Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Position Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Duty Station: Bogota, Colombia

Classification: Professional Staff, Grade P2

Type of Appointment: Special short-term graded, six months with possibility of extension

Estimated Start Date: As soon as possible

Closing Date: 19 December 2023

Established in 1951, IOM is a Related Organization of the United Nations, and as the leading UN agency in the field of migration, works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners. IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

IOM is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Read more about diversity and inclusion at IOM at www.iom.int/diversity.

Applications are welcome from first- and second-tier candidates, particularly qualified female candidates as well as applications from the non-represented member countries of IOM. For all IOM vacancies, applications from qualified and eligible first-tier candidates are considered before those of qualified and eligible second-tier candidates in the selection process.

For the purpose of this vacancy, the following are considered first-tier candidates:

1. Internal candidates
2. Candidates from the following non-represented member states:

Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Botswana; Cabo Verde; Comoros; Congo (the); Cook Islands; Dominica; Fiji; Grenada; Guinea-Bissau; Holy See; Iceland; Kiribati; Lao People’s Democratic Republic (the); Latvia; Madagascar; Marshall Islands; Micronesia (Federated States of); Namibia; Nauru; Palau; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Solomon Islands; Suriname; The Bahamas; Tonga; Tuvalu; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu Second tier candidates include: All external candidates, except candidates from non-represented member states.

Second-tier candidates include:

All external candidates, except candidates from non-represented member states.

Context:

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration. It works closely with governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental partners.

With 174 member states, an additional eight states with observer status, and offices in over 100 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all. It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.

IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems, and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.

The IOM Constitution recognizes the link between migration and economic, social, and cultural development, as well as the right to freedom of movement.

The organization’s work is guided by several core frameworks. The 12-point strategy, adopted by IOM’s Council in 2007, outlines core organizational objectives and provides an effective description of the scope of IOM’s work. In 2015, IOM member states endorsed the Migration Governance Framework (MiGOF), which sets out overarching objectives and principles that, if fulfilled and enacted, form the basis for an effective approach to migration governance.

After 65 years of global operations, IOM formally joined the United Nations system in 2016, and is now the Coordinator and Secretariat of the UN Migration Network, established in 2019.

In recognition of the fact that well-managed migration can be both a development strategy and a development outcome, IOM has developed an institution-wide strategy to foster sustainable development for migrants and their communities. Through this, IOM is working to maximize the potential of migration to achieve sustainable development outcomes by supporting the integration of the impact of migration and migrants’ needs in policy planning across all sectors and levels of governance, an approach echoed in the Global Compact for Migration, which can serve as a roadmap to help achieve the migration dimensions of the SDGs.

Overview of Country Office (CO) in Target Country

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) established in Colombia in 1956 has been a Related Organization of the United Nations since 2016. It operates in Colombia’s 32 departments, supporting Government of Colombia (GoC) efforts through the implementation of humanitarian and development projects that are funded by both the GoC and international cooperation entities.

IOM Colombia has a total of 420 staff located in its main office in Bogotá and seven sub-regional offices and 10 project offices. Through its different programs and projects, it manages a consulting team of 1,000 people with operations throughout the Colombian territory, thus demonstrating the capacity and scope of the organization to operate large-scale international cooperation projects in Colombia.

The IOM Mission in Colombia defines its lines of action based on the “United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework in Colombia 2020-2023”, a document in which the Colombian State and the UN agencies in the country coordinate their capacities to contribute to three (3) strategic areas: first, support for the Peace with Legality policy, strengthening the implementation of the PDET initiatives and the reintegration of ex-combatants and support for the process of substituting illicit crops; second, support for the socio-economic reintegration of the Venezuelan migrant population; third, technical assistance for the acceleration of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

As part of its portfolio of projects, IOM’s Institutional Strengthening for Peace Program (FIP in Spanish) in Colombia guides its international cooperation offering, focusing on improving the quality of life of the communities that inhabit the PDET territories, through coordinated work with different institutions of the Colombian State that seek to stabilize these territories historically affected by violence.

This offer of the FIP program is framed within the legal and institutional context established since the signing of the “Final Agreement for the Termination of the Conflict and the Termination of a Stable and Lasting Peace”.

One of the central focuses of the Final Agreement is the territorial one, which “(…) implies recognizing and considering the needs, characteristics and economic, cultural and social particularities of the territories and communities, guaranteeing socio-environmental sustainability; and seeking to implement the different measures in a comprehensive and coordinated manner, with the active participation of citizens. The implementation will be done from the regions and territories and with the participation of the territorial authorities and the different sectors of society.”

The possibility of implementing and putting into practice this territorial approach depends, to a large extent, on the existence of local capacities for the articulated work between the different actors, the non-violent management of the various social conflicts; the design and implementation of processes and actions related to public policy, the promotion of local development, among others.

