Programme Associate

**The Position**:
The Programme Associate, Monitoring & Evaluation supports the design, planning and management of UNFPA’s country programme by managing data inputs, providing logístical support, monitoring project implementation and following up on recommendations.

You will report to the Head of Office.

**How you can make a difference**:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA’s Seventh Country Programme Document (2022-2026) for Maldives was approved by the Executive Board in February 2022. The Programme focuses on three key areas of intervention 1) end unmet need for family planning 2) end gender based violence and harmful practices against women and girls and 3) population and development. The proposed Country Programme is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Corporation Framework (UNSDCF) (2022-2026).

UNFPA has partnerships with the government departments, UN agencies, INGOs and local NGOs, and research institutions.

**Job Purpose**:
You will play an instrumental role in facilitating monitoring and evaluation of the UNFPA’s country programme and project implementation, supporting design, planning and management, in the areas of population and development, reproductive health and gender.

**You would be responsible for**:
**A. Support to Programme Planning**

Support provision of technical inputs to programme formulation to ensure results are properly defined
- Coordinate the development of theories of change of the country programme
- Provide coordination and facilitation support in the development of quality results M&E frameworks including the costed monitoring and evaluation plan of the country programme
- Coordinate and provide inputs to develop annual and multiyear results plans
- Support developing workplans to operationalise the results
- Provide inputs for developing field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes
- Compile relevant data to be used for evidence-based planning and programming, including evaluative evidence, and promote their use.

**B. Support to Programme Monitoring**

Support provision of technical inputs to the monitoring and tracking of results against country/ regional level targets and UNFPA Strategic Plan
- Provide support to conduct the annual reviews of the country programme
- Support development and implementation of programme monitoring activities in collaboration with programme staff
- Conduct field monitoring in coordination with programme team and monitor implementation of monitoring visits recommendations
- Support collecting and analysing data and evidence and oversee regular data quality checks
- Active participation and provide relevant inputs for joint united nations joint results groups and other joint monitoring and reporting mechanisms, including for UNINFO
- Contribute the implementation of the assurance plans including the spot checks

**C. Support to Results reporting and communication**

Facilitate the reporting of results to internal (Senior Management) and external (Executive Board, Donors) audiences
- Collect quality quantitative and qualitative data
- Compile and analyze data to inform reporting and decision making
- Coordinate and provide inputs to results reports
- Support communicating results for both internal and external audiences in close collaboration with communication staff
- Provide required results and data for producing external report such as United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
- Support producing and disseminating results reports on implementation of UNFPA strategic plan and regional programmes

**D. Support to Evaluation**

Support the implementation of the UNFPA Evaluation Policy in the Country Office
- Support the development and implementation of costed evaluation plan in the country office, including an annual update and regular monitoring of implementation of planned evaluations
- Support the appointed Country Office evaluation manager