Vacancy Announcement Details
Evaluation Consultant / Retainer
20 Sep 2023
UN Women
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The UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) of the Independent Evaluation and Audit Service (IEAS) evaluates the work of UN women to enhance organizational accountability, provide evidence-based information for decision-making and to contribute to learning on gender equality and the empowerment of women. IES posts Regional Evaluation Specialists in the Regional Offices of UN Women with a key task to lead independent evaluations and to support country office personnel with the management of decentralized evaluations. UN Women hires external consultants to conduct evaluations as evaluation Team Leader, thematic expert or evaluation analysts. UN Women, through its Strategic Plan 2022-2025, has identified four impact areas through which the organization strives to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment:
Expressions of interest from qualified individuals for the following positions are sought on a retainer basis: Evaluation consultants to support evaluation team leaders in the conduct of evaluations. Please mention your specific thematic area of expertise if any. Consultants will be engaged in a retainer contract and based on organizational needs and alignment with expertise. Duties and Responsibilities |
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Evaluation consultants are integral members of the evaluation team. The work of the consultant will be home-based and in the field, and they will need to connect with the team during West and Central Africa working hours via online platforms. Under the overall oversight of the Regional Evaluation Specialist, the Evaluation consultant will contribute to the following phases of evaluations:
Tasks and deliverables The evaluation consultant will be key member of the evaluation team, engaged in all phases of the evaluation process and in each type of evaluation to produce concise and analytical evaluation reports. Deliverables for the evaluation consultant include the following: desk review, portfolio analysis, stakeholder analysis, interview notes, qualitative and quantitative data analyses, contributions to the inception report, presentations and final synthesis reports and annexes for evaluations. These deliverables must be high quality and in line with the GERAAS criteria established by UN Women. Supervision The consultants will be directly supervised by the Regional Evaluation Specialist for West and Central Africa who is based in the Regional Office of Dakar (Senegal). However, based on the evaluation assignment, will also receive guidance from the evaluation team leader engaged. The Regional Evaluation Specialist reports to the Chief of Independent Evaluation Service at UN Women headquarters. |
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Full details available on the UN Women website. Application deadline 19 October.