Vacancy Announcement Details

Main responsibilities include:

• Leading, conducting and managing evaluations that are impartial, independent, credible and meet professional standards:
• Carrying out evaluations of complex programmes, strategies, policies and cross-cutting themes and leading evaluation teams;
• Effectively supervising evaluations conducted by staff members and consultants;
• Ensuring that evaluations meet high professional standards in line with UNRWA’s Evaluation Policy and UN Evaluation Norms and Standards;
• Keeping abreast of developments in the area of evaluation;
• Ensuring that up-to-date evaluation techniques and approaches are applied;
• Cooperating with other UN evaluation units and professional evaluation bodies.
• Promoting the evaluation function in UNRWA:
• Reviewing and further developing the architecture, policies, guidelines, systems, procedures and tools related to evaluation;
• Designing and implementing evaluation capacity development within the Agency.
• Supporting the decentralized evaluation activities and providing technical guidance to the Field Programme Support Officers (in UNRWA fields of operations).
• Ensuring that evaluations are useful and that evaluation findings and recommendations are followed up:
• Preparing reports to management and other stakeholders on findings, recommendations and lessons learned of strategic importance;
• Organizing meetings, workshops and other discussion fora to establish a dialogue on evaluation results (recommendations/lessons learned);
• Ensuring that management responds to recommendations and monitors the follow up on evaluations.
• Effectively deploying human and financial resources of the Evaluation Division.
• Developing the Evaluation work plan, including evaluation activities agreed with the field offices during the annual planning process.
• Planning the human and financial resources needed for the Evaluation Division in close collaboration with the Director, Internal Oversight Services.
• Supervising and coaching evaluation staff.
• Selecting and supervising evaluation consultants.

Full details are available on the UNRWA website. Deadline for applications: 18 August.