Deadline: 25 November, 2020
Location: Dakar, Senegal
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Evaluation Specialist.
UNICEF works for a world in which every child has a fair chance in life.
Responsibilities
- Support the country office and national partners to develop and implement a plan of evaluation activities that will provide relevant and strategic information to manage country programmes and relevant national policies and programmes toward achieving results for children in both humanitarian and non-humanitarian environments
- Ensure that UNICEF supported evaluations are designed and implemented to established UN quality standards, and the results are disseminated in a timely fashion and used by stakeholders in order to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning
- Ensure that evaluation capacities of country office staff and national partners, including government and civil society, are strengthened, enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead evidence generating processes
- Ensure that the country office is effectively linked to wider UNICEF capacity building developments in a way that both contributes to and benefits from organisational learning
Requirements
- University degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Public Policy, Statistics, or a related field
- Degree or certification/accreditation in Evaluation is a significant advantage
- Eight years, minimum, of professional experience in the implementation of equity-focused evaluations and the management of the evaluation function at national and international level
- Experience in development and/or humanitarian settings
- Experience in supporting national evaluation capacity and working with professional evaluation associations
- Experience in evaluation design and in conducting evaluations as per UNICEF and UNEG norms and standards for Evaluation in the UN system
- Familiarity with methods used in conducting both ‘up-stream’ evaluations, e.g., focusing on policies, strategies and systems, as well as ‘down-stream’ evaluations, e.g., focusing on delivery of programmes and projects is an asset
- Experience in related evidence functions is an asset
- Fluency in English and French
- Knowledge of Portuguese and Spanish (the other two languages spoken in the West and Central Africa Region) is an asset
To apply and for more information, click here.
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