M&E Associate: RBM, Data & Capacity Building – Port Sudan

General

Description of assignment title: M&E Associate

Assignment country: Sudan

Duty stations: Port Sudan

Work location: On UN premises

Expected start date: 07/05/2026

Duration: 6 months(with possibility of extension)
Long-term benefits and allowances

Sustainable Development Goal: 5. Gender equality

Host entity: UNFPA

Modality: Onsite

Type: National

Volunteer category: Specialist UCoS from Apr
2026

Work schedule: Full-time

Number of Assignments: 1

Details

• UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
• UNFPA supports:
• Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) for all, particularly women and girls in more than 150 countries - home to more than 80per cent of the world's population. SRH includes;
• The health of pregnant women, especially the 10-15 million who face life-threatening complications eachyear
• Reliable access to modern contraceptives sufficient to benefit 20 million women a year
• Training of thousands of health workers,particularly midwives to help ensure at least 80 per cent of allchild births are supervised by skilled attendants
• Prevention of teen and early pregnancies,complications of which are the leading cause of death for girls
  15-19 years old
• Delivery of safe birth supplies, dignity kits and other life-saving materials to survivors of conflict and natural disaster
• Prevention of gender-based violence (GBV), one of the most common forms of violence today affecting 1 in 3 women across theglobe
• Abandonment of female genital mutilation, which harms 3 million girls annually
• Gender-responsive, age appropriate Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
• Efforts to end child marriage affecting 12 million girls everyyear
• Countries in development of youth policies and reproductive,maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health policies and action plans.
• Population census, demographic health surveys, research, data collection and analysis, which are essential for development planning as well as in humanitarian settings

• The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Associate will operatewithin the UNFPA Country Office in Port Sudan, directly supporting the M&E Specialist and working closely with the programme and support teams. UNFPA's strategic direction focuses on achievingthree transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths;end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violenceand harmful practices. The Country Office is implementing robustinformation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems.
  
  The selected candidate will assist the M&E Specialist in strengthening monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learningactivities, ensuring that UNFPA programming is based on evidence,and well positioned as well as optimally integrated into nationalframeworks and humanitarian response plans.

• Coordination and RBM Best Practices:
• Assist with tracking project metrics and applying
  
  Results-Based Management (RBM) principles to data entry and basicreporting.
• Assist in gathering data to ensure programme delivery aligns with the Country Programme Document, the UNFPA Strategic Plan,donor requirements, and national frameworks.
• Supports the coordination of results planning and reportingacross the office.
• Knowledge Management Support:
• Assist in the digitalization of knowledge management for ongoing programme, support, and M&E activities.
• Help organize and format the collection, systematization, and dissemination of knowledge products, good practices, and lessons learned
• Follow-Up and Capacity Building:
• Support the M&E Specialist in strengthening the capacityof Country Office staff and implementing partners (IPs) regardingmonitoring, evaluation, reporting, and learning concepts.
• Support follow-up with IPs on regular quantitative and qualitative reporting requirements.
• Assist in preparing, collecting, and updating templates andbest practices, such as checklist, mission findings, action andrecommendation trackers.
• Framework Maintenance and Updating
• Help maintain and routinely update M&E master filesrelated to service locations, Monitoring activities, data reportingmechanisms, information frameworks, and work plans

Age: 18 - 80

Required experience: 3 years

Nationality: Candidate must be a national, legal residentor hold refugee status in the country of assignment.

Relevant experience:

• 2 years

• Arabic, Level: Fluent, Required
• English, Level: Fluent, Required

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, computer science, business administration, data analysis, business intelligence, or any relevant field.

• Achieving results
• being accountable
• Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen
• Thinking analytically and strategically
• Working in teams/ managing ourselves and ourrelationships
• Communicating for impact

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in implementing Results-Based Management (RBM) principles and trackingprogramme delivery…