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UN Women: Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Specialist Vacancy At Geneva, Switzerland (August 2024)

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UN Women: Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Specialist Vacancy At Geneva, Switzerland (August 2024)

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Vacancy Details

Job Identification: 19963
Locations: Geneva, Switzerland
Apply Before: 08/23/2024, 05:59 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Agency: UN Women
Job Function: Humanitarian Action
Initial Contract Duration: 364 days
years ofEducation Education and Work Experience: Master’s Degree: 5 years of experience OR Bachelor’s Degree: 7 years of experience
Required Languages: English
Desired Languages: French
Vacancy Category: International opportunities

Background:

UN Women: Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting Specialist Vacancy at Geneva, Switzerland (August 2024). Reporting to the Head of the WPHF Secretariat, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Specialist will provide guidance on M&E to the WPHF Secretariat, support WPHF partners in aligning their results framework to the WPHF global results framework and ensure that a Results-Based Management (RBM) approach is fully integrated into the WPHF-supported projects and funding windows, including the evidence-based programming approach and the results-based M&E. The consultant will also lead on survey designs and produce an annual WPHF index. They also contribute to corporate-level monitoring and reporting requirements, such as the Executive Director’s Annual Report (EDAR) to the Executive Board on the implementation of UN Women Strategic Plan and UN Women’s Transparency Portal.

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Key Functions and Accountabilities:

Results: 1. Provide guidance and technical support to the WPHF Secretariat to ensure timely and high-quality results monitoring, evaluation and reporting at the global level

Provide guidance, technical support and quality assurance to WPHF to ensure the quality and timely submission and finalization of monitoring, evaluation and results-based reporting work, including INGOs and Management Entities’ annual reports.
develop and Provide technical and strategic inputs to the design and operationalization of WPHF Strategic Plan 2023-2025 Implementation Plan, Operations Manual and other key Secretariat documents; Lead and update WPHF results framework and associated indicators in order to meet SMART criteria and RBM principles and develop and update of technical tip sheets;
Provide quality inputs to WPHF templates, including calls for proposals, project documents and reporting templates;
-Update and maintain the Management Information System (MIS) and support new systems and processes for data management, as required;
Lead on WPHF’s global annual CSO survey and other surveys as required;
Develop WPHF’S Index (data mining, computations, draft briefs);
Provide support for board or donor presentations, country and donor briefs, and other presentations as required, including data, statistics, and data visualization.
Support in evaluations through calls for proposals;
Provide guidance and technical support to WPHF to ensure the effective use of corporate systems (i.e. RMS and Quantum) for results monitoring and reporting processes with Strategic Note, workplans and projects.

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2. Provide guidance and technical support to Country Offices (Management Entities) to support planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of CSOs

Provide guidance and technical support to COs and MEs for the preparation of monitoring and evaluation plans and partner project documents as per WPHF calls for proposals, as well as technical support in monitoring and evaluation activities
Provide guidance, technical support and training to strengthen the capacity of CSOs in the areas of RBM in relation to results monitoring and reporting with data, with the use of corporate RBM resources and relevant policies, procedures and guidance from HQ.

3. Contribute to HQ-led corporate-level initiatives in the areas of monitoring, reporting and data collection and analysis in close collaboration with HQ to ensure the field perspectives and needs are reflected in those corporate initiatives

Contribute to corporate-level monitoring and review exercises, including Mid-Term Review of UN Women Strategic Plan
Participate as the indicator manager for UN Women’s IRRF and coordinate collection and consolidation of data for relevant indicators.
Contribute to corporate-level reporting requirements, including the Executive Director’s Annual Report (EDAR) to the Executive Board on implementation of Strategic Plan and its data publication in UN Women’s Transparency Portal, ensuring the quality of data against Strategic Plan indicators and narrative inputs.

4. Contribute to knowledge-building and capacity-building of WPHF

Ensure that evaluation results are taken into account for the continued implementation of strategies, programs, and projects and for the design and appraisal of new projects and programs;
Develop M&E capacity development tools, including training materials and packages for CSOs;
Identify and support on capacity-building opportunities of staff, CSO partners and Management Entities in the areas of results-based management (RBM) and gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation (M&E);
Promote awareness and understanding of shared responsibilities of M&E among all staff through communication, training, learning and development activities;
In coordination with knowledge management leads, identify good practices, lessons and knowledge as identified through monitoring and evaluation activities;
Conduct technical webinars through WPHF’s Global L-HUB on monitoring and evaluation topics to strengthen capacities of CSO partners and collect lessons learned and best practices.

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

Education and Certification:

master’s degree or equivalent in development-related disciplines such as social sciences, statistics, political science, Political Science, Development Studies, Public Administration Gender, or another related field 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.

Experience:

At least 5 years of progressively responsible development experience in development cooperation, international relations, public administration or other related fields, some of which must be in the areas of Results-Based Management (RBM) and results-based monitoring and reporting at the country, regional, and/or global levels.
Experience in managing and/or conducting results-based management work, monitoring and evaluation at global, regional and country level is required.
Experience in managing and/or preparing results-based reports with use of quantitative and qualitative data at country, regional, and/or global level is required.
Experience in providing guidance and technical support to personnel and/or partners in the areas of monitoring, evaluation, and/or reporting is required.
Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (SPSS, NVIVO, MS Word, Excel, etc.), and other web-based management systems, and up-to-date, advanced knowledge of data management tools, database packages and communication software for dissemination of results, is required.
Experience in conducting RBM and feminist monitoring and evaluation training, as a trainer, to personnel and/or external partners to support results-based and feminist monitoring and reporting is desirable.
Experience in inter-agency joint monitoring and/or reporting work is desirable.

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Languages:

Fluency in English is required.
Fluency in French is desirable.
Proficiency in another UN official languages is desirable (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish)