UNDP hiring Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist.
UNDP is the UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to help build nations that can withstand crisis and support their efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals. UNDP works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience to sustain development results.
Given the current challenges and previewed increase in programmatic activity for 2021 of several west African countries and following several Crisis Board (CB) meetings, the West Africa Service Center (WASC) was established as a sub-regional joint business unit (Regional Bureau for Africa [RBA]/ Bureau for Management Services [BMS]). WASC, in collaboration with the SURGE Delivery Lab, aims to provide continuous mid to long-term delivery and operational support to a total of 9 west African countries: Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, as well as the Lake Chad Basin Stabilization Facility (LCBSF) countries: Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, and Chad. The additional services/support provided by WASC covers the areas of Procurement, Human Resources, Finance, and Business Operating Strategy (BOS) implementation. WASC coordinates support to country offices in the region and accompanies sustained CO scale-up and transformation processes.
Under the overall guidance of the Regional Monitoring Adviser for RBA /BMS and the direct supervision of the Dakar Hub Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist supervises professional and support staff of the Unit.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will liaise closely with the Evaluation Office at Headquarters regarding evaluation approaches and methodologies, ensuring that UNDP meets the minimum requirements for monitoring and evaluation, including the conduct of mandatory project evaluations.
The Evaluation Specialist works in close collaboration with the Management Support and Business Development, Programme and Operations Teams in the CO, UNDP Evaluation Office staff and Government officials to ensure that thematic, programme and project evaluations are carried out according to schedules and that findings and recommendations are implemented and followed up.
Duties and Responsibilities
Ensures the implementation of evaluation policies and strategies, focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Direct responsibility and accountability for planning, management and oversight of thematic, country programme/project evaluations and other types of evaluations conducted in the Country Office.
- Advice to the SM on the programme of work, including identification of topics, and projects/programme to be evaluated
- Development of evaluation tools and processes, innovative approaches in evaluation that meet the requirements of UNDP
- Close dialogue with HQ Evaluation Office and evaluation units in other Country Offices with a view of harmonizing evaluation approaches and agendas.
- Promotion of evaluation standards, quality assurance/control and capacity development in the Country Office.
- Organization, coordination and leadership of evaluation missions for development projects, sectoral and thematic evaluations.
- Organization and coordination of desk evaluations/studies on selected sectors/themes.
Ensures effective management of the evaluation process in the Country Office, focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Preparation of the Terms of Reference (TOR), consultant and evaluation team selection, technical feedback on evaluations and budget oversight.
- Guidance on UNDP evaluation policies, procedures and practices to programme managers, UNDP CO staff concerned with evaluation, consultants and/or members of the evaluation team.
- Provision of the technical advice at the design stage of programmes/projects setting up a framework with defined indicators at the design stage to facilitate the evaluation at the later stages.
- Provision of evaluation feedback into policy/project/programme design, including comments on various documents.
- Follow up on implementation of evaluation recommendations. Ensuring the optimal use of evaluations by providing guidance in preparation of timely management response to all mandatory evaluations and by developing a communication plan.
Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the area of monitoring and evaluation, focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Identification and formulation of lessons learned from evaluations and studies to be integrated into broader EO knowledge management
- Provision of intellectual and conceptual contribution in the implementation of the Evaluation Knowledge Management and Learning Strategy.
- Collaboration and coordination with other UN agencies, government agencies, NGOs, and other organizations on monitoring and evaluation issues.
- Organization and conduct of results-oriented monitoring and evaluation trainings in the Country Office.
- Participation in evaluation community remaining abreast of latest development and professional norms, standards, tools and methodologies.
Required Skills and Experience
Education: Master’s Degree or equivalent in International Relations, Political Science, Economics or related social sciences.
Experience
- 7 years of relevant experience at the national and international level in international development issues, both in the field and HQ.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation with a background in the analysis of socio-economic issues and related policy matters.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems.
- Language Requirements:
- Proficiency in English and French.
- Working knowledge of other UN language desirable
Application deadline: 07/04/2021
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