Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer

Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer


  • Job Identification
    22132
  • Posting Date
    2024-11-15, 03:05 p.m.
  • Apply Before
    2024-11-30, 07:59 a.m.
  • Job Schedule
    Full time
  • Locations





    Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe





  • Agency
    UNDP
  • Grade
    NPSA-9
  • Vacancy Type
    Partner PSA
  • Practice Area
    Effectiveness
  • Bureau
    Regional Bureau for Africa
  • Contract Duration
    1 Year
  • Education & Work Experience
    Master’s Degree – 2 yr(s) expertise OR Bachelor’s Degree – 4 yr(s) expertise
  • Required Languages
    Fluency in Portuguese language required. Solid working degree data of English is required.
  • Desired Languages
    Fluency in French might be an asset.
  • Vacancy Timeline
    2 Weeks

  • Job Description

    Background
     
    Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core ideas at UNDP:  we worth range as an expression of the multiplicity of countries and cultures the place we function, we foster inclusion as a means of making certain all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we guarantee fairness and equity in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ strategy to our range efforts means growing illustration of underserved populations. People who establish as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly inspired to apply. Learn extra about working at UNDP together with our values and inspiring stories.
     
    UNDP doesn’t tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any form of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks. 

     
    Sao Tome and Principe is the second smallest nation and the smallest financial system in Africa, and contemplating its insularity is inclined to exterior shocks, significantly the continued conflicts, geopolitical disruptions and their potential cascading results.  The United Nations Development Programme, current in São Tomé and Príncipe since 1976, has been working to assist the nation meet its worldwide commitments, primarily to attain Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030. In alignment with the Country Project Document – CPD (2023-2027), the Country Office (CO) of UNDP will proceed specializing in the recognized priorities: (1) inclusive social programs, (2) local weather motion, pure useful resource administration, and vitality; (3) inexperienced and blue development; and (4) clear and accountable establishments.  

    The nation’s priorities, UNSDCF, and UNDP’s CPD lay out the priorities in partnership and improvement interventions.  This is specifically vital to allow the nation for transformative change and preparedness for commencement whereas assembly the nation’s world, regional, and nationwide objectives.  

    Under the strategic steering of the Resident Representative and direct supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer places in place and administers progressive and efficient monitoring and analysis frameworks, programs, and instruments, and results-based administration and reporting within the CO to make sure UNDP stays accountable and clear and learns from its programme implementation.  Where related the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer will help programme high quality assurance and creating related programs. The incumbent will promote a collaborative, environment friendly, client-focused, evidence-based, and portfolio administration strategy.  UNDP adopts a portfolio strategy to accommodate altering enterprise wants and leverage linkages throughout interventions to attain its strategic objectives. Therefore, UNDP personnel are anticipated to work throughout models, capabilities, groups, and initiatives in multidisciplinary groups with a purpose to improve and allow horizontal collaboration in design and implementation of the event methods of the workplace with a deal with equipping groups to gear towards influencing the event and useful resource mobilization agenda, selling high quality assurance and mobilizing political and monetary help for UNDP, in shut collaboration with the respective companions.

    The Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer will collaborate intently with Programme, Operations and challenge groups within the Country Office, UNDP HQ employees, programme employees in different UN companies, Government officers and donors on programme/challenge implementation and monitoring and analysis points and practices; and will endeavor to facilitate and present capability to programme employees on M&E methods that profit and promote their thematic interventions and actions and enhances the standard of the work UNDP and reporting to the stakeholders.

     
    Duties and Responsibilities
     

    1. Implement and take part within the design of monitoring and analysis frameworks, programs, and instruments, and as relevant, conduct programme high quality assurance consistent with company insurance policies and alignment with the anticipated outcomes of CPD.

