Location: Kampala, Uganda
Salary Grade
P3
Hardship Level
B
Family Location Type
Family
Duties and Qualifications
Operation Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The position of the Operation Monitoring and Evaluation Officer is located in the Branch Office in Kampala. The incumbent reports to the Deputy Representative, works with other functions related to programme management and protection and has substantive contacts with all field offices in the country.
The incumbent works closely with all sections in the Branch Office and Field Offices as required. The first step to supporting management and capturing effects in order to fulfil essential tasks would be to explore on how to solidify the existing monitoring and evaluation set of indicators.
The Operation Monitoring and Evaluation Officer works with other units and divisions to ensure operational support and guidance is strengthen to programme and protection priorities. To achieve this, the incumbent will need to build and maintain effective relationships within and beyond the division as well as broader network of external stakeholders who can contribute to operationalizing protection.
FUNCTIONAL STATEMENT
Accountability
The result indicators would be
- Responsive to policy: closely linked to the policy interventions supported. That they should capture the essence of a result according to a reasonable argument about which features they can and cannot represent.
- Normative: having a clear and accepted normative interpretation (i.e. there must be agreement that a movement in a particular direction is a favourable or an unfavourable result).
- Robust: reliable, statistically validated.
- Timely collection of data: available when needed, with room built in for debate and for revision when needed and justified.
Responsibility
- Evaluate and monitor the projects executed by the programme through the preparation of programme/projects guidelines.
- Assist the Representative in the submission of the country strategy and priorities for final approval by the Regional Office.
- Contribute to preparing documentation and reports.
- Work closely with all protection and programme sections to ensure the smooth and coordinated delivery of substantive inputs, tools and technical advice.
- Review and analyse issues and trends as well as evaluate impacts against progress made in cross cutting themes specially youth, gender and cohesively guide colleagues on the mainstreaming of tools in these areas. Make presentations on assigned topics and activities for the sake of clarity.
- Assist the management to enhance the adequate delivery of services through the two priority pathways – emergency response and solutions oriented programming.
- Attempt to revisit all protection SOPs with a view indexing all reported gaps in order to to suggest key steps to improve outreach and relentless approaches to the Transit Center, legal assistance for individual cases, the prisons, resettlement procedures, border management and safe heavens within the area of operations.
- Make a top priority, the relevance and clarity of the proposed programme specific health indicators and how the expected outputs will contribute to the results.
- Monitor whether the quantified target values for indicators are realistic and effective.
- Address the gap of low primary/secondary school enrolment, lack of adequate infrastructures in the education sector, lack of practical skills at most level and scholarships.
- Strengthen the livelihoods activities through development of the plan to efficiently address key steps of the interventions and concise data collection to better guide the collective response.
- Strive to put a particular emphasis on solutions which provide refugees with shelters that respect the privacy, security and protection.
- Assist in monitoring the respect of agreed standards of health workers and respect of ethics in various medical centres.
- Ascertain the improvement of learning environment, capacity development for teachers and education structures and training of school management committees.
- Advise on issues of congestion in school and assess the existing situation to address long distances to school given that most children are still walking between 8 to 10 kms per day to reach their structures against the 5 kms recommended policy.
- Attempt to review the lack of motivation of teachers, re-assess a few aspects of scholastic materials for a proper decision making purpose. Consider looking into issues of starvation in schools and related concerns. Consider re-evaluating the ratio teacher-student and crucial aspects of perceived language barriers.
- Help support refugees with disabilities and their families in realizing their claims for equal recognition in policies and operation procedures and for equal access to humanitarian aid and services.
- Ensure access to quality basic health care service to all referred refugee patients to the designated medical referral structure.
- Closely work with Programme and Community Services colleagues in the assessment and improvement of youth cultural, sporting and child friendly spaces across the board.
- Lead/participate in the collection of technical data so as to appropriately feed the country’s overall structural mapping matrix.
Authority
- Attend and co/represent UNHCR in all thematic and overall preparedness meetings.
- Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative, coordinate the team work areas and specific interventions aimed at furthering operations management / protection and integrative frame to advancing improved service deliveries.
- Enforce compliance with UNHCR’s rules and regulations applicable for the execution of programme and projects.
ESSENTIAL MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- University degree in International Humanitarian or Human Rights Law, Law, International Development, International Relations, Social Sciences or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years (6 with advanced university degree) of relevant professional working experience, including three years at the international level in a relevant field(s).
- Excellent English drafting and communication skills and working knowledge of another UN language.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES
- Experience of protection, or community based protection work with UNHCR.
- Experience of programme or project design.
- Coordination and strategy development skills.
- Advanced computer skills.
- A demonstrated results orientation in work methods, ability to work independently and in a fast-paced, demanding work environment.
- Flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances and to handle requests or issues as they arise.
- Work experience in protection programming and coordination in humanitarian settings.
- Demonstrated capacities in Results-Based Management, including monitoring and evaluation, linking protection programmes and budgets.
- Experience in designing and implementing planning processes, including strategic planning.
Position Competencies
- C004L3 – Commitment to Continuous Learning Level 3
- C003L3 – Communication Level 3
- C002L3 – Teamwork & Collaboration Level 3
- C001L3 – Accountability Level 3
- C005L3 – Client & Result Orientation Level 3
- C006L3 – Organizational Awareness Level 3
- M004L3 – Strategic Planning and Vision Level 3
- M003L3 – Judgement and Decision Making Level 3
- M002L3 – Managing Performance Level 3
- M001L3 – Empowering and Building Trust Level 3
- M005L3 – Leadership Level 3
- M006L3 – Managing Resources Level 3
- X001L3 – Analytical Thinking Level 3
- X002L3 – Innovation and Creativity Level 3
- X003L3 – Technological Awareness Level 3
- X004L3 – Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Level 3
- X009L3 – Change Capability and Adaptability Level 3
- X006L3 – Policy Development & Research Level 3
- X007L3 – Political Awareness Level 3
- X008L3 – Stakeholder Management Level 3
- X005L3 – Planning and Organizing Level 3
Closing Date
Please note that the closing date for all vacancies in the Add. 1 to March 2017 Compendium is Wednesday, 3 May 2017 (midnight Geneva time).
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