Vacancy Announcement Details

This UNV assignment is part of the United Nations Evaluation Group-United Nations Volunteers (UNEG-UNV) young evaluator programme. The programme seeks to recruit and deploy young monitoring and evaluation (M&E) professionals across the UN system, at national and international levels, to support the effective delivery of Agenda 2030 and enhance national evaluation capacity development. The young evaluator programme was initiated by the UNEG working group on young and emerging evaluators in 2023 and was endorsed with commitments by the Heads of Evaluation Offices of various UN agencies during the 2024 UNEG Annual General Meeting. This programme represents a renewal of the initial partnership in 2018. The 2018 partnership recognized an opportunity to complement existing M&E capacities in the UN system through the deployment of youth UNVs and advocated for a coalition of UN entities to support this effort. Over 1,800 people registered and submitted applications to volunteer under the 2018 initiative with a representation of over 100 different nationalities and more than 56 per cent of applicants being from the Global South. The young evaluators programme aims to build upon the achievements of the 2018 coalition, expanding its targets and outreach as more organizations pledge their commitments to building capacities of youth in evaluation.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the National UN Youth Volunteer will provide technical assistance to the team by completing the following tasks: Strengthen UNU-wide performance management, monitoring, and reporting systems • Assist the Executive and Strategy Officer in compiling a UNU-wide key performance indicator (KPI) framework to monitor the new UNU Strategy 2025-2029 per institute and globally;

• Assist the Executive and Strategy Officer in preparing an implementation plan for UNU-Centre (Rector’s office, administration, IT, and communications);
• Assist UNU institutes in the preparation of their individual implementation plans for the Strategy, including by preparing guidance material;
• Conduct regular monitoring of UNU implementation plans; Support knowledge management and institutional learning in the area of performance management
• Update the UNU Organizational Performance Handbook incl. templates, guidance materials;
• Assist with knowledge management of organizational performance for the Rector’s Office and intranet;
• Collect and comment institute performance documents, i.e. for Advisory Board meetings;
• Contribute to planning of evaluations commissioned by UNU institutes by supporting the development of the evaluation of terms of reference, establishment of the evaluation team;
• Support the dissemination of evaluation results, e.g. by assisting in preparing documentation for the UNU Council, the Conference of Directors, and the UNU Management Group; Assist with the preparation and delivery of performance related events
• Contribute to the substantive and logistical preparation and delivery of the UN Evaluation Group Evaluation Practice Exchange Seminar in February 2025 at UNU in Tokyo;
• Assist with note taking during meetings and perform other tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to integrate the UN Volunteers programme mandate within their assignment and promote voluntary action through engagement with communities in the course of their work. As such, UN Volunteers should dedicate a part of their working time to some of the following suggested activities:

• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day);
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Provide annual and end of assignment self- reports on UN Volunteer actions, results and opportunities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.

Full details available on the UNU website. Application deadline 8 August.