Monitoring and ESS Officer

The Monitoring and ESS Officer is responsible for planning, coordinating, monitoring, and ensuring the technical quality of all training, orientation, and capacity-building initiatives implemented under the project. The position supports the effective delivery of project outcomes by strengthening the capacity of the social service workforce, establishing and maintaining a pool of Master Trainers, and promoting disability-inclusive child protection and case management practices. The role also contributes to raising community awareness on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS), and environmental protection while enhancing the life skills, protection, and well-being of children and adolescents with disabilities through effective monitoring, compliance, and quality assurance.

Key Responsibilities

A. Major Task

• Develop and implement project monitoring plans.
• Monitor project progress against indicators and targets.
• Maintain project MIS and databases.
• Verify beneficiary data and results.
• Conduct routine field monitoring visits.
• Prepare monitoring reports and dashboards.
• Support baseline, endline, and assessments.
• Monitor compliance with UNICEF Environmental and Social Standards (ESS)
• Monitor implementation of safeguarding, PSEA, and AAP commitments
• Track complaints and feedback mechanisms.
• Ensure data quality and data verification.
• Support donor monitoring missions.
• Maintain indicator tracking tables.
• Analyze program data for adaptive management.
• Document lessons learned and best practices.
• Coordinate monitoring with UNICEF and RDRS M&E Unit

B. Monitoring, Documentation & Learning

• Collaborate with the monitoring persons to track key training indicators (pre-/post-test data, knowledge application scores, and numbers trained).
• Assist in conducting project needs assessments, Baseline & Resource mapping, and endline evaluations.
• Document comprehensive training completion reports, capturing field-level success stories, lessons learned, and best practices to feed into quarterly donor reporting for UNICEF.
• Support the coordination of major project advocacy events and national day observations (e.g., World Environment Day, International Day of Persons with Disabilities).