Technical Officer, Work in Freedom Programme

Vacancy No: KATHMANDU/2016/01 Title: Technical Officer, Work in Freedom Programme Grade: P.3 Contract type: Fixed-term Appointment Duration of contract:  One year (with possibility of renewal)	Date: 22 July 2016 Application Deadline (midnight Geneva time) 11 August 2016 (7 day(s) until closing deadline) Currently accepting applications   Organization unit:   CO-KATHMANDU Duty Station:  Kathmandu, Nepal
For any questions related to this post, please contact Mr Igor Bosc, bosc@ilo.org Under article 4.2, paragraph (e) of the Staff Regulations, the filling of vacancies in technical cooperation projects does not fall under Annex I of the Staff Regulations and is made by direct selection by the Director-General. In order to support the best informed process in the filling of the following vacancy by direct selection, the ILO invites interested candidates to submit their curriculum vitae online by the above date (midnight Geneva time). Technical cooperation appointments are not expected to lead to a career in the ILO and they do not carry any expectation of renewal or conversion to any other type of appointment in the Organization. A one-year fixed-term contract will be given. Extensions of technical cooperation contracts are subject to various elements including the following: availability of funds, continuing need of the functions and satisfactory conduct and performance. The following are eligible to apply: - ILO Internal candidates in accordance with paragraphs 31 and 32 of Annex I of the Staff Regulations. - External candidates Conditions of employment are described in Appendix II. The Office is a non-smoking environment.
INTRODUCTION The Technical Officer (TO) will support the Work in Freedom (WIF) Programme, a programme to reduce vulnerability to forced labour of women and girls in South Asia and the Middle East funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). WIF targets women and girl migrants originating from India, Bangladesh and Nepal and women and girl migrants in receiving countries in India, Jordan and Lebanon specifically in domestic and garment work. In each country a National Programme Coordinator implements the programme together with project partners. WIF has four streams of work focusing on women and girls: (1) a migrant community and information component, (2) a worker organizing component, (3) a fair recruitment component, (3) a law and policy component and a (4) research and evaluation component. The programme is currently in the third year of its five year duration. Under the ILO's evaluation workstream, previous research has been conducted to inform the programme activities. The Technical Officer will consider the Programme's current monitoring and evaluation needs and methodological options and develop and coordinate the forthcoming monitoring and evaluation of the programme, based out of Kathmandu. The Technical Officer will draw on international research experience and professional training in evaluation methodologies to conceive and coordinate a programme of monitoring and evaluation through the following activities. S/he will report directly to the Country Director in Nepal and technically to the Chief Technical Adviser based in Delhi.
Description of Duties A. Monitoring: 1. Prepare the Project Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (PMP), the data collection, processing and analysis plan(s) to review upcoming programme progress and reach among women migrants along migration corridors, sending and receiving States, global partners and overall programme, including external factors that can influence project outputs and outcomes in accordance to agreed log frame. 2. Review, design and standardize quantitative and qualitative techniques (e.g. questionnaires, focus group discussion protocols, tabulation) to collect data to monitor the pathways of influence of the programme inputs on policies and practices affecting women in the context of migration and work; and feedback to programmes and for the wider public on the findings, challenges, lessons learned and good practices. 3. Review and update annual programme mid-term and and-term targets and milestones in log frames upon agreement with the project team. 4. Provide training, technical support and assess national programme coordinators and partners on the collection and analysis of data for monitoring and evaluation through field visits, coordination and guidance. 5. Collect data for monitoring and evaluation through field visits and coordination among national programme coordinators and partners. B. Evaluation 1. Develop evaluation designs to assess the influence of various components of the programme and consider their individual and possible collective influence on the programme targets and target populations. 2. Keep abreast of policy evaluation and practice reviews in relation to forced labour, gender, caste and migration. 3. Coordinate implementation of the midterm, final evaluations of the programme including reviewing of terms of reference, draft evaluation reports, providing project data to the evaluators. 4. Provide technical support to the project team in following-up on evaluation recommendations in coordination with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 5. Prepare and coordinate inputs to reports for updates to donor, technical progress reports, ILO programme reporting requirements and other stakeholders as needed. 6. Draft, edit and prepare inputs for strategic programme documents such as theory of change, results chain, logframe, programme publications, concept papers, workshop proceedings and related documentation. C. Knowledge sharing and communication 1. Coordinate closely and communicate regularly with the evaluation team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to share monitoring and evaluation plans, consider complementary methods, share emerging findings, and conduct coordinated research uptake activities. 2. Knowledge sharing: under guidance of the chief technical adviser, draft lessons learned and good practices documents for piloted and tested interventions related to each component of the programme, including relevant good practices from other actors. 3. Prepare and edit case stories of migrant workers of their experience before, during and after labour migration. 4. Coordinate website relevance and consistency and content update of across countries. 5. Prepare, edit and update communication briefs and ensure visibility of ILO and donor in relevant project events and publications.
Required Qualifications
Education Masters or graduate degree in economics, social sciences, public administration, or similar field requiring capacity to analyse quantitative and qualitative data.
Experience At least five years of professional research and evaluation training and international experience in various countries covered by the programme (i.e at least 1-2 of the Middle East and 1-2 South Asia sub regions), of which at least two years in monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes affecting women's mobility and labour taking into account gender, caste and migration. Proven capacity to monitor technical cooperation programmes at the field level, provide technical support and training to project officer for data collection, processing and analysis and distil international experience, lessons and practices into local initiatives and cooperation programmes.
Languages Excellent command of English. Arabic and South Asian languages (the languages of migration corridors under the purview of the project) are an asset.
Competencies  Job specific competencies include: ability to conceptualise and design monitoring techniques and analyse complex cross-national practices and data sets on migration, employment, gender; capability to guide and co-ordinate the work of internal and external collaborators; ability to prepare reports and publications of a high quality, technically sound with conclusions leading to policy recommendations; and capacity to communicate effectively and concisely.
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APPENDIX II CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Grade: P.3 Salary and post adjustment (with dependants) US$ Salary Minimum 61470 rising to Maximum 82369 Post adjustment for Kathmandu Minimum 15920 Maximum 21333 Salary and post adjustment (without dependants) US$ Salary Minimum 57379 Maximum Maximum 76577 Post adjustment for Kathmandu Minimum 14861 Maximum 19833
Please note that the above salary levels are determined according to the criteria established by the International Civil Service Commission. The ILO is international public sector employer and salary and other employment conditions are not negotiable. Other allowances and benefits subject to specific terms of appointment: Children's allowance (except for the first child if the dependant rate of salary is paid in respect of that child); Children's education grant (per child per year); Pension and Health Insurance schemes; 30 working days' annual leave; Assignment Grant; Entitlement to transport expenses of personal effects; Repatriation Grant; Home-leave travel with eligible dependants every two years; Rental subsidy (if applicable). Recruitment is normally made at the initial step in the grade. Salaries and emoluments are exempt from taxation by the Swiss authorities and, on the basis of international agreements or national law relating to presence or residence abroad, are generally exempt from taxation by other governments. In the absence of exemption, in most cases tax paid will be reimbursed in accordance with an ILO document which will be supplied upon request. While the successful candidate will be initially working in Kathmandu, he/she may be assigned to any duty station designated by the Director-General of the ILO.
Please note that all candidates must complete an on-line application form. To apply, please visit ILO's e-Recruitment website at: erecruit.ilo.org. The system provides instructions for online application procedures.
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