Deadline: 03 February, 2021
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
UN Women is seeking to fill the role of Regional Evaluation Specialist.
UN Women is the UN agency dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Responsibilities
- Undertake/manage evaluations in the region, including regional and country portfolio evaluations, and promote stakeholder’s ownership and learning
- Provide sound methodological advice and quality assurance to decentralised evaluation processes, including the preparation of terms of references, evaluation study, final evaluation report and dissemination strategy
- Provide technical support to the planning, monitoring and implementation of evaluation plans in UN Women’s regional and country offices
- Substantially contribute to the development of methodologies for regional and country evaluations, and to the review of guidelines, systems, procedures and tools related to decentralised evaluations
- Prepare aggregate analysis and qualitative assessments of decentralised evaluations to input to evaluation annual report and management briefs
- Organise meetings, workshops and other discussion forums to establish a dialogue on evaluation results and the evaluative knowledge management at regional level
- Ensure evaluation results are taken into account for the continued implementation of strategies, programmes/projects and for the design and appraisal of new projects/programmes
- Ensure project/programme managers respond to recommendations and monitor the follow up on evaluations
- Provide training and coaching on evaluation, self-evaluation, UN Women evaluation policy and guidelines, monitoring and results-based management within the regional office and country offices, including substantial support in coaching and training monitoring and evaluation focal points at country level
- Provide advice/information/guidance to programme managers on evaluations on programme design from evaluability perspective
- Establish partnerships with governments, regional evaluation associations, networks and academic institutions to promote capacity and learning on gender responsive evaluation
Requirements
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Evaluation or a related field
- Seven years, minimum, of progressively responsible experience in evaluation
- Experience in conducting gender analysis
- Experience in conducting/managing a portfolio of strategic, programmatic, institutional and/or project evaluation
- Field-work experience
- Knowledge of gender equality analytical work and programming
- Strong understanding of various methodologies in evaluation, both qualitative and quantitative, such as surveys, record reviews, focus groups and case studies
- Strong understanding of evaluation ethics and United Nations Evaluation Group code of Conduct
- Strong understanding of gender responsive evaluation approach
- Fluency in English
- Knowledge of another UN official working language is an asset
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