Monitoring and Evaluation Associate

Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Associate - NPSA 7

Organization: UNDP

Job Identification: 11758

Location: Tripoli (LBY), Libya

Apply Before: 07/12/2023, 06:59 AM

Job Schedule: Full time

Grade: NB3

Vacancy Type: National Personnel Service Agreement

Practice Area: Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions

Bureau: Regional Bureau for Arab States

Contract Duration: 1 Year

Education & Work Experience: Bachelor's Degree - 4 year(s) experience OR High School certificate- 7 year(s) experience

Required Languages: Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic

Vacancy Timeline: 2 Weeks

Job Description

Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP:  we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.

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.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in approximately 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. Anchored in the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and committed to the principles of universality, equality, and leaving no one behind, UNDP supports countries’ efforts to strengthen frameworks for development, peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction, and climate change.

In Libya, UNDP has designed a new Country Programme Document (CPD) for 2023–2025, which proposes as one of its three major objectives to invest in local peacebuilding and resilience, marking a transition from immediate stabilization towards longer-term development and peacebuilding. In this regard, UNDP is supporting peace and resilience in targeted clusters across Libya by strengthening the capacity of local institutions and communities to manage conflicts and tensions, complementing its focus on enhancing accountable, effective, and gender sensitive governance, and promoting sustainable green growth and greater resilience to climate change.

The Strengthening Local Capacities for Resilience and Recovery Project Top-Up, funded by the EU, aims at supporting local authorities in Libya to respond to the many conflicts and human mobility induced challenges that impact negatively people access to essential services, social cohesion and community security, and jobs and sustainable livelihoods. The overall objective of the project is to improve the living conditions and resilience of vulnerable populations (including migrants, refugees, IDPs, returnees and host communities), in particular in the municipalities most affected by migratory flow and/or affected by the conflict.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Associate will contribute to the monitoring, evaluation management and production of updates and reports complying with corporate and donor requests. Under the direct supervision of the Reporting and M&E Specialist, and overall guidance of the Project manager, s/he will be responsible for designing and implementing the monitoring activities, ensuring evaluability, and contribute to managing evaluations of the SLCRR Project.
 

Duties and Responsibilities

Implementation of planning and monitoring tools for accountability and reporting purposes by focusing on progress and results achievement through:

• Supporting the implementation of the Monitoring System with SMART indicators including data collection and performance tracking of project activities.
• Ensuring alignment of the logical frameworks and indicators according to the project and EU monitoring systems. Support the updating of related databases accordingly. 
• Collecting data on a monthly basis to measure achievements against the performance indicators, check data quality, maintain and administer the monitoring database. Analyse, aggregate findings and deliver corresponding reports.
• Reviewing the performance of existing data collection and management information systems and recommend further improvement of the logical frameworks particularly in the areas of performance indicators and their measurement.
• Supporting the Project team in implementing the key project performance indicators (KPI) as well as monitoring them throughout the duration of the project.

Identification of challenges and support for theory of change initiative

• Analyzing and highlighting positive and negative trends and providing the Project Manager with key information to support decision making process to address the identified challenges and bottlenecks.
• Support the Project Manager in planning, editing and reviewing key project documents including internal and external reports, theory of change, the logical framework and indicators. 
• Undertake regular visits to the project implementation sites to measure project results and to identify where adaptations might be needed and discuss findings with Project Manager.

Management of Evaluation and Reporting

• Support the project corresponding evaluations. This can include provision of administrative and substantive support, provision of all inputs requested by evaluators, reading and providing feedback on inception and final evaluation reports, supporting the Project Manager to elaborate evaluation management responses, corresponding actions plans and evaluations recommendations uptake. 

Facilitation of knowledge building, knowledge sharing and guidance to project team and all stakeholders, on M&E matters

• Prepare and deliver capacity building for project staff, stakeholders and project partners on M&E activities and needed inputs from each project components. 
• Identify lessons learned and develop case studies/best practices for internal and external reporting to capture qualitative and quantitative results of the project.
• Provide inputs and data for monthly, quarterly and annual reports, conferences, seminars, workshops, training sessions and meetings.
• Write talking points, briefing notes and provide inputs for communication products and for the Project Manager to present data and quantitative information as needed.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned.

Logistical support

• Provide all required logistic support as per the contractual arrangements and/or interviews in the preparation of mid-term and final evaluations of the SLCRR project. 

Institutional Arrangement

The M&E Associate will work under the day to day supervision of Reporting and M&E Specialist and the overall guidance of the Project Manager. 
 

Competencies

Core
Achieve Results:	LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively:	LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously:	LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility:	LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with Determination:	LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner:	LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion:	LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

 

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies (insert up to 7 competencies)  Thematic Area Name Definition Business Management Monitoring Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results 2030 Agenda: Engagement & Effectiveness Effectiveness Performance and data analysis and sharing lessons 2030 Agenda: Engagement & Effectiveness Effectiveness RBM standards and practices for programming Digital & Innovation Data governance Knowledge of data science, skills to develop data management tools, organize and maintain databases and operate data visualization technologies Digital & Innovation Data collection Being skilled in Data Sorting, Data Cleaning, Survey Administration, Presentation and Reporting including collection of Real-Time Data (e.g. mobile data, satellite data, sensor data). Digital & Innovation Data analysis Ability to extract, analyse and visualize data (including Real-Time Data) to form meaningful insights and aid effective decision making Partnership management Relationship management Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding

 

 Required Skills and Experience 

Min. Education requirements	Secondary Education is required,  University degree in international development, statistics, demographics, public policy, economics, or related field will be given due consideration but not a requirement
Min. years of relevant work experience	Minimum 7 years (with Secondary education) or 4 years) with Bachelor’s or equivalent degree) of professional experience in project management support functions.  At least three years’ experience in M&E.
Required   skills	Experience developing and refining data collection tools. Strong IT/computer skills, including the ability to use Microsoft Office for reporting, and presentation
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section	An advanced certificate or post-graduate degree or relevant work experience in M&E, statistics, or economics will be as asset. Expertise in analyzing data using statistical software; Experience in gender mainstreaming; Experience in working with local and/or national governments; Experience working with UN/UNDP and INGOs.
Required Language(s)	Fluency in written and spoken English and Arabic
Professional Certificates	N/A

 

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