M & E Officer

The Monitoring and Evaluation offer main responsibility is to ensure effective and efficient management and implementation of the UNOPS ETOH-Sudan projects through driving development results planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting in line with corporate requirements, as well as country development needs and planning tools.

The role will ensure that proper monitoring and evaluation are carried out at outcome level and will provide input to improve results based management tools such as results framework, indicators, capturing lessons learned. The Monitoring and Evaluation officer will also provide report on activities and ensure that reports cover impact/outcome/ output levels and strategic information on results and impact of interventions.

The monitoring and evaluation officer, under the overall leadership of the Programme Management Officer (PMO), using UNOPS adopted monitoring and evaluation tools and techniques, s/he will support UNOPS Sudan Country Office in planning, monitoring and evaluating programmes and projects, ensuring evidence based and results focused quality project interventions. The incumbent will provide substantive technical expertise on refining the programme M&E results framework, output and outcome indicators identification, evidence-based monitoring, planning, reporting and evaluation. The position will ensure programmes and projects follow the logical framework; have milestones with clearly measurable outputs which contribute to positive outcomes. S/he will support the design and implementation of the Country Office monitoring system, capacity building of programme and project staff on M&E, drafting of work plans, review reports and data collected, make recommendations, effectively communicate with programme and project colleagues on M&E processes and results.  The incumbent will draft methods, evaluation approaches, and will advise on collection of reliable, accurate and coherent information to assess the performance and impact of programmes and projects. S/he will also support the Country Office team in preparing end of project and end of year reports against set targets and indicators with an analysis of evidence of progress towards planned outcomes and outputs according to schedules and inputs provided through the UNOPS ETOH-Sudan programme.

Under the overall supervision of the Programme Management Officer (PMO), the incumbent is required to perform the following duties and responsibilities:

Summary of Key Functions:

Ensures that the Country Office has clear and comprehensive monitoring & evaluation framework at the Program level and at Project level.

• Provide substantive support in the  effective identification of results frameworks, application of project implementation monitoring tools and regular online updates;
• Ensure full compliance of technical support to the country program, projects, and integrated work planning;
• Facilitate training of UNOPS Sudan programme and project staff in M&E policies, systems and tools and share information on relevant M&E tools for easy understanding and implementation by program team colleagues;
• Actively contribute to the implementation of the country program in line with the ETOH Strategic Plan and other framework documents;
• Technical support for elaboration of project documents, preparation of project work plans and quality assurance of draft plans, monitoring tools and techniques, results frameworks and results reporting.

Provides guidance and coordinates completion of M&E requirements and documentation such as annual reports, project quality assurance, internal results and result framework 

• Ensure accurate preparation of annual reports and indicators as well as project updates online and in the corporate planning system;
•  Support data processing and analysis
  • Supporting quality assurance by providing technical advice on evidence-based results reporting at the outcome and output levels;
  • Supporting completion and approval of a Project Quality Assurance (PQA) tool. Track progress on quality assurance of projects through an electronic dashboard and provide regular updates to the Country Office programme team. Support quality assurance of projects including the conduct of spot checks of project reports on the Corporate Planning System to measure the credibility and evidence-base of these reports
  • Coordinating updating of the programme and project  identification of baselines, targets and milestones;
  • Undertakes monitoring missions to project sites as necessary and according to the M&E plan.

Providing technical support to projects/programme in the completion of project evaluation plans. 

• Formulation of terms of reference for specific project/thematic/sectoral evaluation missions and/or desk evaluations/reviews, participation in consultant and evaluation team selection, technical feedback on evaluations and budget oversight.
• Provide inputs to the project evaluation management plan, inception reports, final evaluation reports and end project reports. 
• Promote of evaluation standards and quality assurance/control in the Country Office.
• Ensure proper monitoring and evaluation plans and ensuring that all mandatory evaluations are implemented and reports are uploaded online, ensuring timely management responses
• Submit periodic monitoring reports

Results/Expected Outputs

At the end of the assignment, it is expected that the M&E officer will either produce or significantly contribute to the following concrete and measurable outputs:

• UNOPS Sudan M&E structure revitalized and strengthened;
• Capacity of programme and project staff to perform M&E is improved;
• M&E system is integrated into the management, oversight and reporting processes within the office;
• M&E framework is established for UNOPS Sudan programme;
• M&E work plan is adopted, and implementation started;
• M&E communication and advocacy culture is strengthened at UNOPS Sudan office;
• Programme monitoring is routine and timely;
• M&E data collection instruments designed, tested, and adopted;
• M&E data are shared and disseminated regularly.  

• Advanced university Degree (Master or equivalent), preferably in Management, business Administration, public administration, economics, international development, or related field is required;

• First level university degree (Bachelors or equivalent) in relevant discipline combination with 2 additional years of experience, may be accepted in lieu of a Masters degree.

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in the areas of planning and implementing programme and project monitoring is required;
• Experience in report writing is essential;
• Experience of working with local counterparts in building their capacity is desirable.
• Experience with UN and/or similar NGOs in the area of M&E strongly desired.

• Fluency in written and oral English is required;
• Fluency in written and oral Arabic is required;

• 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.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• 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.

Sudan

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