National Individual Consultant Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

The Position:

Background and purpose of consultancy:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical consultants, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

The Planning, M&E Analyst will facilitate and substantively contribute to defining results, including theory of change, provide substantive inputs to the monitoring and tracking of results against defined targets and UNFPA Strategic Plan, and facilitate and contribute to the reporting of results as well as knowledge management and maintenance of a culture of results. She/He also promotes the use of the results information for adaptations. S/he also coordinates the development and implementation of a costed valuation plan and acts as evaluation manager, ensuring the quality of evaluation processes and products in conformity with UNFPA Evaluation Quality Standards.

The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst will contribute to effective results planning, monitoring, reporting, communication and evaluation of programmes and projects.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst will report directly to the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, under the overall leadership of the Head of Programme (Deputy Representative) and the Country Representative.

How you can make a difference:

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

Job Purpose:

The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst will contribute to effective results planning, monitoring, reporting, communication and evaluation of programmes and projects.

You would be responsible for:

A. Facilitate and substantively contribute to defining results

Provide technical inputs for the development of theories of change of the programmes and projects counting the past, present and future contexts
Provide coordination and facilitation support in the development of quality M&E frameworks including the costed monitoring and evaluation plan of the country programme
Provide relevant inputs to the formulation of United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework, more specifically common country analysis, strategic prioritization, theory of change, results framework and joint work plans
Provide inputs to develop annual and multiyear results plans
Support developing workplans to operationalize the results
Facilitate and substantively contribute to the development of field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes
Promote and facilitate the use of evaluation results for evidenced-based planning and programming

B. Monitoring

Provide substantive inputs to the monitoring and tracking of results against programme/country/regional level targets and UNFPA Strategic Plan

Provide inputs to conduct the annual reviews of the projects and programmes
Provide inputs to implementation of the midterm reviews of the projects and programmes
Provide inputs for monitoring work plans in collaboration with programme staff
Support field monitoring and coordinate with programme team and promote use of monitoring visits recommendations
Support collecting and analyzing data and evidence including higher-level indicators and oversee regular data quality checks
Active participation and provide relevant inputs for joint united nations joint results groups and other joint monitoring mechanisms
Provide inputs for implementing adaptive and innovative monitoring practices such as remote monitoring, real time monitoring
Contribute the implementation of the assurance plans including the spot checks

C. Results reporting and results communication

Facilitate the reporting of results to internal (Senior Management) and external (Executive Board, Donors) audiences

Collect quality quantitative and qualitative data
Compile and analyze data for projects and present analytical reports to inform reporting and decision making
Develop quality results reports
Support communicating results for both internal and external audiences in close collaboration with communication staff
Provide required results and data for producing external report such as United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework

Support producing and disseminating results reports on implementation of UNFPA strategic plan and regional programmes