Regional Results Based Management and Evaluation Specialist
UNDP
Total years of experience :20 years, 2 Months
he RBM and Evaluation Specialist provides substantive technical expertise on evidence-based planning, monitoring and evaluation, including on design of programme and projects within the wider framework of the Strategic Plan and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Advise the Country Offices (COs) Regional Programme and wider RBAS NY and Amman Team on the planning, monitoring and evaluation of programmes and projects, to ensure evidence based, results-focus and quality interventions. Guide the design and implementation of the regional/CO monitoring systems, data collection methods, evaluations and advises on the collection of reliable, accurate and coherent information to assess the performance and impact of programmes and projects. Promote integrated monitoring activities and evaluation standards through exchanges of experience and good practices between COs, regions, the UNDG and the international RBM community.
Summary of Key Functions:
• Country office compliance with corporate programme and project management requirements (including planning, M&E and reporting);
• Effective monitoring and reporting of the country programme and related projects, in support of effective partnership building and resource mobilization;
• Implementation and management of audit and evaluation policies, strategies and processes;
• Knowledge building and knowledge sharing on monitoring and evaluation.
• Coordinate and support Result Based Management (RBM) and M&E based programme and project formulation including annual work-planning and reporting exercises in line with corporate requirements, UNDP strategy, the RBAS program and CO-level strategies and plans (CPD/CPAP);
• Maintain, coordinate and ensure compliance of the programme and project setup and in Atlas and other corporate systems (such as Integrated Workplan, , Results-oriented Annual Reporting, ROAR, Compact, Executive Snapshot) and provide accurate and timely input information into these systems as required;
• Establish and manage internal systems for effective and efficient programme and project monitoring and reporting, both internal UNDP and for Implementing Partners;
• Analysis and presentation of UNDP policies and their implementation in the CO.
• Establish effective mechanisms for monitoring the Country Programme implementation;
• Monitor on a regular basis country programme and projects including annual and quarterly reports, ongoing monitoring of overall financial status of country programming;
• Support CO programme staff with effective use of tools and methodologies for planning, monitoring and reporting;
• Support to program sections for the implementation of the M&E system, programme coherence, benchmarking and measuring of indicators at outcome level;
• Provide methodological support to various programme units during the formulation, approval and implementation of M&E procedures and instruments and select RBM tools, in particular related to outcomes and impact monitoring.
• Ensure that projects are set up in line with approved project documents, all Atlas attributes are created accordingly and maintained regularly.
• Provide technical advice and support at the design stage of programmes/projects to facilitate monitoring during programme implementation;
• Develop, update, manage and monitor monitoring frameworks for the key programme cycle documents such as the UN Common Country Strategies and CPAP;
• Manage and monitor the Atlas project management module and related tools;
• Support to value-for-money monitoring, including tracking of resources towards outcomes;
• Ensures that important programme related communications or knowledge on M&E and evaluations is uploaded on the related web portals and Sharepoint.
• Establish and manage internal systems for effective and efficient programme and project monitoring and reporting, both internal UNDP and for Implementing Partners;
• Direct responsibility and accountability for planning, management and oversight of thematic, country programme/project evaluations and other types of evaluations conducted in the Country Office;
• Keep track of all planned outcome and/or project evaluations for the CO under the global strategy and regional programme evaluation plan;
• Follow up on implementation of evaluation recommendations. Ensuring the optimal use of evaluations by providing guidance in preparation of timely management response to all mandatory evaluations and by developing a communication plan;
• Serve as the CO focal point to the Evaluation Office NY and update the Evaluation Resource Center (ERC) on a regular basis vis-à-vis progress of the implementation of the regional evaluation plan;
• Development of evaluation tools and processes, innovative approaches in evaluation that meet the requirements of UNDP;
• Promotion of evaluation standards, quality assurance/control and capacity development in the Country Office.
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Working as statistical expert for the WB at Kuwait in a short term consultancy mission, based on my mission ToRs my duties are to:
• Review background document related to the labor management information system (LMIS), including the LMIS Strategy and the Kuwait Key Labor Market Indicators;
• Review existing LM Integrated Database (with the Senior IT Specialist), particularly the mapping process;
• Develop metadata definitions for the key data that is being tracked in the LM Integrated Database (i.e., nationalities in the private sector, division by age group, etc.);
• Identify report to be aggregated from the LM Integrated Database for display on the external portal, to include accompanying statistical validity methods (i.e., metadata, definitions, sources, baseline year/date, etc.);
• Identify additional sub-indicators to be included in the Kuwait Key Labor Market Indicators, in close coordination with the Labor Economist;
• Support the Labor Force Survey including training of field staff, and support monitoring on implementation on the ground; and
• Prepare a final report related to the above, to document all aspects appropriately.
