Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist - IPSA 10

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

The Technical Secretariat of UNPRPD MPTF is based in the UNDP Governance team in the Bureau of Policy and Programme Support. The UNPRPD Technical Secretariat operates in accordance with the UNPRPD Strategic Operational Framework 2020–2025 and agreed annual work plan developed following strategic direction from the Policy Board and upon approval by the Management Committee.

With over 40 active programmes yearly the UNPRPD FUND is working towards improving the way in which programmes are designed and results monitored and captured in line with its new logframe.

The ME&L Specialist will contribute to consolidate, update and manage the M&E and Learning systems in place to ensure consistency across reporting and enabling the Fund to measure progress against its indicators as well as showcasing achieved results and impact.

Institutional Arrangement

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist will be reporting to Direct supervisor will be programme coordinator and work closely with programme focal point and junior researcher

Travel

UNPRPD will cover costs of travel to duty station when needed and missions.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

Supporting joint programmes M&E activities including reporting and final evaluations:

-Assist joint programs to develop logframes and M&E strategies in line with funding calls and UNPRPD SOF 2020-2025

-Conducting quality assurance of reports from joint programmes and providing regular support to joint programme teams in implementation of the reporting

-Developing and delivering on-line training on RBM principles applied to UNPRPD joint programming

-Update joint reporting methodology for UNPRPD programs including annual progress reports, and final reports of joint programmes

Preparing global progress report

-Coordinate and prepare Fund’s annual report (outline, collecting data from programs and TS, oversee designer and editor)

-Develop and maintain Fund’s indicators matrix and collect, aggregate, process and manage data from programs to input to knowledge and comms products

-Ensure data on progress on indicators is uploaded in new MPTF gateway

Evidence generation and Lessons Learned

-Oversee Situational Analysis process ensuring high quality data gathering

-Support update of Situational Analysis guidance and cross country briefing and analysis

-Leads the identification and synthesizing of lessons learnt and best practices emerging from the Programmes.

-Provide guidance to country on undertaking lessons learned analysis

-Work closely with project team to ensure that the experience of UNPRPD-supported programmes is effectively evaluated, documented and disseminated through appropriate knowledge products;

-Facilitate on-going sharing of experiences across UNPRPD projects;

-Contribute to ensuring that lessons learnt from UNPRPD-supported projects are well reflected in efforts aimed at building UN system capacity for effective programming on the rights of persons with disabilities.

Conducting process and impact focus evaluations:

-Undertaking mid-term process evaluation of the Fund, including data collection, multi-stakeholder consultations.

-Undertake impact-focused evaluation in 2025 which will assess a small number of countries in greater depth to explore the UNPRPD MPTF’s contribution to accelerating progress towards CRPD implementation.

-Conducting and updating overarching risk analysis of the Fund

-Supporting the engagement of the Fund in the system-wide evaluations or audits and the broader evaluations of the Agenda 2030.

Competencies

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business Direction & Strategy

Effective Decision Making

Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with authority, area of expertise and resources

System Thinking

Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system

Business Development

Knowledge Generation

Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for content, or responsive to a stated need

Business Management

Project Management

Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals

Monitoring

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

Evaluation

Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks

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

Required skills

• Solid understanding of the Human Rights Agenda.
• Proven analytical capability and strengths in aggregating data from diverse sources into consolidated, synthetized documents.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relationships in a multi-cultural environment;

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

• Extensive hands-on experience on designing and implementing impact-focused reporting and evaluation methodologies based on LogFrame / Results framework matrices; experience on disability inclusion indicators is an asset.
• Proven analytical capability and strengths in aggregating data from diverse sources into consolidated, synthesized documents.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relationships in a multi-cultural environment

Required Language(s)

• Professional written, spoken english is required.

Professional Certificates

• N/A

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum Qualifications of the Successful IPSA

Min. Education requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree) in development studies, programme evaluation, social sciences or related field.

Min. years of relevant work experience

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience working in reporting and evaluation;

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Added 2 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: jobs.undp.org