Job Title: Monitoring & Accountability Associate
Organization: United Nations Volunteers (UNV)
Host entity: UN Women
Assignment country: Bangladesh
Expected start date: 10/09/2023
Sustainable Development Goal: 5. Gender equality
Volunteer category: National UN Volunteer Specialist
Type: Onsite
Duration: 12 months (with possibility of extension)
Number of assignments: 1
Duty stations: Cox's Bazaar
Details
Mission and objectives
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. UN Women provides
strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and
efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant
actors.
Context
UN Women in Bangladesh supports the government to implement
commitments to international normative standards on gender equality and women’s
human rights. The new UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF)
for 2022-2026 was launched in 2021 and the corresponding UN Women Bangladesh
Strategy Note (2022-2026), defining UN Women’s strategic engagement in
Bangladesh, has also been finalized. UN Women in Bangladesh is supporting the
Government of Bangladesh with the Rohingya humanitarian crisis response. UN
Women has developed a humanitarian response programme in partnership with the
Ministry of Women and Children Affairs to meet the specific needs of the most
vulnerable and marginalized Rohingya Refugee Women and Girls and the women and
girls in the host communities affected by the refugee influx in Cox’s Bazar.
The objective of the programme is to ensure protection, as well as equitable
and safe access to and benefit from urgent life-saving humanitarian assistance
and information, as well as learning, leadership and self-reliance/livelihoods
opportunities for the most vulnerable, and marginalized Rohingya and host
community women and adolescent girls while assisting them to live with dignity.
The programme also promotes women’s participation and leadership in the camps
and host community and peace and social cohesion building activities including
through engagement with and capacity strengthening and sensitization of camp
management and police, as well as women’s civil society organizations/women’s
networks and media. UN Women further works in Bangladeshi host communities in
Cox’s Bazar to promote women’s socio-economic empowerment as a means for social
cohesion, recovery and resilience building. In addition, UN Women is increasing
the gender-mainstreaming capacities of humanitarian actors by working closely
with all sectors of the Rohingya refugee response through the Gender in
Humanitarian Action Working Group of which UN Women is chair, to promote
gender-responsive humanitarian action. Working under the overall supervision of
the Head of Sub-Office and with a dual reporting line to the Planning and
Monitoring Analyst on the one hand and to the Gender Programme Analyst on the
other, the Monitoring and Accountability Associate, will facilitate monitoring
and analysis related to UN Women’s programme interventions in Cox’s Bazar, to
ensure interventions reach those most in need and are responsive to their
concerns. Programmatic activities will include, among other, the Multi-Purpose
Women’s Center-approach; the women’s market; and support to gender-responsive
camp management. The Monitoring and Accountability Associate will support the
Cox’s Bazar Sub-Office by incorporating monitoring and accountability
mechanisms into programme formulation and implementation, tracking targets
against the Strategic Note and reporting results to internal and external
audience. They will collaborate closely with the program team, and with UN
Women Planning Monitoring and Reporting Analyst in Dhaka. The Monitoring and
Accountability Associate is expected to be a key resource to UN Women
programmatic operations in Cox’s Bazar in setting up systems to identify the
ongoing needs of project beneficiaries in the Rohingya refugee camps and host
community and in ensuring follow-up with partners to adapt activities to be in
line with the needs and concerns of beneficiaries on the ground.
Task description
Under the supervision of Planning and Monitoring Analyst,
the UN Volunteer will contribute to the following tasks: 1. Support program
monitoring, data collection and analysis • Support the development of, and
maintaining a regular monitoring calendar for UN Women’s gender-responsive
leadership and protection activities; • Contribute to the development of an
indicator framework for UN Women’s gender-responsive leadership and protection
activities, including the development of methodological notes and to the
establishment of baselines; • Support the compilation of monitoring of data for
UN Women’s engagement in the Gender-Based Violence Sub-Sector Working Group; •
Support the implementation of field visits and joint monitoring missions and
ensure that data from field visits is collected in a standardized way and is
stored in Shared Point; • Contribute to the identification of best practices
and lessons learned. 2. Support the development, implementation and monitoring
of a coherent monitoring and accountability framework • Support the development
of guidance and procedures for the collection of information related to
accountability for affected populations; • Assist with participatory data
collection and analysis on the needs and concerns of Rohingya refugee women and
girls, men and boys; • Maintain documentation of feedback related to UN Women’s
programming on livelihoods and economic empowerment. 3. Support coordination
with humanitarian actors and responsible parties on accountability to affected
refugees • Support UN Women engagement in relevant inter-agency platforms
related to accountability to affected populations; • Engage with UN Women’s
responsible parties to ensure the availability of regular, confidential and
timely mechanisms for community feedback; • Facilitate learning events,
including trainings and workshops, on accountability to affected populations; •
Prepare inputs on accountability to affected populations for UN Women project
proposals and reports. Results/Expected Output: • Enhanced availability and
timeliness of monitoring data on UN Women’s programmatic interventions related
to gender-responsive leadership and protection; • Improved basis to make
decisions related to accountability to affected populations because of enhanced
availability of information; • Sub-office programming is becoming more coherent
and organized based on clearly identified needs and priorities as identified by
affected populations; • Enhanced incorporation of the views and concerns of
Rohingya refugee women and girls in inter-agency coordination platforms on
accountability for affected populations.
Eligibility criteria
Age
27 - 80
Nationality
Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the
country of assignment.
Requirements
Required experience
3 years of experience in • Relevant works including
monitoring and reporting or evaluation of development or humanitarian
projects/programmes. • Experience using MS Office programmes (specifically
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook); • Working experience of Rohingya refugees
in Cox’s Bazar is strongly preferred. • Local dialect of Chiattagonian and /or
Rohingya is preferred.
Area(s) of expertise
Communication, Community development, Development programmes
Driving license
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Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required Bengali, Level: Fluent,
Desirable
Required education level
Bachelor degree or equivalent in Social Science,
Gender/Women’s Studies, or other relevant subject
Competencies and values
• Accountability • Adaptability and Flexibility • Building
Trust • Client Orientation • Commitment and Motivation • Commitment to
Continuous Learning • Empowering Others • Ethics and Values • Integrity •
Judgement and Decision-making • Knowledge Sharing • Managing Performance •
Planning and Organizing • Professionalism • Respect for Diversity • Working in
Teams
Other information
Living conditions and remarks
Cox's Bazar is a coastal district of Chittagong division in
Bangladesh. This city is surrounded by Chittagong Division in south-eastern
Bangladesh, beside 'Myanmar (Burma)' and alongside the beach of the Bay of
Bengal and the Indian ocean, having unbroken 120 Kilometer golden sand beach.
It is one of the most-visited tourist destinations in Bangladesh. The climate
of Bangladesh is mostly determined by its location in the tropical monsoon
region: high temperature, heavy rainfall, generally excessive humidity, and
distinct seasonal variations. The climate of Cox's bazar is mostly similar to
the rest of the country. It is further characterized by the location in the coastal
area. Bangladesh has standard security measures for UN staff and volunteers.
Cox’s Bazar is categorized as a hardship station category D, and the volunteer
should be prepared for limitations in freedom of movement to certain locations.
Inclusivity statement
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme
that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to
achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part
of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to
combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights
and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender
identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability,
pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements
Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be
subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2
(Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy
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