Background:

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. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality are translated into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts while building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

UN Women has placed emphasis on improving its results monitoring and reporting by applying the Results-Based Management (RBM) throughout all the work of UN Women to better communicate results internally and externally at country, regional and global levels. This requires dedicated efforts to strengthen results culture in the organization.  In order for UN Women to communicate impact stories on women and girls at the corporate level with aggregated results and financial data across all the countries and regions, it is crucial to further strengthen UN Women’s capacity to monitor and report on results with qualitative and quantitative data more systematically and effectively. 

Through UN Women’s unique triple mandate, the China Country Office supports and carries out work on (i) women's economic empowerment; (ii) ending violence against women; (iii) gender-responsive institutions and high-quality services; and (iv) global partnerships and sustainable financing for gender equality and women’s empowerment. The office’s work is further supported and catalysed through policy analysis, strategic partnerships – including with private sector partners, strategic communications, and operations. 

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Head of Office, the Consultant is responsible for supporting the programme planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of select programmes and the Country Office. The Consultant provides strategic guidance and technical support to teams to ensure high quality results monitoring and reporting at the programmatic and country level, ensuring compliance with the corporate standard of RBM and the relevant corporate policy and procedures on monitoring and reporting. They provide guidance, technical support and quality assurance to the Country Office associated with the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), Strategic Note and workplans from the strategic planning and RBM perspectives.

The Consultant works closely with Country Office and Regional Office colleagues in their region. The Consultant also coordinates with Regional Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Specialists in the Regional Office. In carrying out the functions, they also coordinate and collaborate closely with relevant HQ Divisions and units as needed, including the Strategy, Planning, Resources and Effectiveness Division (SPRED) and the Policy, Programme and Inter-Governmental Division (PPID) at HQ in order to ensure the implementation of corporate policy, procedures, guidance and systems associated with monitoring and reporting in their respective region. 

Key Functions and Accountabilities:

Provide guidance and technical support to the Country Office to ensure timely and high-quality results monitoring and reporting at the country level in line with corporate requirements, including reporting to UN Women Strategic Plan

• Provide guidance, technical support and quality assurance to the CO to ensure the quality and timely submission and finalization of monitoring and reporting work at CO level, in line with UN Women’s relevant corporate policies, procedures and guidance.
• Provide guidance and technical support to COs to support country level Quarterly Business Review (QBR) and review of Risk Register of COs.
• Provide guidance, technical support and quality assurance to the office to ensure the quality and timely submission and finalization of annual reports of Country Office (both narrative report and reporting against Strategic Note Results and Resources Framework, including reporting on relevant global Strategic Plan indicators), in line with UN Women’s relevant corporate policies, procedures and guidance.
• Provide support to CO to ensure the quality of reporting data against its SN before publishing in UN Women’s Transparency Portal.
• Provide guidance, technical support and training to strengthen the capacity of the CO in the areas of RBM in relation to results monitoring and reporting with data, with the use of corporate RBM resources and relevant policies, procedures and guidance from HQ.
• Provide guidance and technical support to the CO to ensure the effective use of corporate systems (i.e. RMS and Quantum) for results monitoring and reporting processes with Strategic Note, workplans and projects.
• Serve as the focal point for the UN system in China Monitoring and Evaluation Inter-Agency Group, as needed; lead the CO’s strategic planning, evaluation, and reporting under the UNSDCF and other inter-agency programme planning processes; and provide technical support and training to strengthen UN system capacity in applying gender-responsive RBM

Provide guidance and technical support to the Country Office to support planning of monitoring and reporting work at the planning stage of Strategic Note, workplans and projects in line with the corporate requirements

• Provide guidance and technical support to the CO for the preparation of monitoring and reporting plan of CO, including for Programme Partners, as well as planning of monitoring and reporting activities and its budget in CO workplans and projects.
• Provide guidance and technical support to ensure the quality of results framework of the CO Strategic Note and of projects from monitoring and reporting perspectives. 
• Provide guidance and technical support to ensure the CO collects baseline data in a timely manner with quality as a base to set milestones and targets of results framework of CO Strategic Note and of projects.
• Provide RBM capacity development support to the CO at the planning stage to ensure the full integration of monitoring and reporting with data collection and analysis at the formulation stage of Strategic Note, workplans and projects.  

Provide guidance and technical support to the Country Office on programme planning, monitoring and evaluation

• Provide guidance and technical support to the CO on the formulation of project concept notes, appropriate theory of change, results framework, and other planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting elements vis-à-vis project planning.
• Provide guidance and technical support to programme teams on developing monitoring and evaluation framework/indicators as part of programme monitoring and evaluation plans.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.

Payment details

Payments shall be made following certification by UN Women that the services related to each deliverable, as specified for each task, have been satisfactorily performed and the deliverables have been achieved by or before the due dates specified for each task.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities: Depending on HR planning and resource availability, the Consultant may be supported by a fellow or UNV. 

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework: 

Functional Competencies:

• Excellent knowledge of results-based management and its application to monitoring and reporting work with data 
• Excellent knowledge of UN system and understanding of inter-agency level results monitoring and reporting 
• Excellent knowledge of development and use of indicators to support results monitoring and reporting 
• Strong organizational and communication skills; 
• Excellent analytical and writing skills with use of qualitative and quantitative data
• Ability to communicate results internally and externally 
• Ability to support others to strengthen their knowledge and skills in the areas of monitoring and reporting
• Ability to use information technologies as a tool and resource; 
• Excellent writing skills in English 

Recruitment Qualifications:

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in development-related disciplines, Social Sciences, Statistics, Political Science, Development Studies, Public Administration, Gender, or another related field 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.
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible development experience in development cooperation, international relations, public administration or other related field, some of which must be in the areas of Results-Based Management (RBM) and results-based monitoring and reporting at the country, regional and/or global levels. 
• Experience in managing and/or conducting results monitoring work at country, regional and/or global level is required. 
• Experience in managing and/or preparing results reports with use of quantitative and qualitative data at country, regional and/or global level is required. 
• Experience in providing guidance and technical support to personnel and/or partners in the areas of monitoring and/or reporting is required.  
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), and web-based management systems, and up-to-date, advanced knowledge of data management tools and database packages. 
• Experience in conducting RBM training, as a trainer, to personnel and/or external partners to support results-based monitoring and reporting is desirable.
• Experience in inter-agency joint monitoring and/or reporting work is desirable. 

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Proficiency in another UN official languages is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) 

Statements :

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

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