Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (Grant Support)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the information frontier group for sustainable growth within the UN Development System and serves because the integrator for collective motion to understand the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

The 2030 Agenda for SDGs and the pledge to go away nobody behind mirror the interconnectedness of well being and sustainable growth, together with widening financial and social inequalities, the local weather disaster, speedy urbanization, the persevering with burden of HIV and different infectious illnesses (e.g., malaria, tuberculosis), the rising burden of non-communicable illnesses and the emergence of well being threats. The scope and scale of delivering well being and well-being for all calls for progressive partnerships and financing. As affirmed within the Political Declaration of the 2019 High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and others are crucial companions for delivering on the health-related objectives of the 2030 Agenda. 

UNDP’s partnership with the Global Fund, according to UNDP’s HIV, Health and Development Strategy 2022-2025: Connecting the Dots, makes a significant contribution to UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the SDGs and the pledge to go away nobody behind. 

Based on demand from Country Offices, and constructing on the relationships, experience, programs, partnerships, together with throughout the UN household, and comparative benefit established by means of the Global Fund partnership, the Global Fund Partnership/Health Systems Team (GFP-HST) is offering assist to Country Offices by means of three overarching modalities: 1) the Global Fund portfolio, 2) well being system strengthening  and 3) different well being implementation assist past the Global Fund, together with Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), UNITAID and Smart Facilities. 

The GFP-HST offers its assist by means of a rustic staff method to strengthen and combine the completely different purposeful capacities (e.g., finance, monitoring and analysis, procurement and provide administration, programme, Sub-recipient administration), leveraging technical and coverage assist from the HIV, Health and Development (HHD) Group and different UNDP items. The GFPHST has a Senior Management Group for the coordination and administration of the portfolio, and the portfolio is reviewed yearly by the OPG. 

Purpose of the place Under the general supervision of Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist (Team Leader), the M&E Specialist (Grant Support) performs a key function within the provision of technical assist to Country Offices, nationwide entities and Global Fund Partnership Team and the Health Team extra broadly, with a variety of obligations associated to the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). 

The M&E Specialist (Grant Support) will strengthen the Global Fund Partnership Team’s analytical capabilities and assist to the Country Offices implementing Global Fund’s grants, advising groups of Programme Management Units and GFP-HST Programme Specialists on efficiency developments and figuring out alternatives and methods to beat implementation bottlenecks to maximise efficiencies and affect and construct resilient and sustainable well being programs. The function will promote a collaborative, client-oriented method according to UNDP guidelines, insurance policies, procedures, contributing to the nation staff method and assist to the combination of capability constructing actions.

1. Provide M&E advisory assist to Country Offices:

• Advise Country Offices within the growth and revision of grant Performance Frameworks which can be acceptable to the nation’s epidemiological context and are in alignment with National Strategic Plans. 
• Advise and assist Country Offices to develop web site monitoring plans (together with protocols for knowledge verification and validation) for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and well being programs strengthening grants according to Global Fund guidelines, insurance policies and procedures and present steering on implementation and monitoring. 
• Advise and assist Country Offices within the preparation and high quality assurance of the M&E sections of the Progress Updates/ Disbursement Requests (PUDR) experiences to be submitted to the Global Fund.
• Facilitate deep-dive efficiency opinions with deal with underperforming indicators.
• Guide within the identification of potential implementation issues and bottlenecks and advocate acceptable methods to handle them.
• Advise and assist Country Offices to arrange for OAI audits and to handle audit findings within the space of monitoring and analysis and assist the implementation of the administration actions.   
• Guide nation places of work in figuring out and planning actions to enhance knowledge high quality.
• Provide advisory assist for strengthening well being administration info programs together with DHIS2.

2. Provide top-level recommendation(s) on strategic initiatives:

• Contribute to strategic initiatives  aimed toward enhancing the GFP-HST programs and processes for more practical assist to Country Offices.
• Develop technical steering and coaching actions in M&E according to the most recent Global Fund’s insurance policies and instruments.

3. Ensure efficient outcomes reporting and portfolio huge evaluation:

• Undertake evaluation of efficiency in numerous programmatic areas and assist the GF-HIST Programme Specialists and Country Offices in catalyzing corrective actions. 
• Consolidate programmatic and coverage outcomes throughout UNDP’s Global Fund portfolio, analyze developments in efficiency and present strategic recommendation on how one can adapt approaches and enhance efficiency. 
• Conduct assessment of information high quality and assist Country Offices in figuring out and implementing measures for knowledge high quality enhancements. 

4. Provide recruitment assist and capability strengthening:

• Provide technical inputs in growing phrases of reference and sourcing technical consultants
• Guide Country Offices within the preparation of job descriptions and conducting personnel choice processes.
• Guide and assist strengthening M&E capacities of the Country Office employees, by means of preparation and supply of M&E coaching periods, one-to-one suggestions and teaching periods. 

5. Promote studying and information sharing:

• Document the teachings discovered on strengthening M&E capacities and grant implementation by means of efficient M&E.   
• Contribute to organizing Knowledge Exchanges for Country Office employees by means of figuring out pertinent matters, getting ready materials and figuring out technical consultants. 

The incumbent performs different duties inside their purposeful profile as deemed obligatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Institutional Arrangement

The M&E Specialist will report back to the Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist (Team Leader).

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align difficult, achievable goals for a number of initiatives, have lasting affect 
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential dangers, develop new concepts to unravel complicated issues 
• Learn Continuously:  LEVEL 3: Create and act on alternatives to broaden horizons, diversify experiences
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively provoke and champion change, handle a number of competing calls for
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think past fast job/limitations and take motion to attain better outcomes
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complicated panorama, champion inter-agency collaboration
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate advantages of various workforce and champion inclusivity

• Ability to achieve an understanding, persuade others, resolve factors of distinction, acquire benefit within the final result of dialogue, negotiate mutually acceptable options by means of compromise and create ‘win-win’ conditions 

Business Direction and Strategy – Systems Thinking 

• Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated components coexist inside an total course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one component can affect on different components of the system

Business Development – Knowledge Facilitation

• Ability to animate people and teams, internally and externally, and to design and facilitate actions, to share and change information, info and concepts. Knowledge of instruments and approaches to stimulate lively participation, contribution, and change 

Business Management – Risk Management

• Ability to determine and arrange motion round mitigating and proactively managing dangers 

Business Management – Results-based administration 

• Ability to handle the implementation of methods, programmes, and initiatives with a spotlight at improved efficiency and demonstrable outcomes. Knowledge and understanding of related theories, ideas, methodologies, devices, and instruments 

Partnership Management : Relationship administration

• Ability to have interaction with a variety of public and personal companions, construct, maintain and/or strengthen working relations, belief and mutual understanding

Agenda 2030: People  : Health 

• Support to Global Fund and different Health Programmes 

• Extensive information and expertise of Global Fund monitoring and analysis insurance policies and processes. 

• Experience in constructing M&E capability of nationwide stakeholders in well being and growth programmes is an asset.
• Experience with knowledge administration and knowledge visualization instruments (PowerBI or different) is a transparent benefit. 
• Experience with the Global Fund’s Data Quality Review methodology and instruments is an asset. 
• Experience working in a difficult working surroundings  is an asset. 
• Knowledge and expertise of UN or UNDP operational processes and procedures is an asset.

• Fluency in English and French is required.
• Knowledge of Portuguese is desired.

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