intelligence reporting to sectors,
counties/districts. This includes initial assessment of their readiness to
implement social budgeting and social intelligence reporting and capacity
development related activities.
·
Support
the setting up of sectoral observatories at
sectoral and county-levels in identified areas
·
Support
the capacity building/development. This will entail organising training for
county, sectoral and district SB/SIR officers.
·
Monitor
their phased implementation progress and provide timely feedback to national
level policy entities (UNICEF and Ministry of Planning).
·
Technical
support provided to hold at least 2 national and provincial level observatories
in a year.
End Result(s):
Opportunities for empowerment and engagement of
communities to claim their rights supported through practice of social
budgeting and social intelligence reporting by sectors, counties and districts.
2. In collaboration with other Ministry of
Planning, coordinate activities aimed updating the National level SIR database
and establishing county/district SIR databases including the web enabled PDA web-link
data entry and extraction for supporting the SIR online platform.
·
Update
the national SIR database regularly
·
Facilitate
the establishment of county/district SIR databases and routine updating
·
Provide
technical support in the analyses of SIR data and report writing including the biannual
SIR newsletter
End Result(s):
Updated National SIR Database analysed and
SIR reports generated highlighting social sector service delivery progress and
challenges.
3. Coordinate opportunities for enhancing SIR quality
assurance, support identification and follow-up of actionable points including
their closure.
·
Provide
technical support to quality assurance missions/field visits that monitor the
quality implementation of SB/SIR practice (reporting/templates/formats for
various levels/sectors).
·
Monitor
progress in implementation of actionable points highlighting challenges, experiences,
and lessons learned under various levels, such as facility or sector.
·
Identify
actionable points for escalation to higher levels and make appropriate
follow-ups for implementation
End Result(s):
Service delivery and development challenges
(bottlenecks) in social sectors identified in a timely manner and appropriate
actionable follow-ups made to tackle them at various levels/sectors taking into
account their extent and magnitude
Desired background and experience
·
Advanced
university degree in economics, statistics, or other development related
discipline with relevance to UNICEF’s work on community participation and in
development, monitoring and evaluation OR two years of relevant work experience
in the field Monitoring and Evaluation.
·
At
least two years progressive experience working for an international
NGO/organization in public health, budget analysis, community empowerment and
social monitoring.
·
Familiarity
of tools and approaches related to community empowerment/development and
analysis of data on children, women and vulnerable groups;
·
Strong
skills and proven track record in community development, service delivery,
social monitoring, data analysis (quantitative and qualitative) and familiarity
with data compilation and manipulation skills
·
Outstanding
report writing skills and ability to present data and graphics in a
user-friendly manner;
·
Knowledge
on issues related to human rights programming, community empowerment, equity,
gender issues, and budget analysis, public health, bottleneck analysis, child
development and related monitoring
of service delivery at various levels etc;
·
Ability
to synthesize analytical/technical information into simple, understandable
manner;
·
Excellent
interpersonal and communication skills, and an ability to communicate with
partners of diverse backgrounds.
·
Experience
working in remote areas and for the UN or other international development
organization is an advantage.
·
Fluency
in English and Kiswahili
Conditions
(Important)
The TA is expected to commit fully to this
task and respect the attached rules and regulations governing UNICEF TA
appointments.
Applications quoting reference number
KCO/PPME/2012-15 should be addressed to:
Human Resources Manager
UNICEF Kenya Country Office
Email: kenyahrvacancies@unicef.org
Closing date for receipt of applications is
11 April 2012.
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