    • Support CO programme and challenge managers in designing the results-based administration, monitoring and analysis frameworks and plans in keeping with UNDP Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures (POPP) with applicable monitoring instruments. 
    • Help in making certain the appliance of UNDP social and environmental safeguards.
    • Serve because the UNDP Country Office focus for the supply of total technical and coverage advisory help on monitoring and analysis (M&E) and results-based administration (RBM) necessities and actions to CO programme and challenge managers, UNDP CO employees involved with monitoring and analysis, and consultants and/or members of analysis groups. 
    • Advocate the adherence to UN/UNDP coverage positions on monitoring and analysis, results-based administration, reporting and high quality assurance, as relevant, and guarantee their mainstreaming into all facets of the COs programme interventions. 
    • Provide steering on the systematized, efficient utility of RBM, M&E, reporting and high quality assurance instruments all through the complete programme/challenge cycle from the design to implementation, reporting and in the course of the well timed closure of initiatives. 
    • Support the mapping of enterprise processes and elaboration of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in programme and challenge oversight. 
    • Act as custodian for analysis high quality assurance guidelines to make sure high quality verify from the TOR formulation to closing analysis report and well timed implementation of the suggestions. · Provide enter to CO’s annual planning processes that features the Integrate Work Plan and CO Annual Business Plan; and take part in defining targets and indicators to make sure consistency with permitted nation programme and challenge paperwork and with UNDP POPPs. 
    • Ensure gender equality, incapacity inclusion, and Leave No One Behind (LNOB) ideas are an integral a part of UNDP programmes and operations and that these concerns are absolutely mainstreamed into programming and mirrored in programme/challenge design, monitoring, reporting and evaluations in keeping with the UNDP Gender Equality and Disability Inclusion Strategies, UNSDG Operational Guide for Country Teams on LNOB, and obtainable regional steering.
    • Contribute to joint UN planning and reporting processes, by coordinating UNDP’s adherence to agreed requirements within the UNSDCF.

    2. Ensure coordination and environment friendly help to monitoring, reporting, analysis and results-based administration of Country Office programmes and initiatives.

    • Coordinate implementation and utility of environment friendly and evidence-based outcomes monitoring and reporting and, as relevant, high quality assurance work for CO programme and challenge improvement and supply utilizing an built-in portfolio administration strategy. 
    • Advise the senior administration crew on supply implementation challenges and present help in resolving obstacles and bottlenecks. 
    • Develop templates for challenge and work plan monitoring and high quality assurance visits. Collect dependable and coherent knowledge to evaluate nation programme progress and outcomes. Provide common updates to programme and challenge groups utilizing newest M&E and IT monitoring instruments to reinforce effectivity and effectiveness within the monitoring processes. 
    • Prepare reviews analyzing progress and outcomes of initiatives. Advise programme groups on monetary reporting necessities for cooperating companions, donors, Government stakeholders and UN counterparts to make sure transparency relative to dedicated sources and timetables and to spotlight transformational adjustments. 
    • Ensure constant upkeep and monitoring of related scorecards and high quality assurance instruments such because the Social and Environmental Safeguards. 
    • Provide help to the administration and coordination of third-party monitoring and/or every other knowledge assortment interventions within the nation workplace. 
    • Ensure common and well timed updating of the Evaluation Resource Centre (ERC). 
    • Analyze necessities and synthesize proposals for the planning, preparation, and administration of particular thematic, nation programme/challenge evaluations and different varieties of evaluations. Draft and revise Terms of Reference (TOR) for particular challenge/thematic/sectoral monitoring and analysis missions and/or desk evaluations/opinions. Participate in guide and analysis crew choice and present technical suggestions on analysis inception reviews and draft evaluations and price range oversight. 
    • Draft and evaluate administration responses to the evaluations. 
    • Consolidate analysis findings, classes discovered and suggestions to be disseminated in studying occasions and channeled into decision-making processes. Analyze and synthesize monitoring and analysis reviews and different knowledge sources to evaluate the effectiveness and affect of UNDP CO programmes. 
    • Follow up on implementation of audit and analysis suggestions by CO and challenge groups. 
    • Contribute to the institution of statistics database and dashboards.

    3. Actively take part to capability constructing and facilitate data constructing and sharing on monitoring, analysis reporting, and results-based administration in CO.

    • Organize studying, coaching, and capability constructing actions on monitoring and analysis, RBM, knowledge assortment and survey strategies, gender mainstreaming and portfolio strategy for CO employees and programme and challenge groups. In shut collaboration with related groups within the HQ contribute to improvement and supply of coaching packages to strengthen CO companions’ capacities in programme and challenge monitoring and oversight. 
    • Support the identification, synthesis, documentation, and dissemination of key classes discovered and good practices derived from monitoring and analysis actions on what works, what doesn’t work, revised theories of change to establish progressive concepts for his or her scaling or replication.
    • Provide sound contributions to native and world data networks, communities of follow, and different data administration mechanisms. Proactively take part in UNDP regional and worldwide fora on related thematic areas (together with participating in thematic discussions, contributing with analytical papers, and so forth.). 
    • Contribute to the implementation of Evaluation Knowledge Management and Learning Strategy.

    The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed crucial for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organisation


    4. Institutional Arrangement

    The incumbent will work beneath the strategic steering of the Resident Representative and direct supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative. 
     

