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Position Title:Peacebuilding M&E Specialist
Duty Station: Kampala
Organization: UN Children's Fund
Employment Type:Full Time Permanent
Application Deadline:12 January 2015
Background Information:
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.
In order to achieve these results, the program will focus on five key
outcomes. Outcome One aims to increase inclusion of education into
peacebuilding and conflict reduction policies, analyses and implementation.
Outcome Two will increase institutional capacities to supply conflict sensitive
education. Outcome Three aims to increase capacity of children, parents,
teachers and other duty-bearers to prevent, reduce and cope with conflict and
promote peace. Outcome Four will increase access to quality, relevant conflict
sensitive education that contributes to peace. Outcome Five is cross-cutting
and will contribute to the generation and use of evidence and knowledge in
policies and programming related to education, conflict and peacebuilding.
PBEA spans engagement in the sectors of education, child protection,
communications and advocacy:
§ ECD Support: Bringing communities together around common goals,
Increases retention and enrolment, Builds up service provision around the
country
§ Quality and Child Friendly Schools which provide access to
conflict-sensitive education, Education builds conflict resilience, Education
is an important peace dividend, Education which provides economic opportunity
is paramount to building peace, Teacher training to support implementation of
national education curriculum
§ Violence Against Children: Ending cycle of violence, Providing
psychosocial support, Strengthening judicial and protection systems for
children, strengthening the RTRR process and knowledge of same.
§ Engaging Youth: (Support to employment and income generation,
providing opportunities to engage in issues (U-Report), piloting the use of
technologies, support to bringing back children to school, youth Scouts, etc.)
§ Community Engagement: District Dialogues, Community baraazas,
Communication campaigns, U-Report
§ Advocacy Research, Learning, Policy: Advocate for the inclusion of Education in
peacebuilding planning, programmes, and policies AND research agenda which
helps UNICEF build knowledge base on youth engagement in particular
Monitoring and Evaluation remains a crucial aspect of the PBEA program,
which is piloting a new approach for UNICEF. Documenting change in areas of
social cohesion, resilience and human security as a result of the program
interventions underpins the ‘learning by doing’ approach of the program and
requires a robust and highly specialized methodology that captures output and
outcome level outcomes and substantively contribute to the overall
implementation of the PBEA program research outcomes by generating useful
knowledge about best practices and impact.
Moreover, as we approach the last 12 months of programming it is imperative
that a final-year M&E strategy is developed and implemented so that
relevant lessons are captured and articulated into a PBEA 2 proposal to be
submitted to the donor in the course of 2015.
The proposed M&E work cannot be undertaken by current PBEA/Learning
staff as it requires specialized skills and knowledge of both qualitative and
quantitative methods of measuring peacebuilding that the PBEA team lacks.
Purpose of Assignment and Scope of work:
To design and implement a comprehensive, innovative and participatory
monitoring and evaluation methodology for the final year of the PBEA program
utilizing qualitative and quantitative tools to guide the work of UNICEF staff
and partners.
Deliverable:
·
Inception brief/Presentation of
outcomes of the consultation exercise and next steps (Inception brief)
·
Capacity needs assessment and
training/mentoring strategy developed. Initial trainings with all relevant
stakeholders developed and implemented (Capacity building)
·
Review of existing M&E system
and plans for the remaining of the program (Evaluability)
·
Paper outlining existing/source
of relevant data and a strategy for their utilization (Data sources)
·
Updated M&E Plan (M&E
Plan), timeline, and templates (M&E Plan)
·
Reporting/M&E
calendar/framework developed (M&E calendar)
·
Updated M&E work plan
reflecting all relevant stakeholders’ inputs (M&E workplan)
·
M&E schedule developed to
link PBEA and UNICEF M&E systems (including PQA schedule) developed and
interventions planned (PQA schedule) and shared with all relevant UNICEF
staff/partners (M&E schedule)
·
M&E Database developed and
relevant UNICEF staff/partners trained in its use (M&E database)
·
M&E risk strategy drafted and
presented to relevant UNICEF staff and partners (M&E risk strategy)
·
Continuous collection,
processing, and management of M&E data in collaboration with UNICEF
programmatic focal points, PBEA implementing partners, and Ministry of
Education and Sports counterparts (M&E data collection)
·
Contribution to PBEA end report
to reflect the efficiency, effectiveness, impact, sustainability, and relevance
(M&E final report) Methodology
Desk-based review of PBEA M&E Framework, participatory capacity
building/meetings, field-based implementation of M&E activities and
collection of data, desk-based analysis of M&E data, desk-based preparation
of analytical M&E reports.
Responsibilities:
·
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
·
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
·
Review program approach, methods,
and tools and the remaining activities to be evaluated and identify
strengths/weaknesses in relation to documenting peacebuilding impact
·
Review existing internal/external
data and identify opportunities for their utilization in M&E
processes/products
·
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.
·
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.
·
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.
·
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
·
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
·
Identify, and design mitigation
measures to address, issues and/or constraints that will affect the
implementation of the M&E plan
·
Manage the collection,
processing, and analysis of PBEA M&E data.
·
Contribute to the development of
the PBEA Programme annual report.
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
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).
Mode of application:
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 to mllamazares@unicef.org not later than 12
January 2015.
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.
UNICEF is a non-smoking working environment.
UNICEF is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as
to race, sex or religion, and without discrimination of persons with
disabilities.
Job ID: #773191
Training categories: Monitoring and Evaluation
Theme: Education
