Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist - IPSA 10 - Part time (50%)

Mid Senior

Contract

This is a IPSA-10 contract. This kind of contract is known as International Personnel Services Agreement. It is normally internationally recruited only. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education. More about IPSA-10 contracts.

Background

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The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.

A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.

Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.

Office/Unit/Project Description

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.

Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government, and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.

UNDP’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan highlighting our continued commitment to eradicating poverty, accompanying countries in their pathways towards the SDGs and working towards the Paris Agreement. As part of the Global Policy Network in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP’s Nature, Climate Change, and Energy (NCE) Team promotes and scales up integrated whole-of-governance approaches and nature-based solutions that reduce poverty and inequalities, strengthen livelihoods and inclusive growth, mitigate conflict, forced migration and displacement, and promote more resilient governance systems that advance linked peace and security agendas.

In addition to UNDP’s bilateral partnerships on natural capital, environment and climate, UNDP is an accredited multilateral implementing agency of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Multilateral Fund (MLF), the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) which includes the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund (GEF Trust Fund); the Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund (NPIF); the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF); and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)). As part of UNDP’s partnership with these vertical funds, UNDP provides countries specialized integrated technical services for eligibility assessment, programme formulation, capacity development, policy advice, technical assistance, training and technology transfer, mobilization of co-financing, implementation oversight, results management and evaluation, performance-based payments and knowledge management services.

Project Description

At the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid (the United Nations Climate Change Conference), the Adaptation Fund launched a new US$10 million pilot grant programme to foster innovation in adaptation in developing countries. The programme targets a broad range of potential finance recipients, including non-governmental organizations, community groups, young innovators and the private sectors. The programme is part of the Adaptation Fund’s innovation facility, providing small grants to developing countries to support innovation for effective, long-term adaptation to climate change. UNDP acts as small grant aggregators for innovation in adaptation, making small grants available to a broad scope of stakeholders on a competitive basis. In January 2021, the European Commission and UNDP signed €10 million in funding for the UNDP-led Innovation Small Grant Aggregator Platform (ISGAP).

The AF-EU-UNDP Innovation Small Grant Aggregator Platform (ISGAP) is designed to support the development, diffusion and evidence building of innovative adaptation practices, tools, and technologies in developing countries. ISGAP programme is intended to provide 20-30 direct small grant fund to local entities (i.e. programme grantees).

The Programme Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will contribute to implement ISGAP´s Monitoring and Evaluation Plan. The specialist will support ISGAP´s PMU to ensure that the programme is appropriately monitored and evaluated against corresponding indicators and targets in the project results framework. S/he will support the PMU to follow-up with grantees, ensuring that they meet the performance targets and indicators from their Low Value Grant Agreements (LVGA), as well as the risk management measures, safeguards and gender commitments. S/he will also coordinate as needed with ISGAP responsible parties (knowledge management; philanthropy and corporate foundations engagement), and other ISGAP consultants (communications, finance and investment, safeguards, website) to ensure obtaining optimal outcomes and results.

Institutional Arrangement

The specialist will report to the ISGAP Project Manager, under the guidance of the Regional Technical Specialist -Climate Finance and Investment. S/he will work closely with other staff in the UNDP Regional Hubs, HQ staff and counterparts as appropriate (grantees, responsible parties and partners).

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

General responsibilities

1. Overall support to ISGAP´s PMU in programme monitoring and evaluation

• Support in monitoring of outputs and results as per the results framework for the project.
• Support monitoring project progress and provide inputs to annual and other progress reports ensuring that they meet the necessary reporting requirements and standards (e.g. for ISGAP´s Project Board).
• Ensure project’s M&E meets the requirements of the UNDP and the donors (European Union and the Adaptation Fund).
• Oversee and ensure the implementation of the project’s M&E plan, including periodic appraisal of the project’s results framework with reference to actual and potential project progress and results.
• Oversee and guide the design of surveys/ assessments commissioned for monitoring and evaluating project results (more generally, for the ISGAP Programme).
• Assist the Project Manager in supporting mid-term and terminal evaluations, or audits of the project, including management responses.
• Facilitate annual reviews of the project and produce analytical reports from these annual reviews, including learning and other knowledge management products.
• Providing inputs to the development of a web-based monitoring and evaluation interface with data query and reporting capability for ISGAP.

2. Support ISGAP´s grantees to meet their performance targets and indicators

• Support the PMU to follow-up with grantees, ensuring that they meet the performance targets and indicators from their Low Value Grant Agreements (LVGA), as well as the risk management measures, safeguards and gender commitments. In coordination with the Project Manager, the consultant will engage regularly with ISGAP´s grantees through emails or calls with the objective of accompanying the CSOs/NGOs to meet their workplans´ goals, and to support UNDP identify potential challenges and solutions to problems.
• Assist the PMU to review the quarterly and annual substantive reports and provide feedback to grantees as necessary.
• In coordination with the Project Manager, the consultant will support processes that enable UNDP to provide project management or technical assistance to grantees (e.g., contribute to the organization of trainings/consultations, provide inputs to draft works/service specifications, follow up with different UNDP units or external partners to provide technical assistance, as needed).
• Oversee and guide the design of surveys/ assessments commissioned for monitoring and evaluating project results (to receive feedback from ISGAP´s grantees or other counterparts).
• Support the organization and deployment of project site M&E and learning missions, if deemed necessary. This entails coordinating, under the lead of the Project Manager, with certain UNDP´s Country Offices or with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) network.
• Visit project sites as and when required to appraise project progress on the ground and validate written progress reports (troubleshooting as needed).

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business Management

Monitoring

Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results.

Business Management

Evaluation

Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks - Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

Business Management

Working with Evidence and Data

Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making

Business Management

Risk Management

Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks.

Business Management

Communication

Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.

Partnership Management

CSO engagement

Knowledge and understanding of CSOs and the ability to engage with CSOs

Digital & Innovation

Storytelling

Ability to empathise with people's perceptions, motivations, feelings and mental models and craft narratives to build an emotive argument for change accordingly.

Ability to present data, insights or information in compelling ways to mobilise resources, talent or action.

Ability to choose media and channels that is fit for purpose to reach specific target audiences.

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum Qualifications of the Successful IPSA

Min. Education requirements

• Master's Degree in Environmental Management/Sciences, Development Studies, International Affairs, Business or Public Administration or other related fields.

Min. years of relevant work experience

• At least 5 years of professional experience working on monitoring and evaluation in the development sector, preferably with regional or global donor-funded projects and project teams.

Required skills

• Demonstrated experience (5 years) in monitoring and evaluation on the development of M&E systems and/or performance-based management of international projects.
• Demonstrated experience (at least 3 years) working with environment, sustainable development and/or climate change projects.
• Full computer literacy is required: Microsoft Office programmes i.e. MS-Word, MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint.

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

• Experience in coordinating and supporting projects providing M&E activities for local NGOs/CSOs is an advantage.
• Specific knowledge in climate change adaptation is an advantage.
• Previous work experience with UNDP or a related international organization is an advantage.
• language Knowledge of Spanish, French or Portuguese is an advantage.

Required Language(s)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

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