Apply: WHO Regional Evaluation Officer

Deadline: 17 October, 2021

Location: Cairo, Egypt

World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking to fill the role of Regional Evaluation Officer.

The primary role of WHO is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations system.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate the development and implementation of regional and country evaluation work plans, including budget considerations, to ensure adequate evaluation coverage of the most salient topics in the country/region
  • Manage budgets to successful completion so that all evaluations are relevant, timely, credible, and useful
  • Provide overall technical and strategic leadership on evaluation issues in order to strengthen the evaluation function, develop evaluation practice, and foster an evaluation culture
  • Design and conduct individual decentralised evaluations that are impartial, independent, and credible, and also manage evaluations carried out by external evaluation teams
  • Apply organisation-wide quality assurance system to ensure that regional and country-level evaluations are conducted in accordance with the WHO Evaluation Policy (2018) and the revised UNEG Norms and Standards for Evaluation
  • Contribute, together with other regional evaluation advisors and the WHO evaluation office, to strategies, approaches, guidance, procedures, and tools for strengthening the evaluation function and evaluation practice in the organisation
  • Support corporate evaluations managed by the WHO evaluation office through facilitation of data collection in the region, liaison with key stakeholders in the regional office and partners, and provision of technical and strategic inputs into evaluations
  • Provide advice, information, and guidance on the conduct of decentralised evaluations through the ongoing implementation of the framework on decentralised evaluation in WHO
  • Follow up on all applicable evaluation findings and recommendations emanating from both decentralised and corporate evaluations by organising meetings, workshops, and other discussions on evaluation results, advising key stakeholders in the management response process, and assisting with efforts to follow up on management responses and their associated action plans
  • Support evaluation capacity development through briefings, trainings, workshops, and other platforms
  • Develop material to promote transparent and effective communication of WHO’s evaluation work and findings in support of organisational learning, including preparation of an annual progress report
  • Contribute to the work of the United Nations evaluation group and regional evaluation network activities, as appropriate

Requirements

  • Advanced university degree in Public Health, Social or Natural Sciences, International Development, Epidemiology or Economics
  • Seven years, minimum, of professional and progressive experience with international exposure in planning, conducting and managing mixed-method evaluations, assessments and/or reviews of programmes, thematic topics, policies, projects, and other relevant initiatives
  • Work experience with WHO at country or regional level or in another agency tied to the United Nations (desirable)
  • Ability to identify evaluation priorities in view of the regional context
  • Expert knowledge of English
  • Intermediate knowledge of French and Arabic
  • (desirable)

To apply and for more information, click here.

Photo source: WHO/Pierre Virot

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