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.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Facilitate and substantively contribute to the incorporation of monitoring and reporting into programme formulation:
Substantively contribute to the development and revision of monitoring indicators, monitoring calendars, and field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes;
Include inputs from relevant evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations into programme formulation;
Contribute to biennial work plan monitoring, reviews and reporting;
Provide technical support to partners in developing Performance Monitoring Frameworks (PMFs), systems and plans, and baseline surveys;
Contribute substantively to the monitoring and tracking of results against country/regional level targets and UN Women Strategic Plan:
Coordinate with Programme Teams to ensure that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized across programmes;
Monitor data from partners on a quarterly basis and provide substantive inputs to regular management briefs to inform decision making;
Visit partners, along with the Programme Teams, to support monitoring of results and planning processes as required;
Monitor the spending of donor funds and other programme expenditures and disbursements;
Monitor and update Ethiopia Country Office Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Plan.
Support Programme Teams in annual outcome harvesting exercise
Facilitate the reporting of results to internal (Senior Management) and external (Executive Board, Donors) audiences:
Support the process of the Ethiopia Country Office meeting internal and external reporting requirements and deadlines, including annual reporting process;
Support the preparation of donor and programme reports
Identify relevant evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations and input them into programme reporting;
Review progress reports submitted by partners and provide feedback to improve quality and timeliness of reporting;
Support collecting and maintaining data for country, regional and global corporate reports, mid-term reviews, and final evaluations.
Provide technical support to the Sudan Country Office in the implementation the UN Women Evaluation Policy:
Support the implementation of UN Women’s Evaluation plan in the Ethiopia Country Office;
Provide guidance to programme staff on evaluations;
Support communication between the Ethiopia Country Office and RO regarding Evaluations;
Coordinate the completion of management’s response to the UN Women Global Accountability and Tracking of Evaluation Use (GATE).
Contribute to knowledge building and capacity building:
Identify and disseminate good practices, lessons and knowledge, as identified through programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities;
Contribute to the development and maintenance of capacity development tools, including training materials and packages;
Facilitate capacity building opportunities for staff and partners in Ethiopia in the areas of Results Based Management (RBM), Monitoring and Evaluation;
Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities.
Required Skills and Experience:
Education and certifcation:
Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Social Sciences including Development Studies or Gender Studies;
Bachelors degree with substantial qualifying experience may be considered
Expierence:
At least 4 years of progressively responsible experience in planning, monitoring and reporting of projects/ programmes across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus
Experience in the United Nations systems in an asset;
Field experience is an asset;
Language Requirments:
Fluency in English and Amharic is required
Knowledge of other local language is an added value.
