Background Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks. UNDP’s strategic focus in Lebanon in the years ahead will be on three key areas:
- Supporting the design and implementation of a comprehensive reform agenda, as the first and essential step in the country's process toward reversing the vicious spiral of crises.
- Simultaneously supporting the stabilization of core Government services and providing direct livelihood support through the crisis response programmes.
- Work on linking the crisis response with longer-term inclusive governance and green development programming in line with what is feasible given the political context.
To be effective in the highly volatile context, UNDP’s country strategy stresses the central role of the short-to-medium-term crisis response while simultaneously focusing on Lebanon's longer-term governance and green development needs. It also recognizes the pressure on and need to support the provision of Government-led security services. Considering the uncertain national and subnational outlook, it emphasizes the need for an adaptive and experimental programme management approach.
To ensure that the UNDP in Lebanon is correctly positioned to deliver on its strategy and to be able to adapt swiftly to the volatile context, the Performance Management Unit (PMU) was established. Led by the Assistant Resident Representative (ARR), it reports to the Deputy Resident Representative with regards to all CO Performance aspects and to the Resident Representative on strategic and partnership questions. It combines RBM / M&E, programme finance and partnership capacities.
Duties and ResponsibilitiesUnder the overall guidance and supervision of the ARR, the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist ensures that
the CO be compliant with corporate reporting requirements, successfully implements innovative RBM practices
and enhances monitoring and evaluation practices in the CO.
Ensure effective implementation of UNDP and UN Reporting Requirements:
- Improve CO data management and results reporting.
- Responsible for the Quality-assure programme and project results frameworks.
- Lead on the corporate reporting at the CO level, with a focus on consolidating the ROAR, IWP, as well as other relevant corporate planning and reporting tools (IATI, CO Master Brief, quarterly portfolio reviews and CPD reporting.)
- Guide the project managers in UNINFO reporting (United Nations Sustainable Development Coorporation (UNSDCF)), reviewing indicators they report towards in the UNSDCF and regularly attend MEL WG meetings and work on related tasks for UNSDCF.
- Provide guidance and support on reporting requirements, processes and templates to programme and project team
- Guide and support the streamlining of reporting tools and approaches across the Country Office.
- Oversee the timely completion of all PQAs and SESP procedures.
- Enter, maintain, and update all information entered on the PMU platform (Sharepoint).
- Ensure that M&E processes and practices adhere to UNDP standards and international best practices.
- Conduct regular quality checks and audits to maintain the integrity and credibility of M&E systems.
- Guide on the alignment of project activities with UNDP’s strategic goals and object
Lead the design and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) strategy.
- Ensure continuous implementation of M&E system at project, programme and overall CO level. Support at project and programme level includes quality assurance and oversight. Support at CO level ensures attribution and results monitoring at outcome level.
- Provision of technical advice at design stage of programmes/projects setting up an M&E framework with defined indicators to facilitate adequate monitoring and evaluation at later stages.
- Enter, maintain, and update all information related to evaluations on the ERC
- Design indicators and data collection methods to assess project performance and impact.
- Support the M&E of the UN Strategic Framework, through UNDP engagement in this process.
Ensue collection and analysis of data related to CO projects
• Oversee the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data related to project outcomes.
• Ensure the accuracy and reliability of data and provide actionable insights for decision-making.
Lead the CO efforts in capacity building with regards to M&E
• Provide training and support to project staff and partners on M&E methodologies and tools.
• Support the streamlining of monitoring tools and approaches across the Country Office.
• Promote the use of M&E findings to inform programmatic decisions and improve project design and implementation.
• Identify and formulate lessons learned and recommendations to be integrated into broader CO knowledge management efforts, especially related to monitoring, evaluation and results.
Guide and support with the implementation of CO evaluations
• Support the planning and implementation of thematic, country programme/project evaluations and other types of evaluations conducted in the Country Office, in close coordination with the programme team.
- Ensures the timely responses to the evaluation recommendations.
