Evaluation Quality Assessment Consultant (Home-Based)

Overview

The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) seeks external consultants to review UNFPA evaluations, ensuring they meet quality standards for decision-making, accountability, and organizational learning.

Tasks Summary

• Familiarize with UNFPA evaluation guidance and EQA framework.
• Assess UNFPA evaluation reports against the EQA grid, providing justifications and recommendations.
• Provide ratings on the UN SWAP Evaluation Performance Indicator and disability inclusion.
• Contribute feedback to refine the EQA framework and participate in review meetings.

Experience Requirements

• A minimum of seven years of professional experience in evaluation.
• Preferably with UNFPA or other United Nations agencies in both development and humanitarian contexts.
• Experience in conducting evaluation quality assurance, assessment or meta-evaluation is desirable.
• Familiarity with evaluation quality standards, including UNEG norms and standards, OECD/DAC evaluation criteria, ALNAP evaluation criteria, and IASC guidelines.
• Extensive knowledge of diverse evaluation approaches, sampling strategies, data collection and analysis methods, and data triangulation.
• Strong expertise in sexual and reproductive health, gender equality and empowerment of women, adolescents and youth, and/or population dynamics and data, including in humanitarian contexts.
• Experience in integrating human rights, gender equality and disability inclusion in evaluation.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize large volumes of information.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and meet deadlines.

Qualification Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in evaluation, public health, demography, social sciences, international development, or a related field.

Other Details

Languages Required: • Fluency in English (reading and writing) is required. • Working proficiency in French, Portuguese, and/or Spanish is required for assessments of evaluation reports in those languages.

Languages Preferred: • Fluency in English and one or more working language is an advantage.

Contract Duration: • 11 months, with the possibility of extension.

Work Modality: • Home-based.

Remuneration: • Remuneration is based on a fixed unit rate per completed quality assessment, differentiated by type of evaluation. • The total payment will be calculated as a lump sum based on the number of approved assessments completed for each type of evaluation at the respective agreed rates.