Background

UN Women is the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women is dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.

All human development and human rights issues have gender dimensions. UN Women focuses on priority areas that are fundamental to women’s equality, and that can unlock progress across the board. Six focus areas that UN Women include violence against women, economic empowerment, leadership and participation, peace and security, national planning and budgeting and intergovernmental processes.

UN Women’s Multi Country Office, based in New Delhi, India, covers four countries of the region i.e. Bhutan, India, Maldives, and Sri Lanka. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Unit is a cross cutting unit which leads and provides technical support to the programme units in developing and implementing monitoring processes across the portfolios and evaluating the programme results. The consultant will play a critical role in supporting the Unit in delivering the M&E Workplan for the year 2018 - 2019.

The consultant will work under the overall supervision of the M&E Analyst, UN Women India MCO.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Consultant will have the following responsibilities:

• The consultant will coordinate with all the programme units to collect information against the UN Women Annual Work Plan 2018, collate the annual result and upload documents on Results Management System (RMS).
• Based on inputs received, capture key results and achievements, across thematic pillars and range of stakeholders, on a regular basis to compile quarterly and the annual reports
• Support the final evaluation of the RNE supported programme on Gender Responsive Governance and assessments of UN Women India MCO (including but not limited to)
• Support the ongoing Impact Assessment of various schemes and initiatives being undertaken
• Support the publishing of two reports - Impact Assessment of Shaurya Dal programme and Impact Assessment of Mahila Salah evam Sahayata Kendra, Government of Rajasthan
• Support the M&E unit relating to coordination with operations on procurement, contracting, finance functions and settlement of travel reimbursements.
• Coordinate with programme units on scheduled monitoring visits and ensuring the monitoring mission reports are in place
• Maintenance of all records/documents/files relating to the unit and related programmes in a user-friendly manner
• Support monitoring of the financial expenditure as per the M&E Annual work plan for effective financial delivery and any other work assigned by the unit lead.

Deliverables:

• Monthly work plan;
• Monthly, Quarterly & Annual Reports
• Monitoring Mission Report
• Assessment Reports
• Evaluation reports

Competencies

Core Values / Guiding Principles:

Integrity:

• Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Professionalism:

• Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity:

• Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff;
• Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

• Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity.

Organizational Awareness:

• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.

Work in teams:

• Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

Communicating and Information Sharing:

• Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication.

Self-management and Emotional Intelligence:

• Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior towards others.

Conflict Management:

• Surface conflicts and address them proactively acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually acceptable solution.

Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing:

• Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge.

Functional Competencies:

• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills;
• Focuses on impact and result for the partners and responds positively to feedback.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in International Relations, Political Science, Economics or related Social Sciences.

Experience: 

• Minimum 8 years’ experience of working on development projects;
• At least five year of experience in monitoring and evaluation, particularly in the context of governance and/or rural development projects;
• Knowledge of and experienced in project cycle management and well versed in logical frameworks;
• Previous experience with M&E for International Agencies including the UN System is desirable.

Desired skills and experience:

• Concept clarity on project planning and monitoring, including logical frameworks and indicators;
• Excellent analytical skills and prior experience of both quantitative and qualitative data analyses;
• Working knowledge of gender and sex disaggregated statistics would be an asset;
• Good writing skills and the ability to explain technical terms in a non-technical language;
• Previous exposure to gender related projects, qualitative and quantitative data analysis and M&E assignments.

Language:

• Fluency in English and working knowledge of Hindi.

Application:

Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:

• All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from  http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs
• Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment, please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment;
• Applications received after the close date will not be accepted;
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Evaluation and Selection Criteria

Criteria for shortlisting of CVs will be based on the following assessment:

• Required Degree and Qualification (5 points);
• Minimum Experience relevant to the assignment (5 points);
• Working knowledge and experience of writing on Monitoring & Evaluation project management and research (5 points);
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advance knowledge of spread sheet and database packages (5 points).

The evaluation process for selection of the candidate will be based on the following assessment:

• Interview (70 points);
• Proof of writing samples (30 points).

Please Note:

• For an assignment requiring travel, consultants of 65 years or more require full medical examination and statement of fitness to work to engage in the consultancy.
• Due to large number of potential applicants, only competitively selected candidates will be contacted for remaining steps of the service procurement process.

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.