The priorities of UNDP Syria, as stipulated in the Country Programme Document 2022-2025, are to enhance the resilience and socio-economic stabilization of individuals and communities through local governance and service delivery, local socioeconomic recovery and social cohesion, and climate change mitigation and adaptation and natural resource management pathways. UNDP Syria prioritizes its “resilience” signature solution, which is in line with its leadership of the resilience pillar of the Humanitarian Response Plan, which includes coordinating the early recovery and livelihoods sector. UNDP has rolled out a context-sensitive, area-based approach to address complex and interlinked development challenges and their root causes, all while strengthening social cohesion. This entails the design, implementation, and monitoring of resilience programmes through an inclusive, rights-based, and participatory approach that promotes community ownership and sustainability in defined geographic areas aiming to build resilience to shocks, including the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19, while addressing gender equality and respecting the principle of “do no harm”. UNDP delivers substantive results on the ground through its field offices and programme presences, covering 14 governorates.

UNDP’s corporate management philosophy is Results-Based Management which is a shift from traditional project monitoring and evaluation to Results-Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation that covers a set of related projects, programmes and partnership strategies intended to achieve desired results (outputs, outcomes and higher-level goals or impact), provides critical information for decision making processes, produces accurate transparent results and supports the evidence-based reporting.

In UNDP Syria Country Office, the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is a cross-cutting and quality assurance function, mandated to ensure programme quality through results planning process (planning routes, monitoring and evaluation system, and results and impact reporting). The M&E Team (RBM and M&E Analyst , M&E Associate and Third-Party Personnel Field Monitoring Assistants in the Area Offices) provides technical support to the CO programme team to promote results-based management culture and best M&E practices. The M&E Team works closely with the programme and projects teams to ensure full compliance with UNDP’s corporate standard requirements and a successful implementation of the UNDP country programme.

Under the direct supervision of the Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst, the M&E Intern is expected to provide support to the M&E team in implementing the CO’s M&E plans and day-to-day follow-ups in relation to the ongoing projects and activities performing a variety of monitoring and evaluation activities ensuring high quality and accuracy of work. The M&E Intern will work in close collaboration with the M&E Associate and projects’ teams as required for related issues and exchange of information.

Under overall guidance and direct supervision of the M&E Analyst, the M&E Intern is expected to undertake the following activities:

Supports timely and effective implementation of M&E activities for the CO projects, focusing on achievement of the following:

• Supports implementation of the planned monitoring and evaluation activities and follow-ups, supports producing projects and activities reports by collecting, reviewing and verifying that all projects and activities are monitored in accordance with the monitoring plan.
• Reviews monitoring reports to validate progress towards the set targets and identifies deviations from the planned activities at project level (qualitative and quantitative) according to the Annual Work Plans (AWPs) and project documents to support informing decision making.
• Assists in developing effective monitoring and evaluations tools and forms using innovative approaches.
• Assists in the identification of potential implementation problems and bottlenecks and contributes to the proposed follow-up and correction actions.

Provides administrative support to the implementation of the M&E activities, focusing on achievement of the following:

• Reviews projects’ progress data in the CO’s Information Management and Results Platform (IMRP) and other dashboards and platforms and cross-checks the entered data with data reported in the monthly monitoring reports.
• Supports the projects’ teams in conducting surveys, assessments, and similar activities.
• Liaises with the M&E Associate and TPP- Field Monitoring Assistants team within broader M&E activities and efforts.
• Supports maintaining and updating the filing and archiving system including the online SharePoint RBM site and off-line backups.
• Supports providing inputs and data for quarterly, annual, and other reports.
• Assists in the preparation of background documentation and working papers for its utilization in meetings, discussions and presentations.
• Supports the documentation and dissemination of lessons learned, best practices and areas of improvement generated from the monitoring and evaluation reports.
• Performs other relevant functions as may be requested by the M&E Analyst.

• Innovation: Ability to make new and useful ideas work.
• Accountability
• Creativity in Problem Solving
• Effective Communication: Ability to listen, adapt, persuade, and transform.
• Delivery: Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement.
• Willing to learn new things.
• Teamwork: Have positive attitudes, enthusiasm, be honest and interested in working as a team.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle multi-tasks.