Background
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Lebanon provides support to a variety of development programmes and initiatives funded by diverse international donors. As part of its commitment to ensuring transparency, accountability, and the effective communication of progress and results, UNDP Lebanon seeks a Reporting, Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst to enhance both the quality of donor reports and the monitoring of programme results.
The Reporting and M&E Analyst will support the planning, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation functions of the UNDP Lebanon Country Office. The role ensures effective results-based management (RBM), compliance with corporate UNDP standards, and high-quality evidence generation to inform strategic decision-making, donor reporting, and adaptive programming.
The Analyst works closely with program/ project teams, implementing partners, government counterparts, UN agencies, CSOs, and donors as required to strengthen M&E and reporting systems and ensure accountability for development results
The Reporting, Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst will ensure that reports are of high quality, coherent, and meet donor requirements, while also ensuring that all relevant indicators are effectively monitored and reported. This is a key position that will play an instrumental role in ensuring that all donor and programme reports convey clear, accurate, and compelling information to stakeholders, while ensuring that monitoring and evaluation practices are aligned with project goals, donor expectations, and UNDP’s corporate policies and standards.
The primary objective of this assignment is to support UNDP Lebanon by ensuring the highest standards of reporting and monitoring of programme results.
Duties and Responsibilities
Planning and Results-Based Management
Support the development and revision of project results frameworks, including indicators, baselines, and targets. Contribute to annual work planning and ensure alignment with UNDP’s corporate RBM requirements. Provide technical guidance to partners on results-based planning and theory of change development. Assist programme and project colleagues in updating and reviewing Results and Resources Frameworks (RRFs), ensuring indicators and targets are accurate, measurable, and aligned with programme objectives. Support the development of integrated work plans (IWPs) and contribute to planning for programme quarterly reviews.Monitoring, Data Management, and CO M&E Systems
Design and implement project monitoring plans, including digital data collection tools, field monitoring templates, and indicator tracking systems. Coordinate routine monitoring with programme/project teams and implementing partners, ensuring quality assurance of data. Conduct field visits to verify progress, validate results, and identify implementation bottlenecks. Maintain an up-to-date Indicator Performance Tracking dashboard. Oversee the Country Office M&E systems, ensuring that monitoring frameworks are in place, functional, and updated as required. Support the development and continuous improvement of monitoring tools and systems to effectively track programme and project outcomes. Maintain a coherent system for tracking M&E data and donor reporting requirements. Ensure that M&E findings and results are clearly communicated and consistently reflected across different reporting platforms and documents.Evaluation, Learning, and Compliance
Support mid-term reviews, final evaluations, outcome evaluations, and thematic assessments. Draft evaluation TORs, manage evaluation processes, and ensure compliance with UNDP evaluation guidelines. Update the ERC platform and ensure timely uploading of evaluation TORs, reports, and management responses. Liaise with RBAS M&E specialists and participate in regional and corporate M&E communities of practice. Facilitate learning events, after-action reviews, and dissemination of lessons learned. Lead and coordinate lessons learned exercises with programme teams and partners, synthesizing best practices and recommendations to strengthen programme monitoring and evaluation.Reporting, Knowledge Management, and Quality Assurance
Contribute to donor reports, ROAR, project progress reports (PPRs), and other corporate reporting requirements. Review donor reports prepared by programme teams to ensure alignment with donor requirements, integration of indicators, results, and analysis, and accurate reflection of programme progress. Ensure that all qualitative and quantitative indicators are effectively incorporated into narratives and supported by credible monitoring data. Edit and refine reports to ensure clarity, coherence, consistency, and overall quality, including review of layout and branding in line with UNDP standards. Ensure data accuracy, quality, and consistency across all reporting channels, including Q+ and corporate systems. Assist in finalizing end-of-year corporate reporting, ensuring timely completion of indicator reporting. Produce analytical briefs, infographics, evidence summaries, and presentations for programme visibility, donor engagement, and senior management. Maintain knowledge repositories, document good practices and success stories, and support internal reporting guidelines and tools to strengthen M&E integration.Capacity Development, Collaboration, and Safeguards
Train implementing partners, government counterparts, and project staff on RBM, M&E tools, data quality assurance, and reporting. Provide coaching on gender-responsive monitoring, inclusion of LNOB principles, and integration of M&E findings into decision-making and reporting. Work closely with programme managers and focal points to ensure M&E data is captured, managed efficiently, and presented in a cohesive and professional manner. Provide capacity development support to programme teams on donor report writing, M&E best practices, and results-based reporting. Oversee Project Quality Assurance (PQA) processes, ensuring all projects complete annual PQAs and that the Country Office dashboard remains compliant. Ensure all new projects complete Social and Environmental Sustainability (SES) screenings and that related compliance dashboards remain up to date and green.The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional Arrangement
The selected incumbent will be working under the overall supervision and under the direct guidance of the Assistant Resident Representative (ARR) - Head of Performance Management Unit.
Competencies Core Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
Thematic Area Name Definition Digital Data Collection Being skilled in Data Sorting, Data Cleaning, Survey Administration, Presentation and Reporting including collection of Real-Time Data (e.g. mobile data, satellite data, sensor data).
Business
Management
Monitoring and evaluationAbility to systematically monitor results of strategies, programmes, and activities with a view to make sure that they are being implemented effectively; Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between planned activities and programme management and results.
Ability to make independent judgment of the management and results of strategies, programmes and activities based on set criteria and benchmark, keeping in mind the needs and concerns of client, current and upcoming.
Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, concepts, methodologies, systems, processes, and tools. Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.
Business
Management
CommunicationCommunicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media, and other appropriate channels. Data Data analysis Ability to extract, analyze and visualize data (including Real-Time Data) to form meaningful insights and aid effective decision making. Business Direction & Strategy System Thinking Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system.
Business
Management
Risk
Management
Identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks.Required Skills and Experience Min. Education requirements
Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in International Development, Political Science, Monitoring and Evaluation, Information Managementor related fields is required; orA first-level university degree (Bachelor´s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience, will be given due consideration in lieu of Master´s degree. Min. years of relevant work experience
Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years with (bachelor´s degree) of progressive relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, and reporting within the development sector. Required skills Demonstrated experience in writing and editing high-quality reports for donor agencies. Strong understanding and knowledge of Results-Based Management (RBM), M&E frameworks, and experience in developing results and resources frameworks, and indicators. Experience in integrating M&E results into donor reports and ensuring their alignment with donor requirements. Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section Previous experience in with the United Nations and/or UN or other internationally funded development projects in relevant tasks.