Monitoring, Reporting and Quality Control Officer - Tenders Global

Monitoring, Reporting and Quality Control Officer

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Background
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UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Lebanon continues to confront an unprecedented financial and economic crisis facilitated by a history of violence, volatility, and social inequality that has undermined the subsistence capacity of already vulnerable populations. The country continues hosting the largest numbers of refugees per capita in the world (almost 1 in 3), estimated at 1.5 million displaced Syrians along with 31,400 Palestine refugees from Syria, 35,000 Lebanese returnees, and a pre-existing population of more than 174,422 Palestine refugees, and risks for new displacement waves are rising with a deteriorating geopolitical environment. This multi-layered crisis has devastating impacts on the social, economic and environmental capital of the country and, increasingly, on its social cohesion and stability as well.

Communities hosting large numbers of displaced populations have to face, with inadequate institutional capacities, fast-dwindling resources, and insufficient collective approach, the lingering consequences of the Syrian displacement crisis, exacerbated since 2019 by a severe economic, fiscal and governance meltdown, while pressure from climate change keeps increasing. This state-of-affairs undermines their capacity to cope with the immediate impacts of the compounded crisis – including breakdowns in essential services, rising poverty and the stiffening of inter- and intra-community tensions – and curtails their ability to overcome systemic challenges through a development approach, including, but not limited to, the protracted presence of displaced populations with no durable solutions in sight.

The Lebanon Host Community Support Project – Phase 2 (LHSP 2.0) Project builds upon the long accumulated experience and lessons learnt of implementing the LHSP since 2014. LHSP 2.0 proposes to anchor more firmly stabilization activities into an integrated local development paradigm, to work more at an area-based level in clusters and unions and to strengthen its support to municipal capacity development, in order to increase impact and sustainability of stabilization support.

At the local level, the LHSP 2.0 aims to help increase coping and sustainable development capacities in host communities and create a more enabling environment for mitigating and preventing tensions by: 

  1. reducing perceived competition between different population groups over public services, livelihood and economic opportunities by helping to maintain and increase service outputs and create economic opportunities, in a context of acute incapacitation of the public and private sectors to maintain their levels of operations and to mitigate negative crisis impacts over populations, Lebanese, displaced or refugees; and
  2. providing conflict-sensitive and inclusive dialogue and decision-making spaces where different components of local communities can explore and agree peacefully on their common interests and build their own pathway to a more sustainable future.

The Project has four outputs:

Output 1 Local governance for stabilization Mechanisms and capacities built in hosting areas for generating and implementing in a conflict-sensitive and gender-transformative manner local plans that can help prevent and respond to tensions and sustainably reduce multi-dimensional vulnerabilities.
Output 2 Essential services & infrastructure Physical infrastructure, including for energy supply, enhanced and more sustainable service delivery models promoted to secure affordable access to basic and social services, including energy supply, for vulnerable groups and hosting communities.
Output 3 Livelihoods & local economic recovery Decent livelihoods opportunities paying living income increased for vulnerable groups, including women, youth and people with disabilities, and opportunities for low-carbon and inclusive economic recovery generated, including through the social enterprise sector.
Output 4 Social peace & social capital Community-based peacebuilding initiatives, including in schools and media space, supported to help reduce tensions, prevent violence, including against women, and create an enabling environment for collective action for the public good.
Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Chief Technical Advisor, the incumbent will perform the following functions:

  • Support development of monitoring and evaluation strategies and indicators; including specific donors’ requirements;
  • Assist in coordinating across the LHSP components to ensure effective implementation of M&E;
  • Management of the monitoring and evaluation process;
  • Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in monitoring and evaluation;
  • Draft donors’ reports (quarterly/annual or according to specific requests); LHSP annual report and contribution to any Country Office reports’ requests, including lessons learned from LHSP implementation.
  • Support in donor relations, visit planning, and reviewing/editing/clearing proposals and concept notes to be presented to donors
  • Proactively gather information from relevant partners to share and report progress
  • Design and propose suitable data collection methods and implement the use of these as relevant, drawing upon data from various stakeholders and government partners.
  • Support trainings for LHSP staff on M&E and following up on the trainings;
  • Monitor the activities and progress towards achieving the expected LHSP results;
  • Suggest strategies for improving the efficiency and effectiveness by identifying bottlenecks in implementing the LHSP M&E strategy;
  • Follow up the implementation on the Information Management Tool of LHSP, in close coordination with the area level staff.
  • Ensure that lessons learned from programme M&E to improve future programme selection, design and implementation. This includes liaison with external organizations to identify and distribute good M&E practices in M&E and contribute to knowledge sharing.
  • Support to the communications unit for the production of central and area level documents including donor factsheets and project factsheets
  • Monitoring the quality and style of written material: editing/proofreading, maintaining reporting standards, and improving language and consistency;

Institutional Arrangement

The selected incumbent will be working will work under the direct supervision of the CTA and will coordinate closely with all LHSP colleagues.

Competencies
Core
Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with Determination:  LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies 

Thematic Area Name Definition
Business Management Project Management Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
Business Direction & Strategy System Thinking Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system
Business Direction & Strategy Effective Decision Making Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s authority, area of expertise and resources
Business Management Risk Management Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks
Business Management Operations Management Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organizations business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner.  Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanisms
External Relations & Advocacy Public relations Ability to build and maintain an overall positive public image for the organization, its mandate and its brand, while ensuring that individual campaigns and other communications and advocacy initiatives are supported in reaching the public
External Relations & Advocacy Resource mobilization Ability to identify funding sources, match funding needs (programmes/projects/initiatives) with funding opportunities, and establish a plan to meet funding requirements
Required Skills and Experience
Min. Education requirements
  • Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in language / journalism, International Relations or other related fields; or
  • A first level University degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in the related fields with additional 2 years of relevant experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.
Min. years of relevant work experience 
  • Up to 2 years (with Master´s degree) or Minimum 2 years (with a Bachelor’s degree) of progressive relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation and reports writing is required.
Required  skills 
  • Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section
  • Prior experience working in international and/or local NGOs/agencies is an asset.
  • Prior experience with UN Agencies is an asset.
Required Language(s)  Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic is required.

Knowledge of French is desired

Professional Certificates Not Applicable
Disclaimer
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Non-discrimination
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
UNDP is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
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