Vacancy Announcement Details

The Impact Evaluation Officer will be responsible for supporting the capacity building, advisory services efforts and impact evaluations of the Unit. As such, the Impact Evaluation Officer will be an integral part of the CAP workstream, and the IEU’s LORTA programme. Specifically, s/he will be contributing to developing the evaluation capacity building training and providing/tailoring the relevant training services to GCF's stakeholders. 
S/he will also be responsible for supporting the team in designing, implementing, analyzing, report writing and disseminating impact evaluations within the programme. S/he will collaborate with other members of the unit, partners, and stakeholders to develop capacity building materials on evaluation and impact evaluation design that measures the causal impact of the GCF investments. In addition, s/he will conduct capacity building of GCF Accredited Entities on evaluation in general.

The incumbent will directly report to the Capacity Building Workstream Lead and/or the IEU Head of the office. 

Purpose 

• Assist managing a subset of the LORTA portfolio by overseeing activities related to preparation and implementation of the impact evaluation;
• Provide analytical and operational support for policy, evaluation, learning and synthesis papers and related products, including but not limited to, evaluation policy, evidence gap maps, thematic and strategic evaluations;
• Support any additional analytical and operational tasks as assigned by the IEU;

Engagement

• Engaging with GCF staff and stakeholders from accredited entities, development partners, executing entities and other GCF stakeholders to help with the implementation of the LORTA programme;
• Participate in IEU evaluations as required and also provide advice to its various evaluations on type, use and access to different kinds of quantitative data as well as quantitative methodologies;
• Engage with consultants, experts and stakeholder groups for surveys both on- and offline, (phone) interviews and other types of data collection;
• Present at events and conferences on behalf of IEU; and
• Participate in official missions as required.

Delivery

• Provide support for GCF Board meetings and other events and meetings related to the functioning of the IEU, for example assisting in the preparation of relevant documentation, taking meeting minutes, preparing summaries of discussions, meeting reports, drafting agreements and other legal documentation;
• Organize LORTA-related workshops, develop teaching modules, generate knowledge products, and deliver events for disseminating the work of the IEU and for enhancing the capacity of IEU stakeholders to have credible, high-quality evidence for evaluations;
• Provide econometrics and survey related advice to the team including using and reliability of different techniques and supervise the team in undertaking field-level data collection, sample size calculations and econometric estimations;
• Develop evaluation capacity building training materials and provide training services to relevant GCF stakeholders in collaboration with other members of the unit;  

Full details available on the GCF website. Application deadline 19 May.