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UNFPA

United Nations agency advancing reproductive health

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

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Full-timeBamako, MaliNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Master's degree or equivalent in statistics, economics, health, demography/population, or another related social-science discipline is required.
  • At least five years of relevant professional experience in monitoring and evaluation, reporting, and evaluation, including demonstrated experience designing and implementing comprehensive monitoring systems.
  • Experience using data-collection and data-analysis software.
  • Experience critically analyzing programme results frameworks, particularly their internal logic and consistency across project, programme, and country levels.
  • Strong knowledge of UNFPA's mandate.
  • Strong knowledge of programme formulation and implementation and results-based management.
  • Strong knowledge of monitoring and evaluation, evaluation design, data collection and analysis, and reporting.
  • Ability to provide strategic advice and support to implementing partners.
  • Ability to interact with donors.
  • Ability to synthesize programme-performance data and produce analytical reports.
  • Strong analytical and report-writing skills.
  • Strong planning, goal-setting, prioritization, and organizational skills.
  • Ability to pay rigorous attention to detail.
  • Good personnel-management, conflict-resolution, and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to work across different geographic locations.
  • Excellent computer and information-systems skills, including MS Access, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Word, CSPro, SPSS, Stata, NVivo, KoboToolbox/KoboCollect, and Power BI.
  • Fluency in French is required.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of programme and project theories of change, taking past, present, and future contexts into account.
  • Lead the development of quality monitoring and evaluation frameworks, including the country programme's budgeted monitoring and evaluation plan.
  • Contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), particularly the Common Country Analysis, strategic prioritization, theory of change, results framework, and joint work plans.
  • Lead the development of annual and multi-year results plans.
  • Support the development of work plans to operationalize results.
  • Facilitate and substantively contribute to field-monitoring plans and quality-assurance processes.
  • Facilitate the production of evidence and lessons learned to support evidence-based planning and programming.
  • Lead monitoring of annual results plans.
  • Lead annual reviews of projects and programmes.
  • Facilitate mid-term reviews of projects and programmes.
  • Lead monitoring of work plans in collaboration with programme staff.
  • Support field monitoring, coordinate with the programme team, and promote use of monitoring-visit recommendations.
  • Support data and evidence collection and analysis, including higher-level indicators, and oversee regular data-quality checks.
  • Participate in and lead United Nations joint results groups and other joint monitoring mechanisms.
  • Contribute to adaptive and innovative monitoring practices, including remote and real-time monitoring.
  • Contribute to implementation of assurance plans, including spot checks.
  • Collect quantitative and qualitative data.
  • Compile and analyze project data and present analytical reports to inform reporting and decision-making.
  • Develop quality results reports.
  • Lead communication of results to internal and external audiences in close collaboration with communications staff.
  • Provide results and data required for external reporting, including the UNSDCF.
  • Support production and dissemination of results reports on implementation of the UNFPA Strategic Plan and regional programmes.
  • Lead and provide technical support for developing and implementing the country office/programme budgeted evaluation plan, including annual updates and regular monitoring of planned evaluations.
  • Manage and assure the quality of all evaluation processes and products in accordance with UNFPA evaluation policy and evaluation quality standards.
  • Manage decentralized evaluations at country level.
  • Develop terms of reference for decentralized evaluations and quality-assure inception and final evaluation reports.
  • Advise on evaluation relevance and design, including methods, scope of work, technical proposals, and consultant qualifications, as well as evaluation conduct, management, strategic communication, and use.
  • Lead inter-agency work and coordination on national-level monitoring and evaluation, including technical advice for UNSDCF evaluations.
  • Disseminate evaluation findings and ensure they are incorporated into programme formulation and implementation.
  • Implement results-based management principles and standards.
  • Provide technical support to implementing partners to strengthen capacity in results-based management.
  • Promote interventions that use results and demonstrate adaptive management.
  • Identify, disseminate, and use good practices, lessons learned, and knowledge.
  • Support results communication in collaboration with relevant staff.
  • Coordinate management responses to all evaluations within six weeks of completion, including quarterly updates on implementation of evaluation-response action plans.
  • Perform other duties required by UNFPA management.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience within the United Nations, UNFPA, or another multilateral organization, and field-work experience.
  • Knowledge of United Nations programme-management systems.
  • Ability to work in English.

About the Company

UNFPA

United Nations agency advancing reproductive health

UNFPA leads global efforts to ensure every pregnancy is wanted, births are safe, and young people’s potential is fulfilled by supporting reproductive health, family planning, gender equality, and youth empowerment with funding, guidance, data, and programs through governments and partners. Its programs provide health services, reproductive rights, adolescent and youth initiatives, and socio-economic support, using research and monitoring to design and scale interventions that fit local needs. It differentiates itself by working within a UN framework focused on reproductive health, population data, gender equality, and youth at a global scale, coordinating with governments and partners to integrate health services with broader development goals. Its goal is to reduce maternal mortality, expand access to family planning, protect the rights and health of women and young people, and help communities lead healthier, more productive lives.

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Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1969

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