Background

UN Women, 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 center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates 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.

Despite the substantial progress achieved in the past years, protracted conflicts, violence, displacements and climatic shocks such as drought and floods have continued to hinder attainment of substantive GEWE gains. These persistent obstacles have resulted in severe protection issues, particularly for women and girls who constitute estimated 50% of the affected population and nearly 80% of those displaced. There is limited participation of women in peace processes, politics, decision making and access to justice. UN Women through its engagement in Somalia, has prioritized to work in promoting women’s political participation, ensuring women peace and security and increasing women’s access to justice.

Objectives of the assignment:

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide M&E and Reporting coordination and technical support to the overall Somalia Country Office, including to Women, Peace and Security and Rule of Law Programs in timely monitoring, reporting and communications for the joint programmes on the above areas.

The Monitoring and Reporting consultant plays a central role in assisting Somalia Office’s monitoring of the Strategic Note/Annual Work Plan and the CO management’s oversight of the efficient and timely implementation of programs. The Monitoring and Reporting consultant also coordinates various reporting exercises of the Somalia Office as well as provides quality assurance for quarterly online monitoring systems (via the Results Monitoring System – RMS), development of human-interest stories, annual reports, quarterly newsletter and donor reports. The Monitoring and Reporting consultant will also support the upcoming country portfolio evaluation for the strategic note 2022-2025.

Under the overall supervision of the Country Program Manager, the Monitoring and Reporting Consultant assists the Somalia Office management, and the Program leads and in oversight for the monitoring and reporting functions. She/he works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team at the Somalia Office, relevant staff at the UN Women regional office and the UN, government and CSOs partner organizations.

Scope of Work:

Provide quality assurance and technical support to country office team in program management and monitoring:

• Provide quality assurance of program documents through review of results frameworks in order to meet SMART criteria;
• Work closely with the team and provide technical support in the development of Performance Monitoring Frameworks (PMFs) and Baseline Surveys;
• Provide technical support in the development and effective implementation of monitoring systems at country level, including the development of monitoring guidelines and tools;
• Hold monitoring meetings and trainings with the partner agencies and provide technical support to partners agencies staff in building M&E and reporting skills sustainably;
• Ensure timeliness of budget revision processes at Somalia CO.

Provide technical support in the reporting of results to internal and external audiences:

• Provide technical support and in coordination with the team, consolidate and prepare quality quarterly, annual and donor reports;
• Upload and update regional data into the electronic tracking system for annual reporting;
• Coordinate with program and operations team in timely submission of donor reports;
• Consolidate, review and finalize donor reports and provide feedback to improve quality and timeliness of reporting.

Provide technical support to the Somalia office in the implementation the UN Women Evaluation Policy:

• Provide technical support to the implementation of UN Women’s Evaluation plan (MERP) at the country level;
• Provide guidance to Somalia office programme staff and relevant partner organizations on evaluations;
• Ensure communication between the Somalia office and RO regarding timely planning of the Evaluations;
• Provides full support to planned and on-going evaluation exercises such as country portfolio evaluations, specifically the country portfolio evaluation for the 2022-2025 SN, but also possible country case studies of corporate or regional thematic evaluations, and inter-agency humanitarian evaluations.

Contribute to knowledge building, dissemination, and capacity building:

• Identify and disseminate good practices, lessons and knowledge as identified through programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities;
• Develop and produce communication and advocacy instruments and materials, including briefing materials, press releases, quarterly newsletter and articles and coordinate its dissemination through effective channels;
• Undertake monitoring, interviews with project partners and beneficiaries in developing human interest stories;
• Lead the engagement and supervision of video producers and other communication specialists to produce audio/ visual material on UN Women’s work adopting M&R standards;
• Liaise with the media and communications expert to translate the reports and monitoring documents into communication and visibility materials and regularly contribute to maintaining programme’s web-presence.

Duties and Responsibilities

Description of Responsibilities:

1. Coordinate and draft inputs for the Quarterly Result-based Management Reporting;
2. Coordinate, consolidate and finalize the UNW Annual progress report;
3. Coordinate and provide technical support in timely monitoring, oversight and technical inputs to knowledge products including quarterly newsletter;
4. Coordinate with the team, partner agencies and provide technical support in collection of data, result based reports, and prepare consolidated project reports;
5. Support preparation and implementation of country portfolio evaluations, including collection of documentation, stakeholder’s contact, agenda preparation, meeting and travel logistics (in consultation with team leader and external evaluation team);
6. Support developing communications materials for the WPE, WPS and Access to Justice programs and contribute to knowledge products and promotional materials including research, briefs, fact sheets, presentations, social media, etc;
7. Mange the delivery of evaluations in the country, as per the evaluation plan, with the support of the RO.

Deliverables:

1. Support the coordination and preparation of Annual 2024 Somalia Office Result-based Management Report;
2. Provided technical support in timely monitoring, oversight and technical inputs to the donor, RMS and Annual Report 2024;
3. Developed at least 4 write-ups of 2 page each for the WPS, Humanitarian and Access to Justice programs, 1 quarterly newsletter and inputs to UNW Somalia website;
4. Timely collection of data, result based reports, and prepare 3 consolidated project/donor reports.

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/en/about-us/employment/application-process#_Values

Functional Competencies:

• Strong knowledge of programme formulation, implementation and Results Based Management;
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and evaluation, evaluation design, data collection and analysis, and reporting;
• Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports;
• Strong analytical and report writing skills;
• Good knowledge of UN programme management systems;
• Strong planning, goal-setting, prioritization and organizational skills;
• Ability to pay close attention to detail.

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/Women’s Studies;
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree;
• Advanced University degree in Monitoring and Results Based Management considered an advantage.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience at the national and international levels, with a focus on programme monitoring, evaluation and reporting of programmes;
• Experience in the field of Women Political Participation, Elections, Women, Peace and Security and Access to Justice for Women is desired;
• Experience in coordination with international organizations and other stakeholders, is required;
• Experience in programme coordination is an asset;

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required;
• Knowledge of or any other UN official language is an asset.

Application:

All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc. Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

Notes:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.