Monitoring and Evaluation Senior Officer (Access to Justice and Grant Management) – Retainer, Multiple positions

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Project Manager of GoJUST II, , the Senior Officer’s prime responsibilities will be in the following areas: 
Results Based Management 

• Provide ongoing technical guidance and support , verify and report back on the various grants for access to justice,  their activity, output, and outcome-level results.
• Flag and follow-up where planned results are not being achieved, and the reasons for these – working with the rest of the UNOPS/ British Council team and others as appropriate. Monitoring of data, qualitative information and report writing, specially on the narrative reports, grantee monitoring sheets, and other related databases which requires technical data on results based on the log frame.
• In liaison with the MEL Lead and the PMO-Grants, recommend refinements to the monitoring systems to track project activities and outputs related to grants for access to justice.
• Utilize and analyze monitoring and evaluation statistical data to understand the overall progress in reaching project outcomes.
• Support the reporting of program data to enable timely and effective decision-making and planning, iIncluding the reporting of findings and recommendations during the monitoring and site visits of the grantees, in various locations of the country.
• Keep a record of field monitoring and issues being raised and progress, through the field monitoring visit templates.
• Address directly or flag issues that restrict the ability of partners to deliver their programme and provide guidance to the grantees in consultation with the Senior Adviser and the PMO Grants.

Evaluation 

• Provide feedback and analysis on the relevance, effectiveness, and sustainability of project interventions to the needs of the community.
• Provide information to the PMO-Grants and the MEL Lead on the contribution of the grantees’ work to access to justice in general, and an agenda for evaluative studies, as appropriate
• Analyze the grantee project implementation quality and outcomes, and partners’ compliance with all relevant standards and safeguards.

Capacity Building and Learning 

• Conduct feedback sessions to grantees on the fieldwork findings, agree on remedial action and monitor the implementation of the action plan.
• Provide focused technical coaching and/or training to grantee staff and partners to cover identified gaps, directly or in coordination with other members of the GOJUST team or other resource persons.
• Coordinate and facilitate monitoring visits by other relevant stakeholders, such as the communications team, other senior advisers and other staff of GOJUST whenever necessary.
• Conduct field work and use a range of participatory tools to check on grantee project quality and outputs against sector standards, other global and regional standards and in line with the agreed programme standards.

Perform other duties as required.

Education:

• Advanced University Degree (Master´s equivalent) in law, public administration, social justice, development studies and/or other disciplines relevant to development work to assist the vulnerable sectors in their justice needs, with a preference for law, justice and grant management related discipline, is required.
• A bachelor’s degree in the above fields with additional at least two 2 years of solid experience on Access to Justice programs/projects may be accepted in lieu of the master’s degree.

Experience:

• Two years of relevant experience related to law and justice programming, legal assistance to vulnerable groups, legal aid work, monitoring and coaching of CSOs in their justice work, and grant management for civil society organizations is required.
• Experience in the multi-sectoral development field with a focus on law, justice, legal aid and related discipline preferably with International Organisations, UN, International NGOs and/or donors is desirable.
• Substantial donor and grants management experience is desirable.
• Experience in defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions is a distinctive asset.
• Experience in G-Suite applications or Microsoft Office is desirable.

Language:

• Fluency in both written and spoken English is required.
• Fluency in Filipino is required
• Knowledge of other regional dialects is desirable.