Monitoring and Reporting Specialist

Minimum age: 25 years old. Nationals of the country of assignment are not eligible, except the assignments in Headquarters duty stations.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Programmes Manager, the UN Volunteer Monitoring and Reporting Specialist will undertake the following tasks:

1. Provide guidance to the Country Office(CO) in incorporating monitoring and reporting into programme formulation
• Provide quality assurance of program documents through review of results frameworks in order to meet SMART criteria;
• Manage the development of monitoring indicators, monitoring calendars, and field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes; ensure use of relevant evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations are incorporated to programme formulation;
• Provide inputs to the annual work plan monitoring, reviews and reporting;
• Ensure linkage of Annual Work Plans (AWPs) and corresponding Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) Plans with the UN Women Strategic Plan;
• Provide strategic guidance to partners and CO in developing Performance Monitoring Frame-works (PMFs) and Baseline Surveys;
• Ensure the allocation of sufficient funds for monitoring, evaluation and reporting under the two projects.

2. Provide technical guidance to the Country Office(CO) in and oversee monitoring and track-ing of results against country targets and UN Women Strategic Plan pertaining to the two projects.
• Ensure data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardized;
• Monitor data from partners and beneficiaries on a quarterly basis and draft regular management briefs to inform decision making;
• Visit partners and beneficiaries to support monitoring of results and planning processes and provide technical support to beneficiary and partner organizations in planning, monitoring, re-porting, developing Performance Monitoring Frameworks (PMFs), development and implemen-tation of Baseline and End Line Surveys;
• Lead the review of financial reports based on contractual obligation;
• Monitor the spending of donor funds and other programme expenditures and disbursements;
• Contribute to drafting and monitoring of the UN Women Turkey Office’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Plan.

3. Oversee reporting of results to internal and external audiences
• Coordinate and provide technical guidance to the Country Office in meeting internal and exter-nal reporting requirements and deadlines, including annual reporting process;
• Provide inputs for the corporate quarterly and annual reports; as well as for inter-agency reports such as for the relevant UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Strategy Results Groups and 3RP coordination mechanisms;
• Prepare result-oriented donor and programme reports (both narrative and financial);
• Ensure use of relevant evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations are incorporated into programme reporting;
• Review progress reports submitted by partners and beneficiaries and provide feedback to im-prove quality and timeliness of reporting;
• Ensure the availability (including collecting and maintaining) of data for country, regional and global corporate reports, mid-term reviews, and final evaluations;
• Provide support for reporting to UN INFO.

4. Contribute to knowledge building and capacity building
• Identify and disseminate good practices, lessons and knowledge; as identified through pro-gramme implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities;
• Develop capacity development tools, including training materials and packages;
• Manage capacity building opportunities of staff and partners in the region/country in the areas of Results Based Management (RBM), Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E);
• Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of M&E among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities.
• Ensure coordination and liaison with the Evaluation Specialist and other relevant focal points at the UN Women Europe and Central Asia Regional Office as required.