UNOPS

The Asia Pacific Regional Office, based in Bangkok, Thailand, provides strategic leadership and oversight for UNOPS operations across 17 countries, ensuring high performance, operational excellence, and alignment with organizational goals. Operations currently span Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Pacific Islands. Across these countries, we work closely with key stakeholders to strengthen partnerships and maximize impact through five main operating units: Afghanistan (AFCO), Myanmar (MMCO), South Asia Multi-Country Office (SAMCO), East Asia and Pacific Multi-Country Office (EAPMCO), and the Asia Regional Health Cluster (ARHC). Through these entities, we provide agile, client-focused service delivery across diverse sectors - including infrastructure, health, procurement, and project management - supporting the implementation of sustainable development solutions across the region.

The East Asia and Pacific Multi-Country Office (EAPMCO), headquartered in Bangkok, supports UNOPS operations across 24 countries in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and the Pacific. Established in January 2023, EAPMCO provides strategic direction, operational support, and quality assurance to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of projects across its portfolio. EAPMCO implements initiatives in priority areas such as energy transition, climate change, and sustainable development, drawing on UNOPS' core expertise in human resources, procurement, infrastructure, fund management, and programme management.

Established in 2016, UNOPS Philippines supports the government and development partners in advancing sustainable development through services including sustainable procurement, project and grant management, infrastructure, and logistical support. UNOPS projects in the Philippines focus on key areas such as governance, justice, health, and infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on capacity building, community resilience, and accelerating progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Partnership for Peace and Development in Mindanao (PPDM) Programme, known as EU4BARMM, is a European Union-funded initiative supporting peacebuilding, institutional strengthening, and inclusive governance in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The programme operates across multiple thematic work packages addressing the tri-justice system — encompassing formal, Shari'ah, and customary justice systems — which reflects the region's socio-cultural, historical, and constitutional identity under the Bangsamoro Organic Law.

The programme's interconnected work packages create both an opportunity and an imperative for a coherent, system-wide monitoring and evaluation approach. Given the interdependencies across tri-justice interventions, fragmented monitoring carries significant risks to programme coherence, results quality, and evidence generation. External reporting requirements — including alignment with UNDP-managed components — further underscore the need for a unified, rigorous results architecture.

Within this context, UNOPS requires a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to provide crosscutting, on-demand technical M&E support across all programme work packages, ensuring that the programme's Theory of Change (ToC) and Results Framework (RF) are operationalized consistently, that data collection and reporting are methodologically sound, and that evidence and learning are systematically generated and applied to programme adaptation, while overall oversight and accountability for results management remain with the programme team.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist provides targeted, on-demand technical M&E support across all tri-justice work packages of the EU4BARMM programme. The incumbent operates as part of the programme's crosscutting advisory and quality assurance layer, functioning under the supervision of the Tri-Justice M&E Focal Point and in close coordination with the M&E Assistant and programme team, providing intermittent, on-demand technical inputs. The overall oversight and accountability for results management remain with the programme team.

The Specialist supports the development and operationalization of a programme-wide Theory of Change and Results Framework, ensures consistency in indicator development, monitoring tools, data collection approaches, data quality assessment, and reporting of outcome and output performance indicators. The role also contributes to lessons-learning and adaptive management processes, and provides evidence- and learning-based input to reporting and communication, visibility, and donor reporting requirements. The role further ensures alignment with external reporting obligations, including those stemming from coordination with UNDP-managed programme components, without assuming direct responsibility for implementation or results ownership.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Studies, Statistics, Social Sciences, Public Policy, or related fields with 9 years of relevant experience OR

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related fields with 7 years of relevant experience is required

Desired

• Formal certification in results-based management, programme evaluation, or a recognized M&E methodology (e.g., OECD-DAC, USAID, UNDP RBM frameworks).

• Graduate-level training or demonstrated experience in mixed-methods research, qualitative data analysis, or participatory evaluation approaches.

Required

• Relevant experience is defined as progressively responsible professional experience in monitoring and evaluation within development or peacebuilding programmes.

• Demonstrated experience in developing and operationalizing theories of change and results frameworks in complex, multi-component programme environments is required.

• Proven track record in indicator development, monitoring tool design, data quality assessment, and results-based reporting is required. 

• Experience facilitating participatory learning, pause-and-reflect, or after-action review processes with programme teams and implementing partners is required.

• Experience preparing M&E inputs to donor reports and supporting alignment with SDG monitoring frameworks is required.

Desired

• Experience working in rule of law, access to justice, or governance programmes in fragile or conflict-affected settings.
• Familiarity with the Philippine development context, BARMM governance structures, or Bangsamoro peacebuilding processes.
• Prior engagement with UN system organizations, EU-funded programmes, or multilateral development programmes.
• Experience coordinating M&E across multiple implementing partners or in a joint programme context involving more than one UN agency.
• Familiarity with EU results frameworks and external reporting requirements for EU-funded development programmes.

• Experience of working in multicultural environments or UN system organizations in a developing country is desired.

• Experience in development or humanitarian contexts is desired.

• UNOPS does not accept unsolicited resumes. 
• UNOPS will at no stage of the recruitment process request candidates to make payments of any kind.
• Applications to vacancies must be received before midnight Copenhagen time (CET) on the closing date of the announcement. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. 
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the selection process, which may include various assessments. 
• UNOPS embraces diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity. Our workforce consists of a wide range of nationalities, cultures, languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities. We strive to sustain and strengthen this diversity, fostering an inclusive working environment where all personnel are treated with respect and have equal access to opportunities.
• UNOPS evaluates all applications based on the skills, qualifications and experience outlined in the vacancy announcement. We are committed to a fair and transparent selection process and welcome diverse perspectives, including those of women, indigenous and racialized communities, individuals of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, and persons with disabilities.
• We are committed to enabling all candidates to perform at their best during the assessment process. If you are shortlisted and require support or reasonable accommodation to complete any assessment, please inform our human resources team upon receiving your invitation.
• UNOPS has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment, and other forms of abusive conduct, including discrimination, abuse of authority, and harassment. To uphold these standards, background checks are conducted for all final candidates to help ensure that individuals with a history of such conduct are not hired. By applying for a position with UNOPS, candidates acknowledge and consent to these verification processes.
  

• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post. 
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few mandatory courses (they take around 4 hours to complete) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS. Refreshers or new mandatory courses may be required during your contract. Please note that you will not receive any compensation for taking courses and refreshers. For more information on a retainer contract here. 
• For more details about the contract types, please click here.
• All UNOPS personnel are responsible for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter and UNOPS Policies and Instructions, as well as other relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel must demonstrate an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a manner consistent with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda. 
• It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential personnel. Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.