The incumbent will accelerate gender equality and women’s empowerment with all implementations and promote UNDP’s mandate as a gender-responsive organization with zero tolerance for any kind of discriminatory and abusive behaviour, including sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse.

• Contribute to the development and refinement of programme-level, component-level Theories of Change, Results and M&E frameworks.

Ensure that the Programme Components have results-based annual work plans with indicators, baselines and targets established, and aligned with the SDGs;

• Establish and coordinates effective mechanisms of monitoring the Programme implementation, including the development of evaluation tools and processes, and innovative approaches;
• Ensure optimal use of evaluations by providing guidance and support in the preparation of timely management response to all mandatory evaluations and by developing an M&E plan;
• Provide technical support/advice to ensure timely and accurate measurement of change in conditions at the national, regional and local levels, including monitoring of socio-economic trends and the country’s wider policy, economic or institutional context, to facilitate planning and to draw conclusions about the impact of programmes or policies;
• Contribute substantially to donor reporting and other communication products with the provision of evidence-based results analysis;
• Ensure that monitoring systems are properly designed, and that data collection and analysis from field visits are coordinated and standardised across Programme Components to feed into programme performance monitoring, and field data is analysed and reported in a results-based and timely manner;
• Coordinate data collection and reporting through different online systems and tools, including information management system (IMS), IMRP;
• Perform quality control of programme data;
• Make regular reports and presentations to the Programme Board, highlighting areas of concern and preparing the documentation for review at meetings;
• Formulate key performance indicators and parameters for monitoring programme performance and measuring its progress towards its targets, and analysis of existing social and economic data;
• Ensure that evaluations are designed and implemented in accordance with established UNDP quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely manner to stakeholders to improve the Programme performance and contribute to wider learning;
• Monitor and ensures the quality of the field work and data management during the implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase;
• Update programme and project risk logs and upload relevant documentation into the UNDP system;
• Deepen the use of data through programme and its projects, including new and innovative sources of data;
• Develop ToRs, analytical frameworks, and questionnaires for data collection, thematic assessments, and other purposes;
• Ensure coordination and information sharing with other humanitarian and development actors by reporting to relevant clusters and working groups;
• Provide technical guidance to the the  Programme Manager Programme personnel;
• Ensure that all relevant M&E documents are properly uploaded and managed;
• Collect data and reports on the contribution of the Programme to the achievement of the UNDP Strategic Plan and UNDP in Ukraine Country Programme Document outcomes and outputs;
• Ensure mainstreaming of gender equality in all aspects of M&E and reporting, promotion of a safe and enabling environment free of any kind of discrimination and abusive behaviour, and gender-responsive communications based on corporate principles;
• Ensure dissemination of evaluation findings and recommendations to the intended audiences in a user-friendly manner.  In particular, to ensure that effective participatory feedback is provided to community and civil society stakeholders;
• Support programme teams and senior management in planning and management of thematic, country programme/project evaluation; follow up on the implementation of evaluation and audit findings and recommendations.

Ensuring the optimal use of evaluations by providing guidance in the preparation of timely management responses to all mandatory evaluations.

Ensure the provision of top-quality advisory services and Capacity Building:

• Document best practices and ensure facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the area of monitoring and evaluation;
• Contribute to the promotion of awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of M&E function among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities Programme-wide.

Supports the Programme team with effective use of tools and methodologies for planning, monitoring, reporting and measuring of indicators at the outcome level;

• Foster participatory planning and monitoring by training and involving primary stakeholder groups in M&E activities;
• Provide technical support to Responsible Parties on all M&E related activities;

Ensure facilitation of Knowledge Management:

• Contributes to the implementation of Evaluation, Knowledge Management and Learning strategies;
• Present data and information in an accessible and useful format (templates, maps, reports) for analysis to support strategic and operational decision-making, with the support of UNDP CO;
• Cooperate with other UN agencies, government agencies, NGOs, and other organizations on monitoring and evaluation issues; keeps abreast of the latest development and professional norms, standards, tools and methodologies.
• Perform other functions as requested by management.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary
• for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Institutional Arrangement

The M&E Analyst will work under the supervision of Programme Manager of the Green Energy Recovery Programme in close collaboration with  CO Programme and M&E personnel to ensure M&E requirements are fulfilled and the M&E Framework are reported on time with required quality checks, and the M&E of the Programme is performed to the highest standards in line with UNDP Country Office guidelines and procedures.

The M&E Analyst may supervise programme M&E personnel if needed.

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• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree