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UN Women: Regional Evaluation Specialist (Re-Advertised)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Cairo, Egypt
Posted 4 years ago
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Undertake/manage evaluations and strengthen decentralized evaluation systems at regional and country levels in the Arab States:

  • Undertake/manage evaluations in the region, including regional and country portfolio evaluations, promote stakeholder’s ownership and learning, align with country evaluation systems and partners’ participation;
  • Provide sound methodological advice and quality assurance to decentralized evaluation processes, including the preparation of Terms of References (TORs), 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 decentralized evaluations;
  • Coordinate with the Regional Planning and Coordination Specialist to ensure the alignment of evaluation with Results Based Management systems of the Regional Offices and country offices;
  • Contribute to corporate level evaluation processes led by the IES and ensure alignment to corporate evaluation systems.

Promote the use of evaluations and ensure that evaluation findings and recommendations are implemented:

  • Prepare aggregate analysis and qualitative assessments of decentralized evaluations to input to Evaluation Annual report and management briefs;
  • Organize meetings, workshops and other discussion fora to establish a dialogue on evaluation results and the evaluative knowledge management at regional level;
  • Ensure that 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 that project/programme managers respond to recommendations and monitor the follow up on evaluations.

Strengthen evaluation capacity development in UN Women at regional and country levels:

  • 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 (M&E) 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.

Promote UN coordination on evaluation that is gender responsive:

  • Collaborate with UN Country Teams on evaluation and regional inter-agency evaluation working groups on integrating gender equality perspective in evaluation;
  • Collaborate with other UN joint evaluation initiatives at regional and country level;
  • Contribute to UN Women in United Nations Evaluation Group taskforces and substantial contribution to the inclusion of gender equality dimensions in UNDAF and system-wide evaluation;
  • Collaborate with professional evaluation bodies in the area of gender responsive evaluation.

Manage knowledge building and sharing in Evaluation in the region and IEAS:

  • Keep abreast of developments in the area of evaluation, exploring innovative approaches in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment;
  • Identify, collect, and disseminate best practices and lessons learned;
  • Contribute to the active exchange of information with evaluation specialists and internal audit specialists of IEAS.

Perform other related duties and assignments as and when requested by supervisor.

Key Performance Indicators:

  • Timely and quality implementation of evaluation plans in Regional Office and in Multi-Country Offices (MCOs) and County Offices (Cos) in the field;
  • Effective management of consultants;
  • Timely and quality advice provided to stakeholders;
  • Quality aggregate analysis and qualitativ&

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Competencies

Core Values:

  • Respect for Diversity;
  • Integrity;
  • Professionalism.

Core Competencies:

  • Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
  • Accountability;
  • Creative Problem Solving;
  • Effective Communication;
  • Inclusive Collaboration;
  • Stakeholder Engagement;
  • Leading by Example.

Functional Competencies:

  • 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 and is able to contribute to the development of the most efficient and effective methodology for the design, with minimal guidance;
  • Strong understanding of evaluation ethics and United Nations Evaluation Group code of Conduct;
  • Strong understanding of gender responsive evaluation approach;
  • Strong understanding of various sampling techniques and their applications and is able to develop the most accurate sampling technique for the methodology. Has grounded knowledge of how to address gender equality on evaluation design;
  • Strong understanding of questionnaire design and is able to develop questionnaires and other review instruments that will address issues identified in the design, independently;
  • Strong interviewing skills and is able to conduct interviews independently;
  • Ability to collect reliable, valid and accurate information in an objective way;
  • Strong knowledge of gender equality and women’s human rights and human rights-based approach;
  • Strong skills in management of consultants and/or other temporary personnel.
  • Strong training and coaching skills;
  • Ability to develop partnerships to promote gender responsive evaluation in the UN system and with national partners.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Master’s degree (or equivalent) in evaluation or relevant social science or related field is required.

Experience:

  • At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in evaluation;
  • Experience in conducting gender analysis;
  • Experience in conducting/managing a portfolio of strategic, programmatic, institutional and/or project evaluations;
  • Experience working in the field.

Languages:

  • Fluency in English is required;
  • Working knowledge in Arabic is an asset;
  • Knowledge of the other UN official working language is an asset.
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