Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst

UNDP operates in approximately 170 countries and territories, aiming to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so that countries can sustain progress. As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In Myanmar, UNDP focuses on strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities to both ongoing and future challenges. The UNDP’s Community First Programme (CFP) provides direct support to these communities, addressing their urgent basic needs and building their resilience to future shocks. The CFP is centered around three area-based projects: (i) Rakhine Triple Nexus (RTN), (ii) Enabling Community Recovery and Resilience (ENCORE), and (iii) Urban Resilience Programme (URP).

The Rakhine Triple Nexus (RTN) is a vital component of the CFP, designed to empower the most vulnerable
communities, including the stateless and displaced, by facilitating their transition from crisis to recovery and ultimately to long-term resilience. The RTN encompasses a variety of interventions across economic, social, legal, disaster, and climate sectors. These interventions contribute to three primary outcomes:

• Vulnerable communities, including displaced and stateless populations, gain access to enhanced tools for pursuing inclusive development and social cohesion. This includes improved access to legal services, protection, and fundamental rights.
• These communities benefit from improved access to basic services such as drinking water, community access roads, and essential infrastructure, while also being better prepared for external shocks and natural resource management.
• The most vulnerable households and individuals have their livelihoods rehabilitated and revitalized, with diversified income-generation opportunities.

UNDP seeks the expertise of Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst to support effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation of RTN Project.  

S/he will work in close collaboration with the Community Development Specialist, Program Specialist, project team liaising frequently with CO Programme and Operations teams.  The position also requires frequent interaction with other project teams, technical advisors and experts, implementing partners, donors, beneficiaries and CSOs to successfully implement and monitor the project.

• Improve Data Collection Process 
• Enhance Data Analysis and Reporting 
• Ensure Compliance and Reporting 
• Documentation, learning, and knowledge management 
• Contributing to external evaluations and impact assessment

Improve Data Collection Process 

• Develop project dashboard and data collection tools aligned to CO and donor reporting requirements.
• Train project staff and partners on the proper use of data collection tools, ensuring they understand the importance of accurate and timely data reporting.
• Conduct regular data quality assessments to identify and address any issues in data collection, ensuring data integrity and reliability.

Enhance Data Analysis and Reporting

• Develop a centralized database or data management system to store all project-related data securely and facilitate easy access and retrieval for reporting purposes.
• Utilize data visualization and analytical tools to interpret and present data in a clear and concise manner, facilitating data-driven decision-making by project management.
• Generate comprehensive and timely reports on project progress, maps, outcomes, and impact, ensuring they are tailored to various stakeholders' needs (e.g., donors, partners, management) and submitted within specified deadlines.

Ensure Compliance and Reporting

• Operationalize MEL framework with implementation robust monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan, outline/adjust key indicators and targets to measure project success and effectiveness.
• Regularly track and analyze project indicators against established targets, identifying any deviations or trends that may require corrective action or further investigation.
• Work closely with Risk Management Unit (RSMU) to input internal MEL system. 
• Contribute to periodic evaluations and impact assessments to assess the project's overall performance and identify lessons learned and best practices for future project improvements.
• Advising the project manager of any concerns regarding implementing partners’ financial and operational management.

Documentation, learning, and knowledge management

• Documentation of good practices, success stories and lessons learned.
• Facilitate internal project learning through lessons learned sharing events to encourage continuous improvement of the project management.
• Facilitate events to disseminate good practices and lessons learned to other relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure inter and intra project communication and coordination with CO team, field teams and external stakeholders.

Contributing to external evaluations and impact assessment

• Contribute to periodic evaluations and impact assessments to assess the project's overall performance and identify lessons learned and best practices for future project improvements.
• Training the enumerators and supervising data collection process.
• Contribute to data analysis and report writing for the periodic evaluations and impact assessments.
   

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 

• Knowledge Generation. Ability to research information and to turn it into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need. Ability to apply existing concepts to new situations, and to develop new concepts to generate workable solutions and new approaches. Knowledge of relevant concepts, conceptual models, and theories that can be useful in addressing new situations.
• System Thinking. Develop effective strategies and prioritised plans in line with UNDP’s mission and objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, opportunities and potential risks; link the general vision to reality on the ground to create tangible targeted solutions; learn from a variety of sources to anticipate and effectively respond to both current and future trends; demonstrate foresight

Digital 

• Data Literacy. Understand the potential as well as the limitations of using data driven innovation.  Ability to use a mix of data sources (quantitative, qualitative or real-time techniques) to develop understanding, identify patterns to inform decision making or identify opportunities for further exploration
  Developmental evaluation    

Digital & Innovation

• Developmental evaluation. Learning and adaptation focused: ability to promote and facilitate ongoing reflection and adaptation; aimed at informing learning and portfolio related decision making. Being comfortable with unknown unknowns, uncertainty and understand the traits and value of working with emergence. Being able to give direction rather than destination: monitor and learn about how we understand the present and our direction towards something better (general intent) – not measuring progress and milestones towards a specific pre- defined goal Being able to carry out evaluation thinking in complex systems and adapting evaluation strategies to changing realities. Being inclusive, collaborative and co-creative: being able to design and implement evaluation frameworks with the variety of stakeholders and beneficiaries involved. Being flexible and able to use of a mix of methods, having a high tolerance for ambiguity and can draw on a variety of qualitative and quantitative evidence, is open to unorthodox types of evidence. Ability to set up the structures, conditions, rituals to create a culture for curiosity, reflection and learning and promote evaluation results and insights from a learning perspective. Understand key principles of systems and complexity theory