Coordination, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 22 years old. Applicants must be nationals of or legal residents in the country of assignment.

Description of task

Under the overall supervision of the Representative, guidance of National Programme Coordinator and in close collaboration with UN Women projects and operations teams as well as with the Regional Evaluation Specialist in UN Women Europe and Central Asia Regional Office in Istanbul, the UN Volunteer is expected to perform the following duties:

1. Monitoring of activities to ensure compliance with UN Women corporate requirements and processes, and assist planning process of the Country Office:

• Support the compliance of the UN Women corporate requirements and processes, including the use of UN Women Results Management System (RMS), application of the Programme Chapter of UN Women Programme and Operation Manual (POM) as well as additional guidance from HQ, to the work of Ukraine Office.
• Provide support to the annual planning process of UN Women Ukraine Country Office, including support to the development and revision of Annual Work Plan (AWP), Monitoring, Research and Evaluation Plan (MERP), Performance Monitoring Framework (PMF), in order to ensure the results-based planning and proper planning of M&E activities from outset.
• Provide Result-Based Management and M&E-related inputs to programme and project colleagues for the development of M&E plan as well as for development of concept notes, project proposals and baseline surveys to ensure the minimum standard and requirements of M&E in line with CO Strategic Note, MERP and Performance and Monitoring Framework (PMF).
• Coordinate with CO staff to ensure the effective use of UN Women Results Management System for planning purposes, by ensuring the timely data entry and update of Strategic Note and AWP data in the system.

2. Provide support and coordination to monitoring activities of the Country Office:

• Coordinate with CO staff for the monitoring and review activities of Strategic Note of UN Women Ukraine Office, including support to the mid-year and annual review of Annual Work Plan (AWP), data collection and analysis of outcomes and outputs indicators against Strategic Note, in line with Monitoring, Research and Evaluation Plan (MERP) and Performance Monitoring Framework (PMF) of Ukraine CO.
• Support the monitoring of the implementation of MERP and PMF on a quarterly basis and contribute to the annual update of MERP and PMF in consultation with CO staff.
• Coordinate with CO staff to ensure the effective use of UN Women Results Management System for monitoring purposes, by ensuring the timely data entry and update of monitoring data against outcomes and outputs, corresponding indicators and activities on a quarterly basis.
• Undertake regular monitoring of UN Women projects, including those implemented by the partners in respect to the delivery of the planned results, including financial allocations and expenditures;
• Update on a monthly basis (based on inputs from programmes and projects teams and the results of the monitoring) on the achievements of the target results, progress made, on track initiatives, delayed activities, etc.;
• Substantially contribute to the organization of UN Women weekly, monthly, semi-annual and annual meetings and retreats with dedicated inputs and, when required, with M&E sessions to update on the current status, flag urgent issues and actions required and propose solutions;

3. Provide support and coordination to evaluation activities:

• Support the programme staff in ensuring that the Country Office Evaluation Plan is properly followed and updates on its implementation are provided to Country Representative and National Programme Coordinator, as required;
• Provide support to the project teams in participating in mid-term or final (case specific) evaluations ensuring quality inputs to the development of the Evaluation ToR, design of the evaluation process, questionnaires, checklists, etc.;
• Ensure the Global Accountability and Tracking of Evaluation system (GATE) is updated regularly with the upload of the evaluation plans, results of the evaluations and their findings and recommendations, quarterly updates of the Management Responses to evaluations, etc.;
• Provide evaluation related inputs to the CO and RO Annual reports.
• Participate in relevant evaluation trainings including the UN Women Evaluation e-learning training.

1. 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 of capacity development tools, including training materials and packages;
• Facilitate capacity building opportunities for staff and partners in the country 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.

Qualifications/Requirements Required degree level: Master degree or equivalent Education - Additional Comments:

Master`s degree (or equivalent) in Public Administration, Programme/Project Management, International Development or in the field of social sciences or another relevant field.

Required experience: 24 Months Experience remark:

• At least 2 years of progressively responsible experience at the national or international level in coordination, monitoring and evaluation of development projects/ programmes;
• Knowledge of results-based planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation;
• Experience in data collection and analysis with qualitative or/and quantitative data collection methodologies for monitoring and/or evaluation work is an asset;
• Experience in results-based planning, monitoring, reporting and/or evaluation of gender-specific programme/project at the country level is an asset;
• Knowledge in the concept and application of Results-Based Management (RBM) to programme/project cycle is an asset;
• Substantive knowledge of and experience on gender equality and women's empowerment will be considered a strong advantage;
• Experience in the UN system, agencies and international organizations is an asset.

Language skills:

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent
• Ukrainian(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise: Monitoring and evaluation Driving license: No Competencies values:

Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity

Application procedure:

* Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

First register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup.

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* Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

First update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile.

Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to

which you would like to apply.

This is a national UN Volunteer assignment, therefore only nationals of Ukraine and legal residents with a residency

permit, the status of refugee or with the status of being stateless are eligible to apply.

Application deadline 7th.March 2020.