- Country: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- No of vacancies: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: UNDP
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: 2024-01-14
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Planning
- Collect, compile, and analyze pertinent information from internal and external sources for planning;
- Lead planning exercises;
- Plan and organize planning, monitoring and progress review sessions;
- Proposes valid revisions on plans to make necessary adjustments triggered by unforeseen circumstances and changes;
- Support the design, development and writing of concept notes and proposals.
2. Monitoring
- Ensure that all program activities are monitored in a coordinated, collaborative, and integrated manner;
- Work closely with the program team and other directorates of EFD to collect, analyze, compile, and use data/information to improve program management, review and redesign as found necessary;
- Gathers and compiles performance data for progress review against plan and commitments;
- Build strong relationships with colleagues and provide support to ensure the planning, monitoring, and reporting system is understood and supported at EFD and field level;
- Provide technical and methodological support to ensure the implementation of monitoring activities and information/data management;
- Closely work with the program team to develop a baseline data for programs;
- Ensure high quality data collection using key indicator tracking tools.
3. Reporting
- Serve as the reporting focal point for program/s;
- Produce accurate, quality, and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports;
- Closely work with the finance team to ensure narrative reports are complete with financial information;
- Keep up to date with reporting requirements, guidelines and resources and ensure they are understood by all filed staff and partners;
- Serve as the custodian of approved program plan and budget;
- Lead the preparation of information, educational and communications materials and policy briefs using data gathered from program monitoring, assessments, and studies;
- Maintain and update the program database;
- Provide support in developing and maintaining a functional knowledge management system.
- Perform other related duties and responsibilities as directed by the FSTU director.
4. Capacity building
- Provide periodic trainings for the federal and regional experts on Planning, Monitoring and Reporting;
- Develop monitoring guidelines, tools, and checklists to put in place standardized and strong monitoring system for program quality assurance.
5. Verification
- Conduct field visits on project sites to verify the implementation of the designed monitoring and evaluation systems;
- Update the guidelines, tools, and checklists based on the field verifications.
Institutional Arrangement
The Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Manager will be answerable to the Director of FSTU and the National Climate Change Specialist at UNDP CO.
Competencies
Core
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact.
- Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems.
- Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences.
- Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands.
- Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results.
- Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration.
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity.
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
Strategic Thinking: Business Direction & Strategy
- Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritize. plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities, linking the vision to reality on the ground and creating tangible solutions:
- Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends: to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments. and possible ways forward look like for UNDP.
System Thinking: Business Direction & Strategy
- Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider. how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system.
Effective Decision Making: Business Direction & Strategy
- Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for contet, or responsive to a stated need.
Knowledge Generation : Business Direction & Strategy
- Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.
Data strategy and management: Digital & Innovation
- Knowledge to draft or execute a data strategy or a data management framework.
Geospatial analysis: Digital & Innovation
- Skilled in techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties.
Digital thought leadership: Digital & Innovation
- Ongoing research into emerging technologies and digital trends and the applications, risks, and opportunities associated with digital adoption, combined with the ability to communicate this synthesis with a broad audience.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in social science, Economics, Development planning, international relations, or related field.
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in combination with additional two (2) years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Minimum 7 years (Master’s degree) or 9 years (Bachlor’s degree) relevant experience.
- Excellent written communication skills including report writing and editing.
- Good organizational skills and ability to deliver under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Computer literacy with advanced skills in MS Excel and data bases.
- Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Proactive and ability to tackle challenges constructively finding creative ways forward.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Graphic design and data visualization skills will be an asset.
Required Language
- English
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