Background

• Development Effectiveness: Strengthened capacity of national institutions for socio-economic policy-making, planning and development effectiveness with broad stakeholder participation (including women, people with disabilities and HIV/AIDS);
• Parliamentary Strengthening: Parliament at Union levels and selected state/ region levels perform their functions;
• Access to Justice and Rule of Law: Justice Institutions and legal framework improved to ensure Rule of Law and Access to Justice for all with a specific focus on marginalized groups;
• Public Administration Responsiveness: Strengthened capacity for service delivery and improved responsiveness of the public administration reforms.

Duties and Responsibilities

Assess existing documents and procedures in use by the team for Monitoring and Evaluations, and team capacity:

• Assess and briefly outline the strengths and weaknesses of existing documents, procedures and team capacity, for effective M&E of governance programme.

Review and revise indicators currently in use by Pillar 3, proposing new or improved indicators which meet high standards:

• Review the current Results and Resources Framework;
• Review comments on the Results and Resources Framework which have already been submitted by donors;
• Review sub-indicators/criteria in use by institutions producing world-wide governance indicators;
• Propose SMART indicators which can adequately capture programme results and process, and realistically be measured.

• Review existing research papers, analysis documents, available government data (with support from the team) and other sources of information, to clarify which baselines may be secured on the basis of existing information;
• Set out/input the baselines which are available from existing information;
• Propose realistic targets for indicators where baseline information is available, and other indicators where possible
• Propose a plan for securing baselines which are not available which includes an indicative budget, timeframe and resources required;
• Further develop the plan into a draft Terms of Reference for institutional or individual contract, if applicable.

• Prepare options for monitoring approaches which could be appropriate for the team;
• Advise on the design of tools to implement agreed monitoring approaches- for example, help design a survey, clarify basic methodology and help staff understand how to implement it;
• Support the team in discussions with government and development partners about implementing new monitoring measures.

• Produce a risk matrix, in consultation with the team, and document the assumptions behind UNDP’s programming;
• Draft text for a theory of change, including diagrams where appropriate.

• Advise the team in preparing updated plans for monitoring, and for evaluation;
• Outline measures to improve team capacity to implement M&E;
• Advise the team in their discussions with government counterparts about updated approaches to M&E;
• Hold discussions with donors about updated approaches to M&E;
• Prepare a summary document about the changes and justifications for changes made to the Results and Resources Framework and associated plans for Monitoring, for presentation to counterparts at UNDP’s Pillar or Output Boards (formal programme steering mechanisms) and if necessary separately to donors;
• Prepare an Issues Brief, using UNDP’s format, on monitoring reforms.

Competencies

• Demonstrates Integrity by modeling the UN's values and ethical standards;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP.

• Ability to consolidate information from multiple sources;
• Able to prepare strategic information for decision makers;
• Ability to advance and provide timely advice;
• Ability to identify issues and to use sound judgment in applying technical expertise to resolve a wide range of problems;
• Ability to work under extreme pressure in a highly stressful environment;
• Excellent negotiation skills;
• Appropriate and transparent decision making;
• Analytical and strategic thinking and results orientation/commitment to excellence; 
• Knowledge sharing /continuous learning;
• Strong communication skills, and ability to communicate complex concepts in a variety of different ways to enhance understanding;
• Ability to work in a team; and
• Flexibility, and ability to work in and with a varied team across multiple offices.

Required Skills and Experience

• Masters degree in a relevant field (i.e. Public Administration, Political Science, International Relations and related areas) or a Bachelors Degree with 2 years of additional experience.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in international development practice, with experience in governance-related areas for candidates with a Masters degree is required (12 years for candidates with a Bachelors degree);
• Experience in governance research or assessments, or monitoring of governance programmes, preferably in contexts of transition, is required;
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in a variety of methodologies and approaches to research, or monitoring and evaluation, in contexts of transition is required;
• Familiarity with UNDP, Australian, UK, Japanese, Danish and Finnish government’s procedures and requirements for M&E of partner development programmes would be an asset;
• Previous experience in Myanmar or the region would be an asset.

Language:

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.