Monitoring and Reporting
Organizational Context
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), within the Ecosystems Division, seeks to strengthen results-based management, monitoring, and reporting. This role supports the Source to Sea Pollution Unit and the Wastewater Surveillance Initiative for Africa (WWS4Africa), enhancing the demonstration of progress, results, and impact to meet accountability requirements and inform programme planning.
Job Purpose
This role is crucial for strengthening results-based management, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation within the Source-to-Sea Pollution Unit (SSPU) and the Wastewater Surveillance Initiative for Africa (WWS4Africa). The objective is to ensure reliable performance data, systematic tracking of results, and timely, evidence-based reporting. This will enable management to better demonstrate progress and impact, identify challenges and opportunities, meet UNEP and donor accountability standards, and leverage monitoring evidence for informed programme planning, decision-making, institutional learning, and effective delivery and scaling of the Unit’s work. The position is based in Nairobi and is for an expected duration of 12 months.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include strengthening and operationalizing monitoring and reporting frameworks across SSPU projects and WWS4Africa, ensuring systematic tracking of indicators, targets, and results. This involves enhancing the collection, management, and analysis of performance data and evidence, ensuring data quality and consistency. The role requires coordinating and delivering high-quality reports for various UNEP and donor requirements, including IPMR updates and progress reports. Additionally, it involves strengthening knowledge management by documenting results, lessons learned, and good practices, and enhancing monitoring and reporting capacity among staff and partners through technical guidance and tools. Continuous improvement of monitoring and reporting processes is also a core duty.
Work Experience
A minimum of two years of work experience in monitoring and reporting tasks within UN Agencies is required. Experience in designing and implementing monitoring and reporting frameworks for Source to Sea Pollution within the UN system or similar international organizations is desired. Experience within UN Agencies or similar international organizations is highly desirable.
Skills
Monitoring and reporting framework design and implementation, data collection, management, and analysis, results-based management, knowledge management, capacity building, coordination, and excellent written and spoken English communication skills.