Programme Monitoring Analyst

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Mission and objectives

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on four strategic priorities: Women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems Women have income security, decent work and economic autonomy All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence Women and girls contribute to and have greater influence in building sustainable peace and resilience, and benefit equally from the prevention of natural disasters and conflicts and humanitarian action UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality, and in all deliberations and agreements linked to the 2030 Agenda. The entity works to position gender equality as fundamental to the Sustainable Development Goals, and a more inclusive world.

Context

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. The UN Women Brazil Country Office (CO) Strategic Note 2017-2021 (the UN Women “country programme”) outlines the strategic direction, approaches, partnerships, and results to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, in line with human rights standards. It is focused on responding to UN Women’s three core mandates: 1. Normative: to support inter-governmental bodies, such as the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and the General Assembly, in their formulation of policies, global standards and norms. 2. Operational: to help Member States to implement international standards and to forge effective partnerships with civil society; and 3. Coordination: entails both promotion of the accountability of the United Nations system on gender equality and empowerment of women (GEEW), including regular monitoring of system-wide progress, and more broadly mobilizing and convening key stakeholders to ensure greater coherence and gender mainstreaming across the UN. The Strategic Note is proposed in alignment with national priorities established in the Brazilian Government’s Plano PluriAnual (PPA) 2016-2019 and 2020-2023; and with the United Nations Partnership Framework for Sustainable Development (UNPFSD) 2017-2021 for Brazil. The UNPFSD has five axes that correspond to the five Ps of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships), specifying the need to include commitments with gender and racial equality in all its results. The Strategic Note is also aligned with the UN Women Global Strategic Plan 2018-2021, focusing on three Outcome Areas: 1: Women lead, participate in, and benefit equally from governance systems 2: Women have income security, decent work, and economic autonomy 3: All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence The Strategic Note is grounded in the standards, principles and obligations of the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Concluding Observations of the Commission on the Status of Women, Security Council Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, the Convention to Eliminate Racial Discrimination (CERD), the Durban Action Plan and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review. As part of the United Nations Country Team (UNCT), UN Women promotes strengthened coordination, commitment to and accountability for gender equality and women’s empowerment, including through tools such as the UNCT SWAP Gender Equality Scorecard and the UNCT Gender Equality Marker. The CO leads the Inter-Agency Thematic Group (TG) on Gender.

Task description

Under the overall guidance of the Representative of UN Women in Brazil and direct supervision of the Programme Manager, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: 1. Provide technical inputs to programme formulation to ensure monitoring and re-porting is incorporated • Provide inputs to the development of monitoring indicators, monitoring calendars, and field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes; • Include relevant inputs from evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations into programme formulation; • Provide inputs to annual work plan monitoring, reviews and reporting; • Provide technical support to partners in developing Performance Monitoring Frame-works (PMFs), systems and plans, and Baseline Surveys; • Facilitate the clearance of donor agreements and Programme Cooperation Agreements; 2. Provide technical inputs to the monitoring and tracking of results against country level targets and UN Women Strategic Plan • Coordinate with Programme Team to ensure data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized across programmes; • Monitor data from partners/countries on a quarterly basis and provide inputs to regular management briefs to inform decision making; • Visit partners, along with the Programme Team, to support monitoring of results and planning processes, as required; • Monitor the spending of donor funds and other programme expenditures and disbursements; • Contribute to the development and monitoring of the Brazil Country Office’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Plan. 3. Facilitate the reporting of results to internal (Senior Management) and external (Executive Board, Donors) audiences • Facilitate the process of the Brazil Country Office’s meeting internal and external re-porting requirements and deadlines, including annual reporting process; • Contribute substantial inputs to donor and programme reports (both narrative and financial); • Identify relevant evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations and input them into programme reporting; • Review progress reports submitted by partners and provide feedback to improve quality and timeliness of reporting; • Collect and maintain data for country, regional and global corporate reports, mid-term reviews, and final evaluations; 4. Provide technical support to the Brazil Country Office’s in the implementation the UN Women Evaluation Policy • Coordinate the implementation of UN Women’s Evaluation plan in the country office; • Draft/revise Terms of Reference for specific project/program evaluations; • Ensure communication between the Brazil Country Office’s and RO regarding Evaluations; • Coordinate the completion of management’s response to the UN Women Global Ac-countability and Tracking of Evaluation Use (GATE). 5. Contribute to knowledge building and capacity building • Identify and disseminate good practices, lessons, and knowledge, as identified through programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities; • Contribute to the development of capacity development tools, including training materials and packages; • Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of Monitoring and Evaluation among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities.