Monitoring and Evaluation Officer,

Introduction

The ILO seeks to recruit a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the NO-B level for an upcoming US DOL project which seeks to Improve Worker Rights in Rural Sectors of the Indo-Pacific with a focus on Women. The project is implemented in the Philippines and Indonesia, but this post shall be responsible for the monitoring and evaluation activities in the Philippines.  

Project outcomes include:

MTO 1.1 National and regional tripartite mechanisms of industry tripartite partners in (1) mainstreaming gender and sector specific labor issues in industry tripartite councils and (2) Occupational Safety and Health in line with ILO Convention No 187 are enhanced

MTO 1.2. Enhanced and improved gender-responsiveness of government’s monitoring, enforcement and remediation on labor standards and OSH

MTO 2.1 Mechanisms and structures that promote compliance to labour laws, gender, and OSH in the supply chain of rural sectors, pilot enterprises and their communities are enhanced

The project falls under the technical responsibility of the LABADMIN/OSH.

Reporting Lines

Under the overall supervision of the Director of the ILO Country Office for Manila and the direct supervision of the Project Manage for the Philippines, the M&E Officer will implement the the project monitoring and evaluation (M&E) strategy/system based around the Project Performance Monitoring Plan specific to the Philippines.

Specific Duties

General duties:

The M&E Officer will:

• Technically coordinate the designing, implementation and operationalization of the project’s M&E System and Performance Monitoring Plan.
• Roll out the evaluation methodologies (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods) and data collection and analysis methodologies.
• Provide substantial inputs and facilitation of the strategic planning and performance measurement activities of the project.
• Support to the design, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of project activities, and assist the project director in the effective co-ordination of the monitoring and evaluation of the Philippines component of the project.
• Ensure that all implementation, monitoring and reporting requirements are in place under the project and with implementing agencies, and that information provided by implementing agencies is recorded and verifiable.
• Prepare initial draft and finalize progress and ad hoc reports on the M&E under the project.

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More specifically, s/he will:

• Under the project M&E System and Performance Monitoring Plan, identify and propose a strategy and methodology for monitoring the project’s beneficiaries, including systems and tools for collecting and storing data, sources of data, proposed frequency for data collection.
• Coordinate the inputs, information and data on planning and monitoring generated under the project.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of the baseline studies, mid-term and endline studies under the project, including surveys, quantitative and qualitative studies.
• Review and analyse data collected with the project, implementer partners and project key stakeholders).
• Draft analytical reports with findings, recommendations and lessons learnt.
• Identify relevant outcome-based research themes from the M&E System and Performance Monitoring Plan.
• Provide technical advice on the design of indicators, baselines, surveys and other data collection activities.

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• Advise and plan for monitoring and evaluation for specific interventions.
• Apply theory of change approaches and methodologies.
• Support the mainstreaming of project indicators into national monitoring frameworks.
• Establish and maintain linkages with national monitoring and evaluation offices as part of strengthening national monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Design and implement national capacity building activities on monitoring and evaluation for national partners as part of building and strengthening national monitoring and evaluations systems and processes.
• Act as resource person for trainings on Monitoring and Evaluation and as the Project’s liaison officer for externally-managed evaluations.
• Support external and independent evaluations in line with both ILO and donor requirement, including facilitate and serve as a project liaison for externally-managed evaluation.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the Project Manager and the Director of ILO CO-Manila

Required qualifications

Education

University degree in statistics, demographics, public policy, international development, economics, or related field.

Experience

• Minimum of three years professional experience in a senior M&E position responsible for implementing M&E activities of international development projects. 

• Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
• Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
• Experience developing reporting tools, including in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience developing and refining data collection tools.
• Experience with data quality assessments and oversight.
• Experience managing and providing ongoing training to M&E field officers.
• Ability to facilitate and serve as a project liaison for externally-managed evaluations.

Languages

Excellent written and spoken command of English is required.

Competencies

• Good knowledge of programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation techniques and practices.
• Familiarity with impact assessment an advantage
• Familiarity with some of the substantive issues handled by the project such as labour inspection, labour law enforcement, social dialogue.
• Good knowledge and experience regarding gender mainstreaming.
• Good moderation, facilitation and training skills.

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• Demonstrated ability to liaise and negotiate with government and social partners.
• Ability to perform a variety of conceptual analyses required for the formulation, administration and evaluation of projects.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills.
• Good computer applications skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to build on relevant knowledge within and outside the ILO as well as actively share her/his experience and expertise with colleagues and partners.
• Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision.
• Ability to work under time pressure and meet deadlines.

• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes.