UN Women: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Home Based, International Consultant

About the position

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the ‘Dare to Care’ Regional Programme Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant ensures effective monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the DTC programme. The consultant will support and strengthen monitoring and evaluation and reporting processes and systems of the DTC programme, develop M&E tools for the DTC programme and its implementing partners, build M&E capacity of those partners, and foster a M&E culture (i.e., data-driven culture). The assignment of the consultant is home-based and the travel costs of any work missions of the consultant to the target countries of the programme will be covered by the DTC programme. The total number of workdays for this consultancy is 91 days, which is estimated in 13 workdays per month. The progress of the work of the consultant will be delineated and supervised by the DTC Regional Programme Manager. The consultant will submit a monthly report on the progress of work that will need to be cleared by the DTC Regional Programme Manager before the monthly payment is processed.

Description of Responsibilities / Scope of Work

Under the direct supervision of the ‘Dare to Care’ (DTC) Regional Programme Manager, and in alignment with UN Women’s policies and guidelines on M&E and reporting, the M&E consultant will substantively support the DTC regional programme for the development of all the M&E systems required by the programme as well as to fulfill all the M&E and reporting requirements of the programme with the donors. Namely the following functions:

• Develop the monitoring systems of the DTC regional programme, identifying gaps, redundancies, and new opportunities;
• Monitor programme results (outputs and outcomes) by collecting and analyzing data for the indicators established in the programme;
• Monitor the timely and efficient completion of programme activities that are planned to lead to results;
• Update the programmes’ performance measurement framework as needed;
• Provide timely and quality submission of data, analysed reports, field trends on M&E;
• Maintain a results-oriented database of all programmes information and results accessible to internal and external evaluators as per UN Women rules and procedures;
• Serve as a focal point for baseline and end line surveys based on key indicators and strategies approved in the programme document;
• Provide substantive inputs to the implementation of annual work plans for the programmes with effective operational strategies, clear deliverables, annual targets with indicators and milestones;
• Identify and facilitate documentation of evidence based good practices on M&E of the programme;
• Provide technical support and inputs to the annual progress reports of the programme for the programme donors and to finalize the package of the end-of-programme report of the ‘Men and Women for Gender Equality’ regional programme (predecessor of the DTC regional programme);
• Provide M&E support for the effective results-based implementation and monitoring of the community-based interventions of the DTC programme in Egypt, Morocco and Jordan;
• Develop baselines and M&E system for the youth-serving institutions partnering with UN Women under the DTC programme in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia;
• Build capacity on M&E for UN Women’s partner organisations under the DTC regional programme;
• Monitor progresses and impact of the regional social mobilization campaign targeting youth to increase unpaid care of men and boys;
• Support the development of M&E systems for other key programme interventions and partnerships, as needed;
• Provide advice and technical assistance on M&E to the DTC programme team as needed.

Deliverables

• Technical support and guidance to DTC team for the undertaking of qualitative assessments that are part of endline evaluation of the DTC programme’s outcomes and outputs (7 workdays, due 15 Dec 2026)
• Annual progress report of DTC programme for corporate reporting system PRISM (January-December 2026) (5 workdays, due 15 Jan 2027)
• Endline data collection and analysis for Outcome 1, to measure end line quantitative results of community model and Hand in Hand campaign (20 workdays, due 30 Jan 2027)
• Endline data collection and analysis for Outcome 2, to measure endline quantitative results of gender audits of youth serving institutions (15 workdays, due 15 Feb 2027)
• Conduct additional monitoring follow-up with country offices and CBOs/partners to track end line assessment, address any data quality issues, and provide technical guidance (8 workdays, due 18 Mar 2027)
• Technical support provided to the final evaluation conducted by external consultants, including coordination, data provision, and review of draft reports (10 workdays, due 15 Apr 2027)
• Final narrative technical report of the DTC programme in alignment with UN Women corporate reporting requirements (20 workdays, due 25 Apr 2027)
• Inputs on M&E and participation at the DTC team meetings and other relevant meetings of the DTC programme (6 workdays, due 30 Apr 2027)

Total: 91 workdays, due 30 Apr 2027

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy that might require some work missions to the DTC target countries in the Arab region, namely Morocco, Egypt and Jordan. The travel costs of these work missions -if they take place- will be covered by the UN Women’s DTC programme.

Competencies

Core Values: Integrity; Professionalism; Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies: Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues; Accountability; Creative Problem Solving; Effective Communication; Inclusive Collaboration; Stakeholder Engagement; Leading by Example.

Functional Competencies: Good planning, goal setting and prioritization skills; Ability to lead Monitoring and Evaluation strategies, policies and its implementation; Ability to lead results-based management and reporting; Creates, edits and presents information in clear and presentable formats, using appropriate IT functionality; Job knowledge/technical expertise; Ability to handle a large volume of work possibly under time constraints; Ability to organize and complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities; Ability to implement new systems and effect staff behavioural/attitudinal change; Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback; Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude; Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills; Thoroughly and methodically collects, verified and records data, demonstrating attention to detail and identifying and correcting errors on own initiative; maintains databases. In-depth knowledge of Office software applications relating to word processing, data management, presentation and databases.

Required Qualifications

Education and Certification: Master’s degree or equivalent in one of the following disciplines: Monitoring and Evaluation, International Development, Gender/Women’s Studies, International Relations, Social Sciences or a related fields is required; a first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• At least 7 years of professional experience in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation for international development programmes or projects and/or other related field is required;
• Experience working in Monitoring and Evaluation for gender equality and women’s empowerment programmes or projects, and analytic work experience in gender and masculinities is required;
• In-depth understanding of cultural nuances involved in gender norms and masculinities in the Arab region is required;
• Proven experience in working and cooperating with a myriad of stakeholders and partners, including government, private sector, civil society, international organizations and grassroots organizations are required;
• Previous experience working for the UN system is desirable.

Languages: Fluency in English and Arabic languages is required; knowledge of French language is desirable.