Brief details about UN jobs in Ethiopia – Monitoring & Evaluation Senior Analyst:
- Organization: UNOPS – United Nations Office for Project Services
- Location: UN jobs in Ethiopia , Addis Ababa
- Grade: Junior level – IICA-1, International Individual Contractors Agreement
- Occupational Groups:
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Closing Date: 2023-06-25
About UNOPS:
Information about the organization that has offered the UN jobs in Ethiopia – Monitoring & Evaluation Senior Analyst job:
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is a UN agency that implements infrastructure and procurement projects for the UN System, international financial institutions, governments, and another partners over the world. UNOPS offers implementation, advisory, and transactional services in its five core areas of expertise.. It supply projects in more than 80 countries worldwide, with a portfolio of $3.4 billion in 2021. UNOPS often works in post-disaster and peace and security settings, improving countries, and economies in transition. UNOPS is a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group and works closely with other UN entities such as the UNDP, the DPO, and the World Bank.
Tasks of UN jobs in Ethiopia – Monitoring & Evaluation Senior Analyst:
1. MCO and Portfolio level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Responsibilities:
- Define and introduce the UNOPS M&E approach to all Tigray projects and programme stakeholders.
- Coordinate and manage the development, piloting and maintenance of oneUNOPS Collect and relevant dashboards to accurately track data collected from various interventions across program activities, with a particular focus on Tigray Portfolio. Ensure maintenance of data back-up and retrieval systems.
- Provides appropriate technical assistance to Tigray Project Team.
- Assists in knowledge building and dissemination of lessons learned across ETMCO.
- Lead, or help the preparation of TORs for procured services , baseline surveys, Mid Term Review, End Project Reviews and Annual Reviews and related reporting requirements.
- Lead Training & Development of programme and project personnel principally in the areas of Monitoring and Evaluation.
2. Program/ project Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting:
- Review Tigray Projects’ logical framework: hierarchy of objectives, indicators, means of verification, assumptions and risks and advise the project administration Unit for improvement to enhance efficient and comprehensive monitoring and measurement of the project achievement.
- Assure adequate resourcing is allocated for the defined M&E Scope of Work.
- Set up an M&E system including M&E approaches , implementation arrangements, and M&E plan which fully addresses the Tigray projects’ logical framework and comply with the Project Financing Agreement, and the Project Implementation Plan (PIM).
- Gather and provide essential data and information to the Tigray projects management and project implementing partners for timely and effective decision making and learning.
- Synergize the M&E systems of project enforcing partners .
- Capture the projects’ lessons learned, good practices and innovations to guide project implementation improved performance.
- In coordination with the Senior Project Managers, develop an evaluation framework to measure project results and impact, and subsequently draw a Terms of Reference for the conduct of baseline, midline and end-line studies as required and Annual Reviews and related reporting requirements.
- Provide sound contributions in the growth of M&E templates, forms, and questionnaires, conducting surveys, data collection, data consolidation, data processing, generalizing and report production.
- Draft M&E capacity installation plan for Tigray projects and support that of the ETMCO project national and field staff .
- Build capacities of enforcing partners in M&E, including stakeholder workshops to sensitize the M&E Plan.
- In coordination with the Senior ETMCO Project Managers, develop a framework for the Project’s M&E staff.
- Perform regular capacity assessment and Train project team on oneUNOPS Collect or any other M&E platform developed for data management.
- The guide project team and coordinates with Project Managers to assure their understanding of, and compliance with, reporting standards.
- Keep the recruitment of M&E Team, including field enumerators, as required.
3. Communication and Knowledge Administration:
- Incorporate knowledge management in the overall M&E framework including recording of lessons learnt and best practices.
- Guide the documentation of challenges, lessons learnt and recommendations for future learning and development of ETMCO.
- Closely work with the Communications Unit in the development of periodic publications, including annual reports, monthly newsletters and alike communication and marketing materials.
- Actively interact with other Project/ program personnel and groups to share case studies, lessons learned and best practices.
- Provide feedback to Practice Leads on policy, supporting guidance with an aim towards continuous headway of UNOPS policies.
- Complete lessons learned as per reporting format.
- Include lessons learned from others as per planning format.
- Cooperates with the Communications Unit in the dissemination of evidence of success of Tigray projects/programmes to donors, partners and beneficiaries.
4. Monitoring and Progress Controls:
- Develops and distributes implementation reports related to M&E. Regularly reviews project status, evaluating performance criteria (scope, cost, schedule and quality).
- Follow up a corrective action plan.
- Assesses performance and initiates change requests as required.
- Based on the monitoring and evaluation data, back Tigray projects in particular, and ETMCO in general, in developing performance improvement plans.
- Help the execution of improvement plans related to development of ICT enabled tools, e-manuals, procuring of services and equipment for monitoring.
- Help the preparation of quarterly, semi-annual and annual progress reports to the donors and other stakeholders.
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Qualifications of UN jobs in Ethiopia – Monitoring & Evaluation Senior Analyst:
- A Master’s Degree in Management, Development Studies, Social Science, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Economics, or equivalent is needed.
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Management, Development Studies, Social Science, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Economics, or equivalent with additional two (2) years of relevant background can be accepted in lieu of a Master’s Degree.
- A minimum of two (2) years (or more, depending on academic credentials) of relevant experience in the areas of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is needed.
- At least one (1) year of background working on data analysis is required.
- Background in development work in remote areas is highly desirable.
- Background in World Bank projects Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework is an asset.
- Background working with local counterparts in capacity building is desirable.
- Fluency in spoken, reading and written English is needed.
- Understanding of another official UN language is an asset.
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