Overview
Lead the evaluation of the Kyrgyzstan United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) 2023–2027, ensuring strategic oversight, methodological rigor, and delivery of high-quality evaluation products.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the overall evaluation process for the UNSDCF 2023–2027 and PBF Portfolio 2021–2026.
- Design and finalize the evaluation methodology, workplan, and inception report.
- Ensure the evaluation applies a human rights-based, gender-responsive, disability-inclusive, and conflict-sensitive approach.
- Supervise and guide national consultants and other evaluation team members.
- Conduct desk reviews of relevant documents.
- Lead stakeholder consultations, interviews, focus group discussions, and validation workshops.
- Assess the relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and impact of interventions.
- Analyze the contribution of the United Nations Country Team to national development priorities and SDGs.
- Identify lessons learned, good practices, gaps, risks, and opportunities.
- Prepare high-quality deliverables, including inception report, data collection tools, preliminary findings presentation, draft evaluation report, final evaluation report, executive summary, and presentation materials.
- Ensure all deliverables meet UN editorial and communication standards.
- Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders and facilitate validation discussions.
- Incorporate comments from the Evaluation Management Group and quality assurance reviewers.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in strategic planning, leading the formulation of strategic country documents and conducting evaluations in the international development or humanitarian sector is required.
- Experience in evaluation in complex settings will be an asset.
- Proven experience leading United Nations system-wide evaluations, including UNSDCF/UNDAF evaluations is required.
- Demonstrated expertise in results-based management (RBM), strategic planning, and evaluation methodologies is highly desirable.
- Strong knowledge of SDGs, UN reform, peacebuilding, governance, and sustainable development processes.
- Experience working in Central Asia or comparable contexts is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
- Strong analytical, facilitation, drafting, and presentation skills.
- Familiarity with UNEG norms and standards and ethical evaluation practices is required.
- Experience integrating gender equality, human rights, disability inclusion, and Leave No One Behind principles into evaluations is an asset.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in international development, public policy, political science, economics, evaluation, social sciences, peace and conflict studies, or a related field.
