Job Description
The Position:
UNFPA Afghanistan Country Office is planning to support the UNFPA Afghanistan M & E Unit.
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’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments to accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon the UN Member States, organizations, and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recovering lost gains, and realize our goals.
Afghanistan faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis with very real risk of systematic collapse and human catastrophe. The crisis is feared to rollback development gains of the last twenty years. In response to the humanitarian situation, UNFPA in Afghanistan works towards increasing the availability and use of integrated SRH/PSS services (including family planning, maternal health and psychosocial support) that are gender- responsive and meet human rights standards for quality of care and equity in access.
Within this context, the M&E Consultant will provide assistance to the smooth and transparent implementation of the Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation and support the UNFPA M & E Unit in data collection, processing, validating, storing, and reporting with evidence-based recommendations. She/he ensure completion, accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of the required data.
You would be responsible for:
With guidance from the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and in close collaboration with departmental and field teams, the M&E Consultant provides expertise and support in the areas of data collection, evaluation, and reporting. He/She will perform the following tasks:
Essential job duties:
- Create/ or contextualized standard data collection tools for the M & E activities as required.
- Ensure routine data Collection, Data Analysis and timely monitoring of the plan activities.
- Collect standard data for all M & E related activities and enter the data in the UNFPA dashboard.
- Clean and compile all Service Delivery Points (SDP’s) facility and community level data and ensure quality of the data by applying data quality assurance protocol and methods for providing the program clean, complete, and up to date data.
- Closely track and monitor the statistics and programme indicators on a regular basis.
- Provide additional analysis of data and information on different variables when needed
- Conduct routine data quality audits and review the quality of collected data and the methods for data collection
- Share and discuss M&E findings and compiled data with relevant program staff to inform program activities
- Support development of project monitoring plan of the projects
- Support the Third Party Monitoring mechanism and coordinate with the Programme Staff and Implementing Partners in the effective roll out of the monitoring activities.
- Coordinate donor supported third party monitoring mechanism.
Updating reporting Matrix
- Update the List of Service Delivery Points in coordination with the Programme Teams and Implementing Partners including donor and geographic updates.
- Coordinate the KOBO toolbox management in collaboration with the IM team, reporting on data, conduct variance analysis
- Update the monitoring tools as needed and conduct training of the implementing partners on the revised tools
- Coordinate the M&E Dashboard updates with IM teams and implementing partners
- Update the training data in coordination with the programme teams on a monthly basis
- Prepare the donor data for preparing monthly updates based on the Dashboard data.
- Provide support in updating the data on the sitreps, donor progress reports, updates and briefing notes
- Update the field missions follow up matrix and coordinate with the relevant focal points on the implementation of the recommendations.
- Assist in training the field staff on M & E tools and protocols.
Any other M & E related tasks as assigned by the Office.
Competencies and Qualifications
Education:
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in social work or other social sciences, public health, community health, international relations, international law, gender studies, human rights or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with seven additional years of qualifying experience may be considered in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Work experience:
- Good knowledge of SRH and GBV issues, with a minimum of 3 years of satisfactory working experience in data collection, management and analysis
- Demonstrated understanding of issues related to confidentiality, data safety and other ethical concerns related to the sharing of sensitive data between humanitarian agencies.
- Demonstrated organizational skills: the ability to work independently and productively with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency in current office software applications.
- Ability to organize work effectively and to meet planned deadlines
- Familiarity with the UN and its policies and principles will be an advantage.
Language requirements:
Excellent command of written and spoken English. Dari and Pashto are necessary as the working language in Afghanistan.
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