Overview
The Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Associate will provide support to the Country Office to strengthen results-based management, monitoring and reporting and ensuring the timely documentation and communication of results to internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Support strategic, bi-annual, and annual planning processes, ensuring alignment with UN Women corporate planning, monitoring and reporting standards.
- Contribute to the development and quality assurance of results frameworks and indicators in project design and proposals.
- Ensure integration of evaluation findings, lessons learned, and recommendations into programme formulation and planning.
- Manage and update Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Plans, ensuring coherence with CO priorities and corporate guidance.
- Contribute to UN Women reporting frameworks including UNSDCF and Results Groups monitoring processes.
- Track progress against programme indicators and targets on a quarterly basis, highlighting performance issues and follow-up actions.
- Support field monitoring visits with programme teams to verify results and strengthen data quality.
- Maintain and manage data across UN Women planning and monitoring platforms, including UNINFO and donor systems.
- Monitor partner performance, expenditures, and delivery trends to support programme oversight and decision-making.
- Coordinate timely preparation of high-quality internal and external reports (quarterly, semi-annual, annual, donor and financial reports).
- Review and provide feedback on implementing partner reports to improve quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
- Track donor reporting obligations and ensure compliance with agreements and deadlines.
- Compile and analyze programme performance data for management briefs, executive reporting, and donor communications.
- Strengthen staff and partner capacity in RBM, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting through training and practical guidance.
- Develop and support knowledge products including briefs, lessons learned, best practices, and success stories.
- Promote organizational learning by disseminating monitoring and evaluation findings across programmes and stakeholders.
- Facilitate awareness and shared accountability for planning, monitoring, reporting across the Country Office.
Required Experience
- At least 7 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in monitoring and reporting of development projects/ programmes is required.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
- Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
- A project/programme management certification (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.
Qualifications
- Completion of secondary education is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Political or Social Science, Economics, International Development Studies, Gender/Women's Studies is required.
