Senior Programme Monitoring Officer job at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Vacancy title:
Senior Programme Monitoring Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Data Science / Research ]

Jobs at:

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Deadline of this Job:
15 December 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, December 09, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Duties
• Develop and manage the operation¿s monitoring portfolio and ensuring consistency and coherence of UNHCRs monitoring activities, in conjunction with evaluation planning:
• Set up and manage UNHCR¿s approach, systems and tools for monitoring protection, assistance and solutions results (impact, outcomes, outputs) together with relevant teams and ensure a results based monitoring culture throughout the operation and the operations management cycle. Collaborate and work in partnership with evaluation colleagues in these areas.
• Ensure the development of sound Theories of Change and related Results Frameworks, the measurability of multi-year protection and solutions strategies and annual plans and appropriate measurement tools and indicators. Contribute to evaluation planning for Results Frameworks.
• Ensure that monitoring system are in place, including for projects, and that indicators are tracked and analysed and provided regularly to senior management to guide programme and management decisions.
• Guide teams in data collection methodologies, data sources, management and analysis, including qualitative and quantitative data, in close collaboration with evaluation, data and IM staff.
• Advise and ensure coherence on monitoring standards, plans, tools, indicators and resources across UNHCR and project partners and that protection and solutions principles, including age, gender and diversity and data protection, guide all monitoring actions.
• Provide advice to 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. Partner with evaluation colleagues where possible to ensure that there is coherence and consistency between evaluation findings and monitoring findings, and that advice to Senior Management is coordinated.
• Guide and train UNHCR and partner staff in UNHCRs results based management monitoring standards and procedures.
• Cooperate and coordinate with partners and stakeholders to facilitate coherence of monitoring approaches across multi-partner initiatives and engage in UN fora on monitoring (UNDAFs, HRP, RRP etc.), in collaboration with Evaluation colleagues.
• Establish processes to link monitoring to the operation¿s evaluation and risk management plan.
• Guide, in partnership with Evaluation colleagues, innovative solutions for monitoring and facilitate lessons learning within the operation, UNHCR in the region and globally, and among other stakeholders and contribute to UNHCRs global community of practice on monitoring;
• Seek advanced technical support and collaborate with regional and headquarters monitoring and evaluation advisors/officers for overall coordination of priority monitoring activities.
• In bureaux, work with Evaluation colleagues to determine thematic areas or projects for decentralized evaluations.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications
Education & Professional Work Experience
• Years of Experience / Degree Level
• For P4/NOD - 9 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 8 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 7 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree

Field(s) of Education
• International Relations; Business Administration; Social Science; Economics or other relevant field.
Certificates and/or Licenses

Programme Management;
Relevant Job Experience
Essential:
• Experience in planning, monitoring and reporting in an international development and/or humanitarian context. Experience in setting up systems and rolling out monitoring frameworks. Experience in results-based management, including Theories of Change. Experience in managing a variety of internal and external stakeholders in a cross-cultural professional environment. Demonstrated experience in strategic planning processes and in coordinating and drafting strategies and plans, in particular on protection and solutions, advocacy, or partnership building.
Desirable:
• Demonstrated experience in collaborating with UN development or humanitarian actors, frameworks and coordinating mechanisms. Solid experience in working with Government and institutions. Experience in data management and statistics, including surveys and indicator management. Experience with organisational change processes. Experience with UN programming.

Functional Skills
• DM-Data Management
• IM-Information Management (related technical requirements & Operating Procedures)
• EL-Monitoring and Evaluation
• PG-Programme Planning
• PG-Results-Based Management
• PG-UNHCR's Programmes
• PG-Programme Management (programme cycles and reporting standards)
(Functional Skills marked with an asterisk* are essential)

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 108

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Data, Monitoring, and Research jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 15 December 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 09-12-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 09-12-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 09-12-2066
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