Vacancy Announcement Details
Chief Evaluation Division, P-5
06 Aug 2018
UNRWA
Main responsibilities include:
- Leading, conducting and managing evaluations that are impartial, independent, credible and meet professional standards:
- Carrying out evaluations of complex programmes, strategies, policies and cross-cutting themes and leading evaluation teams;
- Effectively supervising evaluations conducted by staff members and consultants;
- Ensuring that evaluations meet high professional standards in line with UNRWA’s Evaluation Policy and UN Evaluation Norms and Standards;
- Keeping abreast of developments in the area of evaluation;
- Ensuring that up-to-date evaluation techniques and approaches are applied;
- Cooperating with other UN evaluation units and professional evaluation bodies.
- Promoting the evaluation function in UNRWA:
- Reviewing and further developing the architecture, policies, guidelines, systems, procedures and tools related to evaluation;
- Designing and implementing evaluation capacity development within the Agency.
- Supporting the decentralized evaluation activities and providing technical guidance to the Field Programme Support Officers (in UNRWA fields of operations).
- Ensuring that evaluations are useful and that evaluation findings and recommendations are followed up:
- Preparing reports to management and other stakeholders on findings, recommendations and lessons learned of strategic importance;
- Organizing meetings, workshops and other discussion fora to establish a dialogue on evaluation results (recommendations/lessons learned);
- Ensuring that management responds to recommendations and monitors the follow up on evaluations.
- Effectively deploying human and financial resources of the Evaluation Division.
- Developing the Evaluation work plan, including evaluation activities agreed with the field offices during the annual planning process.
- Planning the human and financial resources needed for the Evaluation Division in close collaboration with the Director, Internal Oversight Services.
- Supervising and coaching evaluation staff.
- Selecting and supervising evaluation consultants.
Full details are available on the UNRWA website. Deadline for applications: 18 August.