UN Women: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations System efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) was established through the UN General Assembly Resolution 50/166 in 1996 with UN Women as its Administrator on behalf of the UN system. The UN Trust Fund (UNTF) is a global multi-lateral grant making mechanism supporting national efforts to prevent and end violence against women and girls, one of the most widespread human rights violations in the world. The UN Trust Fund provides technical assistance and funding to advance the development of innovative models and strategic interventions in the area of ending violence against women and girls.

Under the overall management and supervision of the Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be responsible for supporting all the UN Trust Fund's Monitoring and Evaluation activities at the Secretariat Level. The incumbent will monitor, assess, analyze and produce reports about key results and achievements across grantees’ projects; support capacity development workshops every year for new grantees; provide technical support to UN Trust Fund shortlisted applicants and grantees to ensure the compliance with the UN Trust Fund requirements on Results-Based Planning, Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation; support RBM and M&E activities at the UN Women corporate level as requested; and contribute to the development and implementation of the UN Trust Fund's online Grants Management System (GMS) or other similar systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

Provide technical support to the UN Trust Fund's Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) activities at the Secretariat Level:

• Monitor and oversee the implementation of the UN Trust Fund’s M&E framework - part of the UN Trust Fund’s Strategy;
• Provide technical guidance on Results Based Management (RBM) and M&E to UN Trust Fund staff members and Focal Points in UN Women Regional/Country Offices, including conducting practical training as required;
• Develop, update and ensure the effective use of M&E-related guidance documents by relevant staff, including the M&E sections of the UN Trust Fund’s Reporting Guidelines, Baseline and Evaluation Guidelines, and the Results Chain and Results Framework Guidelines for Full-Fledged Proposals;
• Provide technical input to the development of and implementation of the M&E sections and results framework of UN Trust Fund strategies;
• Oversee and monitor the management of internal/external evaluations of UN Trust Fund Strategy and the entire evaluation process, including management of evaluators and overall coordination;
• Manage other monitoring and evaluation-related events, products, and technical assistance needs, and represent the UN Trust Fund at technical meetings;
• Manage the UN Trust Fund M&E sections in UN Women Share Point and M&E-related folders in UN Trust Fund Share drive.

Monitor, assess, analyze and produce reports about key results and achievements across grantees’ projects:

• Conduct monitoring missions on a regular basis in collaboration with UN Trust Fund staff and focal points in UN Women Regional/Country Offices;
• Ensure the coherence and effectiveness of monitoring missions on grantees’ projects conducted by the UN Trust Fund staff and UN Women focal points by providing guidance at the planning and preparation stage;
• Update the templates for monitoring missions as required and ensure that all the relevant staff in the UN Trust Fund and UN Women Offices understand and use those templates effectively;
• Ensure the quality of each mission report submitted by mission team upon the completion of their monitoring mission;
• Review and analyze the key findings from mission reports and produce a consolidated monitoring report once a year;
• Conduct meta evaluations on grantees’ final external evaluations to assess the quality of those evaluations and to generate recommendations for improvement;
• Generate critical lessons learned, impact achieved and good practices from final grantee evaluation reports and ensure their wider circulation in close collaboration with relevant team members in UNTF and UN Women;
• Through the analysis of mission reports and evaluation reports of grantees’ projects, generate key findings to contribute to the reporting requirements at the UN Trust Fund secretariat level and particularly to the UN Trust Fund’s annual report for the Commission on Status of Women and its donors;
• Maintain and update inventory of UN Trust Fund and grantee evaluations and provide inputs to internal and external stakeholders upon request.

Provide technical and coordination support to the organization and management of capacity development workshops every year for new grantees:

• Provide coordination technical support tor UN Trust Fund Capacity Development workshop for new grantees every year;
• Improve further the existing training materials (presentations and handouts) in consultation with UN Trust Fund staff and other stakeholders;
• Manage the recruitment process and supervision of consultants’ substantive work, ensuring the coherence with the UN Trust Fund M&E requirements and the needs of grantees;
• Coordinate the work of staff who are in charge of admin and logistics;
• Serve as one of the facilitators and trainers at each workshop to conduct sessions on M&E requirements and management of external evaluations and to support grantee group work;
• Ensure the follow up actions and key recommendations from workshop evaluations are implemented in a timely manner to better support grantees and to improve future workshops.

