Independent Contractor – Monitoring and Evaluation Support Assistant

Job Description

Result of Service

Work Location

• Onsite – UNECA.

Expected duration

• 6 months.

Duties and Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the M&E Support Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

• Undertakes monitoring, reporting and evaluation tasks and responsibilities;

• Develops, implements and evaluates assigned programmes/projects, etc.; monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions;

• Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.

• Generates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identify problems/issues and drafts survey reports.

• Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, evaluation reports, inputs to publications, etc.

• Provides substantive backstopping to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.

• Initiates and coordinates outreach activities; supports training workshops, seminars, etc.; drafts presentations on assigned topics/activities.

• Support the conduct of evaluation and co-manage evaluation of projects or subprogrammes;

• Backstop the focal persons on audits and evaluation recommendation;

• Support timely archieving or documenting the work of the unit in the SharePoint;

• Support ad hoc functions of the section, division and the commission as requested by supervisors.

• Performs other duties as required.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in programme planning and management, Statistics, management, economics or a related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of progressive working experience in monitoring and evaluation or related area is required.
• The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced to eight (8) for candidates who possess a first-level university degree or higher.

Languages

• Fluency in one of the working languages of the UN Secretariat, English or French, (both oral and written) is required; knowledge of the other is desirable.
• Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.