Programme Officer

Job Specification:

Education

A University Degree in sociology, rural development, business administration or other social science related disciplines is required.

Experience

A minimum of two (2) years of professional experience in social development analysis, planning and programming is required.
Experience of working in emergencies and the knowledge on emergency planning, preparedness and response and DRR is highly desirable.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in English and Nepali language is required.

Job Responsibilities :

1. Rights-based and results-based and risk informed programming approach fully incorporated into all phases of sub-national and local programme and processes.

• Provide technical support to the process of developing and monitoring Annual/Rolling Work Plans, including reporting on progress of the equity and gender marker as outlined in the Programme Policy and Procedures Guidance.
•  Provide technical support in organising and managing annual/mid-year/mid-term/end
•  term programme reviews at sub-national and local levels ensuring consistency with objectives and goals set out in the Country Programme Document (CPD) and contribute to the Annual Management Plan.
•  Monitor follow-up actions at sub-national and local levels based on management decisions resulting from Country Office performance monitoring and evaluation.
•  Support the Chief Field Office in liaising with provincial and local governments and coordinate with sectoral colleagues to strengthen decentralized planning, provide technical support on results-based planning working in close collaboration with Social Policy sector that leads on budget analysis, preparing provincial/municipality level profiles and generating/collating other evidence as relevant.
•  Support the programme components to effectively monitor and report on the inter-sectoral programme results, cross sectoral programme component results and field office results to facilitate programme coherence and convergence where appropriate.
•  Contribute to development of programme monitoring framework for the learning zones including technical backstopping to the field office team for results-based planning (RBM), monitoring and assessing results.

2. Effective partnership and collaboration achieved and maintained for advocacy, technical cooperation, and programme development/management/coordination, information sharing and networking

• Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with government counterparts and provinces and local levels stakeholders through active sharing of information and knowledge to facilitate child focused result-based planning and monitoring in coordination with Social Policy and under overall lead of the CFO.
• Facilitate partnership and collaboration with internal and external counterparts, including those of the UN and national partners, in order to improve the ability to disseminate and exchange information on DRR, CEE and Emergency preparedness and response.
• Provide support in provision of technical advice and advocacy, leading to agreement on practicable and priority actions to be supported by UNICEF programme.
•  Facilitate government counterparts at subnational and local levels to strengthen emergency preparedness, response and DRM network non-government organizations, humanitarian organizations, local government to strengthen their capacity in humanitarian situation.

3. Emergency preparedness response and disaster risk management

•  Provide technical assistance in risk analysis at the provincial level to identify emergency-prone conditions/situations and contribute to early warning and ensure timely and effective emergency preparedness and response.
• Provide technical assistance to local government and partners for the development of integrated contingency plans, integrated disaster and climate risk management plans and ensure its integration in province and local level plan and programme.
•  Assist local government in integrating integrated Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change, Energy and Environment Sustainability (CEE)in province and local levels policies, plans, and sectoral programs.
•  Ensure the mainstreaming of DRR and CEE components: disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness and adaptation in the sub-national and local annual plans and ensure their effective & timely implementation.
• Support in the design, implementation and monitoring of programmes related to Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Sustainability (CEE) including policy advocacy and multi-sectoral coordination on CEE interventions/programmes at provincial and municipal levels.
•  Coordinate and facilitate capacity building of government counterparts, partners and UNICEF staff on CEE.
•  Support in capacity strengthening on Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) and disaster risk reduction and CEE of field office staff, partners and stakeholders.
•  Monitor the preparedness and response action for effective emergency response at sub-national and local levels.

  4. Programme monitoring effectively conducted to improve programme performance, and programme status report timely prepared.

• Take a lead to develop and adapt a structured and harmonized field monitoring plan and implement it to track the implementation progress at the field offices level.
•  Coordinate implementation of Field Monitoring Module and Trip Modules in eTools for planning, reporting and monitoring of programme assurance activities and field monitoring by field offices.
• Provide technical assistance, quality assurance and oversight in the application of these tools and advise on corrective action required, if necessary.
•  Strengthen programme monitoring through the field monitoring process, including the monitoring of programme supplies and verification at end-user level
• Undertake field visits to monitor and assess programme implementation and provide inputs for better programming and results.
• Strengthen programme monitoring through the field monitoring process, including the monitoring of programme supplies and verification at end-user level.
• Collaborate with sub-national and local government partners and conduct joint monitoring and supervision visits to improve efficiency and quality of programme delivery.
• Participate in annual sector review meetings with government counterparts.
• Collaborate and prepare annual program status reports for both periodic and thematic reporting in a timely manner, as required.

5. Innovation, knowledge management and capacity building

•  Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned from field level experiences related to planning processes in the operationalization of federalism, decentralization and emergency preparedness, response and DRR/CCA mainstreaming.
• Provide support to subnational and local governments in strengthening their capacities to develop plans that are inclusive and address the needs of the most vulnerable populations including women and children.