Monitoring and Data Management Consultant

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is a partnership between the United Nations and the civil society, which supports women led and women’s rights organizations working to build peace and provide humanitarian response throughout the world. Since the end of 2016, the WPHF has been supporting over 900 civil society organizations and is active in 32 countries through 24 funding allocations.

UN Women hosts the Secretariat of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund. The WPHF Secretariat provides support to the Funding Board, mobilizes resources from Governments, companies, foundations and individuals; designs funding windows and mechanisms; provides day to day support to Country Offices implementing WPHF programmes; and ensures timely and quality monitoring and reporting. A key component of the Secretariat’s mandate is to establish and implement a strong monitoring and evaluation system that links WPHF’s global theory of change to the work undertaken by WPHF grantees at the country level.

Reporting to the WPHF Programme Coordinator, and in close collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, the Monitoring and Data Management Consultant will support data management and other monitoring and evaluation activities within the WPHF Secretariat, including support the maintenance and updating of the grant management information system (MIS), support in carrying out proposal evaluations, review annual reports and carry out consolidation of data, and prepare data analysis for use in presentations and other advocacy products developed by the WPHF. 

Duties and Responsibilities

  Provide support to WPHF’s data management system and data use

• Support in the overall implementation of the M&E plan for the WPHF
• Support data mining for the WPHF annual Index which tracks global trends on the participation of women’s organizations in peace, security and humanitarian contexts
• Support the management of data entry, cleaning and validation processes across WPHF funding windows
• Support in data consolidation, aggregation and/or analysis for the use of data for advocacy products, presentations and other key documents

   Provide support to WPHF’s key monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes

• Support the revision/update of WPHF templates, including project documents and reporting templates
• Support the evaluation of proposals received (management of inbox, longlisting, consolidation and preparation of files)
• Support the annual country level reporting, including data compilation and aggregation

Contribute to M&E knowledge building and capacity building

• Promote the awareness and understanding of the shared responsibility of M&E among all staff members through communication, training, learning and development activities
• Support the data compilation and transfer for use in knowledge management products and capacity building efforts

Competencies

Functional Competencies

• Strong knowledge in the use of Microsoft Excel, including more advanced functions such as pivots, automatic dashboards, etc., and including other data management systems (e.g. PowerBI)
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and evaluation processes, data collection and analysis, and reporting processes
• Ability to synthesize program performance data and produce analytical reports
• Ability to manage large amounts of data
• Detail orientated and ability to manage multiple tasks
• Good understanding of and commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration

Required Skills and Experience

Education and certification:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/Women's Studies, and/or Information Technology, etc. 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 1 year of experience in data management, processing, working with Excel (or equivalent), and monitoring of development projects/ programmes;
• Field experience is an asset, particularly in relation to management of data and results;
• Experience working in gender equality and women’s rights is an asset;
• Experience in the United Nations systems in an asset.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required
• Knowledge of French, Arabic or Spanish is an asset.