United Nations Career Jobs - Monitoring and Reporting Specialist at UN WOMEN

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Deputy Representative

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.

Job Summary: The Monitoring and Reporting Specialist will be

responsible for the planning, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of the UN

Women Uganda Programmes. The Monitoring and Reporting Specialist mentors, supervises

and leads the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (ME&R) team in the

Country Office and has a strong regular working relationship with the Regional

Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting team. The Monitoring and

Reporting Specialist also works in close collaboration with the Programme and

Operations teams in the Country Office, UN M&E Group, ensuring successful

implementation of the UN Women Uganda Strategic Plan for 2016 – 2020.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

1. Offer 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;


• The job holder will 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) systemsThe incumbent will 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;


• Send 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.

2. Offer 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;


• In charge of developing monitoring and review
  
  guidelines, formats and tools;


• Keenly 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;


• Conduct/organize joint team reviews of the
  
  projects and programmes on a periodic basis to assess the progress against
  
  the agreed results/objectives, efficiency, effectiveness and needs for
  
  adaptation.

3. Provide technical

support to donor reporting:

• Update and maintain an information system for
  
  donor contract management, including tracking donor contracts, UN Women’s
  
  contractual obligations, other delivery requirements of the contract,
  
  grant tranches or installment schedules, reporting schedule and reporting
  
  requirements;


• Offer technical support to the country office
  
  in preparation of the narrative and financial reports for the donor funded
  
  (cost-share funds) projects and in collaboration with the Deputy
  
  Representative take direct responsibility of their finalization before
  
  submission;


• Work in liaison with the programme staff
  
  track the spending of the donor funds and prompt the Deputy Representative
  
  about seeking no-cost extension, as necessary;

4. Provide technical

support to programme evaluation:

• Offer support in the implementation of UN
  
  Women’s Evaluation Strategy at country level;


• Support planning, designing and
  
  implementation of evaluations and reviews including management of the
  
  evaluation/ review process;


• Ensure that management responses to
  
  evaluations are drafted and implemented;


• Offer technical support to the country office
  
  in the implementation of evaluation findings;


• Organize and manage logistics of reviews and
  
  evaluations;


• Represent UN Women in the UN Uganda
  
  Monitoring and Evaluation committee.

5. Serve as the focal

person for the Fund for Gender Equality: Keenly monitor the partners, review

narrative and financial reports and provide written feedback, and support them

in timely reporting to the Fund for Gender Equality.

6. Contribute to

knowledge management:

• Develop and expand knowledge management
  
  strategies, products and methodologies;


• Manage the process of identifying and
  
  synthesizing of best practices and lessons learned that are directly
  
  linked to the monitoring and reporting of programmes and programme
  
  planning and contribute to their dissemination.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant for the United Nations UN WOMEN
  
  Monitoring and Reporting Specialist job opportunity should hold a 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.


• At least five years of professional
  
  experience in the field of rights based monitoring, evaluation and
  
  reporting;


• Previous exposure and 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;


• Prior experience related to UN Women’s
  
  mandate and activities would be an added advantage.


• Language: Fluency in written and spoken
  
  English; Working knowledge in any of the official UN languages is an
  
  asset.

• Integrity: Demonstrate
  
  consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions
  
  and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.


• Professionalism: Demonstrate professional competence
  
  and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.


• Respect for Diversity: Demonstrate an appreciation of the
  
  multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff.
  
  Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values
  
  and learning from cultural diversity.

• Ethics and Values: Demonstrate and promote ethics and
  
  integrity by creating organizational precedents.


• Organizational Awareness: Build support for the organization
  
  and ensure political acumen.


• Development and Innovation: Support
  
  staff competence development, and contribute to an environment of
  
  creativity and innovation.


• Work in teams: Build and promote effective teams.
  
  Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment
  
  and to maintain effective working relations with people of different
  
  national and cultural backgrounds.


• Communication and Information Sharing: Create
  
  and promote an environment for open and effective communication.


• Self-management and Emotional Intelligence: Stay
  
  composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations
  
  with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behavior towards others.


• Conflict Management: Surface conflicts and address them
  
  proactively acknowledging different feelings and views and directing
  
  energy towards a mutually acceptable solution.


• Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Share
  
  knowledge across the organization and build a culture of knowledge sharing
  
  and learning.


• Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making: Ensure
  
  fair and transparent decision making processes and manage risk.

• Ability to lead Programme Monitoring and
  
  Evaluation strategies, policies and its implementation;


• Ability to lead results-based management and
  
  reporting;


• Proven ability to develop and manage budgets;


• Ability to implement new systems and effect
  
  staff behavioural/ attitudinal change;


• Ability to advocate and provide policy
  
  advice;


• Builds strong relationships with clients,
  
  focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to
  
  feedback;


• Excellent oral and written communication
  
  skills;


• Strong inter-personal and diplomacy skills;


• Good IT skills;


• Ability to take decision under pressure.

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