National Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

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Job Description

Under the overall supervision of the FAOR, and in close coordination with the programme team and the administrative section of the FAO representation Nepal.

Provide needful M&E support to the FAO country programme/office in Nepal to carry out tasks as envisioned in the Terms of Reference (TOR).

Responsibilities:

The National Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be responsible to carry out the following tasks:

• Assist to prepare, update, monitor and report on the Monitoring Plan for the FAO Representation office on a periodic basis.
• In coordination with concerned officials, collect and compile the status, issues, challenges, required actions for FAO operationally active and pipeline projects for FAO Programme Management Team Meetings, Kathmandu CO meetings, FAO Nepal All Staff Meetings and other meetings as required.
• Collect, review and compile work-plan & budget of projects, human resource recruitment plan, procurement plan, risk mitigation plan, travel plan from each FAO projects for FAOR approval.
• Support Program Operation Specialists and Procurement Officers to review, consolidate and monitor compliance of the above-mentioned plans. Coordinate in updating the plans on a quarterly basis. Monitor timely submission and quality of plans.
• Assist in the collection of month delivery plans from projects and prepare a consolidated delivery plan for the preparation of the replenishment request of CO.
• Closely monitor the status of pipeline projects in FPMIS and facilitate actions to accelerate the implementation.
• Ensure that new projects have provisions made for 1. Result framework/log frame and M&E plan 2. Human Resource recruitment Plan 3. Procurement Plan 4. Risk monitoring 4. Environmental and Social (ES)safeguard assessment 5. GESI strategy/plan.
• Closely monitor the status of ongoing projects that is expected to be closed in FPMIS and other system and alert for timely submission of 1. Project completion/terminal report, 2. Handover documents, 3. Financial report to FAO to enable smooth and timely operational and financial closure.
• In close collaboration with the Admin & Finance and Programme Team, support in reviewing existing internal operations documents: such as Internal Guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), in-country procurement, travel and asset management; propose ways for improvement to increase efficiency.
• Support in preparing/updating necessary Project Monitoring Tools (data collection and reporting templates) for projects/programmes.
• In coordination and collaboration with M&E team and programme team, carry out monitoring and validation of project interventions in the field.
• Collect and consolidate information/data from FAO projects on periodic basis and prepare contributions and inputs for the Country Office Annual Report, CPF, CCA and UNCT/UNSDCF progress, UNINFO, PAID and SDG reporting as needed.
• Support in the documentation and sharing of good practices and learnings from FAO projects on a periodic basis.
• Participate in the M&E group and other specified UN groups/task force meetings and contribute with FAO inputs as required.
• Support UNSDCF Outcome Result Groups in the preparation of the JWP and report on progress as needed.
• In close coordination and collaboration with the FAO team, support project teams to develop and update a mechanism for Sharing Best Practices, Lessons Learnt and Knowledge (Knowledge Management).
• Any other additional tasks as assigned to support the FAO Country Office objectives

Minimum Requirements:

• Masters’ degree (Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Economics, Statistics or related fields)
• At least five years of proven experience in monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes with UN/ I/NGO or relevant institutions
• Working knowledge of English and Nepali languages
• National of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

Technical/Functional Skills :