Position: Monitoring, Evaluation And Learning (MEL) Associate

Organization: UNDP

Location: Delhi

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Duties and Responsibilities

The MEL Associate will report directly to the National Programme Manager, Poverty, Inclusive Growth/Poverty Unit of UNDP India.

Her/his specific responsibilities will include:

Monitoring

• Support in developing and implementing the programme and project’s M&E plans from results-based management perspective along with indicators, targets, means of verification and monitoring steps at output and activity level in multi-year work plans and annual work plans, and support in developing plans and monitoring the project’s risks and issues matrices in line with UNDP guidelines
• Assist in ensuring that the Inclusive Growth team has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in the annual and multi-year work plans.
• Coordinate with the Inclusive Growth team, partners and field staff for data collection, analysis and evidence gathering to feed into to programme and project performance monitoring;
• Support in actively monitoring programme and projects through field visits, remote monitoring tools to assess progress, support in identifying bottlenecks and potential problems, and take timely action to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant colleagues in the Inclusive Growth team for timely resolution
• Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme & project reviews and annual reviews, both internal and external, to assess progress and to determine required interventions to achieve the results
• Support M&E system establishment, data management plans and maintain the programme database (MIS).

Evaluation

• Support in developing the Terms of Reference and evaluation design of high quality in line with UNDP’s programme and project evaluation policies and guidelines
• Support in preparing quality documentation, information , reports, and evidences to the evaluators
• Support in monitoring and ensuring quality of the field work and data management during the implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase.
• Support in monitoring and ensuring that a management response to the findings and recommendations of the evaluation is completed, recorded, and followed up for implementation.
• Coordinate in disseminating evaluation findings and recommendations to the stakeholders.

Learnings, Reporting and Documentation

• Support in preparing project progress reports, such as quarterly reports, annual report, project results pathway, donor-specific reports, inputs to corporate reporting capturing in a comprehensive analytical manner project progress against the project Results Framework; including the documentation of success stories, achievements, lessons learned, risks and issues; corporate reporting requirement
• Assist in ensuring that the team has quality information to assess progress towards expected results established in annual work plans.
• Assist in identifying and documenting lessons learned, best practices, and use knowledge gained to feed into the ongoing as well as future programming and for developing/managing knowledge products (knowledge management).
• Assist in promoting awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of M&E function among team members including field staff through communication, training, and learning and development activities

Competencies

Core competencies: 

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies 

Business Management Competencies

• Results-based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.
• Risk Management: Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks.
• Working with Evidence and Data: Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making
• Monitoring: Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results
• Evaluation: Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks; Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns

Digital & Innovation     

• Data analysis:Ability to extract, analyse and visualize data (including Real-Time Data) to form meaningful insights and aid effective decision making
• Data collection:Being skilled in Data Sorting, Data Cleaning, Survey Administration, Presentation and Reporting including collection of Real-Time Data (e.g. mobile data, satellite data, sensor data).

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in social science, management or related fields is required

Experience:

• Minimum 4 years of monitoring and evaluation, planning, and programming related work experience
• Proven experience in conducting M&E, analyzing data and preparing high quality reports and evidence-based notes;
• Demonstrated experience working on skilling, livelihoods or related projects
• Experience of working with UNDP or another UN agency
• Additional years of relevant professional experience

Language Requirements: 

• Fluency in English and Hindi