UNDP Jobs - 91167- Monitoring and Evaluation and Reporting Advisor

Monitoring and Evaluation and Reporting Advisor

Location :

Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

01-May-2020

Application Deadline :

20-Apr-20 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

70 working days

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

01 May 2020 and 31 December 2020

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

The ‘Leading the Way for Gender Equality’ (LWGE) program (2017-2020) is a program of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs of Cambodia (MoWA) whose overall objective is “Enabled environment for gender equality, women’s empowerment and feminist leaderships in Cambodia through enhanced capacities of the Gender Machinery.” The LWGE program is supported by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and UNDP through the Project to Support the Leading the Way for Gender Equality Programme.

The program is focused on three outcomes: 1) More effective institutionalization of gender policies across government, and more effective performance of Gender Machinery to lead gender equality mainstreaming with inclusion of disadvantaged groups of women and girls; 2) Promotion of behavioural change in favour of gender equality among the public and young Cambodians; and 3) Increase number of and capacities of women in decision-making positions and strengthen feminist leaderships.

This year is the last year of implementing the Project to Support the Leading the Way for Gender Equality Programme that will focus on the institutional monitoring system where the tools and materials related to monitoring and reporting are fully equipped and implemented beyond the project cycle. To foresee the important role of this monitoring system, the project is looking for a specialist/advisor to support the project team to fulfil this role. The Monitoring and Evaluation and Reporting Advisor will serve as the principal advisor on designing and implementing M&E and reporting tools and materials to ensure it is aligned with the Cambodian government and UNDP M&E monitoring system. The Advisor will also provide guidance and analysis to the project team in the areas of performance monitoring and evaluation and reporting on a regular basis.

Duties and Responsibilities

The assignment will be expected to, but are not limited to the following:

Review existing tools, adjust or develop an appropriate M&E and reporting tools and methodologies and provide guidance to MoWA 1) use the tools and to 2) collect and analyze the data and to 3) report the results
Provide technical support to the project team in performing project’s M&E
Ensure the monitoring tools and materials are operating effectively, and that reliable deliverable indicators are collected, and analysed periodically to support project management, compliance and reporting responsibilities.
Work closely with the project management team to monitor activities undertaken by the relevant departments and line ministries; track progress against activity plan; implementation plans and annual work plans.
Assess the progress and potential barriers to the achievement of results with the recommendation made to the project team to address problems, and documents results, and lessons learnt.
Ensure that the deliverable of the Results Framework is adequately measures progress and accomplishments of the project activities.
Integrate results of various studies and analyses related to gender equality into comprehensive technical briefings, reports, and technical papers.
Assist the project team to develop the quarterly report, annual report and completion report (end of project report); and make sure the reports are result based oriented
Assist the project management team to document good practices, case studies and success story of project activities in terms of knowledge management sharing.
Assist the project management team to facilitate workshops, meetings and trainings as required.
Perform other tasks as requested by the project team as required.

Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=64891 for more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online

Competencies

Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with government and development partners.
Good facilitation and presentation skill.
Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work with people from different backgrounds to deliver quality products within short timeframe.
Be flexible and responsive to changes and demands.
Be client oriented and open to feedback.
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
Excellent computer literacy.

Required Skills and Experience

Education: Master’s degree in social sciences, development studies, or another relevant field.

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience in M&E.
Solid experience in the practical approaches to M&E; knowledge of the concepts, principles, techniques and best practices of M&E related programmes,
Experience writing complex documents, project reports, case studies, and other analytical reports
Strong knowledge and experience in the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Professional experience in international and/or national development organizations and in building capacities of Cambodian government staff.

Language Requirement:

Fluency in Khmer and English (spoken and written).

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested individual offeror must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work

2. Financial proposal

3. Personal CV including experience in similar projects, list of publication written by Candidate and at least 3 references.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email aphikovith.phin@undp.org and cc procurement.kh@undp.org . While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.