These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Job Purpose:

The Evaluation Office is the custodian of the evaluation function. It reports functionally to the Executive Board and administratively to the Executive Director. The office is independent from the operational, management and decision-making functions in the organization, and is impartial, objective and free from undue influence.

The Evaluation Office conducts or commissions centralized evaluations, including selected country programme and regional programme evaluations, selected major country-level humanitarian evaluations, as well as other types of evaluations. It develops evaluation standards, criteria and methodological guidance and maintain evaluation quality assessment mechanisms. The Evaluation Office provides the necessary capacity development on issues related to evaluation and engage in partnerships with professional evaluation networks, such as the United Nations Evaluation Group and the Interagency Humanitarian Evaluation Group, and support the harmonization of the evaluation function in the United Nations system. It also promotes multistakeholder and intergenerational partnerships to strengthen national evaluation capacities, including meaningful involvement of young evaluators.

You would be responsible for:

Support to decentralized evaluation function

Substantively contribute to and carry out key activities (learning activities; methodological products; advisory and oversight function) identified in the Decentralized Evaluation Team annual workplan and other Evaluation Office priorities as appropriate
Lead the review, monitoring and implementation of country and regional offices costed evaluation plans
Manage and monitor the decentralized evaluations dashboard/database
Lead and manage the corporate evaluation quality assurance and assessment system (EQAA)
Provide sound methodological advice and quality assurance support to select strategic decentralized evaluation processes

Provide advice and oversight for the development and implementation of regional evaluation strategies by the regional M&E advisors to ensure alignment with the UNFPA Evaluation Policy

Act as Decentralized Evaluation Team regional focal point and provide methodological backstopping as needed
Promote evaluation capacity development at regional and country level

Actively contribute (planning and organization; production of teaching material; teaching) to evaluation capacity development initiatives
Organize, facilitate and conduct webinars and learning events on different evaluation themes as required
Contribute to the development and review of UNFPA methodological framework (handbook, guidance notes and other evaluation tools)
Coordinate with Regional M&E Advisors and country office M&E personnel on the strengthening of decentralized evaluations
Represent the Evaluation Office in the internal and United Nations Evaluation Group task forces and working groups
Promote the use of evaluations in programme design and implementation

Review, comment and advise on the inclusion of evaluation results in new Country Office programmes (CPD) and strategic dialogue white papers, through engagement in Peer Review Committee process (PRC).
Organize and lead meetings, workshops and other discussion to establish a dialogue on evaluation results
Manage selected evaluations

Manage selected centralized and decentralized evaluations
Apply high professional standards in line with Evaluation Policy and UN Evaluation Norms and Standards
Apply evaluation quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis tools, techniques and approaches
Perform other related duties and assignments as and when required.
Qualifications and Experience:

Education:

Advanced university degree in social sciences, public health, economics, demography or management.

Knowledge and Experience:

7 years of experience in managing complex evaluations eFTI04s u3B0D
At least 5 years of experience in strengthening evaluation functions within the UN system or in multi-lateral or bilateral environments
At least 3 years experience in managing Evaluation Quality assurance systems
Strong communication skills
Experience in UNFPA core programme areas will be considered an asset
Demonstrable experience in conducting workshops and training on evaluation
Languages:

Fluency in English is required, both written and spoken. Fluency in Spanish or French is a very strong asset.

Required Competencies:

Values:

Exemplifying integrity,
Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
Embracing cultural diversity,
Embracing change