Uganda: Peacebuilding M&E Specialist

Position Title:Peacebuilding M&E Specialist

Level:P3

Location:Kampala

Duration:11 Months Background

The four-year Peacebuilding, Education and Advocacy Programme (PBEA), is a partnership between UNICEF, the Government of the Netherlands, the national governments of 14 participating countries and other key supporters. The goal of the PBEA is to strengthen resilience, social cohesion and human security in conflict-affected contexts, including countries at risk of – or experiencing and recovering from – conflict. Towards this end, the programme will strengthen policies and practices in education for peacebuilding. Fourteen countries have been selected across East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and West and Central Africa to participate in the programme, including Uganda. PBEA supports diverse and complementary interventions to mainstream conflict sensitivity and promote peacebuilding throughout the education sector. PBEA-supported interventions place schools at the centre of peaceful communities where collaborative partnerships between institutions, schools and communities support social cohesion and access to and enjoyment of quality education.

In order to achieve these results, the program will focus on five key outcomes. Outcome One aims to increase inclusion of education into peacebuilding and conflict reduction policies, analyses and implementation. Outcome Two will increase institutional capacities to supply conflict sensitive education. Outcome Three aims to increase capacity of children, parents, teachers and other duty-bearers to prevent, reduce and cope with conflict and promote peace. Outcome Four will increase access to quality, relevant conflict sensitive education that contributes to peace. Outcome Five is cross-cutting and will contribute to the generation and use of evidence and knowledge in policies and programming related to education, conflict and peacebuilding.

PBEA spans engagement in the sectors of education, child protection, communications and advocacy:

§ ECD Support: Bringing communities together around common goals, Increases retention and enrolment, Builds up service provision around the country

§ Quality and Child Friendly Schools which provide access to conflict-sensitive education, Education builds conflict resilience, Education is an important peace dividend, Education which provides economic opportunity is paramount to building peace, Teacher training to support implementation of national education curriculum

§ Violence Against Children: Ending cycle of violence, Providing psychosocial support, Strengthening judicial and protection systems for children, strengthening the RTRR process and knowledge of same.

§ Engaging Youth: (Support to employment and income generation, providing opportunities to engage in issues (U-Report), piloting the use of technologies, support to bringing back children to school, youth Scouts, etc.)

§ Community Engagement: District Dialogues, Community baraazas, Communication campaigns, U-Report

§ Advocacy Research, Learning, Policy: Advocate for the inclusion of Education in peacebuilding planning, programmes, and policies AND research agenda which helps UNICEF build knowledge base on youth engagement in particular

Monitoring and Evaluation remains a crucial aspect of the PBEA program, which is piloting a new approach for UNICEF. Documenting change in areas of social cohesion, resilience and human security as a result of the program interventions underpins the ‘learning by doing’ approach of the program and requires a robust and highly specialized methodology that captures output and outcome level outcomes and substantively contribute to the overall implementation of the PBEA program research outcomes by generating useful knowledge about best practices and impact.

Moreover, as we approach the last 12 months of programming it is imperative that a final-year M&E strategy is developed and implemented so that relevant lessons are captured and articulated into a PBEA 2 proposal to be submitted to the donor in the course of 2015.

The proposed M&E work cannot be undertaken by current PBEA/Learning staff as it requires specialized skills and knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative methods of measuring peacebuilding that the PBEA team lacks. Purpose of Assignment and Scope of work:To design and implement a comprehensive, innovative and participatory monitoring and evaluation methodology for the final year of the PBEA program utilizing qualitative and quantitative tools to guide the work of UNICEF staff and partners. Deliverable:*(correspond to the numbered responsibilities below, Vision Description in brackets)*

Desk-based review of PBEA M&E Framework, participatory capacity building/meetings, field-based implementation of M&E activities and collection of data, desk-based analysis of M&E data, desk-based preparation of analytical M&E reports. Responsibilities:

Advanced university degree (or equivalent) in research or evaluation methods with evidence of high quality research and evaluation activities previously designed and conducted;

• University degree in development, education, or related social science discipline, and advantage

• Demonstrated practical experience in quantitative and qualitative evaluation design, conduct, and management

• Experience developing M&E systems for multi-sector programs in resource-constrained settings

• Demonstrable experience of assessing education and/or peacebuilding programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Demonstrated ability to facilitate learning from M&E findings and implementation teams and other relevant stakeholders.

• Experience in developing and implementing gender and conflict sensitive, participatory and innovative M&E interventions, including the use of ICT.

• Experience of designing and implementing M&E to capture cross-cutting issues such as gender.

• Proven experience with the logical framework approach and other strategic planning approaches and sound grasp of the intervention logic (Theory of Change)

• Willing to undertake regular field visits and interact with different stakeholders e.g. Ministry and District officials, education staff, children and youth, local civil society organizations, communities.

• Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience in M&E for peacebuilding programming

• Knowledge of local social, cultural, political, economic context in East Africa/Uganda an advantage

• Fluency in spoken and written English is required Expected Budget for the Consultancy and Terms of Payment

Payment based on certified submission of key deliverables or agreed outputs with supervisor.

Additionally the consultant will be supported with DSA to cover travel expenses. Administrative issue:Consultant is eligible to be issued with a work station in Kampala office, standard laptop, DSA, vehicle to facilitate field travel (with relevant waiver forms in accordance with UNICEF vehicle policy to be issued).

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested and eligible candidates should forward a cover letter, a Resume and a Personal History (P11) form,

All applications should be sent in soft copy form to ugderecruit@unicef.org, with copy to mllamazares@unicef.org not later than 16 December 2014.

Note: Applications which do not meet the specified minimum requirements or are received after the closing date will not be considered. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply.

UNICEF is a non-smoking working environment.

UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities.