The Office of Internal Oversight Services is the internal oversight body of the United Nations and assists the Secretary-General in fulfilling his oversight responsibilities in respect of the resources and staff of the Organization through the provision of audit, investigation, and inspection and evaluation services. The Office of Internal Oversight Services is an independent office reporting to the Secretary-General and to the General Assembly. The Inspection and Evaluation Division focuses on the conduct of independent inspections and evaluations on behalf of the Secretary-General and the Member States. IED evaluations and inspections are meant to assist intergovernmental bodies and programme managers in assessing the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness and impact of Secretariat programmes. In accordance with its mandate, set forth in General Assembly resolution A/RES/48/218 B (and later resolutions A/RES/54/244 and A/RES/59/272), the role of IED is to help assure the accountability of Secretariat programmes for attaining their mandates, while in the process foster institutional learning and improvement through reflection by programmes and Member States on performance and results.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority, the Evaluation Officer will be responsible for the following duties:

Contributes as team member to evaluations through scoping, planning, designing, collecting and analyzing data and report drafting for evaluation and inspection assignments of United Nations Secretariat programmes activities and carries out all the tasks involved in the assignments,
Researches, analyzes and presents data gathered from diverse sources
Contributes to the development of evaluation design and takes the lead in drafting of evaluation inception papers and terms of reference
Contributes to data collection efforts across multiple qualitative and quantitative methods; reviews, analyzes and interprets data; and develops evaluation findings, conclusions and recommendations
Leads and/or participates in field missions, including provision of guidance to evaluation team members, external consultants, and other parties and drafting mission summaries
Contributes to the drafting of draft and final evaluation reports, including the incorporation of client comments
Participates in evaluation briefings to the Director, the Office of the Under-Secretary-General and evaluation clients by making a part of the presentation
Ensures quality standards for evaluations
Contributes as team member to evaluations that are impartial, independent and credible and that meet professional standards by following the Division’s quality standards eHrMjpU veHUN
Provides substantive backstopping to the Director and Chief of Section in presenting evaluations to the Committee for Programme and Coordination

Assists with activities related to budget funding by preparing parts of the evaluation project budget, progress reports, and financial statements