Monitoring and Reporting Consultant

About the role

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is hiring a Monitoring and Reporting Individual Contractor in Nairobi for its Ecosystem Division, within the Source to Sea Pollution Unit (SSPU). The role supports the Wastewater Surveillance Initiative for Africa (WWS4Africa), funded by the EU's HERA, and strengthens results-based management, monitoring, reporting and evaluation across the unit. The expected duration is 12 months.

The contractor reports to the Programme Management Officer (Wastewater) under the overall supervision of the Chief of the Source to Sea Pollution Unit.

Key responsibilities

• Strengthen and operationalize monitoring and reporting frameworks across SSPU projects and programmes, including WWS4Africa, tracking indicators, targets, milestones, deliverables and results in line with project logical frameworks, Indicator Tracking Tools and UNEP reporting systems.
• Collect, manage and analyse performance data and evidence, working with country counterparts, regional offices, Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans, implementing partners and other stakeholders to ensure data quality, consistency and completeness.
• Prepare timely, high-quality reports such as IPMR updates, donor and UNEA reports, corporate and thematic reports, progress reports, briefing notes and other reporting requirements for UNEP leadership.
• Coordinate the Marine and Freshwater Branch's harmonized reporting function, consolidating and quality-checking inputs from the Freshwater Unit, Marine and Coastal Unit and SSPU for UNEA resolution reports and other corporate reporting.
• Document, organize and archive monitoring data, results, lessons learned and good practices in SharePoint folders in line with Ecosystems Division standards, supporting institutional learning.
• Provide technical guidance, tools and templates to strengthen monitoring and reporting capacity among SSPU staff and implementing partners, and promote continuous improvement of monitoring and reporting systems.