    Competencies

     
    Core

    Achieve Results:

    LEVEL 2: Scale up options and simplifies processes, balances velocity and accuracy in doing work

    Think Innovatively:

    LEVEL 2: Offer new concepts/open to new approaches, exhibit systemic/built-in pondering

    Learn Continuously:

    LEVEL 2: Go exterior consolation zone, be taught from others and help their studying

    Adapt with Agility:

    LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new conditions, contain others in change course of

    Act with Determination:

    LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and cope with a number of sources of stress concurrently

    Engage and Partner:

    LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, convey individuals collectively, construct/keep coalitions/partnerships

    Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

    LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge variations, considers in determination making 

     

    Business Direction & Strategy – System Thinking

    • Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated parts coexist inside an total course of or system, and to think about how altering one aspect can affect on different components of the system.

    Business Management – Portfolio Management

    • Ability to pick, prioritize and management the group’s programmes and initiatives, in keeping with its strategic goals and capability; 
    • Ability to steadiness the implementation of change initiatives and the upkeep of business-as-usual, whereas optimizing return on funding.
    Business Management – Monitoring
    • Ability to supply managers and key stakeholders with common suggestions on the consistency or discrepancy between deliberate and precise actions and programme efficiency and outcomes.

    Business Management – Evaluation

    • Ability to make an unbiased judgement primarily based on set standards and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate consumer’s upcoming wants and considerations.

    Business Development – Reporting and data era

    • Ability to analysis and flip info into helpful data, related for context, or conscious of a said want.

    Partnership Management – Relationship Management

    • Ability to interact with a vast vary of public and personal companions, construct, maintain and/or strengthen working relations, belief and mutual understanding
     
    Required Skills and Experience

     
    Education:
    • Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Development/Development Studies, Economics, Statistics, Business Administration/Management, Public Administration, Social Policy/Sciences, International Relations, or associated discipline is required; or
    • A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) together with an extra two years of qualifying expertise might be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.
    • Min. years of related work expertise 
    • Minimum 2 years (with Master’s diploma) or 4 years (with Bachelor’s diploma) of related expertise on the nationwide or worldwide degree in M&E, programme and/or crew administration working with high quality assurance devices, results-based administration fashions, and a number of stakeholders is required.

    Required  abilities

    • Proven technical data of the results-based administration cycle and monitoring and analysis, and reporting is required. 
    • Proven expertise in designing monitoring and analysis programs and designing improvement initiatives or built-in portfolios is required. 
    • Proven capability to work with quantitative and qualitative knowledge, and appropriately use qualitative knowledge /info assortment instruments in progressive methods is required. 
    • Experience in the usage of computer systems, workplace software program packages (MS Word, Excel, and so forth.), and web-based administration programs, and up-to-date, superior data of information administration instruments and database packages. 

    Desired abilities 

    • Knowledge of design pondering and programs pondering processes a plus;
    • Experience in designing, implementing and/or managing assessments and/or knowledge assortment workout routines/processes is desired. 
    • Experience conducting utilized analysis initiatives and reporting on findings is desired

    Required Language(s) 

    • Fluency in Portuguese language required.
    • Solid working degree data of English is required.
    • Fluency in French might be an asset.

    Professional Certificates

    • Certifications and formal trainings in relation to monitoring, analysis, and reporting might be thought of as an asset.
    Please (apply)/(full the P11 kind) within the language by which the emptiness is printed. 
     
    Disclaimer

     
    Applicant details about UNDP rosters

     
    Note: UNDP reserves the best to pick a number of candidates from this emptiness announcement.  We might also retain functions and take into account candidates making use of to this publish for different comparable positions with UNDP on the identical grade degree and with comparable job description, expertise and academic necessities.

     
    Non-discrimination

     
    UNDP has a zero-tolerance coverage in direction of sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas.  

     
    UNDP is an equal alternative and inclusive employer that doesn’t discriminate primarily based on race, intercourse, gender identification, faith, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, incapacity, being pregnant, age, language, social origin or different standing. 

     
    Scam warning

     
    The United Nations doesn’t cost any utility, processing, coaching, interviewing, testing or different price in reference to the appliance or recruitment course of. Should you obtain a solicitation for the cost of a price, please disregard it. Furthermore, please observe that emblems, logos, names and addresses are simply copied and reproduced. Therefore, you’re suggested to apply specific care when submitting private info on the internet.

    Apply Now
    https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/job/22132

    admin
    admin

    Discover more from YOUR OPPORTUNITIES AFRICA - YOA

    Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

    Continue reading

    × Inquire Now