Overview
The Evaluation Officer will plan, design, conduct, and promote the use of evaluations to enhance results-accountability and learning within the Organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Composes and manages project evaluation teams.
- Supports evaluations of programmes, programme components or cluster of projects.
- Supports lead evaluators in the preparation of evaluation reports and related materials.
- Assist with the organization and preparation of meetings, missions, workshops and other events.
- Keeps abreast of methodological developments in evaluation and contributes to the development of evaluation methodologies and tools.
- Liaises and collaborates with other units of the Organization with a view to promoting results-based and evaluation culture, and enhanced learning from evaluations.
- Liaises and collaborates with the evaluation units of other United Nations organizations as well as professional evaluation bodies.
- Performs other duties as required.
- Helps design and conduct evaluations of projects, programmes, and thematic or geographic areas focused on measuring results, that is, outcomes and impacts.
- Supports the preparation of evaluation reports and related materials, such as briefs, papers, and presentations.
- Applies (and enforces in others) rigorous analytical thinking in conducting analyses (qualitative and quantitative), preparing dissemination materials (reports, papers and journal articles, presentations, and so on), and documenting work completed to ensure it is reproducible.
- Ensures the quality of the work conducted or managed, including reports and presentations, and assists in quality enhancement of evaluations conducted by others.
- Participates actively and productively in multidisciplinary evaluation teams, often with internal and external partners.
Required Experience
Three years of relevant experience in supporting, designing, planning and/or conducting evaluations.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) focused on research and evaluation methods and in one of the following fields: data science, economics, econometrics, geography, political science, public policy, sociology, or statistics.
