Job Vacancy @ UNOPS – Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Senior Associate (Sierra Leone)

Functional Responsibilities:

The M&E Senior Associate will report directly to the M&E Specialist. She/he will be expected to implement and/or support the roll out of M&E strategies across the country office projects and conduct regular missions to project locations to monitor and interact with project stakeholders in the execution of the projects. The M&E Senior Associate will be responsible for the following functional responsibilities:

Monitoring and Evaluation:

• • Contribute to formulating, rolling out and managing M&E strategies and plans, logframes and result tracking toolkits including gender-sensitive performance indicators and establishing baselines and methodology.
  • Coordinate with the mini-grid operators to get regular updates on result framework indicators. Also, manage the update results in the google sheets, conduct analysis on the status and prepare periodic presentations for donors and UNOPS internally.
  • Conduct periodic spotcheck visits to the project sites, collect M&E information and manage the project trackers. Also, visit the field data collection process (impact evaluation surveys) conducted by the third party contractors.

• Undertake necessary steps to clean and analyze M&E result related datasets (regular result management, impact monitoring and impact evaluation).
• Undertake regular monitoring visits to the project sites independently or together with the Project Manager and the Project Team to ensure that performance indicators and targets remain relevant and in accordance with the project design and work plan.
• Perform any other duties as requested by the supervisors and Project Manager.

Reporting and Documents Control:

• Ensure that all the required datasets are in place for the donor review processes engaging the relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to the periodic assessments and surveys (e.g. site selection assessments, longitudinal study etc.) in terms of background document reviews, preparing updates and infographics for visualizations etc.
• Prepare progress and monthly highlight reports in coordination with the project team, the Programme and Partnership teams.
• Ensure timely and quality submission of reports as identified in the project agreement through coordinating inputs and drafting reports related to project activities.

• Contribute to finalizing the questionnaires and toolkits for capturing most significant change stories, best practices and other impact stories. Also, coordinate data collection, analysis and report preparation.
• Prepare presentations, infographics, fact sheets on M&E updates and results. Coordinate the communication of the results with the relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to developing, rolling out and managing the project dashboards.
• Share knowledge with the project team members ensure coordinated delivery of activities and synergies.

• • Education
  • High School diploma is the minimum requirement for this role.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, International Development, International Relations, Project Management, Development Studies, Statistics or relevant disciplines is an asset
  • Advanced university degree (Master degree or equivalent) in Social Sciences, International Development, International Relations, Project Management, Development Studies, Statistics or relevant disciplines is desired.
  • Work Experience
  • A minimum of seven (7) years of experience in a relevant role for supporting programme/ project monitoring and reporting;
  • Experience in the renewable energy, humanitarian and/or development sector is preferred;

• High proficiency with computers, and other software/ platforms related to the position's field of expertise. Good experience in working with the G-Suite platform including, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Sheets, Docs, and Slides is preferred
• Excellent communication, coordination, and organizational skills, including the ability to coordinate with multiple stakeholders is required;
• Experience with an international donor organization and/or UN agencies programmes is preferred;
• Experience in preparing, coordinating, and leading donor reporting processes is required;
• Ability to analyze online communications using performance indicators is preferred;
• Certification in Prince 2 (foundation) is desired.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is required.
• Fluency in Krio is desired.

How to Apply

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