Senior Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting Officer, Luanda, Angola

## Senior Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting Officer, Luanda, Angola - Organization:UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund Description of assignment title:Senior Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting Officer Assignment country:Angola Work location:On UN premises Expected start date:07/01/2026 Duration:12 months(with possibility of extension)Long-term benefits and allowances Sustainable Development Goal:3. Good health and well-being Volunteer category:Expert UCoS from Apr2026 Work schedule:Full-time Number of Assignments:1 Mission and objectives: - UNFPA is the UN Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency, contributing to a world where every pregnancy is wanted; every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA's current global Strategic Plan (2022-2025) has a mission to accelerate three transformative results: - 1) ending preventable maternal deaths; - 2) ending unmet need for family planning; and - 3) ending gender-based violence and harmful practices such as child, early, forced marriage. - These results capture our strategic commitments to accelerating progress towards realizing the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)'s Program of Action and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) / Agenda 2023. For the new Strategic Plan 2026-2029, a fourth outcome on demographic resilience was added to the three transformative results. This fourth outcome entails a - strengthened UNFPA's support to governments in generating and analyzing data and evidence related to population and demographic trends. - The UNFPA strategic plan 2026-2029 continues to call upon UN Member States, civil society organizations, academics, private sector and other actors, to leverage sustainable financing and innovative partnerships to accelerate women's and girls' access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, without leaving no one behind. - UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results. - Located in the Atlantic Coast of Southern Africa, Angola is currently experiencing a significant demographic shift, with a population that has reached approximately 36.6 million (Census 2024). The rapid population growth (3.4%) is driven by one of the highest fertility rates in the region (4.8 children per woman in average, 6.9 in rural areas/ MICS 2023-2024). Angola has one of the highest rates of unmet need for family planning in sub-Saharan Africa, with 37% of married/common-law women aged 15-49 desire to control fertility (either by intervals or number) but do not have the access to modern contraceptives (IIMS 2023-2024). This figure rises to 44,4% among adolescent girls aged 15-19. Additionally, approximately 27% of Angolan girls in this age group have experienced a least pregnancy and this rate increases up to 50% in some of the provinces. Births to adolescents and young women (ages 10-24) account for 51,5% of the total births each year, which equates to approximately 630,000 births annually attributable to adolescents and young mothers. Furthermore, available data suggest that inadequate menstrual hygiene management. - UNFPA Angola is currently implementing its 9th Country Program Document (CPD) - agreed with the Angolan government. This CPD aims to accelerate the achievement of the Three transformative results mentioned above. Through the current CPD, UNFPA in Angola contributes to improved access to information, education, and services in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, especially for adolescents and youth, women, and the most vulnerable populations. The CPD consisted of four outputs: - a. Quality of Services: Promoting integrated SRH services including maternal and - neonatal health, family planning, comprehensive sexuality education, and prevention/ response to GBV (Gender Based Violence) - b. Social and Gender Norms: Identifying social and gender norms that are harmful to attain SRHR (e.g. adolescent pregnancies, child marriage, GBV, etc.) and raising - awareness of the role of social norms, engaging men, boys and communities in - strategies and change efforts - c. Youth and Adolescents: Increasing youth and adolescent participation, education on SRH, promoting their empowerment and bodily autonomy. - d. Population and Development Data: Strengthening the generation and analysis of population data and promoting its use for policies and programmatic decision-making. - The proposed position will support planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of interventions that aim to improve adolescents' and youth's access to quality services, with focus on the following areas: adolescent-friendly health services, comprehensive sexuality education (schools and communities), and menstrual hygiene management. Across these programmatic areas, this position will focus on supporting the CO in building innovative partnerships and resource mobilization, as well as sustainable financing mechanisms for Sexual and Reproductive Health. - Under the direct supervision of the Representative, with a close coordination with the Assistant Representative and Programme Officers, the Senior Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Reporting Officer will lead effective results and strategic planning, monitoring, reporting, communication and evaluation of the Maternal and Newborn Health Fund (MNHF) and other programmatic areas/ outputs of the Country Programme Document (CPD) 2024-2028. - The position will focus on planning, M&E, and reporting of the ongoing Maternal and Newborn Health Fund, within the broader "Quality of Services" output (the largest output of the CPD) for approximately 50% of the time. For the remaining of 50% of the time, the position will support PME and reporting of other programmatic areas / outputs within the CPD, in close coordination with the M&E focal point/ Population and Development team in the office. - Detailed tasks and responsibilities : - The position will focus on the following tasks: - Provide strategic guidance to the country office in planning of the Maternal and Newborn Health Fund's annual allocation, while strengthening integrity across the priority areas of the CPD - Contribute significantly to the annual planning, mid-year and end-year reviews with partners (the Government, implementing partners, and other actors), and reporting (narrative and data reports) for the UNFPA's Global Maternal and Newborn Health Funds (MNHF) as the focal point and provide support to the office's programme team in overall PME. - Support any technical, operational, and logistic aspects of the implementation of the MNHF approved work plan allocation. - Contribute significantly to developing quality M&E frameworks including the costed monitoring and evaluation plan for MNHF, integrated within the M&E frameworks of the country programme - Provide relevant inputs to the formulation of United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework, more specifically common country analysis, strategic prioritization, theory of change, results framework and joint work plans with focus on Sexual and Reproductive Health and MNH. - Contribute to developing and quality control of annual and multiyear results plans for the MNHF based on the baseline/ target of the indicators (Strategic Plan and MNHF) - Support developing workplans to operationalise the results - Facilitate and substantively contribute to the development of field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes - Facilitate generation of evidence and lessons to support evidence-based planning and programming - Provide technical guidance to the Country Offices in and oversee monitoring and tracking of results against programme/ country/ regional level targets and UNFPA Strategic Plan - Contribute to the office's monitoring of the