My mission Deliverables are:
• Metadata definitions for the LM Integrated Database.
• At least 10 aggregate reports/briefs generated from the LM Integrated database to be displayed on the external portal.
• Support for the Labor Force Survey.
• Proposed set of sub-indicators for the Key Labor Market Indicators.
Working as technical officer with the Jordan Response Platform for the Syria Crisis (JRPSC), to facilitate, guide, and provide oversight to the preparation, implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive humanitarian and development response to the crisis. My main tasks include but not limited to:
- Develop Vulnerability analysis study that measure the vulnerabilities of the Jordanian hosting communities as a result of the Syrian crises.
- Monitor, analyse, and report on developments in Syria and their direct/indirect impact on Jordan;
- Conduct research and analyses and prepare analytical briefs as requested by the Senior Coordinator in support of JRPSC strategic priorities and work plan;
- Assist the Coordination Specialist in the preparation of ToRs for national and international consultants, draft inception report, project annual work plans, progress reports, etc.;
- Attend and support task force meetings as necessary;
- Liaise with line ministries and strengthen contacts to ensure open lines of communication with the JRPSC Secretariat.
Working as statistical consultant for the WB at Kuwait in a short term consultancy mission, based on my mission ToRs my duties are to:
1- Analyze a Beneficiary Assessment (BA) survey and present the results of the analysis as part of a Beneficiary Assessment study. The study will enable Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (MoSAL) to assess the effectiveness of its cash transfer program delivered by The Family Welfare Department. This assessment will be conducted from the perspective of beneficiaries from the program, including their assessment of the operational and administrative processes when applying for, and receiving assistance.
2- Conduct Effectiveness analysis on the current cash transfer program based on the 2008 and 2013 income and expenditure surveys. This will result in dividing Households into five quintiles based on their income/expenditure and measuring the share of each quintile from the cash transfer system.
3- Design the survey, development of sampling methodology, sampling, implementation action plan, conduct data quality checks, analysis of the final raw data and producing the final analysis report.
The Primary Data Analyst is responsible for identifying and assessing datasets that may serve as sources of baseline data for future USAID/Jordan Education and Youth programming, identifying potential relevant indicators based on these data, and performing analyses with these datasets to generate baseline and time series data against identified indicators where appropriate.
Responsibilities and Deliverables
• Final list of datasets and key metrics on the three study areas;
• List of suggested key indicators by theme;
• Draft report on findings and analysis of key trends affecting youth in the three study areas including assessment of quality of datasets and methodology;
• Final report on findings and analysis including methodology;
• Complete bibliography of sources reviewed.
Working as Consultant for private and local organizations inside and outside Jordan to provide consultation services on project management, project planning, monitoring and evaluation, fund raising proposal writing. I provided my consultation services for several industrial and services companies on writing proposals for fund raising purposes according to JEDCO and EU standards, development of pricing strategies, handling systems, quality procedures, incentive system and conducting training needs assessment.
Training Delivered:
- Project Management,
- Communication Skills,
- Time Management,
- Train of Trainers (TOT),
- Strategic Planning,
- Proposal Writing,
- Leadership,
- Statistical Analysis,
- Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS),
- Survey Design,
- Survey Analysis,
- Exporting,
- Handling mechanisms,
Consultancies:
1. Development of a strategic plan for a factory of garment industry, by evaluation of the current handling system and to make recommendations according to the workflow needed, and development and implementation of quality procedures to be complied with EU social and environmental standards, March 2013.
2. Development of an incentive system and in-house training program aiming to develop a competitive incentive system and a sustainable training plan. This mission included evaluation of nature of the garment factory, working Conditions, employment, occupations within the factory, current training programs and recommendations for Advancement, outlook, earnings and others, March 2013.
3. Development of a pricing strategy for a garment factory according to the cost analysis with recommendations to the best alternative strategies, March 2013.
