Lead the UN Trust Fund’s knowledge management efforts and contribute to grantee capacity building:

• Serve as focal point on knowledge management for the UN Trust Fund, developing user-friendly knowledge products to disseminate findings and insights to key stakeholders – within and beyond the UN system –  in collaboration with the Communications team.
• Develop mechanisms to track the utilization and impact of knowledge products and systems.
• Build strategic partnerships to co-create and disseminate knowledge with academia, think tanks, and other organizations within the broader EVAW ecosystem and in coordination with UN Women’s EVAW section.
• Provide capacity development support to the PBK/research grants under the ACT programmes
• Support the delivery of UN Trust Fund Capacity Development workshop for new grantees every year.
• Improve further the existing training materials (presentations and handouts related to data collection, knowledge management, monitoring, ethics and safety and evaluation) in consultation with UN Trust Fund staff and other stakeholders.
• Serve as one of the facilitators and trainers to conduct sessions on indicators, data collection and ethics and safety requirements and management of external evaluations and to support grantee group work.
• Support Communications team in delivering knowledge-sharing initiatives, such as webinars, workshops, and learning exchanges.
• Support other requests related to knowledge management as deemed essential by the Manager and Chief.

Coordinate UN Trust Fund’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Management activities at the Secretariat Level

• Facilitate the implementation of the UN Trust Fund’s Knowledge Management strategy and M&E framework (part of the UN Trust Fund’s Strategy)
• Provide quality assurance of UNTF program documents through adhoc review of results frameworks in order to meet SMART criteria.
• Develop, update and ensure the effective use of M&E-related guidance documents by relevant staff, including the M&E sections of the UN Trust Fund’s Reporting Guidelines, Baseline and Evaluation Guidelines, and the Results Chain and Results Framework Guidelines for Full-Fledged Proposals
• Contribute to the development of and implementation of the M&E sections and results framework of UN Trust Fund strategies, including support in the design and tracking of indicators.
• Support the management of internal/external evaluations of UN Trust Fund Strategy and the entire evaluation process, including management of evaluators and overall coordination.
• Manage other monitoring and evaluation-related events, products, and technical assistance needs, and represent the UN Trust Fund at technical meetings.
• Manage the UN Trust Fund M&E sections in UN Women Share Point and M&E-related folders in UN Trust Fund Share drive.

Coordinate the monitoring, assessment, analysis and production of reports about key results and achievements across grantees’ projects

• Generate critical lessons learned, impact achieved and good practices from final grantee evaluation reports and ensure their wider circulation in close collaboration with relevant team members in UNTF and UN Women.
• Through the analysis of evaluation reports of grantees’ projects, generate key findings to contribute to the reporting requirements at the UN Trust Fund secretariat level and particularly to the UN Trust Fund’s annual report for the Commission on Status of Women and its donors.
• Conduct monitoring missions in collaboration with UN Trust Fund staff and focal points in UN Women Regional/Country Offices, upon request.
• Maintain and update inventory of UN Trust Fund and grantee evaluations and provide inputs to internal and external stakeholders upon request.
• Provide adhoc support as requested by the M&E and KM Manager on monitoring, assessing and analyzing key results and achievements across grantees’ projects.

Provide technical input to the annual grants’ appraisal and selection process and support to shortlisted applicants and grantees to ensure the compliance with requirements on Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Provide substantive inputs into the development of the annual Calls for Proposals and relevant guidance based on lessons learned through UN Trust Fund commissioned evaluations and knowledge products.
• Provide technical inputs into the annual appraisal and selection process, with specific attention to sections related to monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Review and provide feedback on Results and M&E sections of a select sub-set of grantees full-fledged proposals, upon request by and in collaboration with Programme Specialists.
• Provide detailed written feedback on data collection tools and ethics and safety protocols for grantees during the grants lifetime.
• Provide technical support to applicants and grantees in the areas of, baseline data collection/analysis, monitoring, reporting and evaluation, in accordance with the UN Trust Fund M&E guidelines and requirements.
• Assess quality of M&E work by grantees, and prepare periodic technical assessment updates and recommendations for improvements and future guidance on M&E.

Contribute to the development and implementation of SHINE Hub:

• Manage the SHINE Hub Coordinator and provide substantive management inputs on SHINE Hub, a multi-lingual platform for amplification and co-production of knowledge.
• Enable and endorse the co-creation, collaboration, and amplification of practice-based knowledge between UN Trust Fund grantees, civil society organizations (CSOs), practitioners, and other stakeholders
• Manage the technological architecture of the site and its design (site map) in collaboration with Content Managers
• Update Shine Hub’s Content Plan regularly and implement in a timely manner to enable and foster co-creation, collaboration, and amplification of practice-based knowledge
• Implement SHINE Hub’s Community Engagement strategy and manage partnerships both internal and external in coordination with the Communications team
• Ensure SHINE hub inform the UN Trust Fund’s work centered on the experiences of and demands from women’s movement and civil society organizations.

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

Competencies :

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.

Functional Competencies:

• Excellent knowledge of results-based management and its application with monitoring and reporting including familiarity with log frames and understanding of baseline data collection and monitoring methodologies.
• Excellent knowledge of EVAW and gender quality/women’s empowerment development and use of indicators to support results based management.
• Familiarity with UN system, particularly with regard to project management and more specifically in relation to the development of work plans, budgets, monitoring and reporting plans, purchasing plans and the identification of indicators.
• Ability to manage for results: translate strategy into achievable plans, with established priorities, monitor them, making periodic adjustments as required;
• Ability to build strong relationships with, and focuses on results for clients and partners, responds positively to feedback;
• Capacity to work with diverse partners including civil society and women’s groups;
• Excellent interpersonal and diplomacy skills;
• Ability to use critical thinking, conceptualize ideas, and articulate relevant subject matter concisely.
• Excellent research, analytical, and writing skills.
• Proficiency in digital knowledge management tools and platforms.
• Ability to communicate effectively with and relate to people of different cultures, demonstrating an ability to see issues from other perspectives.

Recruitment Qualifications:

Education and Certification:

• Master`s degree (or equivalent) in International Development, Social Work, Public Administration and/or Policy, Programme/Project Management, Evaluation or in the field of social sciences or another relevant field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree

Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the areas of Results-Based Management (RBM), Monitoring and Evaluation, knowledge management and uptake in the context of ending violence against women and/or gender equality programming.
• Experience in developing and implementing an M&E system is required;
• Experience in designing and conducting training on M&E for ending violence against women (EVAW) is required;
• Experience in developing and implementing guidelines and tools on RBM, reporting and M&E is required;
• Experience in managing external and/or internal evaluations is required;
• Experience in ending violence against women highly desirable.