Officer, Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

Job Purpose

“This is a national staff position open to nationals and others who are legally eligible to work in countries where IFRC has legal presence: Buenos Aires (Argentina), San José (Costa Rica), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Guatemala City (Guatemala), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Kingston (Jamaica), Managua (Nicaragua), Panama City (Panama), Lima (Peru), or Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago). Candidates must be able to provide proof of their eligibility to work in those countries during application phase”

The PMER officer has the primary task to support operational planning, monitoring and reporting for the Americas COVID-19 emergency appeal. This includes all actions to ensure quality and timely delivery of emergency appeal planning and reporting documents (revisions, operation updates, pledge-based reports, among others), as well as monitoring and evaluation.

Furthermore, the PMER officer will work with the Red Cross Societies involved in the operation and IFRC to improve PMER capacities that contribute to National Society competencies to ensure the compliance with IFRC planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting standards.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Operational PMER responsibilities

• Support the revision processes for the emergency appeal, as required.
• Act as the reporting focal point for the Americas COVID-19 operation.
• Support the preparation and delivery of narrative reports for this operation, ensuring coherence of the information, edition and formats in coordination with the Operations Team, and the Americas Regional Office (ARO) and in compliance with the IFRC quality standards and timeliness to fulfil established deadlines.
• Ensure programmatic information in reports is coherent with financial cross-checking the narrative information for coherence with the financial information.
• Support the development of proposals for contributions and monitoring of donor pledges to the Americas COVID-19 operation as required.
• Responsible for the editing, formatting and quality control for the completion of reports (quarterly, interim or final) under the COVID-19 operation, pledges and emergencies, guaranteeing the quality of the information and correct use of formats as required by donor.
• Responsible for sending reminders to budget holders on reports due and overdue in liaison with finance and relationship management teams

National Society Development in PMER tasks

• Work with the Red Cross Societies involved in the operation to provide technical support (remote and in the field) for operational planning, monitoring and reporting with accountability and evidence-based outcomes.

Other PMER duties

• Maintain knowledge, understanding and use of the IFRC planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems and procedures.
• Support the DCPRR team with PMER duties in other emergencies, as needed, to ensure business continuity
• Ability to deploy within the RC/RC structure emergency response personnel, as needed.

Education

• University degree or bachelor’s degree in economic or social sciences or equivalent qualification

Experience

• 2+ years reporting experience
• 3+ years project planning experience
• At least 2- years’ experience in large complex operations
• Familiarity with current IFRC standards and guidelines, preferred
• Acquainted with International Federation policies, procedures and systems, preferred
• Work experience at international and/or national level and/or volunteer experience in the RC/RC, preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Language

• Excellent communication skills
• Good analytical skills and solution-focused person
• Ability to work well in a multicultural team
• Excellent stress management skills
• Self-supporting in computers (Windows, spread sheets, word-processing, email, etc.)
• Demonstrate readiness to learn and increase knowledge
• Ability to work under pressure with flexible working hours and availability to travel.

LANGUAGES

• Fluently spoken and written Spanish and English
• Fluently spoken and written French, preferred

Competencies and Values

Values: Respect for Diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability

Core Competencies: Communication; Collaboration and Teamwork; Judgement and Decision Making; National Society and Customer Relations; Creativity and Innovation; Building Trust