Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Description

Climate change will greatly affect the poorest people in the world, who are often hardest hit by weather catastrophes, desertification, and rising sea levels and least able to respond. In many parts of the world, climate change has already contributed to worsening food security, reduced the predictable availability of fresh water, and exacerbated the spread of disease and other threats to human health. Helping the most vulnerable countries and communities adapt to increasing challenges of climate change is an imperative for the international community, requiring significant resources to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Adaptation Fund is an innovative financing mechanism set up by the Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with the purpose of financing concrete climate change adaptation projects and programs in developing country Parties. Since becoming fully operational in 2010, the Board has approved over 220 projects and programs worth more than USD 1.6 billion in over 100 countries.

Launched under the Kyoto Protocol of the UNFCCC, the Adaptation Fund has been formally serving the Paris Agreement since 2019. The Adaptation Fund is implementing its second medium term strategy (2023-2027) that rests on the three pillars of adaptation action, innovation and learning/knowledge management.

The Adaptation Fund supports country-driven projects and programs, innovation, and global learning for effective adaptation. All of the Adaptation Fund’s activities are designed to build national and local adaptive capacities while reaching and engaging the most vulnerable groups, and to integrate gender consideration to provide equal opportunity to access and benefit from the Fund’s resources. They are also aimed at enhancing synergies with other sources of climate finance, while creating models that can be replicated or scaled up.

The Secretariat is recruiting a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer to support the Fund’s work on portfolio monitoring, results, and evaluation by joining its Results Impact and Knowledge (RIK) Team. The RIK team supports the Adaptation Fund in strengthening results-based management, portfolio monitoring, evaluation, and institutional learning. The team is responsible for ensuring the quality, credibility, and consistency of results data across the Fund’s portfolio, including the review of project performance reports, results frameworks, and evaluations. It contributes to the development and application of the Strategic Results Framework, supports evidence-based decision making, and synthesizes portfolio insights to inform strategic direction. The RIK team also advances knowledge generation and dissemination, promotes learning from projects and innovation, and supports the Fund’s broader objectives under its medium-term strategy, particularly in areas related to adaptation effectiveness, innovation, and knowledge management.

The selected candidate will play a key role in the timely and quality management of the Fund’s portfolio of projects and programmes in line with the Fund’s operational policies and guidelines. S/he will also support the review of funding proposal compliance with the Fund’s strategic results framework and support review of project evaluations. S/he will report to the Lead for Results, Impact and Knowledge. 

The successful candidate will be expected to carry out the following duties and responsibilities: