Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer

Details

Mission and objectives

Our Mission and Vision:
As the United Nations lead agency on international development, UNDP works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities, and to build resilience to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Our work is concentrated in three focus areas; sustainable development, democratic governance and peace building, and climate and disaster resilience.
UNDP’s mandate is to end poverty, build democratic governance, rule of law, and inclusive institutions. We advocate for change, and connect countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
Our Development Objectives:
UNDP’s work, adapted to a range of country contexts, is framed through three broad development settings.
1- Eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions
2- Accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development
3- Building resilience to crisis and shocks
Our Strategic Solution
UNDP is implementing six cross-cutting approaches to development, known as Signature Solutions. A robust, integrated way to put our best work – or ‘signature’ skillset – into achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
1. Keeping people out of poverty
2. Governance for peaceful, just, and inclusive societies
3. Crisis prevention and increased resilience
4. Environment: nature-based solutions for development
5. Clean, affordable energy
6. Women’s empowerment and gender equality

Context

The UNDP Peace Building in Lebanon Project has been working since 2006 on addressing the underlying causes of conflict in Lebanon and to create “safe spaces” for local identity groups to discuss their concerns openly and enhance mutual understanding of the different “other”. Social cohesion was being enhanced at the local, community and national levels between civil society (youth, educators, media, NGOs, and religious leaders) and relevant local public (municipal council members and mukhtars) actors. Through training programs, advocacy work and enhanced networking, stakeholders have been better equipped to contribute to peace building, community dialogue and ensure a more effective bottom-up impact of efforts actively and harmoniously.
The project has also been working on collective memory and integrating peace building concepts into formal and non-formal educational channels. Moreover, the project tackled media (traditional and alternative) to manage diversity and decrease biased reporting. At the local level, the project focused on developing local mechanisms for social stability in several hot spot areas all over Lebanon. Also, the project supported the creating of a cross-political, multi-confessional civil society platform working on civil peace.
With the Syrian crisis further impacting the Lebanese context since 2013, with the influx of a high number of Syrian refugees, the project has been acting as a focal point to many partner organizations on issues pertaining to the impact of the Syrian crisis on social cohesion in Lebanon, both in terms of inter Lebanese relations and Lebanese Syrian interaction. Today the project focuses on addressing the new challenges to civil peace and peace building in the country posed by the Syrian crisis through working on outputs: 1. Education promoting social cohesion supported; 2. Media empowered to promote balanced and conflict sensitive media coverage; 3. Local level peace building strategies to mitigate tensions developed in selected conflict prone areas of Lebanon hosting Syrian refugees; 4. An NGO platform promoting nation-wide truth and reconciliation supported ex-fighters’ role in promoting peace building supported.
Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Peace Building Project Manager, the M&E and Reporting Officer will be responsible for the reporting, monitoring, and evaluation of the project’s activities. He or she will support the project manager in ensuring high quality and timely inputs, maintaining the project’s strategic vision and monitoring of its activities results in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost effective and timely manner.
The M&E and Reporting Officer will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the Project; assisting the Project Manager in preparing Quarterly/Annual donor reports and internal reports on project progress and will monitor the project activities on a regular basis, developing and maintaining the MIS(Management Information System) of the Project and will be responsible for the collection & analysis of different data in relation to the project activities.
The Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work in close collaboration with the project team (including several coordinators following up on specific outputs) and the Reform and Good Governance programme (under which falls the Peace Building in Lebanon and Dealing with the Past projects).

Task description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Peace Building Project Manager or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the national UN Volunteer Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer will:
a) Ensure Effective Management of the Monitoring and Evaluation:
• Designing and setting up the project`s Framework (development of KPI, indicators including baseline, targets and means of verification).
• Monitoring and updating project`s CO risk log in Quantum.
• Identifying and resolving any exceptions on the Risk Dashboard.
• Providing inputs to the development of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving UNDP expected results, while being compliant with UNDP and donors’ evaluation and monitoring requirements, including relevant indicators related to the project.
• Contributing to evidence-based decision-making on projects’ design/formulation and implementation, notably through making monitoring, defining qualitative and quantitative indicators, review, and evaluation user-friendly and informative products/templates.
• Ensuring that all TORs, inception reports, and final reports are in line with the HQ Evaluation guidelines.
• Contributing to the development of donor proposals if needed.
• Reviewing and editing concept notes and project proposals.
b) Ensure Compliance with the Reporting Requirements:
• Developing all donors quarterly, annual, and final reports.
• Collect data and information on project’s activities and feed them into the monitoring system (KOBO and others) and generate charts when needed.
• Update project Indicator Performance Tracking Table, output tracker and other reporting tools.
• Provide inputs, information and statistics for quarterly, annual and other reports and presentations (internal and external) to Project Management Team and UNDP.