Deadline: 07 January, 2021
Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for 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
- Undertake meta-evaluations and meta-analyses
- Lead and guide meta-evaluations and meta-analyses including designs and methods
- Contribute to the capture of learning from evaluation design to evaluation dissemination for use in updating the independent development 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)
- Contribute to positioning the independent development evaluation department as an innovator on the leading-edge among other multilateral institutions
- Contribute to building strategic alliances and partnerships with key stakeholders within and outside the bank to further the evaluation function’s mandate and engage in evaluation communities of practice within and outside the bank
- Contribute to the preparation of independent development evaluation department’s three-year rolling work programme and annual report
Requirements
- Master’s degree or its equivalent in Economics, Development Evaluation, Finance, Business Administration, Sociology, Development, Statistics, Policy analysis, Public Administration, or a related field
- Certificate/diploma in Development Evaluation and/or Programme/Project Planning, Management and Evaluation is a plus
- Six years, minimum, of experience as a development evaluator/researcher
- Significant knowledge of quantitative and/or qualitative evaluation methods
- Broad knowledge of evaluation theories and practice, including evaluation needs assessment, design and implementation
- Proven operational and field experience working in complex development programmes
- Knowledge of operational/policy areas, procedures and practice of AfDB or other multilateral development banks and/or other international development agencies
- Operational experience relating to areas covered by the division such as private sector, infrastructure (including transport, ICT, urban development, water and sanitation), industrialisation, power systems, energy, climate change, and green growth
- 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
To apply and for more information, click here.
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