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Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Global Wildlife Program, World Bank

Start Date: March 17, 2025

Express Interest By: 2/24/2025

Duration: 60

Topics: Not Available

Business Function: Not Available

Skills: M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation);Data evaluation;Knowledge administration;Project administration and outcomes reporting;

Language Skills: English,

Assignment Location: United States

Institution: IBRD

VPU: Planet VPU

Contact Person: Lisa Farroway (lfarroway@worldbank.org)

Task Description: BACKGROUND

The Global Wildlife Program (GWP), funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and led by the World Bank, brings collectively 38 nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean to fight wildlife crime, handle unsustainable and excessive zoonotic danger wildlife commerce and consumption, handle human-wildlife battle, and construct wildlife-based economies. With an funding of US$360 million GEF financing throughout three GEF phases (GEF-6, GEF-7, and GEF-8) and over $2 billion in co-financing, the GWP is likely one of the largest GEF programmatic investments in biodiversity conservation.

The GWP is a collaborative world program that facilitates connection throughout borders and the sharing of experiences, classes, and greatest practices. Since its institution in 2015, the World Bank as lead company for the GWP has carried out a worldwide information platform that goals to boost coordination among the many GWP nationwide initiatives and companions; facilitate information trade and switch throughout GWP initiatives, nations and areas; determine and disseminate classes realized and options that may be scaled up and replicated; develop and share instruments and assets that improve the implementation of GWP initiatives; present focused technical help and capability constructing to assist mission and program affect; and monitor and consider GWP outcomes. These actions are designed to assist maximize the impacts and sustainability of nationwide initiatives and construct the profile and positioning of the GWP in world partnerships on wildlife conservation. The new GEF-8 section of this system will contain a brand new world coordination mission carried out by the World Bank that may improve and evolve the prevailing GWP information platform and outcomes measurement system.

The GWP coordination workforce on the World Bank is a workforce of technical and information administration specialists that work carefully with GWP companions and taking part nations to ship the GWP information platform. The GWP is in search of an skilled M&E skilled to hitch the coordination workforce and lead the supply of the M&E facets of the information platform.

OBJECTIVE

The consultancy’s most important duties are to coordinate the implementation and ongoing enchancment of the GWP M&E framework; mixture and assess programmatic (and world coordination) outcomes and affect; and construct the notice, capability and trade of taking part nations and mission groups on M&E.

SCOPE OF WORK

• Lead the implementation and enhancement of the GWP M&E framework and outcomes reporting
• Oversee the implementation of the M&E framework throughout all three phases of GWP.
• Provide strategic steerage on program M&E and reporting of worldwide environmental advantages and affect on the program degree, together with alternatives to streamline affect and progress reporting by means of mechanisms such because the GWP progress report.
• Collate, mixture, and assess progress from nationwide mission reporting, together with Project Implementation Reports (PIRs), mid-term opinions (MTRs), terminal evaluations (TEs), obligatory monitoring instruments and different related sources of data, together with by means of qualitatively coding data in experiences in a consolidated database.
• Develop and disseminate an annual survey to GWP stakeholders to evaluate progress and satisfaction with the GWP coordination and information platform. Analyse information and current survey outcomes. Advise on enhancements to surveys to enhance response fee and usefulness of information.
• Identify and implement alternatives for continuous enchancment in M&E methods.
• Establish a GWP working group on M&E and construct mission capability and consciousness on M&E
• Establish a GWP working group with mission managers and M&E specialists within the nationwide initiatives throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America, and convene quarterly digital conferences of the working group.
• Identify widespread capability growth priorities and shared challenges/wants on M&E for mission groups and plan acceptable information trade and technical assist in response, together with by means of digital webinars with specialist audio system.
• Deliver coaching and data periods on program M&E necessities to lift consciousness and compliance with M&E necessities.
• Scope the event of an M&E ‘toolkit’ to offer sensible data and steerage to nation groups on M&E issues. Develop an idea together with recognized precedence materials for inclusion within the toolkit agreed with the M&E working group.
• Lead on GWP progress reporting and analysis
• Update the GWP databases and information templates by extracting and collating affect information and outcomes, related classes, challenges, and success tales.
• Verify and collate outcomes for the annual GWP Progress Report.
• Synthesize and summarize key GWP achievements and affect based mostly on the verified information to facilitate the dissemination of information and classes realized. emWE9tO CweyBi
• Contribute to the event of Results Briefs for closed GWP nationwide initiatives to collate key impacts and outcomes. Identify different alternatives to disseminate outcomes.
• Complete preliminary scoping and TOR growth for a program analysis of the GEF-6 section of the GWP to happen in FY26, in accordance with GEF necessities.
• Contribute to drafting of the annual progress assessment and reporting for the GWP world coordination mission.
• Contribute to GWP coordination and information administration
• Support the implementation of the GWP information administration platform, as wanted.
• Contribute to GWP coordination conferences with companions, nationwide initiatives and donors.
• Develop and assist webinars and information trade occasions on matters related to the GWP neighborhood.

Selection Criteria:

• Master’s diploma in a related subject.
• Minimum 5-7 years of labor expertise in M&E, information evaluation, information administration, and/or mission administration and outcomes reporting. Experience or information associated to biodiversity conservation, wildlife administration, protected space administration a bonus.
• Technical expertise with M&E and evaluation of donor-funded initiatives and synthesizing and aggregating materials at portfolio, regional or thematic degree. Experience with the GEF and programmatic modalities a bonus.
• Demonstrated understanding of results-based administration, together with outcomes frameworks and Theory of Change.
• Familiarity/expertise in qualitative coding and thematic analyses of information units.
• Ability to work independently, working remotely with restricted supervision and assembly deadlines effectively.
• Excellent analytical abilities, means to suppose strategically, analyze and synthesize numerous qualitative and quantitative information and data.
• Experience and familiarity with information visualization and presentation instruments and platforms.
• Excellent group abilities with emphasis on consideration to element and robust capability to be organized and comply with by means of on commitments in response to deadlines.
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal abilities in working carefully and collaboratively throughout organizational boundaries.
• Excellent written/spoken English. French and/or Spanish language abilities a bonus.

DURATION, LOCATION AND REPORTING

The guide will report back to the Program Manager of the GWP and type part of the core GWP coordination workforce. World Bank consultancy contracts are provided on a monetary yr foundation (July 1 to June 30), with as much as 150 days per monetary yr. The consultancy might be an estimated 60-80 days by means of to June 30, 2025, commencing with precedence TOR duties, and then a most of 150 working days from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026 (and subsequent monetary years), protecting a broader TOR scope and total implementation and enchancment of the GWP M&E system. The guide might be provided a every day price commensurate with expertise and be paid based mostly on the variety of days labored.

The guide will work remotely. The GWP coordination workforce is basically based mostly on the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC, however a distant work location is feasible with flexibility in location. The guide is anticipated to recurrently work throughout Eastern Standard Time enterprise hours and be versatile to contribute to digital occasions and conferences held in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean time zones. International journey could also be required.