Assistant Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Assistant Monitoring And Evaluation Officer

The Assistant Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer supports the generation and use of rigorous credible evidence on UNHCR's results and the situation of the people we serve for the purposes of planning, results reporting and advocacy. S/he supports consistency in monitoring methodologies, assists coordination of evaluations and the use of assessment and monitoring data for decision-making.

The Assistant M&E Officer supports the Planning Coordinator and Results Managers and collaborates closely with Information Management colleagues in operations. S/he works closely with Monitoring colleagues and Evaluation colleagues in the Regional Bureau and Headquarters as well as DIMA colleagues and Economists in the Regional Bureau. The incumbent works with the operation's multi-functional team (MFT), ensuring support to and effective participation of relevant stakeholders during the Plan for, Get and Show phases of UNHCR's results-based management cycle and operations' multi-year strategy.

Externally, as directed by the supervisor, the incumbent engages with individuals with whom UNHCR works and represents UNHCR on M&E-related matters, e.g. UNCT Technical M&E working group, and counterparts in other organizations or at the working level in national governments, such as national statistics offices.

The incumbent reports to a Monitoring & Evaluation Officer where available, or another senior staff who assumes the role of Planning Coordinator.

All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR's core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.

Duties

• Support in developing, budgeting, implementing, reviewing and refining multi-year M&E plans as part of the multi-year strategy, leveraging integrated M&E tools and approaches.
• Offer technical advice to Results Managers in selecting and developing relevant indicators, defining means of verification, as per guidance, and in setting baselines, targets and reporting progress. Support coherent results chains for the operation's strategy and review planned indicators and monitoring activities ensuring accurate use of indicators and related data including systematic documentation of methodology, calculation and use to enhance data-driven decision-making.
• Offer technical advice to ensure harmonized data collection methodologies, including for disaggregated and high-quality quantitative and qualitative data to measure progress of the operation's strategy. Support consistent practices across the operation in collaboration with Results Managers, Information Management, and other data functions, as per applicable guidance and quality standards, including for secondary data review as well as qualitative and quantitative primary data collection activities.
• Support coordination of key primary data collection exercises such as assessments, implementation monitoring and results monitoring activities including Results Monitoring Surveys (RMS), working across the multi-functional team while proactively pursuing streamlined processes and exploring integration opportunities.
• Support participatory approaches to assessment, monitoring, evaluation and reporting and evaluation by promoting engagement of communities and partners.
• Support coherence in M&E frameworks, tools and practices by coordinating with stakeholders across donor-driven and multi-partner initiatives – such as United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (UNSDCF), Humanitarian Response Plans (HRP), and Regional Refugee Response Plans (RRP) – and support representation of UNHCR in relevant external fora to better capture UNHCR and partners' support to results for forcibly…