NATIONAL POST: UNFPA Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst, NOB, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

## NATIONAL POST: UNFPA Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst, NOB, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Organization:UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund - Country:Bosnia and Herzegovina - Office:UNFPA in Sarajevo NATIONAL POST: UNFPA Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst, NOB, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Posting Date 09/30/2026, 09:02 AM - Apply Before 10/18/2026, 08:59 PM - Job Schedule Full time - Locations Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Vacancy Type Fixed Term - Rotational/Non Rotational Non-Rotational - Contract Duration 1 Year with Possibility for extension - Education & Work Experience Master's Degree - 2 year(s) experience - Required Languages English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian - Vacancy Timeline 2 Weeks National Professional Officers (NPOs) must be citizens of the country where the office is located. The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst (PMEA) will facilitate and substantively contribute to defining results, including theory of change, and provides substantive inputs to the monitoring and tracking of results against defined targets and the UNFPA Strategic Plan for the Western Balkans region (Albania; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Kosovo (UNSCR 1244); North Macedonia; and Serbia). She/he facilitates and contributes to the reporting of results, as well as knowledge management and maintenance of a culture of results. She/He also promotes the use of the results information for adaptations in programming, coordinates the development and implementation of cost evaluation plans and acts as evaluation manager, ensuring the quality of evaluation processes and products in conformity with UNFPA Evaluation Quality Standards. You will report directly to the Demographic Resilience Technical Specialist for the planning and monitoring portfolio in close collaborations with the Heads of Offices. You will report to the Representative, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Country Director Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania and Director, Kosovo (UNSCR 1244)for the evaluation portfolio, with functional/matrix reporting to the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (EECARO). How you can make a difference: UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. The UNFPA Strategic Plan for 2026-2029 articulates the organization's response to a complex global environment, providing a roadmap for resilience and renewal. It is designed to accelerate the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This mandate is pursued through a focus on four interconnected outcomes: ending the unmet need for family planning; ending preventable maternal deaths; ending gender-based violence and harmful practices; and adapting to demographic change through evidence and rights-based policies. In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff who embody these international norms and standards and will defend them courageously and with full conviction. UNFPA is seeking candidates who transform, inspire, and deliver high-impact sustained results, ensuring effective external relations, communications, partnership-building and resource mobilization in a rapidly changing development and funding landscape. We need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them, and who commit to delivering excellence in programme results The Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Analyst will contribute to effective results planning, monitoring, reporting, communication and evaluation of programmes and projects. You would be responsible for: - Provide technical inputs for the development of theories of change of the programmes and projects counting the past, present and future contexts in the Western Balkans - Provide coordination and facilitation support in the development of quality M&E frameworks including the costed monitoring and evaluation plan of the country programmes - Provide substantive technical inputs inputs to the formulation of United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks, more specifically common country analysis, strategic prioritization, theoriesof change, results frameworks and joint work plans - Provide inputs to develop annual and multiyear results plans - Support development work plans to operationalise the results - Facilitate and substantively contribute to the development of field monitoring plans and quality assurance processes - Promote and facilitate the use of evaluation results for evidenced-based planning and programming - Provide substantive inputs to the monitoring and tracking of results against programme/country/regional level targets and UNFPA Strategic Plan - Provide inputs to conduct the annual reviews of the projects and programmes - Provide inputs to implementation of the midterm reviews of the projects and programmes - Provide inputs for monitoring work plans in collaboration with programme staff and Heads of Offices and promote use of monitoring visit recommendations - Support field monitoring and coordinate with programme team and promote use of monitoring visits recommendations - Support collecting and analysing data and evidence including higher-level indicators and oversee regular data quality checks - Support country office teams in participation and submission of inputs for joint United Nations Results Groups and other joint monitoring mechanisms - Provide inputs for implementing adaptive and innovative monitoring practices such as remote monitoring, real time monitoring - Contribute to the implementation of the assurance plans including the spot checks C. Results reporting and results communication - Facilitate the reporting of results to internal (Senior Management) and external (Executive Board, Donors) audiences - Support collection of quality quantitative and qualitative data by Country Office teams - Support compilation and analysis of data for projects and development analytical reports to inform reporting and decision making - Support development of quality results reports - Support communicating results for both internal and external audiences in close collaboration with communication staff - Provide required results and data for producing external report such as United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework - Support producing and disseminating results reports on implementation of UNFPA strategic plan and regional programmes - Provide technical support in the implementation of the UNFPA Evaluation Policy in the Country Offices - Coordinate the development and implementation of costed evaluation plans in the country offices, including an annual update and regular monitoring of implementation of planned evaluations - Manage individual decentralized evaluation processes and ensure the quality of evaluation processes and products in conformity with UNFPA Evaluation Quality Standards - Ensure communication between the COs and RO regarding Evaluations - Support country offices teams in interagency and coordination work on M&E at country level, including support to UNSDCF evaluations - Participate as member in UNFPA M&E net and other regional M&E related Communities of Practices (CoPs) - Promote use of evaluation findings and recommendations in programme formulation and organizational decision making - Support efforts to enhance UNFPA internal and national capacity development on M&E - Individual capacity permitting, perform other duties related to evaluation as required E. Knowledge management and culture of results - Contribute to knowledge management and maintaining a culture of results - Ensure implementation of results-based management (RBM) principles