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The Deputy Director reports to the Director of the Office of Evaluation (OED).

Summary of Duties and Functions 

• Provide technical and management leadership in the Office of Evaluation (OED), ensuring adherence to the Charter of Evaluation and FAO Basic Texts, FAO’s new Evaluation Policy (once approved and including UNEG Evaluation Principles), and OED’s Strategy, and helping revise these foundational documents as needed over time. 
• Serve as acting Director when the Director is absent.
• Represent OED on behalf of the Director, as needed. 
• Provide strategic inputs and support to the Director of OED in advising the Director-General, Governing Bodies, and Senior Management. 
• Effectively manage human and financial resources under delegated authority, promoting the continued development and effective functioning of a global evaluation function with personnel in locations throughout the world. 
• Lead the development and regular updates of a multi-year global Learning Agenda for FAO to reflect learning priorities and guide the development, revisions, and execution of OED’s Strategy. 
• Oversee clearance of evaluation reports for publication and preparation of presentations to FAO Management and Governing Bodies. 
• Lead innovations in OED processes to promote efficient functioning of OED. This includes, for example, leading revisions to portfolio management, monitoring, risk management, and data governance (in compliance with FAO’s Data Protection Policy). 
• Lead innovations in conducting evaluations to improve quality and ensure work at the cutting-edge of evaluation methodology, such as enhancing quality assurance and quality review processes. 
• Effectively integrate cross-cutting equity and inclusion issues in OED processes (such as recruitment) and in evaluations. This includes consideration of individual characteristics (such as gender and disability status), human rights, and humanitarian principles. 
• Foster effective dissemination and use of evaluations (findings, lessons learned, and recommendations) to promote continuous improvements, organizational objectives, and broader impacts in the fields in which FAO operates—helping promote a culture of evidence at FAO and beyond. 
• Continuously strive to strengthen the evaluation function at FAO globally, and in collaboration with evaluation personnel, collaborators throughout FAO (such as the Evaluation Committee and Programme Committee Secretariat), UN Systems organizations (particularly Rome-based agencies), and other partners. 
• Proactively contribute to efforts to recruit personnel, build collaborations, forge partnerships, and engage with other organizations and professional networks (in particular in the UN, academia, and private sectors). 
• Perform other duties as required.

Full details available on the FAO website. Application deadline 6 January 2025.