UN WOMEN Jobs - 51819- National Consultant Monitoring and Evaluation

National Consultant Monitoring and Evaluation

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

Cairo,egypt, EGYPT

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

01-Feb-2015

Application Deadline :

20-Dec-14 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

21 months contract

Languages Required :

Arabic English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

21 months contract

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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 centre of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

UN Women Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS) is implementing regional programmes to advance the economic empowerment of women in the Southern Mediterranean region and to assist them to reposition themselves in the political and decision making spaces in their respective countries. In addition to country-level interventions, the programmes work at the regional level through several initiatives including the establishment of a knowledge hub on women’s economic empowerment and political participation, which generates knowledge products, facilitates experience-sharing, and provides the technical assistance to the region.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Programme Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist ensures effective monitoring and evaluation for the programmes at the Regional Office for Arab States. The assignment requires intermittent presence on UN-Women premises.

Duties and Responsibilities

Objective of the Assignment:

To build monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity and to foster an M&E (i.e., data-driven) culture.

Scope of the Assignment:

In accordance with UN Women Evaluation monitoring and evaluation guidance, the consultant will work under the overall supervision of the Programme Manager:

Assess the existing monitoring systems, identifying gaps, redundancies, and new opportunities;
Monitor programme results (outputs and outcomes) by collecting and analyzing data for the indicators established in a programme;
Monitor the timely and efficient completion of programme activities that are planned to lead to results;
Update the programmes’ performance measurement framework;
Provide timely and quality submission of data, analysed reports, field trends;
Maintain a results oriented database of all programmes information and results accessible to internal and external evaluators as per UN Women rules and procedures;
Serve as a focal point for baseline surveys based on key indicators and strategies approved in the programme document;

Provide substantive inputs to the implementation of annual work plans for the programmes with effective operational strategies, clear deliverables, annual targets with indicators and milestone, Identify and facilitate documentation of evidence based good practices.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The consultant will have the following duties and responsibilities:

Provide overall support to the implementation of a monitoring system for the programmes;
Update the consolidated programmes’ performance measurement framework;
Work with the Programme Manager and teams to maintain a data collection system tracking and collecting core data elements on the interventions’ design;
Work with the Programme Manager and teams to develop reporting templates, questionnaires, survey instruments, and monitoring plans for the programmes to track impacts;
Provide follow-up to the programmes and support the ongoing data collection and interpretation of results;
Provide suggestions for ways to improve the tracking of results;
Participate in the dissemination of program findings and lessons learned including, but not limited to, innovative strategies, approaches and models to help other providers as they conduct self-assessments and quality improvement activities in their respective organizations.

Expected Places of Travel:

Travel to countries in the Arab states region where the programmes are implemented may be required for this assignment.

Deliverables:

Performance measurement frameworks updated on regularly frequency (based on frequency established in the PMF)
Support the use of monitoring tools in the countries and regional programmes sites;
Field monitoring visits conducted in all programme sites (at least once a year);
Preparation in collaboration with programmes’ team of all narrative reports (a minimum of once yearly for narrative reports) and briefing notes (monthly briefing notes) and any other reports requested;
Contribution to regional team meetings at the level of monitoring and evaluation (PPT, documents, briefing, etc.);
Knowledge products on findings from monitoring and reporting exercises generated and communicated to internal and external stakeholders;
Monthly submission of information about actual progress and constraints;
Other monitoring and evaluation duties performed as required.

Competencies

Core Values and Guiding Principles:

Integrity: Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct;
Cultural Sensitivity/valuing diversity: Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staf;
Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Core Competencies

Ethics and Values: Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity;
Knowledge of current practices in the area of monitoring and evaluation, knowledge management
Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN Women;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
Fostering innovation and empowerment;
Working in teams at all levels;
Communicating information and ideas/knowledge sharing;
Analytical and strategic thinking/results orientation/commitment to excellence.

Functional Competencies:

Good planning, goal setting and prioritization skills;
Ability to lead Monitoring and Evaluation strategies, policies and its implementation;
Ability to lead results-based management and reporting;
Creates, edits and presents information in clear and presentable formats, using appropriate IT functionality;
Job knowledge /technical expertise;
Ability to handle a large volume of work possibly under time constraints;
Ability to organize and complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities;
Ability to implement new systems and effect staff behavioural/ attitudinal change;
Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills;
Thoroughly and methodically collects, verified and records data, demonstrating attention to detail and identifying and correcting errors on own initiative; maintains databases.
In-depth knowledge of Office software applications relating to word processing, data management, presentation and databases.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s Degree in Economics, Management, Rural Development, Social Sciences, or related field;
Additional certification in statistics, MIS management and Monitoring and Evaluation will be considered as an asset.

Experience:

A minimum of two years of professional experience in the field of rights based monitoring and evaluation;
Experience in the management of gender equality and women’s empowerment programmes or analytic work in gender and development, gender analysis and/or human rights;
Good knowledge of rights-based approach and result-based management.
Experience related to UN Women’s mandate and activities would be an added advantage;
Sound knowledge of international standards on human rights, women’s rights and related instruments;
A proven ability to liaise with a myriad of stakeholders and partners, including government, civil society, international organizations and grassroots organizations.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in Arabic and English;
French would be an asset.

Application procedure:

All interested applicants should submit the following requirements. The following 4 documents should be merged in one stand alone file which includes all four documents, since the online application submission does only permit to upload one file per application. Incomplete submission can be a ground for disqualification.

Brief expression of interest: a brief narrative on why you think you are qualified to undertake the consultancy;
The UN Women Personal History Form (P11) is required when applying – to download the form please go to http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment;
A current and complete C.V. in English with indication of 3 references as well as the permanent e-mail and phone contact.
Financial proposal: Hourly rate.