Remote Opportunity: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist Vacancy Available At UNICEF
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Under the supervision of the Programme Manager, and in close collaboration with the UNGEI team, the incumbent will provide substantive and technical support to develop and apply feminist MEL strategies for UNGEI’s programmes, and will support reporting under these programmes. The expected result is that the programmes are informed by substantive feminist MEL expertise, UNGEI’s partners are supported and quality reports and other publications are produced.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have to…
Develop and apply feminist MEL frameworks for UNGEI and its programmes
- Lead the development of MEL frameworks including but not limited to theories of change, results frameworks, indicators (and the accompanying measurement tools) for UNGEI and its programmes working to advance gender equality in and through education, including country level results frameworks for GCI countries.
- Lead monitoring and learning for the GPE-funded Gender Technical Assistance Initiative pilot, in line with the MEL strategy included in the partnership framework, and with a specific focus on learning among GPE partner countries.
- Guide UNGEI’s programme teams, UNICEF Country Offices and other implementing partners to apply MEL frameworks under the programmes, informed by global results frameworks and similar tools.
- Identify MEL objectives, priorities, and activities required for UNGEI and its programmes, and collaborate with UNGEI’s partners for overall coordination of priority research and MEL activities, including with multi-country scope.
- Capture, synthesize and share key takeaways and lessons learned from the MEL frameworks implemented, across countries and programmes.
- Support and participate in monitoring missions organized by the programme teams.
- Lead multi-country impact evaluations across UNGEI’s programmes, in collaboration with the programme teams.
- Undertake lessons-learned reviews on successful and unsuccessful MEL practices and experience, and ensure they are shared as appropriate.
Support the capacity development of UNGEI’s partners on designing and applying MEL frameworks
- Provide technical inputs and advice to UNGEI’s programme partners to apply MEL frameworks, including CSOs, UNICEF Country Offices and their implementing partners, as needed.
- Support UNGEI’s programme partners to ensure that MEL systems are properly designed, and that data collection and analysis are streamlined for purposes of generating comparable data.
- Technically support programme partners to formulate high quality impact evaluation designs and reports.
- Ensure that a MEL capacity development strategy for UNGEI’s programme partners exists wherever required.
- Lead and participate as resource person in MEL capacity development initiatives targeting UNGEI’s partners.
Contribute to planning and reporting of UNGEI’s activities and programmes
- Provide technical support to developing and monitoring UNGEI’s Annual Work Plans.
- Collect, collate and input the required data, evidence and information from programmes into UNICEF’s Results Assessment Module.
- Support the programme teams to effectively monitor and report on programme results by providing inputs to donor and other reports.
- Drawing from the planning and reporting functions, facilitate programme coherence and convergence where appropriate, and provide inputs to UNGEI and UNICEF’s relevant reports and publications.
- Develop and ensure the effective utilization of UNGEI’s dashboard of convenings organized and attended.
- Provide technical inputs to donor proposals regarding feminist MEL frameworks.
- Provide technical support to UNGEI Secretariat’s gender in education initiatives in the field of MEL as needed.
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Lead and contribute to evidence-based global public goods and relevant communities of practice
- Participate in and contribute to technical working groups, coalitions and alliances on gender and education by providing MEL expertise, as appropriate. This includes but not limited to the Partner Coalition for Ending Gender Stereotypes, Global Working Group to End SRGBV.
- Lead and contribute to global public goods such as learning & programme briefs, evidence syntheses, results frameworks, etc. of UNGEI and its partners.
- In close collaboration with the GCI team, support learning among GCI partner countries, including through joint monitoring and sharing of results.
- Finalize the global results framework for ending gender stereotypes through schools programme.
- Lead the development of a results framework on preventing and responding to SRGBV through a whole-school approach.
- Provide technical support to the research priority setting exercise in the area of SRGBV, to be implemented together with the Global WG to End SRGBV.
- Ensure that UNGEI’s global public goods drawing on MEL frameworks are accessible, crisp and easy to understand by different audiences.
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The following minimum requirements:
- Advanced university degree (Masters or higher) in education, social sciences (e.g. sociology, anthropology, demography, political science, social policy, or economics), statistics, international development or in one of the social sciences with strong research training and experience or other relevant field is required.
- A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
- A concentration in gender and education is a strong asset.
- A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in monitoring, research, data analysis in the field of education or gender equality is required.
- Experience in designing results frameworks or similar tools is required.
- Experience in designing and/or applying feminist MEL frameworks is an asset.
- Experience in working with education and/or women’s/feminist CSOs and education stakeholders at the national or global levels is an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is considered an asset.
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The UNICEF competencies required…
- Builds and maintains partnerships
- Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
- Drive to achieve results for impact
- Innovates and embraces change
- Manages ambiguity and complexity
- Thinks and acts strategically
- Works collaboratively with others
Deadline: 28 Jul 2024 E. Africa Standard Time
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