The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the UN agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all

Responsibilities

Under the overall supervision of the Officer in Charge and the direct supervision of the Programme Officer and in close cooperation with the programme managers the incumbent will work across the UN-Habitat Somalia programme to deliver on the following:

• Designing monitoring and evaluation frameworks aligned with project goals and objectives, including defining indicators, data collection methods, and evaluation methodologies.
• Develop monitoring templates and recording system/ data base to ensure collection of sex and age disaggregated data and other vulnerability criteria/ data, with a particular focus on training data.
• Develop a system to monitor risks for programme implementation across all programmes as well as supporting Project Managers in the mitigation of those risks.
• Lead data collection efforts, which may involve designing surveys, conducting interviews, and collecting both quantitative and qualitative data. Analyzing collected data to assess progress and performance against targets and benchmarks.
• Generating regular monitoring reports detailing progress, achievements, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
• Providing training and technical assistance to project staff and partners on M&E concepts, tools, and techniques.
• Ensuring the quality and reliability of data collected through rigorous validation and verification processes.
• Documenting lessons learned, best practices, and success stories from M&E activities to contribute to organizational learning and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications/special skills

• A first level university degree in statistics, economics, public/business administration, development studies, youth studies or related field is required. A minimum of two years of experience in M&E is required. Experience to work with quantitative and qualitative data, and appropriately use qualitative data /information collection tools in innovative ways is required. Experience in development of survey tools, data analysis, results – Based management and report and proposal writing is an advantage. Experience in working in post-conflict / disaster environments is desirable.