Associate Monitoring and evaluation Officer

The Office of the UNHCR was established on 14 December 1950 by the UN General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country (www.unhcr.org).

The Office of the UNHCR was established on 14 December 1950 by the UN General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country (www.unhcr.org).

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Senior Programme Officer or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer will :

• Support the development and implementation of UNHCR’s system for monitoring protection and solutions strategies and results (impact, outcomes, outputs) in cooperation with relevant teams and promote a results-based monitoring culture throughout the operation and the Operations Management Cycle.
• Support the development of Theories of Change and related Results Frameworks and the measurability of multi-year protection and solutions strategies and annual plans. Support evaluation planning for Results Frameworks.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of monitoring plans across all implementation modalities (partnerships, direct implementation, and operational partners), ensuring consistency and coherence of UNHCR’s monitoring activities and ownership of the Multi-Functional Teams.
• Support setting up monitoring systems and indicator tracking, guiding teams on data collection methodologies and sources, age, gender and diversity aggregation and data reporting and sharing based on agreed protocols and standards, in close collaboration with evaluation, data and IM staff.
• Support coherence on monitoring standards, plans, tools, indicators and resources across UNHCR and project partners and ensure that monitoring actions are grounded in protection and solutions principles and approaches.
• Support senior management on monitoring findings and possible course-correcting actions, keep track of management decisions and follow-up actions and communicate monitoring findings to key stakeholders.
• Cooperate and coordinate with partners and stakeholders to facilitate coherence of monitoring approaches and indicators across multi-partner initiatives and engage in UN fora on monitoring (UNSDCF, HRP, RRP etc.), ensuring coherence and avoiding gaps and overlaps.
• Guide and train UNHCR and partner staff in applying UNHCR’s results-based management monitoring standards and procedures.
• Support processes to link monitoring to the operation’s evaluation and risk management plan.
• Contribute actively to innovative solutions for monitoring and to UNHCR’s global community of practice on monitoring, facilitating the exchange of lessons learned across countries and regions.

Results/expected outputs:

As an active UNHCR team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNHCR and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:
• Development of a results-based monitoring system for the operation.
• Development of project implementation management dashboard.
• Coordination of the result monitoring survey.
• Support the evidence-based programming with accurate data analysis.
• Provide the senior management with accurate gap analysis for informed decision taking and ensure the follow-up of the decisions.
• Coordination of the evaluations.
• Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment.
• 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.