Monitoring and Reporting Specialist

Organizational Context

UNFPA is the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, dedicated to ensuring every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. It champions gender equality and empowers women, girls, and youth. Operating in over 150 countries, UNFPA aims to eliminate unmet family planning needs, preventable maternal deaths, and gender-based violence by 2030. In the Asia Pacific region, UNFPA focuses on strengthening data and evidence for maternal health and addressing GBV and harmful practices, supported by significant donor contributions like those from the Government of Australia.

Job Purpose

This assignment supports UNFPA's mission, guided by the ICPD Programme of Action, to advance health and equal opportunity, utilizing data for policies to reduce poverty and ensure desired pregnancies, safe childbirths, and fulfilled youth potential. In the Asia Pacific, the role contributes to UNFPA's transformative results: ending preventable maternal mortality and eliminating gender-based violence and harmful practices. The specialist will enhance the availability and use of high-quality data for maternal and reproductive health services, including Maternal Perinatal Deaths Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) systems, Health Management Information Systems (HMIS), and Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) data. This is crucial for improving maternal healthcare outcomes and addressing SRHR, maternal health, GBV, and harmful practices, leveraging donor support to accelerate sustainable results across the region.

Responsibilities

The Monitoring and Reporting Specialist will strengthen monitoring tools and processes for Australia’s DFAT-funded projects at the regional level. This includes assisting countries with quality assurance of monitoring data collection and ensuring accurate report submission. The role involves supporting project reporting (annual and six-month narratives) through drafting, editing, quality assurance, and ensuring compliance with donor requirements for DFAT-funded programmes, covering SRHR data, FGM, CEFM, and GBV response, prevention, and data. The specialist will also contribute to drafting project proposals with technical units and prepare written materials such as briefing notes, presentations, meeting minutes, and periodic/situation reports to document project results. Other assigned tasks will be performed as required. By amplifying achieved results, the specialist will enhance understanding of UNFPA's impact, strengthen partnerships, and mobilize support for addressing maternal morbidity/mortality, improving maternal health service delivery, strengthening violence against women data systems for policymaking, preventing/responding to gender-based violence, and tackling child, early, and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.

Work Experience

A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience is required, specifically in donor reporting, monitoring and evaluation roles, programme monitoring, data quality assurance, results reporting, and donor compliance. Essential experience includes drafting and reviewing narrative reports, project proposals, briefing notes, and other programme documentation, as well as analyzing and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative programme data. Knowledge of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), maternal health, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), harmful practices, or related public health/development programmes is desirable.

Skills

Excellent oral and written English, with strong drafting, formulation, and reporting skills, is essential. Solid computer literacy, including proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, Word) and familiarity with database management, is required. Key competencies include accountability, adaptability and flexibility, creativity, judgment and decision-making, planning and organizing, professionalism, and self-management. Expertise in development programmes, health, and social work is relevant. Important values and professional attributes include integrity, teamwork, respect for diversity, discretion, political sensitivity, diplomacy, and tact.

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