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Senior Adviser/Chief Evaluation Officer
IEG is seeking a Senior Adviser/ Chief Evaluation Officer who can lead the evaluation strategy for IEG and provide advice directly to the Vice-President/ Director General of Evaluation (DGE). In the front office of the DGE, there is currently a Director of Strategy and Operations (DSO) who leads the administrative work of the VPU, as well as supporting the DGE in her discussions with the WBG Board and Management. In addition, there is also a Methods team, led by a Head of Methods, which reports to the DSO. The Methods team works directly with teams and provides guidance on specific evaluations, as well as developing evaluation training courses for IEG and WBG staff and carrying out research to ensure IEG stays on the cutting edge of evaluation methodology.
The Chief Evaluation Officer will have a complementary role to the DSO and Head of Methods, as s/he will work directly with the DGE to:
- Lead the development and implementation of an Evaluation strategy for IEG (e.g. macro, micro and intermediary evaluations products, enhancing the impact and influence of IEG, global evaluation capacity development, integration of new methods and technology in evaluation, etc.);
- Ensure quality control of evaluations (solidity of evaluation framework and methods);
- Lead and guide the GEI in ECD; and
- Represent IEG at key evaluation conferences, and promote evaluation as a public good.
Full details available on the World Bank website. Application deadline 10th April.
