Monitoring Officer

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Context

The national UNV Monitoring Officer will be part of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation (PME) section and will be reporting to the PME specialist. This national UNV officer will provide professional technical, operational and organizational assistance throughout the planning, monitoring, and evaluation process and supporting a variety of technical and administrative tasks to contribute to overall section functions on planning, implementation, oversight and reporting to ensure programme excellence.

Task description

Under the overall guidance of the Deputy Representative of Programme and the direct supervision of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Specialist, and in close coordination with the various programme sections, the UN Volunteer Monitoring Officer will: 1. Provide support as necessary in organizing and managing annual and mid-year country programme reviews ensuring consistency with objectives and goals set out in the Country Programme. 2. Provide technical and organizational support to the monitoring function, including situation monitoring, post-distribution monitoring, activity monitoring, and tracking of programmatic visits conducted by UNICEF staff and the third part monitoring team, especially for EU grants. 3. Support the roll-out of the Field Monitoring Module (FMM) in the country office, including developing and designing data collection tools/ templates and assist with regular data collection/generation process. 4. Support in tracking visits entered in eTools FMM, including reviewing the Monitoring Visit Reports for quality and completeness and identify potential follow-up Action Points in the system. 5. Provide technical and organizational support to UNICEF corporate (mid-year and end-year reporting), inter-agency, and donor reporting, including on EU grants. 6. Support promotion and integration of accountability to affected population (AAP) principles in UNICEF’s programmes, and the coordination of the Common Feedback Mechanism (CFM) in particular EU-funded programmes. 7. Provide support to the production of quality evidence generation as in the CO IMEP, EISI, including follow up/quality control to the on-going and planned research, evaluations and studies, including supporting MICS. 8. Contribute to the design of TORs, training materials, communication materials related to the research, evaluations and studies within the country office, including these funded from the EU. 9. Any other relevant tasks requested by supervisor. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Provide annual and end of assignment self- reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible. Results/expected outputs. • As an active UNICEF Libya Country Office (LCO) team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNICEF LCO and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including. • Improved monitoring function including the roll out of the Field Monitoring Module (FMM) in Libya country office. • Technical and organizational support to the PME section office-wide functions and project including the MICS. • Updated FMM module and monitoring visits of UNICEF staff and third-party monitors are entered in FMM with complete reports. • A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed.