Vacancy Announcement Details

Background

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: 

• Governance and Participation in public life
• Women Peace and Security, Humanitarian Action, and Disaster Risk Reduction
• Ending Violence Against Women
• Women’s Economic 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

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:

• Evaluation Planning stage:
  • Reviewing all relevant documents (i.e. Strategic notes, project documents, donor and/or other monitoring reports, evaluation and audit reports, etc.) to identify efforts relevant to the evaluation topic.
  • Providing support to the portfolio analysis to provide an overview of the different efforts undertaken by the CO/RO for the thematic area.

• Evaluation Inception phase:
  • Support the Human rights-based stakeholder analysis from a thematic perspective.
  • Contribute to the development of an inclusive Evaluation methodology which is tailored to relevant inquiry in the thematic area (including through the evaluation matrix, data collection tools etc)
• Evaluation Data collection:
  • Support interviews and consultations by taking detailed notes and ensuring adherence to ethical guidelines.
  • Contribute to evaluation analysis by capturing results, challenges, gaps and learning pertinent to the evaluation topic.

• Reporting phase:
  • Provide substantive inputs to the final synthesis report.
  • Potential support to case study through inputs on the thematic areas.
• Other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

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.