4. Development of a detailed market study based on desk research for local, regional and EU markets including benchmarking study: this mission ended up by identifying opportunities and setting marketing strategies and marketing action plans that will guide a garment factory in its future marketing activities in selected markets, April 2013.
5. Development of Jordan industrial sector export readiness for Eastern Amman Investors Industrial Association (EAIIA), March 2013.
6. Development of a business trip report to Sudan including a research on Sudan market of industrial Plastic PVC Electrical Conduits & Fittings template, main factories in Sudan that produce or use industrial plastic PVC electrical conduits & fittings template to assess the market volume, the factories capacities, the quality of the products, the main imported parts and exported if any.
7. Development of analysis report for Haritna Dairy Company (HDC) to expand its exports of dairy products to Kingdome of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and to help HDC to increase the market size of the company and reduces the cost by having mass production.
8. Development of analysis report for Haritna Dairy Company (HDC) to expand its exports of dairy products to United Arab Emirates (UAE) and to help HDC to increase the market size of the company and reduces the cost by having mass production.
9. Development of a fund request proposal from JEDCO for North Jordan Valley for livestock feed industry, (the factory has got Euro 50, 000) July 2011.
As a consultant, my tasks are explained on my consultancy TORs as follows:
- Technical and Management supervision of Activity 1: Assessing administrative social databases:
- Activity 1.1: Prepare a study to assess the social sector administrative database and "sensitive indicator” emerging risk functions.
- Follow up on the development of Poverty Reduction Strategy 2013-2020 Action plans (PRS AP), design and print the final PRS AP.
- Finalize designing and printing of Quality of life report - English version.
- Supervise the launch of Jordan Poverty Reduction Strategy 2013-2020 and its action plan
- Submit second quarterly progress report
- Technical and Management supervision of Activity 1.2: Development of a project document based on the above activity to enhance the use and quality of social administrative databases.
- Supervising MIS follow up, MIS web enabled training and linking it to the new government plan.
- Technical and Management supervision of Activity 2: Development of a study about the social risk and vulnerability.
- Submit third quarterly progress report.
- Technical and Management supervision of Activity 3: Development of an inequality study.
- Technical and Management supervision of Activity 4: Establish Monitoring and Evaluation unit to follow the progress of the national poverty reduction strategy action plan.
- Follow up on the project final evaluation for closing it.
- Preparing the third board members meeting documents and facilitation.
- Submit annual progress report
Working as an advisor for “Support to Poverty Analysis and Monitoring Project - Phase II”, including the responsibility of the overall management and planning of the implementation of the project’s outputs and activities, provide leadership and strategic thinking to ensure proper implementation and ownership by the government, mobilization of inputs and expertise needed for the project in consultation with the senior supplier, provide solutions to any constraints faced by the responsible parties in implementation, prepare the action plans and progress reports, identify, monitor and update the project risks, issues and lessons learned and management of financial issues. In addition to the supervision of all staff assignment and consulting agreements.
Moreover, participating in all the technical work starting from strategic planning, statistical analysis, statistical training and others.
Through this position, poverty reduction strategy for Jordan has been developed, two quality of life index reports were published (Comparison report and detailed analysis report), building an early warning social system, revising household income and expenditure survey (HIES) for DoS, updating HIES modules, HIES methodology, updating the sample of HIES, building the social accounting matrix (SAM) for the Jordanian economy, conducting comprehensive people with disability (PWDs) survey, building staff capacity to calculate multidimensional poverty MPI and HDI, integrating gender and human rights principles in program management, building Jordan Input Output Tables and strengthening the capacity of DoS and MoPIC staff regarding poverty aspects and statistical analysis in addition to the policy formulation.
Working as an project officer for “Support to Poverty Analysis and Monitoring Project - Phase I”, including the responsibility of the overall management and planning of the implementation of the project’s outputs and activities, provide leadership and strategic thinking to ensure proper implementation and ownership by the government, mobilization of inputs and expertise needed for the project in consultation with the senior supplier, provide solutions to any constraints faced by the responsible parties in implementation, prepare the action plans and progress reports, identify, monitor and update the project risks, issues and lessons learned and management of financial issues. In addition to the supervision of all staff assignment and consulting agreements.