As a matter of fact, for the implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Reform, the first point of the Peace Agreement, the Territorial Approach Development Programmes (PDET) were defined, which seek to transform all rural Colombians’ living conditions, prioritizing actions in the territories that were most affected by violence, with the highest poverty rates, weak institutional presence, and historical prevalence of economies of illicit use. The PDET municipalities cover 6.6 million people, of which 2.5 million are victims of the armed conflict, especially victims of forced displacement.

The PDET includes tangible actions for the transformation of the Colombian countryside, such as improving the quality of rural housing, increasing access to health, or the economic reactivation of these territories. Nonetheless, to ensure community ownership of all the progress in human rights and infrastructure to be carried out over the next 15 years, it is essential to work on the nature of the interpersonal relationships that uninhabited and defines the social practices within the prioritized communities. Precisely, as part of the 8 pillars defined for the implementation of the PDETs, Pillar Eight (Reconciliation, Coexistence and Peace) holds a fundamental value on which all the transformations carried out in the PDETs will be built.

There are different strategies and perspectives from which this Pillar Eight can be implemented. It is why, in the structuring of the PDETs and for the case of this Pillar, 6 macro-strategies have been defined in which the different initiatives and actions must be framed. Among these macro-strategies, 3 of them are related to the articulation between institutional and social actors, and non-violent management of social conflicts. These 3 macro-strategies are the following: (i) community infrastructure for peace, (ii) social pedagogy and communication for reconciliation and reconstruction of the social fabric, and (iii) rural security.

It is in this context that the project “Strengthening Local Governance for sustaining peace in Two (2) Sub-regions PDET in Colombia” arises, which, for a period of 4 years and with funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), has as its general objective to promote peaceful and even societies for sustainable development in 2 PDET sub-regions. This through (i) improvement of community infrastructure for peace, (ii) strengthening of community capacities for the prevention of violence, and (iii) strengthening of articulated processes for peacebuilding, between the National Police and local communities.

In this sense, under the overall supervision of the Head of Programs (Peace) and direct supervision of the Program Coordinator of the Institutional Strengthening for Peace Program, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be responsible for providing coordination and technical support for all aspects related to the monitoring, reporting and evaluation (M&E) of the project “Strengthening Local Governance for sustaining peace in Two (2) Sub-regions PDET in Colombia”.

Core Functions / Responsibilities:

1. Draft and/or coordinate the preparation of external and internal monthly, quarterly, or annual reporting according to IOM procedures and donor requirements, coordinating the collection of information and reporting on program activities, results, best practices, and lessons learned, in close coordination with the M&E team of the FIP program.
2. Provide technical assistance to IOM and FIP Program for monitoring, reporting and evaluation in the framework of KOICA-funded project.
3. Produce a monthly brief summary that accounts for progress in the implementation of the different activities and products of the project.
4. Support the compilation of biannual and annual technical reports (according to the reporting period established by the donor) in close coordination with the M&E specialist of the FIP program, to track the progress in the implementation of the different products, activities, indicators, and effective project results, including recommendations to continue with the fulfilment of the objectives initially outlined.
5. Supervise the timely and high-quality monitoring of the logical framework indicators established within the project.
6. Assist in collecting and consolidating data on project beneficiaries and participants in close coordination with the M&E team for subsequent inclusion in the program’s monitoring system.
7. Participate in monthly meetings with the team in charge of the implementation of the project, to follow up the different planned actions.
8. Support and encourage results-oriented articulation among the teams in charge of project implementation, both at the national and local levels.
9. Provide technical inputs to support decision-making in the framework of project implementation.
10. Contribute to the development, review, and implementation of tools for developing the baseline.
11. Review the availability and quality of existing data related to the project, the methods for collecting them and the degree to which they can provide baseline statistics and reference for project monitoring and evaluation, in close coordination with the M&E specialist of the FIP program.
12. Preserve the documentation and information to which it has access in relation to its functions, avoiding its destruction or misuse.
13. Maintain absolute confidentiality of documents, products, and information derived from the process to be developed, which will be for the exclusive use of the project.
14. Coordinate closely with IOM and KOICA.
15. Undertake regular travel to the field in close coordination with relevant IOM staff and/or partners to support implementation of M&E and to discuss corrective measures when needed.
16. Keep abreast of internal framework for Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and Results Based Management (RBM) developments and check compliance with processes and strategies such as the Country and Regional strategies, IOM Institutional Questionnaire (IQ), IOM global M&E strategy, Strategic Results Framework (following IOM Global Vision), regional M&E planning tools and PRIMA-for-all standards.
17. In close coordination with the relevant units and CO focal Points, support the “do no harm” principle and work to promote Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) approaches, in line with IOM’s global standards.
18. Ensure that evaluation reports are made available to the main stakeholders and donors and are made public as per IOM Evaluation Policy.
19. Perform such other duties as may be assigned.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

Education

• Master’s degree in humanities, political or social sciences, international relations, Communications, Information Management, or a related field from an accredited academic institution with two years of relevant professional experience; or.
• University degree in the above fields with four years of relevant professional experience.

