Peacebuilding M&E Specialist at United Nations Children’s Fund

Position Title:Peacebuilding M&E Specialist
Level:P3
Location:Kampala
Duration:11 Months Background

The four-year Peacebuilding, Education and Advocacy Programme (PBEA), is a partnership between UNICEF, the Government of the Netherlands, the national governments of 14 participating countries and other key supporters. The goal of the PBEA is to strengthen resilience, social cohesion and human security in conflict-affected contexts, including countries at risk of – or experiencing and recovering from – conflict. Towards this end, the programme will strengthen policies and practices in education for peacebuilding. Fourteen countries have been selected across East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, and West and Central Africa to participate in the programme, including Uganda. PBEA supports diverse and complementary interventions to mainstream conflict sensitivity and promote peacebuilding throughout the education sector. PBEA-supported interventions place schools at the centre of peaceful communities where collaborative partnerships between institutions, schools and communities support social cohesion and access to and enjoyment of quality education.

Responsibilities:

1. Facilitate a broad stakeholder consultation exercise to identify ‘most significant change’ program areas for the remaining of the program, and to build consensus around key M&E processes and expected Outputs/Outcomes
2. Carry out a capacity needs assessment of relevant UNICEF staff and partners in relation to their role in the M&E process and develop/implement relevant training/mentoring interventions
3. Review program approach, methods, and tools and the remaining activities to be evaluated and identify strengths/weaknesses in relation to documenting peacebuilding impact
4. Review existing internal/external data and identify opportunities for their utilization in M&E processes/products
5. Develop an end-year M&E Plan that supports the program logic/theory of change and that links the interventions with immediate, intermediate, and end-of-program outcomes. The M&E Plan will also include all design, activity, reporting and monitoring templates.
6. Review the relevant reporting mechanisms/calendar and identify/develop a supportive and timely M&E work plan, including all relevant activities and products e.g. annual project reviews, participatory impact assessments, process monitoring, operations monitoring and lessons-learned workshops.
7. With stakeholders, set out the framework and procedures for the evaluation of all program activities. Review their existing approaches and management information systems and agree on any required changes, support and resources.
8. Outline a complete schedule of UNICEF/PBEA M&E synergies which shows when all key activities will be carried out and when information will be available, and ensure responsibility is allocated to specific individuals (not organizations) for all M&E activities
9. Establish an M&E database (including a schedule for quarterly Programme Assurance visits (PQAs) and End user feedback) to record all relevant activity information required for each activity, including budget and expenditure, nature of services, indicator measures, strategies and status
10. Identify, and design mitigation measures to address, issues and/or constraints that will affect the implementation of the M&E plan
11. Manage the collection, processing, and analysis of PBEA M&E data.
12. Contribute to the development of the PBEA Programme annual report. 

Timing:11 months (15th January – 15th December 2015) 
Reporting requirements:The consultant will report to the P3 Peacebuilding Program Specialist under the overall supervision of the Chief of Learning through the issuance of an inception report, meeting minutes, and quarterly data collection/processing exercises.

Qualification Requirements:

Advanced university degree (or equivalent) in research or evaluation methods with evidence of high quality research and evaluation activities previously designed and conducted;

• University degree in development, education, or related social science discipline, and advantage
• Demonstrated practical experience in quantitative and qualitative evaluation design, conduct, and management
• Experience developing M&E systems for multi-sector programs in resource-constrained settings
• Demonstrable experience of assessing education and/or peacebuilding programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate learning from M&E findings and implementation teams and other relevant stakeholders.
• Experience in developing and implementing gender and conflict sensitive, participatory and innovative M&E interventions, including the use of ICT.
• Experience of designing and implementing M&E to capture cross-cutting issues such as gender.
• Proven experience with the logical framework approach and other strategic planning approaches and sound grasp of the intervention logic (Theory of Change)
• Willing to undertake regular field visits and interact with different stakeholders e.g. Ministry and District officials, education staff, children and youth, local civil society organizations, communities.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience in M&E for peacebuilding programming
• Knowledge of local social, cultural, political, economic context in East Africa/Uganda an advantage
• Fluency in spoken and written English is required

Expected Budget for the Consultancy and Terms of Payment
Payment based on certified submission of key deliverables or agreed outputs with supervisor.

Additionally the consultant will be supported with DSA to cover travel expenses. 

Administrative issue:Consultant is eligible to be issued with a work station in Kampala office, standard laptop, DSA, vehicle to facilitate field travel (with relevant waiver forms in accordance with UNICEF vehicle policy to be issued).

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested and eligible candidates should forward a cover letter, a Resume and a Personal History (P11) form,
All applications should be sent in soft copy form to ugderecruit@unicef.org, with copy tomllamazares@unicef.org not later than 16 December 2014.

Note: Applications which do not meet the specified minimum requirements or are received after the closing date will not be considered. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply.

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