Monitoring and Evaluation Senior Officer

The Myanmar Humanitarian Aid Program (MHAP)

The objective of this humanitarian program is to provide prioritized assistance and protection for highly vulnerable people such as IDPs and refugees, in the most conflict affected areas through national and civil society organizations. MHAP will support those most in need in the worst conflict affected areas, initially concentrated in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine States and possibly in the northwest.

MHAP key activities include; 

• Delivery of multi-sectoral humanitarian assistance for Rakhine, Shan and Kachin State through provision of grants to CSOs and local partners (INGO, NNGOs), including capacity building activities for local partners and support to local partner coordination mechanisms

• Development of MHAP strategy as part of Programme inception

• Establishment of framework for monitoring, learning, evidence and knowledge management 

• Scoping studies to explore possible assistance in northwest Myanmar and piloting humanitarian assistance to northwest during Inception Phase

Under the overall supervision of the MHAP Senior Programme Manager (SPM), and in accordance with UNOPS policies, procedures and practices, the M&E Officer will be responsible for: 

Development of monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure accountability and learning 

• Support the MHAP Project  in the design and implementation of the MEAL system overall, including the development and adjustment of Theories of Change, Learning Questions, M&E Plans/Measurement Frameworks, and Data collection, management, analysis and reporting processes.

• Ensure that implementing partners and MHAP as a whole collect and maintain updated M&E data, and that the data is cleaned, analysed and readily available.

• Promote accountability to the programme’s overall objective by ensuring that activities lead to the specific outputs and outcomes in the logical framework, and the extent to which they are achieved efficiently and effectively.

• Develop and test M&E tools, approaches and databases as part of the project and programme MEAL system.

• Review/clear M&E and narrative reports from the MHAP implementing partners focusing on data correctness, quality and analysis.

• Prepare monthly updates on MEAL activities and key accomplishments and identify follow-up actions at MHAP and partner levels.

• Contribute to quarterly reports based on data submitted by implementing partners. 

• Maintain detailed knowledge of all issues relevant to monitoring and evaluation of the MHAP project and grants

Coordination of program level reviews, evaluation and other studies initiated to contribute towards overall MHAP evidence base

• Support the design and management of programme and project relevant monitoring and evaluation missions commissioned by the MHAP Project, including the preparing/reviewing of key technical documents such as terms of reference; data collection tools; draft reports among others. 

• Support in the conduct of any MHAP-led surveys and other related studies undertaken with a view to reporting on the MHAP logframe indicators.

• Manage and supervise  consultants that may be hired to provide technical support in design and execution of program based reviews, evaluations or specialized studies.

• Maintain up-to-date and accurate documentation of key outputs of the reviews, evaluations and studies initiated by the relevant thematic/program area, including aggregation of MHAP survey data.

• Support the conducting of further analysis of MHAP survey data for purposes of programming or reporting as may be required from time to time.
  
  

Technical support and capacity building to Partners of MHAP MEAL System 

• Conduct comprehensive and ongoing assessments of MHAP partner’s MEAL systems and identify areas for capacity development with a view to improving overall quality of data reported to MHAP.

• Conduct relevant and demand-driven M&E trainings and related capacity development activities with a view to ensuring MHAP partner MEAL systems are fully operational and in compliance with the MHAP MEAL standards.

• Participate in project field visits to review MHAP partner MEAL systems and conducting data quality reviews, where feasible.

• Ensure partners, particularly national and local CSOs, benefit from and contribute to MHAP’s MEAL systems.
  
  

Development and management of systems for learning, building knowledge and enabling adaptive management

• Support an overall approach to evidence-based learning, building knowledge and evidence about the extent to which certain strategies, interventions, approaches, and activities have been effective or not in the respective contexts.

• Promote and support an analysis of what is working and what is not working in order to make ongoing adaptations to interventions and to improve the design and implementation of the programme and individual projects.

• Contribute to Value for Money frameworks, metrics and analysis to support the analysis of efficiency and effectiveness of MHAP’s work.

• Support the creation of platforms for knowledge sharing and collaboration across partners and other humanitarian actors, distilling good practices for wider replication and scaling, particularly with national and local partners.
  
  

Education 

• A Master degree in Development studies, Statistics, Social sciences or other related fields is required. 

• Additional two years of similar experience with a Bachelor Degree is considered equivalent may be accepted in lieu of the Master degree. 

• Additional studies in community development, M&E and/or research design and methodologies are desirable. 

Work Experience 

• A minimum of two years of professional experience in Monitoring and Evaluation of  international development programmes 

• Strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis skill is a key requirement. 

• Strong data management skills, including the use and maintenance of databases is a requirement.  

• Experience working in humanitarian settings, with humanitarian organisations and with humanitarian data is  an advantage.

• Experience and technical background working in conflict settings, Southeast Myanmar, and with Internally Displaced People and host communities  would be an advantage. 

• Previous successful involvement with, and good knowledge of UN, NGOs and civil society would be an advantage. 

• Experience using software and tools for digital/mobile-based data collection would be an asset.

• Strong skills in using computer software programmes, including EXCEL, WORD and POWERPOINT or equivalent in google suite, is required. Skills in statistical  software packages such as SPSS, STATA or GIS applications would be an added advantage. 

• Full working knowledge in written and oral English and fluency in Myanmar language required.
• Knowledge of another official UNOPS language is an asset.

Contract type: Local Individual Contractor Agreement
Contract level: Local ICA Specialist-9 / LICA-9 / ICS-9
Contract duration: Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

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