About UNICEF: Employment

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, L-3, Nairobi, Kenya

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF seeks a Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist to be based in its Office in Nairobi Regional Office, Kenya.

The YCSD is a cluster of six Regional Programmes consisting of Nutrition, Water and Environmental sanitation, Immunization, Maternal and Newborn Health, Prevention of Mother to Child transmission and Pediatric Aids support the cluster functions in collaboration of other key sections mainly Planning, Communication and advocacy, Education, Child Protection and HIV AIDS. This position is established to support and coordinate the day to day activities of the cluster.

Your profile:
• Advanced degree in social science plus training in public health (preferably Biostatics/ Epidemiology).
• Experience in Monitoring – Dev Info, MICs – and in Data analysis.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; strong organizational skills; high drive for results; high commitment; teamwork and strong interpersonal and cross cultural skills; strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good analytical and training skills, computer literate especially with excel and database management capacity is required.
• Fluency in English and French. Working knowledge of Portuguese is an advantage.

If you have got experience of working in a similar capacity and want to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children, send a detailed curriculum vitae in English, AND a duly completed United Nations Personal History form (available at www.unicef.org/employ), quoting VN-09-357 to: recruit.PME@unicef.org. Applications should be received by 6 July 2009. Only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.

UNICEF’s salary and benefits package is based on the United Nations Common System; visit www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances for further information.

UNICEF is committed to gender equality in its mandate and its staff. Well qualified candidates, particularly women are strongly encouraged to apply.