Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Specialist – P3

Background:

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.  Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality are translated into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts while building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is a partnership between the United Nations and civil society, which supports women led and women’s rights organizations working to build peace and provide humanitarian response throughout the world. Since 2016, the WPHF has been supporting over 1,200 civil society organizations and is active in 44 countries.

UN Women hosts the Secretariat of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund. The WPHF Secretariat provides support to the Funding Board, mobilizes resources from Governments, companies, foundations and individual, provides day to day support to Country Offices implementing WPHF programmes, ensures timely and quality monitoring and reporting. The Secretariat’s role is also to establish and implement a strong monitoring and evaluation system that links WPHF’s global theory of change to the work undertaken by WPHF CSO Partners at the country level and across funding windows.

UN Women has placed emphasis on improving its results monitoring and reporting by applying the Results-Based Management (RBM) throughout all the work of UN Women to better communicate results internally and externally at country, regional and global levels. This requires dedicated efforts to strengthen results culture in the organization.  In order for UN Women to communicate impact stories on women and girls at the corporate level with aggregated results and financial data across all the countries and regions, it is crucial to further strengthen UN Women’s capacity to monitor and report on results with qualitative and quantitative data more systematically and effectively. 

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, evidence-based programming approach and the results-based M&E. The consultant will also lead on survey designs and producing an annual WPHF index. They also contribute to the 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.  

 

Key Functions and Accountabilities:

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.
• 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 development/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 to 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.

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

• Provide guidance and technical support to COs/MEs for the preparation of monitoring and evaluation plans, 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/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 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, programmes/projects and for the design and appraisal of new projects/ programmes;
• 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), 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.

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

Competencies :

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework: 

Functional Competencies:

• Excellent knowledge of results-based management and its application to monitoring and reporting work with data
• Excellent knowledge in gender sensitive and feminist monitoring and evaluation approaches
• Excellent knowledge of UN system and understanding of inter-agency level results monitoring and reporting
• Excellent knowledge of development and use of indicators to support results monitoring, evaluation and reporting
• Excellent analytical and writing skills with use of qualitative and quantitative data
• Ability to communicate results internally and externally
• Ability to support others to strengthen their knowledge and skills in the areas of monitoring and reporting

Recruitment Qualifications:

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in development-related disciplines, Social Sciences, Statistics, 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 field, 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.

 

Languages:

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

 

Statements :

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

 

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

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