Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer

Contract

This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

The UNDP Peace Building in Lebanon Project has been working since 2006 on addressing the underlying causes of conflict in Lebanon and to create “safe spaces” for local identity groups to discuss their concerns openly and enhance mutual understanding of the different “other”. Social cohesion was being enhanced at the local, community and national levels between civil society (youth, educators, media, NGOs and religious leaders) and relevant local public (municipal council members and mukhtars) actors. Through training programs, advocacy work and enhanced networking, stakeholders have been better equipped to actively and harmoniously contribute to peace building, community dialogue and ensure a more effective bottom-up impact of efforts. The project has also been working on collective memory and integrating peace building concepts into formal and non-formal educational channels. Moreover, the project tackled media (traditional and alternative) to manage diversity and decrease biased reporting. At the local level, the project focused on developing local mechanisms for social stability in several hot spot areas all over Lebanon. Also, the project supported the creating of a cross-political, multi-confessional civil society platform working on civil peace. With the Syrian crisis further impacting the Lebanese context since 2013, with the influx of a high number of Syrian refugees, the project has been acting as a focal point to many partner organizations on issues pertaining to the impact of the Syrian crisis on social cohesion in Lebanon, both in terms of inter Lebanese relations and Lebanese Syrian interaction. Today the project focuses on addressing the new challenges to civil peace and peace building in the country posed by the Syrian crisis through working on outputs: 1. Education promoting social cohesion supported; 2. Media empowered to promote balanced and conflict sensitive media coverage; 3. Local level peace building strategies to mitigate tensions developed in selected conflict prone areas of Lebanon hosting Syrian refugees; 4. An NGO platform promoting nation-wide truth and reconciliation supported ex-fighters’ role in promoting peace building supported.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Peace Building Project Manager & Advisor, the M&E and Reporting Officer will be responsible for the reporting, monitoring and evaluation of the project’s activities. He or she will support the project manager in ensuring high quality and timely inputs, maintaining the project’s strategic vision and monitoring if its activities result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost effective and timely manner. The M&E and Reporting Officer will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the Project; assisting the Project Manager in preparing Quarterly/Annual donor reports and internal reports on project progress and will monitor the project activities on a regular basis, developing and maintaining the MIS of the Project and will be responsible for the collection & analysis of different data in relation to the project activities. The Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work in close collaboration with the project team (including several coordinators following up on specific outputs)and the Reform and Good Governance programme (under which falls the Peace Building in Lebanon and Dealing with the Past projects).

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Peace Building Project Manager & Advisor or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer will:

• Update (and improve if need be) the existing monitoring and evaluation system for the Peace Building Project (including the Dealing with the Past project’s activities): o Review existing baselines, plans and indicators o Update where necessary o Review existing indicators and means of verification and update where necessary o Follow up on system for monitoring and reporting o Collect data and information on project’s activities and feed them into the monitoring system (KOBO and others) and generate charts when need be

• Support the project team in submitting high quality reports: o Review existing reporting system o Review means of data collection o Draft reports for donors and UNDP o
o Update project Indicator Performance Tracking Table, output tracker and other reporting tools; o Provide inputs, information and statistics for quarterly, annual and other reports and presentations (internal and external) to Project Management Team and UNDP; o Perform other duties as required.

Accountability • Adaptability and flexibility • Creativity • Judgement and decision-making • Planning and organising • Integrity and Professionalism • Self-management • Teamwork and respect for diversity • Communication

reporting, monitoring and evaluation or other relevant programmes; experience with needs/impact assessment methods and analysis data using statistical software and KOBO are an asset, as is experience working in the UN or other international development organization. • Demonstrated understanding of peacebuilding and development activities • Experience working on multi donor-funded projects is highly desirable • Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills; • Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing; • 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; • Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel; • Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and email/internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment; • Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines; • Sound security awareness;

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. This position is based in UNDP Beirut Office - Lebanon. National UN Volunteers are part of the malicious insurance plan. National UN Volunteers are expected to be culturally sensitive and adjust to the prevailing culture and traditions.