Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

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Mission and objectives

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals. The country programme of UNFPA has three major components: (i) Improved comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) service provision and uptake in all setting (ii) Adolescents and Youth Outcome Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (iii) Population Dynamic and Data collection and management UNFPA in Ethiopia is led by a Country Representative accredited to the Government of Ethiopia. It has a programme team led by a Deputy Representative, International Humanitarian Coordinator, Assistant Representative and an Operations’ team led by an International Operations Manager as well as M&E team. UNFPA Ethiopia has presence in most part of the country including Benishangul Gumuz region.

Context

The National UN Volunteer will support UNFPA Ethiopia Country Office, the Program Monitoring and Evaluation unit. He/she will be working with all Country Office program officers and regional program officers through the guidance of the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer on quality assurance, policy application, and effective and sound resources utilization. The purpose of the assignment is to strengthen the coordination and operationalization of the 9th country program through a results-based planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting. Furthermore, it is intended to improve the quality and results orientation of UNFPA-supported policy and programme interventions through the implementation of the key interventions in an integrated and holistic manner. Moreover, it is purposed to ensure that the funds programs are aligned with the Home-Grown Economic Reform, ICPD plan of Action, SDGs and other international commitments, while serving the needs of the under-served segments of the population.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of UNFPA Ethiopia Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst, and under the overall guidance of the UNFPA Ethiopia Deputy Representative the National UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: • Support in the development of the Country Office’s Monitoring and Evaluation Plan, and assist in the crafting of annual workplans of government and non-government implementing partners; • Support implementation of the Country Office’s Monitoring and Evaluation Plan by the Country Office, Implementing Partners and other relevant stakeholders. • Support the integration of strategic results targets of the 9th CP, UNSDCF and relevant national policies and strategic plans supported by UNFPA into the Country Office M&E systems for tracking progress towards results; • Support in the development and maintenance of necessary tools, procedures, methodologies to facilitate data collection and analyses for results monitoring, interpretation, and reporting by liaising with Regional Program Officers; • Support the data collection, analysis and utilization of high-quality data from the field, in liaising with UNFPA´s field staff (RPO s) and relevant Implementing Partners; • Support in the compilation and summarization of high-quality evidence and results-based donor and UNFPA corporate reports; • Support in the preparation of summary of action points indicated by field mission reports, proceeding of review meetings and trainings and upload in the appropriate goggle folder for the consumption of the senior management and program meetings; • Follow up the implementation of such recommendations and inform the M&E analyst; • Contributes to the design and implementation of high-quality evaluations including Mid-term reviews and, ensuring that evaluation reports are used for evidence based planning; • Under the supervision of the M&E analyst support process-related aspects of Evaluations, identification of stakeholders to be covered by the evaluation, and organizing field missions; • Support in the preparation of programme/project evaluations of UNFPA Country Office in compiling and uploading necessary/ required documents guided by the M&E officer; • Support in the preparation of program and operational audit of UNFPA Country Office in compiling and uploading necessary/ required documents guided by the M&E analyst. • Support in the follow up of the implementation of agreed evaluation recommendations by the concerned and timely reporting of the management responses. • Support programme and operations units in incorporating lessons learned and best practices specified in programme/project evaluations for future use. Results/expected outputs: Timely submission of assignment, required from the unit.