In addition, the country faces losses of many people’s lives and devastative destruction of infrastructures and economic bases. Currently, more than 50% of the energy infrastructure damaged, causing the massive disruption of energy supply nationwide with millions of people experiencing power outages and challenges in heating. Extensive scale of destruction of infrastructure, rehabilitating or constructing infrastructures and installing equipment with necessary supply of the materials is urgently required to restore or maintain life-line and key basic services, followed by removal or mines and explosives as well as debris.
The Civil Society and Youth Support Project (CSYP) builds on many years of joint programming by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DMFA) and UNDP supporting civil society and youth empowerment. CSYP contributes to the following long-term result: “Ukraine's civil society and youth are impactful players in shaping and promoting the country's democracy and human rights agenda, including issues of respect to diversity and women's rights and social cohesion.”
The project has a three-dimensional approach. Firstly, it intends to strengthen civil society organizations: focusing first and foremost at the subnational level) to enable better fundraising and communications, link established CSOs with youth groups to ensure cross-fertilization in skills, harvest smart practices in adapting to the pandemic and post-pandemic disruptions and foster (as a pilot) creation of a CSO self-defence platform.
Secondly, the project will work at the central level to create a more enabling policy environment for CSOs (registration and operation) and support the national "youth machinery" (Ministry of Youth and Sports (MYS), Parliamentary Committee, the to-be-created Ukrainian Youth Foundation (UYF), All-Ukrainian Youth Center, State Institute for Family and Youth Policy and other entities).
Thirdly and finally, CSYP is designed to support Ukrainian youth in honing their skills for good citizenship and leadership. The project will support youth-driven projects and expose young women and men to how local governments operate to implement locally relevant social cohesion initiatives.
In this context, UNDP is recruiting Project Monitoring and Evaluation Associate, who will be responsible for the overall support of implementation of the the described project and other related outputs related in the portfolio, performing a variety of standard operational services within the projects frameworks ensuring high quality and accuracy of work.
The incumbent will promote UNDP’s mandate as a gender-responsive organization with zero tolerance to any kind of discriminatory and abusive behavior, including sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse.
3. Scope of Work
The Monitoring and Evaluation Associate is responsible to develop the overall framework for project M&E (i.e. annual project reviews, participatory impact assessments, process monitoring, operations monitoring, lessons learned workshops). This will include the formulation of key performance indicators and parameters for monitoring project performance and measuring its progress towards its targets.
A. Ensure Quality Reporting, Monitoring, Evaluation, Assessment & Research Planning:
- Develop and refine Project results and M&E Frameworks. Ensure that Project components have results-based annual work plans with indicators, baselines and targets, established at the outcome, output and activity levels.
- Ensure optimal use of evaluation by providing guidance and coordination in preparation of timely management response to all mandatory evaluations, follow up on the implementation of management response actions.
- Consolidate lessons learned and recommendations from the completed evaluations to ensure continuous learning and implementation of best practices by UNDP in the design of interventions.
- Provide support to the project, programme, other evaluations by providing documentation, relevant data and evidence as requested.
- Ensure high quality and accuracy of Project results presented in donor reports and communications materials.
- Ensure that evaluations, assessments and other M&E products are designed and implemented in accordance with established UNDP quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely manner to stakeholders in order to improve performance and contribute to wider learning.
- Ensure integration of SDG targets into Project reports and strategies.
- Ensure timely and quality input to UN corporate reporting platforms and corporate reports and plans: IWP, ROAR, IATI, Atlas project module, UN INFO, IMRP.
- Collect data and report on the contribution of Project to the achievement of UNDP Strategic Plan and UNDP in Ukraine Country Programme Document outcomes and outputs.
- Ensure mainstreaming of gender equality in all aspects of M&E and reporting, promotion of a safe and enabling environment free of any kind of discrimination and abusive behaviour, and gender-responsive communications based on corporate principles.
B. Ensure provision of high-quality support to Knowledge Management and Capacity Building:
- Identify and formulate evaluation and audit findings, lessons learned from evaluations and studies to be integrated into broader UNDP knowledge management.
- Promote the shared responsibility of M&E function among all staff members and partners through communication, training, learning and development activities Project-wide.
- Support in building capacities of Project staff and stakeholders on best practices in RBM, UNDP rules and guidelines on project cycle, UNDP Strategic objectives and interlinkages.
- Collaborate and coordinate with other UN agencies, government agencies, NGOs, and other organizations on monitoring and evaluation issues; keep abreast of latest development and professional norms, standards, tools and methodologies.
- Perform other functions as requested by management.
C. Report writing:
- Provide inputs, information and statistics for quarterly, annual and other reports;
- Assist the Programme Manager in the preparation of donor reports;
- Liaise with the UNDP Country Office relevant teams and provide requested inputs for the corporate strategic reports;
- Support the development of project annual reporting (PIR), Country Office annual report and review reports from Implementing Partners and any other relevant stakeholder;
- Work closely with the project team to ensure that lessons learned from project evaluations are documented properly;
- Develop and maintain accurate information in a project database, as well as accurate and timely electronic files on deliverables;
- Undertake the quality control of project's implementing strategies and approaches;
D. Capacity building and knowledge sharing:
- Closely work with programme staff and provide support when necessary on the topics related to M&E;
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and networking on M&E-related focus areas;
- Provide technical support to Implementing Partners on all M&E-related activities;
- Support monitoring and evaluation of the effects and impact of the project;
- Assist in coordinating across the available components of the Project to ensure effective implementation of M&E
4. Institutional Arrangement
The Project Monitoring and Evaluation Associate will work in close collaboration with the Project personnel and UNDP CO M&E team to ensure M&E requirements are fulfilled and M&E Framework is reported in a timely manner with required quality checks, following the highest standards in line with UNDP guidelines and procedures.
5. Competencies
Core Competencies:
Achieve Results:
LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively:
LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously:
LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility:
LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with Determination:
LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner:
LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion:
LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
Functional Competencies
Corporate Competencies: Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
Results Orientation: Ability to take responsibility for achieving agreed outputs within set deadlines and strives until successful outputs are achieved.
Business direction and strategy
Building Strategic Partnerships: Ability to identify needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners.
Team Work and Communication skills: Excellent time management, monitoring and evaluation skills.
Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Advocates for innovative ideas, documenting successes/good practices and building them into the design of new approaches
Required Skills and Experience
Education Requirements:
- Secondary Education is required or university degree in in evaluation, economics, public/business administration, social sciences, statistics, technology, or related field.
Relevant work experience:
- Minimum 7-years (with secondary education) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of professional working experience in Monitoring and Evaluation or development work.
Required Experience/skills:
- Experience in monitoring projects with a market systems development approach is preferable but not mandatory.
- Experience in innovation and technology for inclusive finance is preferable but not mandatory.
- Experience in providing training on results measurement systems is preferable but not mandatory
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work effectively in a team and in an international environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate and engage with project stakeholders
- Experience working with international organizations, developing country governments, donor agencies and / or NGOs and other civil society groups involved in various sectors of international development.
- Experience in Information analysis and report writing is desirable
- Demonstrated experience and good knowledge of Monitoring & Evaluation system design is an asset
- Demonstrated experience in Data processing skills is an asset
- Experience in use of computer to present data using graphics, creativity
Required Languages
- English and Ukrainian languages (fluency in both spoken and written)
This is a national position. Only Ukrainian nationals are eligible to apply for this position.
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