Deadline: 09 August, 2020
Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking to fill the post of Principal Evaluation Officer.
AfDB’s mission is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs).
Responsibilities
- Design, conduct and report on evaluations in accordance with the bank’s evaluation policy and manual and international evaluation standards (e.g., OECD DAC evaluation standards and the evaluation cooperation group good practice standards)
- Lead and guide meta evaluations and meta analyses, including designs, and methods (for literature search, and data collection, analysis and reporting)
- Contribute to updating the independent development evaluation department evaluation quality standards, and quality assurance processes, tools and capacity
- Contribute to the capture of learning from evaluation design to evaluation dissemination for use in updating the independent development evaluation department evaluation manual, and for staff learning events
- Manage human and financial resources of a multi-disciplinary evaluation team to ensure the delivery of complex and concurrent evaluations that are conducted in an independent, cost-effective, rigorous and timely manner
- Promote the mandate of the evaluation function and contribute to the creation of an evaluation culture in the bank and in regional member countries (RMC)
Requirements
- At least a master’s degree or its equivalent in Economics, Development Evaluation, Finance, Business Administration, Sociology, Development, Statistics, Policy Analysis, Public Administration, or other related fields
- Certificate/diploma in Development Evaluation, Development Oriented Research and/or Programme/Project Planning, Management and Evaluation is an advantage
- Six years, minimum, of experience as a development evaluator/researcher
- Significant knowledge in quantitative and/or qualitative evaluation methods
- Knowledge of operational/policy areas, procedures and practice of the AfDB or other multilateral development banks and/or other international development agencies
- Operational experience relating, in particular, to areas covered by the division such as governance, and/or country strategies and operations, and/or corporate reforms
- Substantial experience in development planning, management and evaluation in multilateral development banks or other international development agencies
- Strong theoretical and operational knowledge of international development issues and theories relating, in particular, to Africa
- Experience in providing strategic advice to senior management
- Experience in coaching and mentoring staff
- Substantial experience in managing human and financial resources
- Experience to lead multidisciplinary teams, and work in diverse and multi-cultural settings
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