Project
The Marshall Islands: Women and Youth Skills Empowerment and Resilience Project - Project Implementation and Management Services
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Position
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Project description
The Republic of the Marshall Islands requested assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to finance a social protection project with the outcome of increasing skills, empowerment and resilience of vulnerable women and at-risk young people. The Women and Youth, Skills, Empowerment, and Resilience Project will be considered by the ADB Board of Directors in November 2024. The project is estimated to cost $21.84 million. The Government of the Marshall Islands has requested a grant not exceeding $19.70 million from ADB’s Asian Development Fund (ADF) Special Funds resources to help finance the project, including $13.7 million from the ADF 13 thematic pool, under its strategic area on achieving the sustainable
development goal 5 transformative gender agenda. The Ministry of Finance, Banking, and Postal Services (MOFBPS) is the executing agency for the project and the Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs (MOCIA) is the implementing agency.
The project is aligned with the following impacts: (i) an enabling and sustainable environment built where all youth develop their full capacity and contribute meaningfully to sustainable development (National Youth Policy 2021–2025); and (ii) gender equality and the empowerment of women progressed, with the meaningful involvement and contributions of all development sectors and civil society (National Gender Mainstreaming Policy). The project will have the following outcome: vulnerable women’s and youth’s skills, resilience, and empowerment increased. There will be three outputs:
Job description
Key tasks include but are not limited to the following:
• help to design all monitoring and evaluation tools and methodologies
• implement all of the required actions to gather and analyse data required for monitoring, reporting, and evaluation
• regularly monitor the project against the project performance management system, DMF, GAP and other related performance indicators and tools;
• help to draft all project progress and completion reports;
• provide monitoring and evaluation advice, support and mentoring to MOCIA; and
• design and implement the project grievance redress mechanism.
Requirements
• Degree in gender studies, anthropology, sociology, development studies, or other related field.
• At least 8 years of general work experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in quantitative and qualitative monitoring approaches,
• Experience in developing monitoring results plans and progress reporting.
• Previous work experience working within a multinational team is desired.
• Written and spoken fluency in English language is essential
Additional information
The assignment is planned for 60 person months.
Marshall Islands
Attachments
Duration of assignment
01/04/2025 - 31/10/2030
Deadline for applications
30/09/2024
Job type
long term
Job status
prequalification
Project reference
24-0199-000-MRS-ADB-women