Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

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UNFPA is the lead UN company for delivering a world the place each being pregnant is needed, each childbirth is secure and each younger individual’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s international Strategic Plan (2022-2025) focuses on three transformative outcomes: to finish preventable maternal deaths; finish unmet want for household planning; and finish gender-based violence and dangerous practices. These outcomes seize UNFPA’s strategic commitments on accelerating progress in direction of realizing the 1994 Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Growth (ICPD) Programme of Motion within the final Decade of Motion to realize Agenda 2030 together with the SDGs. UNFPA Strategic Plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations, and people to “construct ahead higher”, whereas addressing the destructive impacts of well being pandemics and local weather crises on girls’s and younger individuals’s entry to sexual and reproductive well being (SRH) and reproductive rights, get well misplaced beneficial properties and notice our objectives.

In a world the place elementary human rights are in danger, we want principled and moral workers, who embody these worldwide norms and requirements, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction. UNFPA is looking for candidates that rework, encourage and ship excessive influence and sustained outcomes; we want workers who’re clear, distinctive in how they handle the sources entrusted to them and who decide to ship excellence in programme outcomes. 

Job Objective:

The Monitoring and Analysis Specialist promotes a tradition of outcomes and evidence-based programme administration within the Pacific subregion. He/ she supplies steerage to the implementation of company insurance policies, procedures, ideas, monitoring, reporting and analysis norms and requirements at subregional and nationwide stage, to make sure relevance, effectivity, effectiveness and sustainability of the work of UNFPA within the Area. The M&E Specialist will work inside an built-in and coordinated strategy, which is key to the Sub-regional Workplace and UNFPA’s general technique. 

You’ll be accountable for: 

A. Strategic Outcomes Assist:

• Coordinate the general monitoring, analysis and studying of the Transformative Agenda Section II programme in step with the outcomes framework and the TA Monitoring Analysis and Studying plan
• Make sure the on-going integration of latest analysis findings, conclusions and suggestions from the UNFPA SRP 7 analysis, Transformative Agenda Ultimate Analysis, and different evaluations and evaluations into the Transformative Agenda Section II and different related regional and country-level programming;
• Develop and implement M&E elements of annual work plans for regional programme in step with division of labor with M&E group;
• Monitor workplan implementation frequently, together with synthesizing quarterly progress of the Transformative Agenda and help addressing bottlenecks to realize outcomes;
•  Develop extra knowledge assortment, monitoring and reporting instruments as wanted for Transformative Agenda and different related programmes to make sure satisfactory reporting on programme indicators;
• Present help, steerage and high quality management for planning, monitoring, and reporting by companions in quarterly workplan progress studies and different required donor reporting within the Pacific, guaranteeing the implementation of sturdy outcomes and sources frameworks; 
• Guarantee result-based monitoring and analysis plans are carried out by companions and UNFPA nation groups, and outcomes acted upon at nation and subregional ranges;
• Coordinate periodic and annual reporting, together with at influence stage on the Transformative Agenda programme together with reporting for Steering Committee assembly analyzing and synthesizing outcomes from workplan progress studies and SIS reporting;
• Collaborate with Inhabitants and Growth Adviser on the event and implementation of Information, Attitudes and Practices surveys at baseline and endline for a number of international locations;
• In collaboration with Techincal Advisers, help operations analysis or different qualitative and quantitative analysis associated to the Transformative Agenda programme;
• Contribute to the formulation of the regional programmes, together with future donor funded programmes, notably across the concept of change, indicators and M&E plan and drawing upon the evaluation of evaluative proof of UNFPA help within the area and proof stemming from company evaluations; and
• As wanted, put together briefing notes, speeches, and speaking factors on varied problems with the Transformative Agenda outcomes.

Capability Growth:

• Strengthen the capability of UNFPA’s Nation Places of work to make use of knowledge collected to enhance evidence-based determination making at regional and nationwide ranges in a time and efficient method;
• Conduct regional and country-level capacity-building initiatives and workshops along with the PSRO M&E group, together with learn how to use related monitoring and reporting instruments, together with WPRs in an effort to present high quality reporting on programme indicators and strengthen a tradition of outcomes and evidence-based programme administration in UNFPA and companion establishments;
• Establish modern monitoring methodologies, approaches and instruments and promote their incorporation into nation workplace monitoring within the area;
• Contribute to the event and adaptation of instruments and steerage in addition to coaching supplies and manuals to watch and consider the Transformative Agenda and different related programmes and help their use for capability growth of companion establishments and UNFPA workers within the area; 
• Contribute to and supply steerage to Transformative Agenda quarterly outcomes evaluate conferences and construct capability of nation groups to develop top quality, outcomes based mostly reporting;
• Coordinate with Nation Places of work and implementing companions to focus on improvements, arrange and implement a system to doc classes realized and good practices and tackle Programme Monitoring and Analysis (PME) bottle necks within the area;
• Promote peer-to-peer studying to additional reinforce nationwide and UNFPA’s analysis capability. 
• Contribute to the evaluation, synthesis and dissemination of state-of-the-art information and new approaches to monitoring and analysis follow, specifically classes realized and greatest practices, and make suggestions for his or her adoption at nation stage; and
• Contribute to the administration and coordination of the TA Midterm Analysis, Ultimate Analysis and different Regional Programme evaluations if required.

High quality assurance on outcomes and evidence-based planning, monitoring, reporting and analysis:

• Contribute to the evaluate and high quality guarantee work plan progress studies from companions, SIS report from UNFPA nation places of work and different required donor studies working with M&E group guaranteeing indicators are adequately reported on, together with at influence stage; 
• Assist exercise comply with up evaluations to know outcomes achieved by coaching actions.
• Present steerage to, and high quality assurance for, the preparation of Transformative Agenda administration response to evaluations and to make sure their well timed and high quality preparation and comply with up.

Assist the achievement of indicators and completion of actions:

• Assist the implementation of Transformative Agenda actions by Nation Places of work and Regional Implementing companions; andAny different actions/duty as assigned by UNFPA.

{Qualifications} and Expertise: 

Training: 

• Superior College Diploma (Grasp’s diploma or greater) in public well being, social science, demography, gender, economics, worldwide relations, worldwide growth, public administration, administration, or different associated subject;
• Extra credit/coaching on monitoring and analysis are an asset.

Information and Expertise: 

• Not less than seven (7) years of more and more accountable skilled expertise in creating, implementing, and managing complicated regional, nation, or programme stage monitoring and analysis portfolios in worldwide growth, of which 5 years on the worldwide stage;
• Robust monitor document of modern management in managing evaluations, and confirmed capacity to provide top quality evaluations;
• Demonstrated expertise in having the ability to outline theories of change and information programme implementation workers on the causal chain between inputs, intermediate and final result stage outcomes;
• Robust monitor document within the subject of results-oriented planning and monitoring 
• Robust qualitative and quantitative and analytic analysis abilities;
• Expertise utilizing knowledge assortment and evaluation software program and wonderful laptop abilities
• Potential to fulfill tight deadlines;
• Expertise working with UNFPA and/or UN is a powerful asset.
• Expertise from Nation Places of work is a powerful asset.

Languages: 

• Fluency in English; information of different Pacific languages is an asset. 

Supply: https://www.unfpa.org/jobs/monitoring-and-evaluation-specialist-suva-fiji-psro-p4

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