Overview
The Reporting, Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst will support the planning, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation functions of the UNDP Lebanon Country Office to ensure effective results-based management and high-quality evidence generation.
Tasks Summary
- Support the development and revision of project results frameworks, including indicators, baselines, and targets.
- Contribute to annual work planning and ensure alignment with UNDP’s corporate RBM requirements.
- Provide technical guidance to partners on results-based planning and theory of change development.
- Assist programme and project colleagues in updating and reviewing Results and Resources Frameworks (RRFs).
- Support the development of integrated work plans (IWPs) and contribute to planning for programme quarterly reviews.
- Design and implement project monitoring plans, including digital data collection tools, field monitoring templates, and indicator tracking systems.
- Coordinate routine monitoring with programme/project teams and implementing partners, ensuring quality assurance of data.
- Conduct field visits to verify progress, validate results, and identify implementation bottlenecks.
- Maintain an up-to-date Indicator Performance Tracking dashboard.
- Oversee the Country Office M&E systems, ensuring that monitoring frameworks are in place, functional, and updated as required.
- Support the development and continuous improvement of monitoring tools and systems to effectively track programme and project outcomes.
- Maintain a coherent system for tracking M&E data and donor reporting requirements.
- Ensure that M&E findings and results are clearly communicated and consistently reflected across different reporting platforms and documents.
- Support mid-term reviews, final evaluations, outcome evaluations, and thematic assessments.
- Draft evaluation TORs, manage evaluation processes, and ensure compliance with UNDP evaluation guidelines.
- Update the ERC platform and ensure timely uploading of evaluation TORs, reports, and management responses.
- Liaise with RBAS M&E specialists and participate in regional and corporate M&E communities of practice.
- Facilitate learning events, after-action reviews, and dissemination of lessons learned.
- Lead and coordinate lessons learned exercises with programme teams and partners, synthesizing best practices and recommendations to strengthen programme monitoring and evaluation.
- Contribute to donor reports, ROAR, project progress reports (PPRs), and other corporate reporting requirements.
- Review donor reports prepared by programme teams to ensure alignment with donor requirements, integration of indicators, results, and analysis, and accurate reflection of programme progress.
- Ensure that all qualitative and quantitative indicators are effectively incorporated into narratives and supported by credible monitoring data.
- Edit and refine reports to ensure clarity, coherence, consistency, and overall quality, including review of layout and branding in line with UNDP standards.
- Ensure data accuracy, quality, and consistency across all reporting channels, including Q+ and corporate systems.
- Assist in finalizing end-of-year corporate reporting, ensuring timely completion of indicator reporting.
- Produce analytical briefs, infographics, evidence summaries, and presentations for programme visibility, donor engagement, and senior management.
- Maintain knowledge repositories, document good practices and success stories, and support internal reporting guidelines and tools to strengthen M&E integration.
- Train implementing partners, government counterparts, and project staff on RBM, M&E tools, data quality assurance, and reporting.
- Provide coaching on gender-responsive monitoring, inclusion of LNOB principles, and integration of M&E findings into decision-making and reporting.
- Work closely with programme managers and focal points to ensure M&E data is captured, managed efficiently, and presented in a cohesive and professional manner.
- Provide capacity development support to programme teams on donor report writing, M&E best practices, and results-based reporting.
- Oversee Project Quality Assurance (PQA) processes, ensuring all projects complete annual PQAs and that the Country Office dashboard remains compliant.
- Ensure all new projects complete Social and Environmental Sustainability (SES) screenings and that related compliance dashboards remain up to date and green.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years with (bachelor´s degree) of progressive relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, and reporting within the development sector.
- Demonstrated experience in writing and editing high-quality reports for donor agencies.
- Strong understanding and knowledge of Results-Based Management (RBM), M&E frameworks, and experience in developing results and resources frameworks, and indicators.
- Experience in integrating M&E results into donor reports and ensuring their alignment with donor requirements.
- Previous experience in with the United Nations and/or UN or other internationally funded development projects in relevant tasks.
- Experience in designing, implementing and/or managing assessments and/or digital data collection tools/processes.
- Experience conducting applied research projects and reporting on findings.
- Experience in performing quality assurance and control.
Qualification Requirements
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in International Development, Political Science, Monitoring and Evaluation, Information Management or related fields is required; or
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor´s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience.
