Reporting to the Head of Programmes and under the overall supervision of the Representative, and in close collaboration with UN Women programme and operations teams and with the Regional Evaluation Specialist in UN Women Europe and Central Asia Regional Office, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Specialist will provide support to the Country Office in incorporating monitoring and reporting into programme formulation, as well as will perform monitoring, reporting and evaluation services to track and report the results against the CO Strategic Note and UN Women Strategic Plan targets to internal and external audiences.
Responsibilities:
Provide quality assurance of program documents through review of results frameworks in order to meet SMART criteria.
Manage the development of monitoring indicators, monitoring calendars, and field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes; ensure use of relevant evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations are incorporated into programme formulation.
Ensure linkage of Annual Work Plans (AWPs) and corresponding Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Plans (MERP) with the UN Women Strategic Plan.
Provide strategic guidance to partners and the CO in developing Performance Monitoring Frameworks (PMFs).
Coordinate with the CO staff for the monitoring and review activities of the CO Strategic Note, including support to the mid-year and annual review of Annual Work Plan (AWP), data collection and analysis of outcomes and outputs indicators against Strategic Note, in line with Monitoring, Research and Evaluation Plan (MERP) and Performance Monitoring Framework (PMF) of Ukraine CO.
Coordinate with the CO staff to ensure the effective use of UN Women Results Management System for monitoring purposes, by ensuring the timely data entry and update of monitoring data against outcomes and outputs, corresponding indicators and activities as required.
Ensure data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized across programmes.
Monitor data from partners and draft regular management briefs to inform decision making.
Visit partners to support monitoring of results and planning processes.
Develop and monitor the CO’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Plan.
Education:
Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/Women's Studies 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.
A project/programme management certification (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.
Work Experience:
At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience at the national or international level in results-based monitoring and reporting on development and/or projects/ programmes.
Proven experience working on gender equality and women empowerment is required.
At least 2 years’ experience working in a development and/or humanitarian country context is required.
Experience in the application of Results-Based Management (RBM) to programme/project cycle is required.
Experience in data collection and analysis with qualitative or/and quantitative data collection methodologies for monitoring and/or evaluation work is required.
Experience in results-based planning, monitoring, reporting and/or evaluation of gender-specific programme/project at the country level is desirable.
Experience in conducting RBM training, as a trainer, to personnel and/or external partners to support results-based monitoring and reporting is desirable.
Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
Experience in the United Nations systems is desirable.
