UNV Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer

UN Entity: UNDP

Assignment Context: 

The UNDP Peace Building in Lebanon Project has been working since 2006 on addressing the underlying causes of conflict in Lebanon and to create “safe spaces” for local identity groups to discuss their concerns openly and enhance mutual understanding of the different “other”. Social cohesion was being enhanced at the local, community and national levels between civil society (youth, educators, media, NGOs and religious leaders) and relevant local public (municipal council members and mukhtars) actors. Through training programs, advocacy work and enhanced networking, stakeholders have been better equipped to actively and harmoniously contribute to peace building, community dialogue and ensure a more effective bottom-up impact of efforts. The project has also been working on collective memory and integrating peace building concepts into formal and non-formal educational channels. Moreover, the project tackled media (traditional and alternative) to manage diversity and decrease biased reporting. At the local level, the project focused on developing local mechanisms for social stability in several hot spot areas all over Lebanon. Also, the project supported the creating of a cross-political, multi-confessional civil society platform working on civil peace. 
With the Syrian crisis further impacting the Lebanese context since 2013, with the influx of a high number of Syrian refugees, the project has been acting as a focal point to many partner organizations on issues pertaining to the impact of the Syrian crisis on social cohesion in Lebanon, both in terms of inter Lebanese relations and Lebanese Syrian interaction. Today the project focuses on addressing the new challenges to civil peace and peace building in the country posed by the Syrian crisis through working on outputs: 1. Education promoting social cohesion supported; 2. Media empowered to promote balanced and conflict sensitive media coverage; 3. Local level peace building strategies to mitigate tensions developed in selected conflict prone areas of Lebanon hosting Syrian refugees; 4. An NGO platform promoting nation-wide truth and reconciliation supported ex-fighters’ role in promoting peace building supported. 

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Peace Building Project Manager & Advisor, the M&E and Reporting Officer will be responsible for the reporting, monitoring and evaluation of the project’s activities. He or she will support the project manager in ensuring high quality and timely inputs, maintaining the project’s strategic vision and monitoring if its activities result in the achievement of its intended outputs in a cost effective and timely manner. The M&E and Reporting Officer will be responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities of the Project; assisting the Project Manager in preparing Quarterly/Annual donor reports and internal reports on project progress and will monitor the project activities on a regular basis, developing and maintaining the MIS of the Project and will be responsible for the collection & analysis of different data in relation to the project activities. The Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work in close collaboration with the project team (including several coordinators following up on specific outputs) and the Reform and Good Governance programme (under which falls the Peace Building in Lebanon and Dealing with the Past projects).

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Peace Building Project Manager & Advisor or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UNV Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer will: 
• Update (and improve if need be) the existing monitoring and evaluation system for the Peace Building Project (including the Dealing with the Past project’s activities): 
o Review existing baselines, plans and indicators 
o Update where necessary 
o Review existing indicators and means of verification and update where necessary 
o Follow up on system for monitoring and reporting 
o Collect data and information on project’s activities and feed them into the monitoring system (KOBO and others) and generate charts when need be 

• Support the project team in submitting high quality reports: 
o Review existing reporting system 
o Review means of data collection 
o Draft reports for donors and UNDP 
o Update project Indicator Performance Tracking Table, output tracker and other reporting tools; o Provide inputs, information and statistics for quarterly, annual and other reports and presentations (internal and external) to Project Management Team and UNDP; 
o Perform other duties as required. 

Inclusivity statement: 
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements: 
Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy.