Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Dhaka
- Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- Location: Dhaka
- Grade: Mid level - P-3, International Professional - Internationally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Poverty Reduction
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction
- URBAN POVERTY REDUCTION
- Closing Date: Closed
Background
The Local Government Division of Ministry of Local Government and Rural Cooperatives, GoB, supported by UNDP and DfID, is implementing a National Urban Poverty Reduction Programme (NUPRP) in Bangladesh. NUPRP is designed to contribute towards sustainable growth and reduction of urban poverty in Bangladesh. The programme will work nationwide and cover poor communities living in slums and informal settlements in cities and towns in Bangladesh and has 5 outputs:
- Strengthened municipal and national government capacity to deliver pro-poor, climate sensitive, urban development;
- Strengthened community organization in informal settlements;
- Improved livelihoods and well-being;
- Piloting options to improve land tenure and developing low cost housing initiatives; and
- Climate smart rehabilitation of small scale infrastructure supported.
Under the guidance and supervision of the Project Manager, the NUPRP Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (hereafter the Specialist) ensures the effective implementation of monitoring and evaluation, designing and managing rigorous data management systems, supporting high quality analysis and research work. This covers both day to day monitoring to help ensure the project is on track and meeting objectives, research work and rigorous impact evaluation.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Design of the monitoring and evaluation process to measure progress over time and evaluate the NUPRP programme;
- Ensure implementation of monitoring and evaluation policies and strategies;
- Management of monitoring and evaluation process;
- Support rigorous impact evaluation and other high quality research products, and ensure wide dissemination of results and findings.
- Participate in NUPRP programme design: develop a theory of change in line with UNDP corporate standards;
- Design the NUPRP programme monitoring and evaluation tools in line with the UNDP Corporate Strategic Planning as well as with the UNDP Results-based principles, approaches and tools;
- Provide tracking key indicators of the NUPRP Programme in line with the UNDP IRRF principles and tools;
- Develop monitoring and evaluation tools and processes, innovative approaches in monitoring and evaluation that meet the requirements of UNDP;
- Develop the accountability to beneficiaries strategy and plan in line with M&E tools and processes;
- Ensure the production of the NUPRP project’s documents related to monitoring and evaluations;
- Set a coordination mechanism for monitoring / evaluation plan.
- Direct responsibility and accountability for planning, management and oversight of NUPRP project monitoring and evaluations and other types of evaluations commissioned by the projects; Propose detailed plan and TORs for the key studies of the M&E plan;
- Advice to the Senior Management on the NUPRP programme of work, including identification of topics, and projects/programme to be monitored and evaluated; Promote the exchange of information in order to build best practices and effective NUPRP programme management;
- Organize, coordinate and lead monitoring and evaluation missions for the NUPRP Programme including an external evaluability assessment;
- Prepare and support independent and credible evaluations in compliance with professional standards, namely with the UNDP standards;
- Ensure that monitoring reports and evaluations are useful and that their recommendations and conclusions are implemented;
- Develop the NUPRP Programme’s evaluation plan following UNDP coporate standards.
Management of monitoring and evaluation process:
- Provide guidance on UNDP monitoring and evaluation policies, procedures and practices to NUPRP programme team and staff concerned with monitoring and evaluation, consultants and/or members of the monitoring and evaluation team;
- Liaise with UNDP M&E counterparts in other projects as well as in regional and HQ offices;
- Provide the technical advice at the design stage of NUPRP programme setting up a NUPRP results framework with defined indicators and an NUPRP M&E plan at the design stage to facilitate the evaluation at the later stages;
- Provide evaluation feedback into NUPRP policy/programme design, including comments on various documents;
- Coordinate all NUPRP program monitoring activities;
- Follow up on implementation of monitoring and evaluation recommendations; Ensuring the optimal use of monitoring and evaluations reports by providing guidance in preparation of timely management response to all mandatory evaluations and by developing a communication plan related to.
- Support rigorous impact evaluation, working with expert consultants using statistical models and with clearly defined a counter factual and strong identification strategy.
- Provide training / capacity building on NUPRP related m&e and knowledge products;
- Liaise closely with media and communications counterparts to plan launches, events and other activities designed to bring attention to the results and findings of the project;
- Produce well written reports and other materials conveying results;
- Produce M&E sections of formal reports to donors, headquarters and other partners;
- Set collaboration and coordination with other UN agencies, government agencies, NGOs, and other organizations on monitoring and evaluation issues;
- Organize and conduct of results-oriented monitoring and evaluation trainings within the NUPRP team;
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation community remaining abreast of latest development and professional norms, standards, tools and methodologies.
Competencies
- Uses the opportunity to bring forward and disseminate materials for advocacy work
- Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work
- Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration
- Monitors specific stages of projects/programme implementation
- Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners
- Displays initiative, sets challenging outputs for him/herself and willingly accepts new work assignments
- Takes responsibility for achieving agreed outputs within set deadlines and strives until successful outputs are achieved
- Looks at experience critically, drawing lessons, and building them into the design of new approaches
- Identifies new approaches and promotes their use in other situations
- Documents successes and uses them to project a positive image
- Creates an environment that fosters innovation and innovative thinking
- Makes the case for innovative ideas from the team with own supervisor
- Analyzes information on potential bilateral donors and national counterparts to recommend a strategic approach
- Identifies and compiles lessons learned
- Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches
- Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms
- Understands more advanced aspects of primary area of specialization as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines
- Serves as internal consultant in the area of expertise and shares knowledge with staff
- Keeps abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline and job knowledge and seeks to develop him/herself professionally
- Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments
- Demonstrates comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments
- Uses the opportunity to bring forward and disseminate materials for global advocacy work and adapts it for use at country level
- Anticipates client needs
- Works towards creating an enabling environment for a smooth relationship between the clients and service provider
- Demonstrates understanding of client’s perspective
- Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents
- Building support and political acumen
- Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation
- Building and promoting effective teams
- Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication
- Creating an emotionally intelligent organization
- Leveraging conflict in the interests of UNDP & setting standards
- Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member.
- Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking
Required Skills and Experience
- Master of Science Degree or equivalent in economics, development or social science.
- 5 years of relevant experience at the national and international level in development issues, both in the field and HQ. Experience in high quality reporting, monitoring and evaluation.
- Fluency in English.
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