Evaluation Officer

  • Location:
  • Salary:
    negotiable / YEAR
  • Job type:
    VOLUNTEER
  • Posted:
    10 hours ago
  • Category:
    Audit and Oversight, Evaluation, Management and Strategy
  • Deadline:
    29/10/2024

JOB DESCRIPTION

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Evaluation Specialist, the UN Volunteer, Evaluation Officer will perform the following tasks: a. Evaluation Process • Work on evaluation designs of high quality in compliance with the UNICEF quality standards and guidelines; specially ensuring use of quasi-experimental and experimental methods, as needed, to measure impact. • Help designing impact evaluations for UNICEF programmes and partners. • Assist in quality assurance of evaluations, ensuring adherence to UNICEF standards in all stages from developing Terms of Reference to management response. • Support in coordination of inception meetings for evaluations and research; solicitation of feedback on key deliverables; monitoring and ensuring the quality of the field work and data management during the implementation phase. • Support in tracking and ensuring that a management response to the findings and recommendations of the evaluation is completed, recorded, uploaded, and followed up for implementation. • Assist in ensuring integration of gender, disability and equity aspects in all stages of evaluation process and products. • Assist in conducting and managing high quality evaluations with ethical standards meeting UNICEF ethical protocols and standards. b. Synthesis and knowledge management • Support establishing an effective knowledge management system for evaluation and studies to enhance dissemination and use of evidence and recommendations for programme improvement and policy development. • Support the unit in the systematization and storage in online systems and archives. • Support information collection and analysis, preparation of synthesis reports and extract information from evaluation reports for targeted use in programme improvement. • Assist in preparing progress reports, meeting-minutes, communication material and snapshots suited to different audiences. • Support in preparing evaluations for submission to UNICEF ESARO and HQ via Evidence Information Systems Integration (EISI) with full accompanying documentation. • Assist in preparing training materials and other resources for the national evaluation capacity development related to evaluation methods, quality assurance, research ethics and management response, tailored to the government counterparts and UNICEF programme colleagues, as advised by the supervisor. • Support the collection of information on issues and indicators relevant to UNICEF programmes, Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) and other key social development indicators (through document review and web searches), when required by UNICEF programmes. • Assist in preparation/updating of the Situation Analysis, child poverty, and child vulnerability analysis providing accurate analysis of country level socio-political- economic trends and their implications for UNICEF programmes and projects. • Provide support in ensuring that current and accurate evaluation data and results are included in relevant UNICEF annual and other reports, RAM reports, UN, regional or multi-country studies, and knowledge sharing networks. • Provide support and assistance to the Section as guided and required on all issues related to knowledge management. c. Coordination and Networking • Assist in overall coordination of priority evaluation activities in collaboration with all concerned programmes and partners from the public sector and civil society, as required. • Assist in key deliverables committed in the research and evaluation workplan by coordinating work with other programme sections wherever required. • Support coordination with MCO and other UN agencies and public sector organizations to facilitate UNICEF programmes work on SDGs for children. • Coordination of meetings and workshops and training sessions with regard to research and evaluation work at national and sub-national level with special attention to the instructions provided pertaining to the quality, ethics and timelines of deliverables.

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