TICAD Monitoring and Reporting Officer

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 25 years old. Nationals of the country of assignment are not eligible, except the assignments in Headquarters duty stations.

Description of task

Under the supervision of the TICAD Partnership Specialist in Tokyo, and in close collaboration with the M&E team in the Regional Service Centre for Africa based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as well as the consultant in charge of developing and operationalizing the monitoring website and in charge of communications, the TICAD Monitoring Consultant is expected to perform the following duties:

1. Coordinate and consolidate UNDP’s inputs to update the YPA 2019

• Work with the M&E team in the RSCA and coordinate inputs to update the YPA 2019
• Assure quality of UNDP’s inputs
• Collect narratives, photo images, video footages as relevant for the inputs

1. Coordinate TICAD co-organizes and partners for their quality-assured and timely inputs to update the YPA 2019

• Contact TICAD co-organizers through the technical committee formulated to update the YPA, guide and facilitate their timely inputs, and perform quality assurance where needed
• Contact TICAD partners, guide and facilitate their timely inputs, and perform quality assurance where needed
• Perform as a first contact receiving queries on updating the monitoring website and respond in consultation with the TICAD unit and the consultant to develop and maintain the operationalization of the monitoring website
• Collect narratives, photo images, video footages as relevant for the inputs by the TICAD co-organizers and partners

3) Analyze the progress from the consolidated inputs and draft a progress report

• Consolidate all the inputs by the TICAD co-organizers and partners and draft documents necessary for the co-organizer’s approval on the overall inputs

• Coordinate the necessary approval on the progress by the TICAD co-organizers
• Analyze the progress from the consolidated inputs
• Draft progress reports
• Coordinate the comments and inputs on the progress reports by the TICAD co-organizers
• Finalize the reports
• Prepare presentation contents/printing for the related meetings
• Enhance partnership support for TICAD actors
• Create a story edition for the flagship projects.

4) Support the operationalization of the monitoring website

• Share the feedback by the TICAD co-organizers and partners on technical errors and functionalities to the consultant developing the monitoring website
• Establish and implement a reach-out/ communication strategy to inform about the monitoring website
• Establish and implement a reach-out/communication strategy to inform about the progress reported
• Perform any other tasks required by the office

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

• Advanced degree (Master’s or equivalent) in a relevant area, e.g. project management or area related to Monitoring and Evaluation;
• First-level university degree or equivalent in combination with relevant training and/or professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree

Required experience: 36 Months Experience remark:

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience at the national and/or international level in international development, reporting and monitoring.
• Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills
• Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing
• Experience in monitoring and project management at international organizations is a strong asset.
• Working experience in UN agencies is a strong asset
• Familiarity with TICAD is a strong asset
• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including grassroots community members, religious and youth organizations, and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development.

Language skills:

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise: Resource mobilization, partnership and donor coordination, Monitoring and evaluation, Knowledge management, archiving and documentation Area of expertise details:

• Coordination of partners
• Collection and analysis of input/data
• Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing.
• Stock-taking, monitoring and evaluation

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Application deadline: 20 May 2021