Overview
The Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst ensures that the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the country programme activities are compliant with UNFPA’s result-based management principles and guidelines. You will support national partners’ capacity to analyse and utilise monitoring and evaluation data for evidenced-based decision making.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting and strengthening the country office staff and Implementing Partners’ capacity to develop Annual Work plans aligned to UNFPA’s monitoring and evaluation guidelines and donor signed agreements;
- Providing technical inputs and building the capacity of Implementing Partners to strengthen monitoring, reporting and evaluation systems and enhancing quality of programme data collected and reported;
- Coordinating and providing technical support in preparing quarterly, annual, UNSDCF and donor programme implementation reports;
- Producing evidence-based analyses, briefs and presentations on results planning, monitoring, reporting, quality programme dimensions, trends and/or emerging approaches, to inform and support the development of programming reports
- Strengthening results-based management in planning and implementation of UNFPA interventions using data from sector information management systems and national surveys
- Collecting, reviewing and analysing best practices and lessons learned to demonstrate impact towards achieving outcome level results and fostering learning to guide realigning of interventions, scale up innovation and programme implementation.
- Providing technical oversight to ensure that all monitoring, evaluation and reporting activities are compliant with the result-based management principles, UNFPA guidelines/standards, and donor requirements;
- Providing technical input to the design of technical and joint monitoring visits, participating in their implementation and supporting their follow-up by preparing synthesis reports of findings, and monitoring the implementation of monitoring missions recommendations;
- Providing technical leadership to the review, evaluation and documentation of programme results, best practices and lessons learned and sharing these with relevant partners to inform programming, policy and advocacy;
- Implementing on a continuous basis data visualization strategies that enhance the communication of programme data according to the varying needs of targeted stakeholders;
- Supporting the digitalization of knowledge management for ongoing programmes, optimization of monitoring and evaluation data reporting, analysis and storage systems, and capacity strengthening for UNFPA staff and implementing partners to utilize ICT-based monitoring and evaluation and reporting tools;
- Supporting national partners’ capacity to analyze and utilize monitoring and evaluation data for evidence-based decision making, policy and programme formulation, and monitoring and evaluation in support of integrated national development.
Required Experience
Three years of relevant experience in a related field and/or research; Proven experience in monitoring and writing project activity reports; A thorough understanding of the UN system in general, especially the UNFPA mandate, its policies and operations.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in statistics, population studies, demography, health economics, public health or related field.
