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For every child, the right to Hope 

Social Behavior Change, Adolescent and Youth serves as the technical lead for behavior-driven systems transformation — shifting harmful social and gender norms, embedding behaviorally informed practices within service delivery systems, and addressing the root causes of exclusion, inequality, and low service uptake.  

The Social Behavior Change, Adolescent and Youth portfolio continues to expand in both scale and complexity, its monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) requirements have evolved far beyond traditional output-level tracking, which demands a sophisticated, performance-oriented M&E approach. Measuring results in such a dynamic environment requires capturing not only direct service delivery, but also livelihood outcomes, behavioral shifts, social norm change, systemic capacity gains, and cross-sectoral linkages. These complex outcomes necessitate tailored tools, integrated indicator frameworks, and advanced data analytics to generate credible evidence and actionable insights.

How can you make a difference? 

The Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (ADAP) NOB level temporary position will be reporting to the Chief Social Behavior Change, Adolescent and Youth, focusing on strengthening and coordinating the section’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) functions. This position will ensure that all interventions are evidence-based, results-oriented, and fully aligned with UNICEF’s Country Programme priorities, global results frameworks, and national monitoring systems.

The M&E Officer will play a critical role in establishing robust monitoring mechanisms to track progress against key performance indicators and ensure accountability for results. S/he will oversee the timely collection, analysis, and use of high-quality data to guide planning, adaptive management, reporting, and decision-making.

The M&E Officer will also promote a culture of results, learning, and continuous improvement across Social and Behavior Change (SBC) and Adolescent Development programmes. This includes fostering cross-sectoral linkages and ensuring that evidence is systematically used to inform policy advocacy, programme refinement, and strategic communication.

In addition, the M&E Officer will support programme officers in designing and operationalizing M&E frameworks and tools, ensuring that activities are implemented efficiently and deliver measurable results, leading efforts to document and disseminate lessons learned, manage knowledge products, and strengthen the capacity of government and partner counterparts in data collection, monitoring, and performance reporting.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

1. Situation Monitoring and Assessment
2. Programme Performance Monitoring
3. M&E Capacity Building
4. Communication and Partnerships

1- Situation Monitoring and Assessment

 Provide technical support to ensure that the Country Office and national partners have timely and accurate measurement of change through monitoring of socio-economic trends and the country’s wider policy, economic or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to draw conclusions about the impact of programmes or policies.

Duties & Tasks

• Leading & coordinating situation monitoring across the Social and Behavior Change (SBC) and Adolescent Development portfolios. Ensuring the outcomes are regularly collected, analyzed, and integrated into program planning and reporting.
• Developing a real-time data system that consolidates baseline and trend data from multiple sources (surveys, routine systems, digital monitoring tools, and partner databases) to track behavioral and social change and specific learning to earning indicators across sectors.
• Supporting national partners, Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS), and civil society organizations—in improving data quality, disaggregation, and use for evidence-based decision-making.
• Monitoring the situation of children’s and women’s rights with national partners, as well as coordinating with Country Office and partners and providing assistance in their using up-to-date information.

2- Programme Performance Monitoring

Provide technical support to ensure the Country Office has quality information to assess progress towards expected results.

Duties & Tasks

• Providing technical support to identify set of programme performance indicators, to ensure that monitoring system are in place including those related to partnerships initiative.
• Conducting regular field monitoring missions and data verification exercises, as well as documenting progress, lessons learned, and implementation challenges, and facilitate their integration into planning, reporting, and donor communication to strengthen accountability and transparency.
• Supporting the preparation of analytical inputs reports, like Annual Report, mid-year reviews, donor progress reports, and performance briefings.
• Strengthening UNICEF staff and partner capacity in results-based monitoring, data use, and evidence-informed decision-making through coaching, joint reviews, and participatory reflection sessions.

3. M&E Capacity Building

Provide strategic and technical support to strengthen the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) capacities of UNICEF staff and national to ensure sustainable, locally owned, and high-quality data generation, analysis, and use.

Duties & Tasks

• Leading the design and implementation of a comprehensive M&E capacity strengthening strategy for the SBC–ADAP Section, aligned with the Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (IMEP), the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), and national priorities.
• Provide targeted technical assistance to build the institutional capacity of government counterparts and implementing partners to design, monitor, and evaluate programmes — ensuring they can lead data-driven planning, reporting, and performance-based monitoring processes.
• Coordinating joint capacity-building initiatives to promote harmonized approaches, shared learning, and consistent data standards across sectors and partners.
• Contributing to liaise with knowledge institutions to seek partnerships for the identification of capacity gaps and the development of strategies to address them.

4- Communication and Partnerships

Provide technical support to ensure that all tasks are carried out and accomplished through effective communication and partnerships.

Duties & Tasks

• Developing analytical products, such as situation updates, policy briefs, and dashboards, that interpret emerging trends in adolescent well-being, gender norms, and social behavior.
• Ensuring that evaluation recommendations are communicated to the relevant partners for implementation, as well as facilitating learning from the results of monitoring and evaluation within the Country Office and within UNICEF in the region and globally.
• Seeking advanced or in-depth technical support on monitoring and evaluation from the Program Monitoring and Evaluation ( PME) Team in Egypt, as well as collaborating with PME to ensure the availability of current and accurate monitoring and evaluation data and results.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (ADAP) NOB.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

Education:

University degree in social sciences, development planning, planning, evaluation, survey implementation, advanced statistical research.

Work Experience:

• Strong understanding of monitoring and evaluation methodologies, theory of change, and results-based management frameworks.
• Proficiency in designing data collection tools, managing large datasets, and conducting analysis to generate actionable insights.
• Ability to design and manage dashboards and performance tracking systems.
• Excellent report writing, data visualization, and presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

Desirables:

• Knowledge of behavioral and social change metrics, youth engagement indicators, and gender-transformative approaches is a strong advantage.
• Knowledge of behavioral and social change metrics, youth engagement indicators, and gender-transformative approaches is a strong advantage.
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods, data management, and analysis using statistical software (SPSS, STATA, R, or similar).
• Prior experience supporting capacity building and institutional strengthening of partners and government counterparts on M&E systems.
• Proven experience in developing and managing M&E frameworks, including results-based monitoring systems, indicator tracking.
• Mastering data visualization tools will be an asset.
• Familiarity with UNICEF’s programming principles, including human rights–based approaches, gender equality, and results-based management (RBM), is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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