Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Consultant (Home-Based)

Job Title: Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Consultant (Home-Based)

Organization: UNICEF

Job no: 563679
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Budapest
Level: Consultancy
Location: Hungary
Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

Duration: 144 working days with travel as needed

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a champion

Purpose of Activity/Assignment

The escalation in the armed conflict in Ukraine poses an immediate threat to the lives and well-being of millions of children in the entire region. The intensification of the armed conflict is posing severe human costs, causing a growing number of civilian and children casualties, interrupting livelihoods and damaging critical civilian infrastructure, including hundreds of homes, water and sanitation infrastructure, schools and health facilities. Hundreds of thousands of children and their families have been internally displaced and, to date, over one million forced to flee the country in search of safety – the majority are women and children.

The support of a Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) expert is urgently needed to support the Hungary Response Team due to the increasing demand for systematic monitoring and reporting to support key programmatic deliverables in the country. Two key projects that the consultant will support is the roll out of the Activity Info project and the new field monitoring tool. This will include the design and roll out of trainings to partners to ensure effective use of the tools.

The PMR consultant will also be responsible for producing monitoring tools, sitreps and other reports based on quality data and information compiled among other key deliverables.

Scope of Work

Programme Monitoring

• Support the Hungary Response team and national partners to effectively roll out activity info and the new field monitoring tool.
• Provide support to Hungary Response team in compiling High Frequency Indicators and data for the submission of sitreps, RRP reports and other key reporting documents.

Capacity building

• Build the capacity of partners on the new Activity info system and new field monitoring tool.
• Build the capacity of partners (with particular focus on new staff) on the HPM and high frequency indicators.

Reporting

• Submit regular reports to the UNICEF monitoring/reporting platforms for RAM/HPM/RRP-related reporting.
• Submit regular reports on the progress of the implementation of new tools (activity info and new field monitoring tool).

Work Assignment Overview

Tasks / Milestone	Deliverables / Outputs	Timeline / Deadline
Training partners (3 working days/month)	Info activity system set up and rolled out.	Total of 72 working days; By 31 March 2024
Testing system (1 working day/month)
Report on implementation progress (2 working days/month)
Collection of data from partners (2 working days/month)
Report to UNHCR/RRP indicators (1 working day/month)
Training partners (4 working days/month)	New field monitoring tool rolled out and functional	Total of 72 working days; By 31 March 2024
Testing system (2 working days/month)
Report on implementation progress (1 working day/month)
Collection of data from partners (2 working days/month)

Estimated Duration of the Contract

144 working days (between August 2023 and March 2024)

Consultant's Work Place and Official Travel

The assignment will be home-based.

As part of this assignment, at least five (5) travels to the field are expected. The consultant will arrange her/his travel as and when they take place, and related costs will be reimbursed per UNICEF travel policy.

Travel Clause

• All UNICEF rules and regulations related to travel of Consultants apply.
• All travels shall be undertaken only upon the prior written approval by UNICEF.
• The consultant must be fit to travel, be in a possession of the valid UN BSAFE certificate, obligatory inoculation(s) and have a valid own travel/medical insurance and an immunization/vaccination card.

Estimated Cost of the Consultancy & Payment Schedule

Payment will be made monthly against the implementation report, and on submission of an invoice and satisfactory completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold all or a portion of payment if performance is unsatisfactory, if work/outputs are incomplete, not delivered or for failure to meet deadlines. All materials developed will remain the copyright of UNICEF and UNICEF will be free to adapt and modify them in the future.

Please indicate a financial offer in your application, with an all-inclusive professional fee in USD to undertake this TOR based on 144 working days. Please do not include travel fees as this will be reimbursed as and when they take place.

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

• Master’s degree with at least 5 years’ experience in Programme Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation or Bachelor's with at least 7 years of experience.
• Strong technical M&E skills, experience in data collection and analysis.
• Fluent in Hungarian.
• Fluent in English.
• Experience in humanitarian/emergency response with NGOs/UN system is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most marginalized children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.

Remarks:

Please include a full CV and Financial Proposal in your application. Additionally, indicate your availability and professional fee (in USD) to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without a professional fee will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

Advertised: 04 Jul 2023 Central Europe Daylight Time
Deadline: 11 Jul 2023 Central Europe Daylight Time

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