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UN Women Pakistan aims at recruiting a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for its WEE & SL unit who will work under the supervision and guidance of Portfolio Manager WEE & SL. Based on the envisaged outputs/outcomes, the incumbent of this position will design and institutionalize participatory M&E systems for the Programme, undertake monitoring and quality assessment of programme activities in close coordination with provincial teams, and will also support external midterm reviews and final evaluations. M&E Officer will work closely with the Communications and Project/Programme Officer, to supply with the substantive project/programme progress related information, for communications, visibility and reporting purposes. The M&E Officer will play distinct role in providing pertinent data to the WEE&SL unit for results-based reporting.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for carrying out the following functions;

 

• To assume the monitoring management of the Programme – plan, initiate and manage monitoring activities - in accordance with UNW rules, policies and procedures

 

• Coordination of the monitoring of the Programme with the UNW Country Offices, Ministries and other partner organizations;

 

• Responsible for the coordination with finance, programme and procurement staff

 

• Substantive monitoring and evaluation of the Programme, identification of operational and financial problems, development of solutions;

 

• Monitoring the Programme and activity results against those planned, together with the cost of achieving those results;

 

• Working with the finance, programme and procurement staff to implement the M&E Plan as approved

 

• Ensure that the programme management module in ATLAS is updated on a quarterly basis in coordination with UNW COs the programme staff;

 

• Design and implement monitoring and evaluation framework/strategy/system based on Logical Framework Analysis (LFA) of the projects/programme to assess timely and quality implementation of activities to achieve results (outputs, outcomes and impacts), including work plan, targets and indicators.

 

• Review, adopt, test and modify existing/available monitoring tools, techniques and methods to suit the specific needs of the Projects/Programme.

 

• Facilitate baseline studies for benchmarks and assessing progress and achievements.

 

• Take lead and facilitate in establishing data collection procedures and databases and make such data available to WEE&SL unit for periodic results-based reporting.

 

• Provide support to Portfolio Manager WEE&SL in planning, reporting and documenting experiences and lessons learnt; and guidance to provincial teams in data collection and reporting; as well as in assessment of results and quality of activities.

 

• Keep track of all ongoing/completed/planned project activities to ensure consistency with project implementation timelines.

 

• Facilitate annual and periodic implementation review and assessment exercises.

 

• Develop quarterly and annual monitoring work plans and travel plans for monitoring and evaluation purposes with input from PM WEE&SL and provincial teams.

 

• Keep up to date of new methods and techniques with regards to M&E systems for ensuring efficiency and fostering and promoting innovation and ready decision making.

 

• Develop performance indicators to be included in the monitoring system for Projects/Programme activities and annual reviews.

 

• Develop briefs/special reports as and when required.

 

• Prepare and implement training plans for enhancing M&E capacities of the national and provincial teams and UN Women IPs.

 

• Document and disseminate the lessons learnt and best practices for sharing with UN Women CO and disseminate to the national and provincial line agencies and NGOs as and when required.

 

• Any other related tasks assigned by the PM WEE &SL or Deputy Country representative.

 

Minimum Requirement:

 

• Master’s degree in Public administration/policy, Business administration, economics, programme evaluation, management information systems or a closely related field.

 

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level.

 

• Experience in international or donor organizations will be an asset.

 

• Demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise.

 

• Experience in developing participatory M&E systems and analysing data, using statistical software, would be an asset.

 

• Proven ICT skills, especially in the development of MIS software, using database software.

 

• Good organizational management and technical skills with track record of implementation and monitoring of community-based projects.

 

• Excellent English drafting ability and documentation skills.

 

• Knowledge of ATLAS system will be considered an asset

 

Organizational Competencies:

 

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;

 

• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;

 

• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.