• Quality-assures all evaluation products and safeguards the independence of the evaluation process.
Engage stakeholders in the M&E process
• Facilitate participatory M&E processes to enhance transparency and accountability.
Use Innovation and to stay updated with M&E tools and improve the processes in place
• Stay updated with emerging M&E trends, tools, and technologies to enhance the effectiveness of monitoring practices.
• Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve M&E systems and processes.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary forth efficient functioning of the Office and the Organized
Institutional Arrangement
The incumbent will be working under the overall guidance and supervision of the Head of PMU - ARR.
Competencies Core Competencies Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact
Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems
Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences
Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands
Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results
Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
Thematic Area Name Definition Business Management Knowledge Generation Ability to research information and to turn it into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need. Ability to apply existing concepts to new situations, and to develop new concepts to generate workable solutions and new approaches. Knowledge of relevant concepts, conceptual models, and theories that can be useful in addressing new situation
Digital & Innovation
Design thinking
Solving problems by putting people at the centre, visualising ideas and making them tangible in order to improve them through and iterative process of developing and testing. Strong empathy skills, being able to put yourself ""in someone else's shoes"", understand needs, abilities, preferences, motivations, (everyday) experiences from different perspectives as well as their cultural, social, economical and political contexts. Ability to identify and challenge assumptions, (cognitive and social) biases and dominant mental models by generating new perspectives and frames that help redefine the problem, solution and opportunity space. Being able to work with incomplete information, ambiguity and opposing views, needs and constraints and synthesise them into solutions that are viable, technically feasible and useful.
Digital
Developmental evaluation
- Learning and adaptation focused: ability to promote and facilitate ongoing reflection and adaptation; aimed 7
- UNDP | People for 2030 – Competency Framework – Technical Competencies
- at informing learning and portfolio related decision making.
- Being comfortable with unknown unknowns, uncertainty and understand the traits and value of working with emergence. Being able to give direction rather than destination: monitor and learn about how we understand the present and our direction towards something better (general intent) – not measuring progress and milestones towards a specific pre-defined goal
- Being able to carry out evaluation thinking in complex systems and adapting evaluation strategies to changing realities.
- Being inclusive, collaborative and co-creative: being able to design and implement evaluation frameworks with the variety of stakeholders and beneficiaries involved.
- Being flexible and able to use of a mix of methods, having a high tolerance for ambiguity and can draw on a variety of qualitative and quantitative evidence, is open to unorthodox types of evidence.
- Ability to set up the structures, conditions, rituals to create a culture for curiosity, reflection and learning and promote evaluation results and insights from a learning perspective.
- Understand key principles of systems and complexity theory.
Ethics
UN policy knowledge - ethics Knowledge and understanding of the UN Staff Regulations and Rules and other policies relating to ethics and integrity.
Business Management Monitoring and Evaluation Ability to systematically monitor results of strategies, programmes, and activities with a view to make sure that they are being implemented effectively; Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between planned activities and programme management and results. Ability to make independent judgment of the management and results of strategies, programmes and activities based on set criteria and benchmark, keeping in mind the needs and concerns of client, current and upcoming. Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, concepts, methodologies, systems, processes, and tools. Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.
Business Direction and Strategy System Thinking
Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system
Required Skills and Experience Min. Education requirements - Advanced University Degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, or other related field; or,
- A first level University degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in the above- mentioned fields with additional 2 years of relevant experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.
Min. years of relevant work experience Minimum 5 years (with a Master’s degree) or 7 years (with a Bachelor’s degree) of progressive relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation and / or project management.
Required skills • Experience and strong knowledge of monitoring and evaluation tools is required, in particular results-based management.
•Experience and substantive knowledge of development, and development programming in crisis.
•Experience in usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling web-based management systems
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section •Experience in developing and facilitating participatory, competency-based trainings.
•Previous experience in with international organizations in relevant tasks •Experience with UN Reporting and Monitoring tools.
Required Language(s) Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of another UN language is desired.
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