Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Schedule: Full-time

Position Number:421942, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

To ensure that effective WHO country presence is established to implement WHO country cooperation strategies that are aligned with Member State's health development agendas and emergency/resilience programmes, and harmonized with the United Nations country teams.Overall objective of the Mental Health project :To promote the mental well-being of the Palestinian people by strengthening a comprehensive, integrated, and inclusive mental health services accessible to all Palestinians in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza .The MH project will start from June 2023 till December 2026.In addition, the Rehabilitation project objective: is to increase access to evidence-based rehabilitation for people in need, and to improve their health, functioning and quality of life by establishing two new rehabilitation outpatient centres in Ramallah and Qabatiya. This project has started end of 2021 and will end in December 2024

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The incumbent will perform the following duties:

Establish and maintain appropriate monitoring and evaluation as well as data collection, analysis and dissemination mechanisms, systems and tools to monitor the implementation of the mental health and rehabilitation programmes.

Determine the data information elements that are required internally and externally to evaluate the mental health and rehabilitation programme leading to an informed decision-making.

Adopt standardized methods of capturing and consolidating evidence based mental health interventions and rehabilitation ensuring to document lessons learnt, best practices and trend analyses ensuring accountability, responsiveness and transparency.

Assess the impact and effectiveness of the mental health and rehabilitation programmes at the national level, identify gaps, define training needs and capacities required to improve effectiveness as well as remedial actions to allow greater predictability and accountability.

Build and strengthen national and country office capacities for monitoring and evaluation of the programme to achieve the target and ensure effective monitoring and evaluation by the WHO Country Office staff and implementing partners.

Conduct situation analysis and prepare biannual and annual technical reports assessing the implementation and results of the programmes based on the project's results framework

Partner with KOICA, government institutions in oPt to ensure effective and efficient monitoring, reporting and evaluation of the KOICA funded programmes.

Engage with the implementing partners' M&E counterparts and the UN Country Team's M&E coordination structures to strengthen results-based programme management and facilitate timely, efficient and effective monitoring and reporting of the implementation of WHO Country Programme.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Essential: Bachelor's degree in Public Health or Epidemiology or Statistics or information management or Social Sciences or.life sciences or public or business administration or related field

Desirable: Master's degree in Social Sciences or Business Administration.

Experience

Essential: At least five years relevant experience with proven international exposure in project monitoring and evaluation and reporting including relevant experience in emergency operations or humanitarian context.

Desirable: Experience in UN organizations/agencies, International institutions

Skills

Advanced ability to gather, analyse and disseminate information on best practice in accountability and results-based management systems.

Demonstrated knowledge of principles, disciplines and techniques to implement monitoring and evaluation strategies.

Good research and documentation skills especially for ‘best practices' in organizational change.

Demonstrated knowledge of information technology and ability to apply it in work assignments

Demonstrated ability to deal with local partners and NGOs.

Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure.

Tact, discretion.

Excellent Presentation and reporting Skills

WHO Competencies

WHO global Competencies model at

Teamwork

Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences

Communication

Moving forward in a changing environment

Producing results

Use of Language Skills

Essential: Expert knowledge of English.

Desirable: Expert knowledge of Korean.

REMUNERATION

WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars. The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 64,121 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 3313 per month for the duty station indicated above. Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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International exposure means:

(a) proven relevant work experience in a multicultural environment.

(b) proven relevant experience working with partners across different geographical/cultural settings; and/or

(c) proven relevant experience of working on a project in different geographical /cultural settings

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