Livelihood Recovery for Peace (LRP)/UNDP - The overall objective of this integrated, area-focused, project is to contribute to local peace building and restoring the foundations for sustainable livelihood in Central Tarai districts. The project will target mainly women, youth, conflict-affected, poor, and other socially excluded and disadvantaged communities and households. The Livelihood Recovery for Peace Project, UNDP is looking for experienced and qualified Nepalese citizens for the following positions:
Duty Station: All the positions are based in Central Tarai Districts with frequent travel to other project districts (Mahottari, Sarlahi or Rautahat)
Contract Type: Service Contract
Language Requirement: For all the positions applicants should have excellent written and spoken English and Nepali. Ability to speak at least one of the languages spoken in the Tarai (e.g. Maithali, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Tharu, etc.) is required.
Post Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, SB4 / Peg II
No. of positions: One
Duration: Initially one year (renewable)
Duties And Responsibilities:
Under the supervision of the National Project Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (MES) will be responsible for the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation plans. More specifically, MES will be responsible for the following:
- Prepare monitoring processes and guidance notes for the project staff.
- Develop disaggregated indicators for the effective implementation of the project and support in the development of annual and quarterly work plans especially in relation to setting the targets and indicators.
- Supervise and provide guidance to the Management Information System Associate on designing the MIS system for the project as well as populating it. Develop tools and formats, in collaboration with the Management Information System Associate, to collect data from the field so that all activities supported by the project are well documented and inputs and beneficiaries continuously tracked to measure results.
- Prepare formats for field visit reports for project staff. Collect data and provide inputs to prepare progress reports from program districts, partner organizations, and project staff as per UNDP's requirements; work closely with the Communications Specialist to finalize reports (i.e. progress reports, donor reports, etc.)
- Support the National Project Manager and other staff by providing updated data and information.
- Train project staff on monitoring and orient them on UNDP's requirements on data collection, sex and social group disaggregation, and reporting requirements.
- Provide inputs to finalize the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the project with support from UNDP.
- Assist other professional staff in preparing the monitoring indicators in relation to objectives, outputs and activities as defined in the project's Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.
- Oversee the preparation and implementation of baseline studies, VDC and community level participatory assessment, data analyses, report preparation, and proper dissemination of these reports to stakeholders.
- Draft TORs for review, evaluations, assessments, etc. as well as draft TORs of consultants for these tasks as per the need of the project to track results, and ensure that the evaluations, reviews, assessments are conducted properly and the reports are of good quality.
- Monitor the project activities from gender and social inclusion perspective and provide timely feedback to all staff and partner organizations.
- Coordinate with VDCs and DDCs to ensure that the data collected by this project is fed to the VDC and DDC level planning processes. Undertake field monitoring visits frequently
- Prepare quarterly analysis of all field monitoring reports submitted by project staff or forwarded from UNDP to highlight key issues.
- Supervise and support the MIS Associate and analyze data from all project districts and for all project outputs on a quarterly basis to feed into the progress reports
- Perform any other duties assigned by NPM as per need of the project
Qualifications Requirement:
- Masters Degree in Rural Development, Sociology, Anthropology, Agriculture, Forestry, Economics, Statistics, and other relevant field.
- Must have sound knowledge and proven skills of quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
- At least 3 -5 years of experience in project monitoring and evaluation, Proven experience of developing, monitoring systems for development projects.
- Proven ability to produce analytical reports with quantitative data analysis.
- Proven ability to organize and present information in an effective manner. Familiarity with sustainable livelihood issues and conflict-sensitive development approaches needed.
- Sound knowledge of gender and social inclusion issues and analysis.
- Good writing skills.
- S/he must be well versed in MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Nepali language typing.
Applications should be submitted no later than 27 August 2025 by email, to: [email protected] or in a sealed envelope to:
UNDP Operations Department (Ref: LRP/UNDP), UN House, Pulchowk, P.O. Box 107, Kathmandu, Nepal
Candidates are required to mention the 'Ref. No.' and 'Position Name' on the envelop or on the subject line of the e-mail. Only applicants who are short-listed will be contacted.
Applicants must submit the updated standard UN Personal History Form available from UNDP webpage http://www.undp.org.np/vacancy
Work experience and/or academic knowledge in relation to gender and social exclusion will be an added advantage. Women, Dalits, Janajatis, Madhesis, people with disabilities, and other minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
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