Experience

• Experience in project development, support, monitoring, reporting, and/or evaluation;
• Work experience in monitoring peacebuilding and development projects;
• Experience in planning, editing, and producing written documents and/or reports in English and Korean;
• Demonstrable work experience with Korean state entities;
• Experience in liaising with governmental and diplomatic authorities as well as with national and international institutions;
• Demonstrable work experience with Korean national and/or international organizations (Experience working in international organizations, the humanitarian community, and familiarity with the humanitarian reform and cluster approach);
• Experience in organizing consultations, workshops, and seminars with high-level stakeholders;
• Experience in social projects development or support with NGOs, international organizations, and/or public sector;
• Experience in designing and carrying out evaluation in accordance with IOM, UN and OECD/DAC standards is highly desirable; and
• Working experience with data collection tools such as KOBO, POWER BI, STATA is desirable.

Skills

• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation techniques including evaluative methodologies and results monitoring plans;
• Specific knowledge will be valued in the implementation of the Peace Agreements in Colombia, work with communities in contexts of armed conflict and peace-building processes (PDET, IDP’s, victims of conflict, reintegration processes, host communities, etc.)
• Knowledge of UN cooperation frameworks and bilateral donor programming requirements;
• In depth knowledge and understanding of evaluation instruments;
• Strong writing and research skills;
• Excellent communication and analytical skills;
• High degree of judgment and initiative, ability to work with a high degree of independence within assigned areas;
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills; and,
• Proven ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people of diverse cultural and national backgrounds.
• Solid computer skills, including advanced handling of various Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.) as well as email/internet; familiarity with database management and office technology equipment; and/or
• Working knowledge of ArcGIS, R, SQL and/or Adobe Creative Suite is an advantage.

Languages

IOM’s official languages are English, French, and Spanish. All staff members are required to be fluent in one of the three languages.

Fluency in English and working knowledge of Spanish is required (oral and written). For this position, fluency in Korean is highly desirable (oral and written).

Working knowledge of French, and other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, and Russian) is an advantage.

Proficiency of language(s) required will be specifically evaluated during the selection process, which may include written and/or oral assessments.

Notes 1 Accredited Universities are the ones listed in the UNESCO World Higher Education Database (https://whed.net/home.php).

Required Competencies:

Values – all IOM staff members must abide by and demonstrate these five values:

• Inclusion and respect for diversity: Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion.
• Integrity and transparency: Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
• Courage: Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance.
• Empathy: Shows compassion for others, makes people feel safe, respected and fairly treated.

Core Competencies – behavioural indicators level 2

• Teamwork: Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
• Delivering results: Produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner. Is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes.
• Managing and sharing knowledge: Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate.
• Accountability: Takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own actions and delegated work.
• Communication: Encourages and contributes to clear and open communication. Explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.

Managerial Competencies – behavioural indicators level 2

• Leadership: Provides a clear sense of direction, leads by example and demonstrates the ability to carry out the Organization’s vision. Assists others to realize and develop their leadership and professional potential.
• Empowering others: Creates an enabling environment where staff can contribute their best and develop their potential.
• Building Trust: Promotes shared values and creates an atmosphere of trust and honesty.
• Strategic thinking and vision: Works strategically to realize the Organization’s goals and communicates a clear strategic direction.
• Humility: Leads with humility and shows openness to acknowledging own shortcomings.

IOM’s competency framework can be found at this link. https://www.iom.int/sites/default/files/about-iom/iom_revised_competency_framework_external.pdf

Competencies will be assessed during a competency-based interview.

Other:

Internationally recruited professional staff are required to be mobile. Any offer made to the candidate in relation to this vacancy notice is subject to funding confirmation.

This selection process may be used to staff similar positions in various duty stations. Recommended candidates will remain eligible to be appointed in a similar position for a period of 24 months.

The list of NMS countries above includes all IOM Member States which are non-represented in the Professional Category of staff members. For this staff category, candidates who are nationals of the duty station’s country cannot be considered eligible.

Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, accreditation, any residency or visa requirements, and background verification and security clearances. Subject to certain exemptions, vaccination against COVID-19 will in principle be required for individuals hired on or after 15 November 2021. This will be verified as part of the medical clearance process.

Vacancies close at 23:59 local time Geneva, Switzerland on the respective closing date. No late applications will be accepted.

How to apply

How to apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications HERE, by 19 December 2023 at the latest, referring to this advertisement.

IOM only accepts duly completed applications submitted through the IOM e-Recruitment system. The online tool also allows candidates to track the status of their application.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

For further information please refer to: www.iom.int/recruitment

Posting period:
From 07.12.2023 to 19.12.2023

No Fees:
IOM does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview, processing, training or other fee). IOM does not request any information related to bank accounts.

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