Monitoring and Data Intern

The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is hosted by UNOPS.

The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is at the heart of the global movement to improve sanitation and hygiene, so that all people can enjoy healthy and productive lives. Established in 1990, WSSCC is the only United Nations body devoted solely to the sanitation needs of the most vulnerable and marginalized people. WSSCC is implementing a new strategic plan for 2017-2020. The overriding aim of the plan is to accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 6.2 “By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations”.

To achieve the goal of ending open defecation and ensuring improved sanitation and hygiene for all the WSSCC created the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) in 2008. The Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) invests in collective behaviour change approaches and policy advocacy that enable large numbers of people in developing countries to improve their access to sanitation and adopt good hygiene practices. GSF-supported country programmes are expected to enhance efforts in reaching the most vulnerable (including those affected by climate change); addressing the needs of women and girls (including MHM); scale-up school WASH activities and improve supply-side efforts (including sanitation marketing). The GSF is currently supporting programmes in 11 countries.

In 2017, WSSCC adopted its 2017-2020 Strategic Plan leading to an extensive review and strengthening of its M&E systems. Notably the new GSF programmatic ‘theory of change’ was finalized and describes how the organization will contribute to achieving SDG 6.2 at the national and subnational level by 2030. Accompanying the theory of change, a corresponding new GSF Programme results framework was also rolled out in 2017 with updated M&E guidance manuals. The framework offers a consistent approach to programming in all countries, and feeds directly into the Results Framework of the WSSCC 2017-2020 Strategic Plan. All GSF-supported programmes are progressively reporting on the standardized indicators in the new Results Framework using harmonized reporting formats.

In 2018 WSSCC will migrate its programme financial and results reporting formats to an online tool. The Financial and Results Reporting Tool (FRT) is structured on the outcomes, outputs and indicators within the GSF programme results framework. The tool will capture financial and programme results data and will support value-for-money analysis by programme managers and the WSSCC Secretariat. Under the newly established Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Unit (PMERU), WSSCC is hiring a Monitoring and Data Analyst (Intern) to support with activities related to the roll out of the online FRT for WSSCC and GSF supported programmes.

1.     Duties and Responsibilities

• Support testing the technology of the online tool by detecting and troubleshooting problems, locate and suggest new process improvements;
• Support the development of guidelines for the tool and help train users as required;
• Support the review and analysis of programme results and information, including interpreting trends, creating data visuals (graphs, infographics, etc.), and reports;
• Prepare translation of tools and guidelines from English to French; 
• Help organise internal and external events related to monitoring and evaluation (webinars, meetings, workshops); and
• Perform other duties as required.

The internship will provide the opportunity for on-the-job training in the following areas:  assessment of

programme performance through evaluation and results-based management (RBM), exposure to WSSCC’s approach to sanitation & hygiene programming, IT web-based database management, donor reporting, synthesising information for different audiences, and working with partners at the country level to review programme data.

As part of the learning, the intern will be requested to read project-related documents and to undertake an RBM online training course and will also have the opportunity to benefit from other learning opportunities working alongside programme staff.  

3. Participation in missions or training courses

The duties will be based in Geneva. Travel is not expected.

4. Additional comments

• Maintain regular update of activities and achievements 
• Ensure high quality and timely completion of work output
• Be proactive and responsible for her/his work

Prior work or voluntary experience in any of the following areas is highly desirable:

• Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) development sector
• Monitoring and evaluation of programmes in the development field
• Database management systems/Information technology
• Statistical analysis

Fluency in oral and written English and French is required.

Computer Literacy

• Mastery of Microsoft Office 2016 is essential, in particular Excel.
• Familiarity with managing web-based databases highly desirable

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

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