Deadline: 13 March 2016
UN Women is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Monitoring and Reporting Specialist in Kampala, Uganda. The duration of this post is 1 year.
The Monitoring and Reporting Specialist will supervise and lead the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (ME&R) team in the Country Office and has a strong regular working relationship with the Regional Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation and Reporting team.
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Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Monitoring and Reporting Specialist will perform the following functions-
- Provide technical support to the Uganda country programme planning:
- Provide technical inputs to the annual work planning processes ensuring coordination with the recommended timelines and guidelines from Regional Office and Headquarters.
- Coordinate the review of the Development Results Framework (DRF) and Operational Efficiency and Effectiveness Results (OEEF) plans (or other planning frameworks) and provide inputs for the revision of deliverables and delivery planning.
- Develop the capacity of staff in the country office and implementing partners to have an understanding of Results Based Management (RBM) concepts and techniques.
- Assess the adequacy of results based monitoring, review reporting arrangements by the country office and provide support to the country office to adopt improved Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) systems.
- Provide feedback to project/programme design, including feedback on programme documents, theory of change and results matrices from a PME perspective, as necessary.
- Ensure budgeting for PME, employ reviews of the programme documents; support identification of monitoring, review and evaluation needs during programmes/project planning.
- Provide technical support to the monitoring of the country programme:
- Provide technical inputs to the development of a monitoring and review framework and an annual monitoring and review plan, as necessary.
- Compile data sources, employing collection and/or meta-analysis of monitoring data from the national data sources.
- Develop monitoring and review guidelines, formats and tools.
- Analyze project reports and synthesize the country office’s quarterly, six monthly and annual report.
- Ensure timely delivery of all the reports to the donors and other partners as needed.
- Support senior management in reviewing the delivery rate of the country programme against the budget and in preparing the spending plans.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Master’s Degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Sciences, or related field.
- Additional certification in statistics, MIS management and Monitoring and Evaluation will be considered as an asset.
- A minimum of five years of professional experience in the field of rights based monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
- Experience in the management of gender equality and women’s empowerment programmes or analytic work in gender and development, gender analysis and/or human rights.
- Experience related to UN Women’s mandate and activities would be an added advantage.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Working knowledge in any of the official UN languages is an asset.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
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