Through this position, Through this post, new definition for income poverty to be as multidimensional poverty represented by Quality of life index was adopted, taking into the consideration the gender aspects. Building and strengthening the capacity of DoS staff regarding the poverty statistics measurement, social policy formulation for MoPIC staff, Management information system (MIS) for monitoring government indicators on the on-going projects related to the national agenda (NA) and the executive development programme (EDP) and MDGs, launching JOR-QLI-Dev-Info, studying and analysing poverty pockets in Jordan through the development of specialized survey to produce professional poverty pocket analysis report, and relating gender to poverty measurements and analysis.
Working to the department of statistics (DoS) as a senior researcher and statistical analyst in compiling (Input - Output) Tables for the Jordanian economy based on the national accounts statistics, balance of payment, several DoS surveys, central bank data, national customs information, and other statistics. Using the requested statistics, I took the lead in constructing make and use matrices and the balance stage of the final matrix. This Project is funded by USAID.
In addition to the above, I worked directly in conducting the related tasks for this project through following up with the foreign experts regarding the economy modelling, statistical requests and others. Provided the project with the statistical expertise required and provided my statistical skills for the capacity building of the project team. Help the national accounts department in understanding the nature of this project since it is related to their mandate and collecting the information to be analysed according to the International system of national account (ISNA). Moreover, helping in auditing DoS related divisions’ surveys and statistics (for example, economic survey division, labour survey division, services survey division and others) and updating their survey design and statistics when needed following the latest improvements of the system according to UNSD recommendations.
Provide statistical training courses for DoS staff, other governmental institutions and ministries staff, private companies, army, civil defence, and university staff.
These training course were most on using the statistical software SPSS and STATA, statistical analysis techniques, regression, time series, ANOVA, robust analysis, survey design, sampling techniques, and others.
Contributing and helping in performing the statistical analyses of the data with the most appropriate statistical methodology as SPSS, SAS, MINITAB, R and others. Produce comprehensive analyses report covering statistical method section; the results are presented in tables and/or graphs and their interpretation (full results chapter), ready to be used in the thesis, dissertation or research.
Also, conducting and helping in marketing and employees survey data analysis. Help in the design and collection of survey data. Performing statistical analysis of the data and prepare and present summary of results in graphs and tables. Perform the required statistical analyses to get the most out of the data and prepare the results in easy and understand format.
This job was for Statistics Made Easy Professional Data Analyses & Statistics Consulting Service (http://www.easystatistics.co.uk/Pages/default.aspx) located in UK where I worked with this consultation company as an online statistical consultant.
As a sales analyst, I worked on producing sales statistical reports using (Excel, SPSS and MINTAB) and KPI'S for all sales reports. Also, I worked on the development of sales analysis reports, SWOT analysis, preparing power point presentations, backup the sales team, monitor incoming and outgoing mails & e-mails, filing and translation of documents.
As a human resource officer, I took the responsibility in handling all HR administrative issues related to the business unit. This includes the administration of personnel files, information system update, recruitment database update and other administrative tasks as required. Management of all HR systems and processes including the Performance Management Process, New Employees Induction Process, compensation & benefits system and other systems as required. Ensuring high quality procedures are in place, which are in line with legislative and company policy governing recruitment and selection. Building on existing systems to create HR tools including job descriptions, competency profiles and appointment letters to improve efficiency and develop uniformity across the organization. Acting as a first point of contact for employee complaints, redirecting employee to department if the problem appears to be more appropriately handled within the department, or may open the complaint for investigation. Participating in the development and implementation of Human Resources Policies, Procedures and Forms (e.g. new hires, promotions, transfers and terminations). Providing assistance in developing and managing of documentation and record keeping / filing system. Examining new recruitments documents such as standard forms, contracts, credentials vacations, overtime, day workers and company polices.
• Perform all the data entry to the system and audit all the information.
• Perform all the accounting duties of supervising the money transactions of the institution.
• Perform and keep the institution monetary files and keep tracking with the income tax department.
• Performs administrative duties, such as typing, fax preparation and sending, filing.
• Drafts correspondence and deals with customer enquiries
• Prepare institution employees salaries and what is related to them of social security and health insurance.
• Facilitates teamwork and provides administrative assistance to all institution units and individuals in the office as required
• Perform duties that may be assigned from time to time
Current PhD student at Social Science - Social Policy. Graduation expected on 2022.
Concern in Maximum entropy Control Charts, Quality Control, Social statistics, Regression, Design, Robust Statistics. In general (Applied Statistics)
B.Sc degree in Mathematics
High School - Scientific