Overview
The Evaluation Officer will serve as the team leader or evaluation manager for evaluations conducted by the United Nations System Wide Evaluation Office. The role involves leading evaluations, managing teams, and ensuring quality standards.
Tasks Summary
- Leads evaluations ensuring scoping, planning, designing, collecting and analyzing data and report drafting
- Manages evaluation teams
- Researches, analyzes and presents data
- Leads the development of evaluation design and drafting of inception papers and terms of reference
- Manages data collection efforts across multiple methods; reviews, analyzes and interprets data; and ensures development of findings, conclusions and recommendations
- Leads and/or participates in field missions
- Manages the drafting of draft and final evaluation reports
- Leads evaluation briefings
- Ensures quality standards for evaluations
- Coordinates activities related to budget funding
- Supports and carries out other management and administrative tasks such as recruitment
- Participates in the follow-up to evaluation assignments by tracking recommendations
- Provides support to the Office to strengthen efficiency and effectiveness of the evaluation function
- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through data visualization methods
- Performs other duties as required
Experience Requirements
Experience in international standards and practices in evaluation and respective evaluation methodologies; knowledge of the United Nations system evaluation standards and practices; knowledge of technical cooperation and development assistance; knowledge of the peacekeeping and peacebuilding arena; ability to produce evaluation reports and papers; ability to review and edit the evaluation work of others.
Qualification Requirements
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Law, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Public Administration, Programme Evaluation, International Affairs, Economics, International Development or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combi