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 contribute to peace building, community dialogue and ensure a more effective bottom-up impact of efforts actively and harmoniously.

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, 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 of its activities results 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(Management Information System) 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).

Task description:
Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Peace Building Project Manager or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the national UN Volunteer Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer will:

a) Ensure Effective Management of the Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Designing and setting up the project`s Framework (development of KPI, indicators including baseline, targets and means of verification).
• Monitoring and updating project`s CO risk log in Quantum.
• Identifying and resolving any exceptions on the Risk Dashboard.
• Providing inputs to the development of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving UNDP expected results, while being compliant with UNDP and donors’ evaluation and monitoring requirements, including relevant indicators related to the project.
• Contributing to evidence-based decision-making on projects’ design/formulation and implementation, notably through making monitoring, defining qualitative and quantitative indicators, review, and evaluation user-friendly and informative products/templates.
• Ensuring that all TORs, inception reports, and final reports are in line with the HQ Evaluation guidelines.
• Contributing to the development of donor proposals if needed.
• Reviewing and editing concept notes and project proposals.

b) Ensure Compliance with the Reporting Requirements:

• Developing all donors quarterly, annual, and final reports.
• Collect data and information on project’s activities and feed them into the monitoring system (KOBO and others) and generate charts when needed.
• Update project Indicator Performance Tracking Table, output tracker and other reporting tools.
• Provide inputs, information and statistics for quarterly, annual and other reports and presentations (internal and external) to Project Management Team and UNDP.

Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required
Arabic, Level: Fluent, Required

Required Experience:
4 years of experience in M&E and Coordination is required with a bachelor’s degree, or 3 years with a master’s degree of progressive relevant experience.
• Demonstrate understanding of peacebuilding and development activities
• Experience working on multi donor-funded projects is highly desirable
• Experience in performing quality assurance and control
• Previous experience with the UN, UNV, NGOs or international organization(s) is an asset
• Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills in both Arabic and English;
• Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing;
• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners, including grassroots community members, religious and youth organizations, and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development;
• Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel;
• Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and strong knowledge of web-based management systems such as ERP.
• Proven experience in working with data sets/models and data analysis.
• Self-motivated, ability to work with minimum supervision; ability to work with tight deadlines;
• Sound security awareness;

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

Living conditions and remarks
As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials. This position is based in (Beirut). National UN Volunteers are part of the malicious insurance plan. National UN Volunteers are expected to be culturally sensitive and adjust to the prevailing culture and traditions.

National UN Specialist Volunteers in Lebanon are entitled to:

• Monthly Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) at the amount of USD 1,606.58
• Annual and learning leaves;
• Medical and life Insurance
• Free access to different learning platforms.

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