UN Women: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Home-based IPSA11

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. The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is a partnership between the United Nations and civil society, which supports women led and women’s rights organizations working to build peace and provide humanitarian response throughout the world. Since 2016, the WPHF has been supporting over 1,200 civil society organizations and is active in 44 countries. UN Women hosts the Secretariat of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund. The WPHF Secretariat provides support to the Funding Board, mobilizes resources from Governments, companies, foundations and individuals, provides day-to-day support to Country Offices implementing WPHF programmes, ensures timely and quality monitoring and reporting. The Secretariat’s role is also to establish and implement a strong monitoring and evaluation system that links WPHF’s global theory of change to the work undertaken by WPHF CSO Partners at the country level and across funding windows. 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. 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. Reporting to the Head of the WPHF Secretariat, the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will provide guidance on M&E to the WPHF Secretariat, support WPHF partners in aligning their results framework to the WPHF global results framework and ensure that a Results-Based Management (RBM) approach is fully integrated into the WPHF supported projects and funding windows, including, evidence-based programming approach and the results-based M&E. The consultant will also lead on survey designs and produce an annual WPHF index. The consultant also contributes to the corporate level monitoring and reporting requirements, such as the Executive Director’s Annual Report (EDAR) to the Executive Board on the implementation of UN Women Strategic Plan and UN Women’s Transparency Portal. Scope of Work: 1. Provide guidance and technical support to the WPHF Secretariat to ensure timely and high-quality results monitoring, evaluation and reporting at the global level • Provide guidance, technical support and quality assurance to WPHF to ensure the quality and timely submission and finalization of monitoring, evaluation and results-based reporting work, including INGOs and Management Entities’ annual reports. • Provide technical and strategic inputs to the finalization of and results framework for WPHF Strategic Plan 2026-2029Implementation Plan, Operations Manual and other key Secretariat documents; • Lead the development/update of technical tip sheets; • Provide quality inputs to WPHF templates, including calls for proposals, project documents and reporting templates as required; • Update and maintain the Management Information System (MIS) and support new systems and processes for data management, as required; • Lead on WPHF’s global annual CSO survey and other surveys as required; • Update and maintain WPHF’S Index (data mining, computations, draft briefs); • Provide support to board or donor presentations, country and donor briefs and other presentations as required, including data/statistics and data visualization. • Support in evaluations through calls for proposals where needed; • Provide guidance and technical support to WPHF to ensure the effective use of corporate systems (i.e. PRISM and Quantum) for results monitoring and reporting processes with Strategic Note, workplans and projects. 2. Provide guidance and technical support to Country Offices (Management Entities) to support planning of monitoring, evaluation and reporting of CSOs • Provide guidance and technical support to COs/MEs for the preparation of monitoring and evaluation plans, partner project documents as per WPHF calls for proposals,