Job Summary

In light of the continuing crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic and its impact on neighboring countries, UNFPA established a regional response hub in Amman-Jordan to coordinate and provide technical and operational support to its offices in the Syrian Arab Republic and the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey. The UNFPA Syria Hub provides technical and operational support to the concerned country offices on humanitarian programming, and coordinates with other sister UN agencies regional emergency offices. In light of the Whole of Syria (WoS) approach that the humanitarian community has embraced (that includes Syria and the cross border operations from Turkey and Jordan), the UNFPA Syria Hub has also become the coordination and information management point for the WoS for UNFPA and for its mandated areas of responsibility in Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Reproductive Health (RH) in the WOS and the Syrian refugee response contexts.The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, working in close collaboration with the Regional M&E Adviser for ASRO, will support the monitoring and evaluation activities related to UNFPA’s response to the Syrian crisis, both inside Syria and in the neighboring countries dealing with the Syria crisis and in the context of the WoS response and Syrian refugee response.  The M&E specialist will also be responsible for the information management functions of the Whole of Syria GBV responsibility as well as the 3RP.  S/he will be also responsible for providing reports to donors and to internal UNFPA offices on the effectiveness and achievements of humanitarian projects addressing the Syria crisis.   

Education: 

·         Advanced university degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Public Administration, Economics, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Law, or Programme/Project management, Monitoring and Evaluation.

Knowledge and Experience:

·         7 years of professional experience, with at least 5 years of relevant development work at the national, regional or international level in providing programme/project management advisory services and hands-on experience in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating development projects, including log frame and budget, especially in health or gender sector

·         Excellent knowledge of and experience with results-based management methodologies and tools (project and programme management, design, monitoring and evaluation) and research and policy-level analysis

·         Demonstrated ability for national capacity development

·         Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work effectively in a multicultural and changing environment, communication skills, teamwork, analytic thinking, planning and organizing, time management, creativity and innovation and client orientation.

·         Demonstrated self-motivation, persistence and the ability to proactively manage own stress level and those of others; capacity to deal with conflict situations and opposition in a positive manner; maturity and sound sense of judgment to interact with all UN colleagues at various levels, senior governmental officials, civil society representatives, donors and other

·         Experience in working with UN/UNFPA is an asset. Field experience is strongly desirable

·         Initiative, strong conceptual and analytical abilities, sound judgment, liaison skills, negotiation skills, administrative, management and organizational skills (including time management)

·         Proven communications, interpersonal, and writing skills in English.

·         Experience in using computers and office software packages including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Google/Gmail, and handling of web-based management systems

·         Fluency in English is required; Working knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.