Field Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (50%)

Background:

UN Women (UNW), grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

UN Women plays an innovative and catalytic role in the State of Palestine since its inception in 1997. UN Women Palestine Office focuses its activities on one overarching goal, namely, to support the implementation at the national level of existing international commitments to advance gender equality in line with the national priorities. In support of this goal, and thoroughly taking into consideration the specificities of the Palestinian context, UN Women concentrates its efforts and interventions toward the realisation of following strategic goals:  Mainstreaming gender in governance, peace and security; Supporting women's economic security and rights; and Promoting women’s rights and protection against violence.

To build evidence on the impact of its own humanitarian programming, UN Women had also applied the “Gender Sensitive resilience capacity Index (GS-RCI)” tool in 2022 to assess the impact of conditional and unconditional cash on women’s resilience using a multidimensional assessment approach. In 2023, UN Women will work closely with other actors to apply/utilize the Gender Sensitive resilience capacity Index (GS-RCI) tool and will combine it with other elements/tools that capture existing gender norms, power relations and intra-household dynamics (i.e., of food security, nutrition and controls on individual household member food consumption (taking into account sex, age and disability)). UN Women will also continue to monitor the impact of its projects that focus on supporting women’s participation in humanitarian action, peacebuilding and conflict prevention.

Since 2020, Palestine has been selected as a focus country by the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF). The WPHF is an innovative partnership empowering local women to be a force for crisis response and lasting peace. Throughout the course of this partnership, UN Women has managed 12 projects related to women’s economic empowerment, women’s political participation, and recovery and relief from the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2022, taking into accounts the overall situation and needs in Palestine, as well as the good results achieved by WPHF partners, the WPHF allocated a new grant for projects in Palestine.

In the framework of UN Women’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and humanitarian portfolio and informed by its Monitoring and Evaluation system, UN Women plans to recruit a Field Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in the West Bank to support implementing M&E plans of UN Women’s WPS and Humanitarian Projects in the West Bank including East Jerusalem.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the overall guidance of UN Women Special Representative and direct supervision of the UN Women Programme Management Specialist, the consultant is expected to provide the office with monitoring & evaluation (M&E) support. Specifically, the consultant’s responsibilities will include:

• Provide substantive inputs to UN Women’s annual planning and reporting exercises.
• Develop an overall methodology for M&E, from project initiation to its final stages, to be followed throughout the WPHF programme.
• Support apply/utilize the Gender Sensitive resilience capacity Index (GS-RCI) tool to assess the impact of projects on women’s resilience and participation.
• Build the capacity of partners on UN Women’s monitoring tools and on the gender equality resilience index.
• In partnership with the CSOs, design a M&E plan to be followed throughout the duration of the project.
• Build the capacity of selected CSOs in terms of M&E, by providing ad-hoc training and feedback.
• Monitor the activities of the selected CSOs through regular field visits.
• Provide feedback to the reports submitted by the CSOs from a technical perspective, and ensure their coherence with the CSOs individual M&E plans.
• Organize field visits and other meetings between the CSOs and UN Women’s senior management.
• Develop case studies that highlight the impact of projects on the affected populations. 
• Facilitate lessons learned and best practices workshops to capture qualitative impact of the project subject areas includes recommendations to improve future performance on projects
• Support responsible parties in developing tracking tools in line with Country Office M&E reporting requirements.
• Conduct partners meetings and field visits to project sites and UN Women’s partners in (as needed and applicable) to ensure compliance with reporting requirements including but not limited to tracking tools for activities and beneficiaries.
• Provide substantive inputs to the WPHF Annual Report.  
• Any other duties as requested from supervisor.

Deliverables*

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Task

Estimated timeframe

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Monthly Report of activities, including key achievements, main meetings and planned activities for the next month.

Monthly, starting 31 March 2023

All deliverables have to be cleared by task manager.

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Competencies:

Core Values

• Respect for Diversity;
• Integrity;
• Professionalism.

Core Competencies

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Functional Competencies

• Sound knowledge of gender and women’s human rights’ national and international frameworks and policies.
• Excellent facilitation, organization and planning skills.
• Excellent communication and networking skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to meet deadlines and respond positively to feedback.
• Ability to complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities.

Required Skills and Experience:

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, social studies, gender studies or other relevant fields.

Experience: 

• At least 4 years of work experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems, from project initiation to closeout stages
• At least 3 years of work experience in women’s empowerment and gender equality programming
• Previous experience working with the UN in Palestine would be an added value.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required

Evaluation Criteria:

his SSA modality is governed by UN Women General Terms and Conditions. UN Women will only be able to respond to the shortlisted candidates, who will be invited for an interview.

Candidates should clearly indicate how they meet the above-mentioned criteria in their applications.

Candidates should have the ability to quickly submit degree certificates and medical certification (of good health).

Evaluation of applicants:

Candidates will be evaluated based on the applicants’ qualifications mentioned above and the cumulative results of the technical evaluation, including the interview. A contract will be awarded to the individual consultant who scores the highest score out of 100. Only shortlisted candidate will be invited for an interview. Below the scores for evaluation:

Technical evaluation: 100/100

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, social studies, gender studies or other relevant fields. (10 points).
• At least 4 years of work experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems, from project initiation to closeout stages (30 points).
• At least 3 years of professional work experience in women’s empowerment and gender equality programming (25 points)
• Previous work experience in monitoring and evaluation with the UN in Palestine is an asset (15 points).
• Interview (20 points)

Financial evaluation:

The assignment has a predetermined financial offer.

Application:

The following documents should be submitted as part of the application. Please make sure you have provided all requested materials:

• UN Women P11 including experience in similar assignments; the P11 form can be downloaded at http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment, a signed copy should be submitted;’
• Letter of Interest containing the statement on candidate’s experience and qualification against required qualification, experience and competencies.