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UN Women: Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation Specialist Vacancy in New York. Apply Today!

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Position(s): Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation Specialist, WPS-HA Compact
Organization: UN Women
Vacancy Type: Temporary
Job Function: Peace and Security
Initial Contract Duration: 6 months
Education & Work Experience: Master’s Degree – 5 year(s) experience OR Bachelor’s Degree – 7 year(s) experience
Required Languages: English
Vacancy Category: International opportunities
Deadline: Jan 22, 2025

About UN Women

UN Women: Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation Specialist Vacancy in New York. UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

Generation Equality is a multi-stakeholder initiative convened by UN Women to catalyze partners, increase investments for gender equality, drive results and accelerate the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Sustainable Development Goals. The initiative also aims to sustain and expand a movement of support for gender equality with civil society and youth leadership and activism at its heart. Generation Equality is fully embedded in UN Women’s Strategic Plan and aims to accelerate the achievement of results contained therein, notably by operationalizing the Strategic Plan’s vision of achieving results through partnerships. Generation Equality is also recognized by the Secretary-General’s “Common Agenda” as an important initiative for the UN system to take stock of and build on.

UN Women convenes the Generation Equality Forum and in July 2021, launched the Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA Compact) as an inter-generational, inclusive movement for bold action on gender equality and to advance the leadership and protection of women and girls in crisis and conflict affected situations. The Compact seeks to achieve transformative progress over the course of a five-year period through action to address gaps and challenges on women, peace and security and gender-responsive humanitarian action.

The Compact provides a platform for Member States, United Nations entities, regional organizations, private sector actors, and civil society – including women-led and youth organizations, NGOs, and academic institutions – to take concerted action on WPS-HA over the next five years. The Compact brings together the above-mentioned stakeholders to implement existing normative commitments on WPS-HA by developing a voluntary monitoring and accountability process, strengthening coordination across existing mechanisms, and promoting financing for and visibility of the WPS-HA agenda.

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The Compact covers five key thematic areas which place women at the heart of peace and security and humanitarian processes:

Financing for the Women, Peace and Security agenda and gender equality in humanitarian programming
Women’s meaningful participation in peace processes
Women’s economic security, access to resources and other essential services
Women’s leadership and agency across peace, security and humanitarian sectors
Protection of women in conflict and crisis contexts, including women human rights defenders

As of August 2024, the Compact had registered more than 218 signatories implementing over 1200 actions in 156 countries. UN Women is responsible for reporting on progress of the implementation of Compact actions and investments by signatories, as well as communications, advocacy, awareness-raising and research related to the Compact.

Also, as part of its business transformation initiative, UN Women is working on UN Women 2.0 business model which will allow UN Women to scale up its programmatic focus and interventions. This will have impact on its current business processes around planning (UN Women Strategic Plan, UN Women Strategic Notes and Annual Work Plans), monitoring, and reporting.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Policy Specialist, National and Global implementation of WPS who also serves as the WPS-HA Compact Lead, the WPS-HA Compact Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation Specialist will:

1.Lead the monitoring of a clear, transparent, and participatory process for the effective assessment of the WPS-HA Compact aspirational impacts

In coordination with the WPS-HA Compact Secretariat and Compact signatories, ensure that a Results-Based Management (RBM) approach is fully integrated into the Compact Monitoring Framework and any subsequent updates;
Implement and maintain a systematic approach for collection and review of accurate, realistic and measurable indicators, including technical guidance notes and other user-friendly tools, models and systems for data collection and subsequent analysis;
Provide technical support to the WPS-HA Compact Secretariat and Compact signatories on Results-Based planning, reporting, monitoring, evaluation and learning components;
Identify and support joint evaluations and monitoring with Compact signatories, including member states, private sector, UN entities, CSOs, academic/research institutions and multilateral organizations;
Coordinate with the Generation Equality Coordination Hub, Action Coalition Thematic Leads and other relevant stakeholders in the yearly/quarterly work plan monitoring, reporting and evaluation exercises, providing guidance and quality assurance.

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2.Ensure quality and availability of statistics and evaluation information on the WPS-HA Compact for use by all relevant stakeholders, including governments, civil society, donors and the private sector

Maintain a comprehensive M&E framework, as well as relevant user-friendly tools, modes and systems for data collection, and subsequent analysis;
Support the design of frameworks to input data from desk reviews, surveys and interviews;
Create, implement and provide training on necessary monitoring and evaluation tools, templates and databases;
Lead and contribute to the production of WPS-HA Compact monitoring briefs, reports and other relevant materials used to inform and course correct as needed the implementation of the WPS-HA Compact.

3.Ensure the regular compilation of the global, regional, and national qualitative and quantitative data for monitoring of the WPS-HA Compact and stakeholder engagement process

Monitor, compile, assess, analyze and produce routine data about key results and achievements across WPS-HA Compact thematic pillars; including data from the self-reporting portal;
Lead collating and analysis of input and output data and information for the annual Compact Accountability Report and other knowledge products, as requested;
Coordinate the maintenance and continuous improvement of the online portal including the dashboard, database and self-reporting portal that informs UN Women’s assessment of the progress of the WPS-HA Compact in the achievement towards its aspirational impact; therefore supporting Generation Equality;
Ensure data quality by researching, collecting and assessing sources of relevant data; including also by verifying data with data providers;
Support UN Women divisions, including the Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division, the Civil Society Division as well as Regional and Country offices in the data collection and analysis as related to the Compact.

4.Coordinate the production of the annual Compact Accountability Report and other research activities

Lead the coordination of the production of the annual Compact Accountability Report;
Contribute to UN Women’s engagement with partners and stakeholders on WPS-HA Compact indicators; including disseminating information, providing technical support (as requested) and addressing other queries, including from CSOs, private sector, youth organizations and other relevant partners;
Ensure the Compact Monitoring Framework communicates data in ways that are accessible and attractive to non-technical audiences in all relevant M&E publications; support the analysis of data and visualization in the forms of graphs, tables and other innovative ways;
Contribute to technical discussions related to WPS-HA Compact indicators and monitoring and broader accountability framework discussions;
Lead the mid-term and final evaluation of the WPS-HA Compact and any other inquiry-based products, as requested.

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5.Provide support to Generation Equality’s statistical work to enhance WPS and humanitarian action monitoring in Generation Equality:

Keep abreast of emerging development issues to galvanize UN Women’s analytical capacity to respond, particularly in the area of gender statistics;
Identify strategic opportunities to strengthen the availability and quality of gender statistics, and develop and manage the partnerships needed to deliver them;
Represent UN Women in fora on research and data as requested.

6.Supervise Consultants

Finalize terms of reference for consultants and oversee the recruitment process, as necessary;
Supervise monitoring and evaluation consultants as needed, in coordination with the WPS-HA Compact Lead, and oversee their performance;
Conduct final performance reviews for relevant consultants.

7.The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Requirements

Education and Certification:

Master’s degree (or equivalent) in development related disciplines, gender, economics, statistics, finance or public administration or a related discipline is required.
A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

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Experience:

A minimum of 5 years of experience coordinating, designing, and implementing complex monitoring frameworks, including conducting evaluations and managing programmes with large qualitative and quantitative data, in crisis and conflict affected countries is required.
Experience in implementing complex monitoring systems with diverse stakeholders is required.
Proven experience of taking innovative approaches to complex monitoring systems to showcase impact is required.
Experience in gender equality and human rights responsive evaluation (e.g. participatory and inclusive approaches) is required.
Experience in MS Officer 365 including Power BI, Power Platforms or similar data management and presentation software is required.
Previous working experience within the United Nations is desirable.