Conduct systematic field visits: Lead regular monitoring visits to project sites, combining compliance monitoring with learning-oriented field research.
Implement participatory monitoring: Engage beneficiaries and communities in monitoring activities, ensuring their voices and perspectives inform project adaptation.
Provide real-time feedback: Offer immediate technical feedback to implementing partners and support course corrections during implementation.
Conduct trend analysis: Analyze monitoring data to identify patterns, trends, and emerging issues across different project components and geographic areas.
Perform comparative analysis: Compare performance across different implementation modalities, partner types, and beneficiary groups to identify success factors.
Generate predictive insights: Use data analysis to anticipate potential implementation challenges and recommend proactive measures.
Design learning mechanisms: Establish regular reflection sessions, after-action reviews, and pause-and-reflect moments to capture learning and inform adaptation.
Facilitate strategy adjustment: Support evidence-based adjustments to project strategies, approaches, and implementation modalities based on monitoring findings.
Document adaptation decisions: Maintain clear records of project adaptations, including rationale, implementation process, and outcomes.
Contribute to evaluation planning: Provide technical inputs into evaluation design, including evaluation questions, methodology selection, and stakeholder engagement strategies.
Support evaluation implementation: Assist in evaluation data collection, analysis, and validation processes.
Facilitate utilization-focused evaluation: Ensure evaluation processes and findings are designed to support decision-making and project improvement.
Synthesize learning: Combine evaluation findings with monitoring data to generate comprehensive learning products that capture project experiences.
Develop evidence briefs: Create accessible knowledge products that communicate key findings and recommendations to different stakeholder audiences.
Support scale-up planning: Generate evidence to inform project replication, scaling, and integration into government systems.
Education:
A master’s degree (or equivalent) in Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, or 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 monitoring and reporting of development projects/ programme is required.
Experience in the United Nations systems is desirable.
Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, and experience in handling web-based management systems is required.
Experience in the use of a modern web-based Enterprise Resource Planning System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
Languages:
Fluency in English is required.
Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (Arabic).
