Peace Building Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at the United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

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Welcome To Another Exciting Job Opportunity for Peace Building Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at the United Nations Volunteers.

Description

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. We work with partners to integrate qualified, highly motivated, and well-supported UN Volunteers into development programming and promote the value and global recognition of volunteerism. UNV is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and reports to the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

• Job Title: Peace Building Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
• Location: Sokoto
• Host Entity: UNDP
• Duration: 12 months
• Application Deadline: 28th October 2022.
• Expected Start Date: 31st October 2022.
• Volunteer category: National UN Volunteer Specialist
• Sustainable Development Goal: 16. Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Job Details

Mission and Objectives:

• UNDP is the United Nations’ largest agency with a mandate to eradicate poverty, through sustainable and inclusive human development.
• UNDP has been in Nigeria since the country became independent in 1960 providing capacity-building and policy development support to the Federal Government of Nigeria in areas of Governance & Peace Building, Inclusive Growth, and Sustainable Development.
• UNDP continues to support the government in the implementation of development interventions aimed at meeting medium to long-term goals enshrined in National and Subnational development plans as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.
• The goal of UNDP is to improve the lives of the people of Nigeria, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, and to ensure a future that offers equality, dignity, and opportunity for all.
• UNDP works in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria, development partners, UN agencies, civil society, and local communities to help identify local solutions to meet global and national development challenges through a range of interventions that combine UNDP’s expertise and comparative advantage in the areas of Governance & Peace Building, Inclusive Growth, and Sustainable Development.

Context

• UNDP is supporting the Government and people of Nigeria in mitigating conflict risks and creating conditions for inclusive and sustainable development through:
  • The Prevention Facility is funded by Germany and implemented in Katsina, Sokoto, and Zamfara State
  • The Climate-Security Project funded by Norway and implemented in the border areas of Illela (Sokoto) and Jibia (Katsina)
  • The Peace Infrastructure Project funded by the SG’s Peace Building Fund and implemented in Katsina and Kaduna
  • The Support to Anambra State Peace Commission funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria and implemented in Anambra State
  • The Herder-Farmer peace-building project funded by the Human Security Trust Fund was implemented in Benue and Nasarawa States respectively.
• The overall objective of these projects is to create the conditions necessary for sustainable and inclusive development through peacebuilding – including revitalizing border economies, rebuilding the livelihoods of affected communities, and strengthening institutional arrangements for the long-term prevention of conflicts.

Task Description

To ensure the effective and impactful implementation of this project, UNDP is seeking the services of a qualified Monitoring and Evaluation Officer to work closely with the Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Team under the overall supervision of the Crisis Prevention and Recovery Advisor in performing the following tasks:

• Assist in developing and implementing individual and integrated M&E Plans including baseline and end-line data to report against project indicators and targets as necessary.
• Ensure that collection of data and analysis for monitoring the implementation of the complimentary peace-building projects is gender sensitive.
• Monitor progress in achieving project outcomes and provide reporting and evaluation guidance to the respective project staff
• Provide quality assurance or guidance to the project staff for the timely project (semi-annual/annual/final) reporting to PMSU and donors
• Provide quality assurance on results-based reporting and review half-year, annual, and final reports on project implementation and final project evaluation reports.
• Coordinate tracking the implementation of achievement of the Peace Building and Conflict prevention project’ results; regularly collecting necessary information related to project implementation (indicators, results, figures)
• From an M&E perspective, provide written inputs to the reports which will be reviewed by the PMSU before final submission
• Provide and coordinate training activities on M&E. Organize project impact monitoring and evaluation training and review including independent impact evaluations.
• Organize and conduct joint field monitoring visits with relevant project staff and partners
• Accompany project evaluations and support the final external evaluation of project implementation.

Requirements

Required Education Level:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Monitoring and Evaluating Peace Building and Conflict Prevention or related Development Projects.

Required Experience:

• 3 years of experience in monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding and conflict prevention, or related development projects.
• Data collection, analysis, and reporting, as well as developing and executing M&E plans.

Area(s) of Expertise:

• Crisis and emergency response, Volunteer management, Communication
• Driving license

Languages:

• English, Level: Fluent, Required.