Provide technical support to shortlisted applicants and grantees to ensure the compliance with requirements on Results-Based Planning, Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Review feedback on the Results and M&E sections of the shortlisted applicant's and grantees full-fledged proposals, as per the criteria and format developed by the UN Trust Fund;
• Provide detailed written feedback on the Results and M&E sections of grantee proposals, based on their overall quality, results-oriented nature, and technical strength vis-à-vis the overall contents of the UN Trust Fund's Annual Call for Proposals;
• Provide technical support to all UN Trust Fund Programme Specialists and grantees in the areas of results-based planning, baseline data collection/analysis, monitoring, reporting and evaluation, in accordance with the UN Trust Fund M&E guidelines and requirements;
• Assess quality of M&E work by grantees, and prepare periodic technical assessment updates and recommendations for improvements and future guidance on M&E.

Provide technical support to the RBM and M&E activities at the UN Women corporate level:

• Manage the preparation of UN Trust Fund inputs for the UN Women Annual Evaluation Report to the Executive Board every year, in collaboration with UN Trust Fund Portfolio Managers;
• Serve as the main focal point in the UN Women Corporate Evaluations to coordinate with the Evaluation Office and the UN Trust Fund staff, and to provide necessary data and documents to evaluation teams.

Contribute to the development and implementation of the UN Trust Fund's online Grants Management System (GMS) or other similar systems used/developed by the team:

• Provide substantive inputs and support to the GMS team during the requirement gathering to finalize the requirements and business flows for M&E-related modules of GMS (or other similar systems used by the team), including Evaluation module, Data Analysis Sections (canned reports, trend analysis, query builder, data representation in public facing pages);
• As a business user, assist GMS team in reviewing and providing comments on technical specification documents, the mockups and demo site for M&E-related modules, including evaluation module, to ensure that those M&E-related modules are developed in accordance with the UN Trust Fund requirements;
• Use GMS as one of the M&E tools of the UN Trust Fund and analyze the data from the evaluation module as well as Data Analysis sections to consolidate and summarize M&E work of the UN Trust Fund;
• Use the data from GMS to analyze and summarize UN Trust Fund results and trends to be used for reports and publications by the UN Trust Fund Secretariat.

Key Performance Indicators:

The key results have an impact on the overall efficiency and effectiveness in grantee’s projects/programme implementation and results management, as well as in the implementation of the UN Trust Fund's M&E framework.

• Accurate analysis and presentation of results and achievement enhances the position of the UN Trust Fund;
• Quality and timely inputs to project planning and development, reports, presentations, and other high-quality materials;
• Quality and timely inputs into trainings and tools to increase capacity of grantees on RBM to implement, monitor and deliver results;
• Quality monitoring and reporting mechanism to ensure quality of data and limit redundancy in efforts;
• Timely coordination of events as necessary;
• Quality of knowledge products, including M&E framework.

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity;
• Integrity;
• Professionalism.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Functional Competencies:

• In-depth knowledge of programming on women’s human rights and gender equality;
• Knowledge of women’s organizations and governmental agencies working on women’s empowerment and gender equality globally;
• Experience in programmes related to women’s economic and/or political empowerment is desirable;
• Experience in project management;
• Experience in results-based management (RBM).
• Ability to process and systematize large amounts of information;
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
• Good interpersonal and diplomacy skills;
• Ability to liaise with a diverse and remotely located team;
• Ability to use critical thinking, conceptualize ideas, and articulate relevant subject matter in a clear and concise way;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English;
• Ability to communicate effectively with and relate to people of different cultures, demonstrating an ability to see issues from other perspectives.

Required Skills and Experience

• Master`s degree (or equivalent) in International Development, Public Administration, Programme/Project Management, Evaluation or in the field of social sciences or another relevant field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working in the areas of Results-Based Management (RBM), Monitoring and Evaluation, preferably in the context of gender programming and/or ending violence against women;
• Experience in project management including monitoring and/or evaluating project performance is essential;
• Knowledge and experience of projects that address gender equality, women's empowerment issues or ending violence against women is essential;
• Experience in developing and implementing M&E systems is desirable;
• Experience in designing and conducting training on RBM and M&E is desirable;
• Experience in developing and implementing guidelines and tools on RBM, reporting and M&E is desirable;
• Experience in managing external and/or internal evaluations is desirable;
• Experience in conducting field missions to assess project/programme performance and results is desirable;
• Experience in data collection and analysis, including questionnaire design and conducting interviewing is desirable;
• Substantive knowledge and working experience on programming and/or policies on ending violence against women highly desirable;
• Experience of the UN context and the role of the UN and its agencies funds are desirable.

Languages:

• Fluency in English (oral and written) is required;
• Working knowledge in Spanish and/or French is an asset.

Application:

All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc. Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.