UN Children's Fund Evaluation Specialist, (NOC), Temporary Appointment (TA), ESARO Johannesburg, South Africa (for South African Nationals only) Jobs in South Africa
UN Children's Fund Evaluation Specialist, (NOC), Temporary Appointment (TA), ESARO Johannesburg, South Africa (for South African Nationals only) Jobs in South Africa
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.And we never give up.
In June 2018, the UNICEF Executive Board approved the revised evaluation policy of UNICEF. This policy sets out the purpose and use of evaluation in UNICEF, provides definitions, norms and standards and outlines governance arrangements and accountabilities as well as performance standards for the evaluation function.
It aims to increase the quality, independence, credibility and utility of evaluation evidence for learning, decision making and accountability, whichin turn support better results for children.
One of the key accountabilities for the Regional Office is to provide support and oversight for quality assurance activities and evaluations.
The revised evaluation policy demands increase in coverage and quality of evaluations. To facilitate successful implementation of the policy, ESARO is increasing its technical capacity to meet its accountabilities.
Purpose
Under the direct supervision and technical guidance of the Regional Evaluation Advisor of ESARO, with inputs to workplan and performance evaluation from Country Representatives of Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini and South Africa, the Evaluation Specialist will be responsible for the planning and implementation of evaluation activities in the five UNICEF BNLES Country Offices(Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini and South Africa).
Major duties and responsibilities
Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be assigned the primarily, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results.
Planning and management of evaluation function in country offices
Support overall implementation of the evaluation function and provides guidance and technical support to sectors, senior management and CMT on evaluation related matters.
Duties & Tasks
Support country offices to formulate terms of reference and evaluation designs of high quality in compliance with the evaluation policy and relevant guidelines and selection of evaluators.
Work with country offices research and evaluation committees (or equivalent0 to set up reference groups for each evaluation and work with the committee to ensure planned are impartial, independent and credible to meet UNICEF-UNEG quality standards.
Support the management of country or multi-country evaluations covering BNLES countries
Disseminate evaluation findings and recommendations to the intended audiences through user-friendly methods.
Monitor and ensure that a management response to the findings and recommendations of evaluations is completed, recorded, and followed up for implementation.
Most specifically, ensure that evaluation recommendations are submitted to the Country Management Team (CMT) and follow-up actions recorded in CMT minutes.
Submit final reports of all evaluations to the Evaluation Data Base web portal, with full accompanying documentation.
Contribute to UNDAF evaluations and other cross-sectoral and thematic evaluations covering any of the country offices.
Provide quality assurance of inception reports and draft evaluation reports.
Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation & Research Plan (IMEP)
Ensure that the country office and national partners use a well-prioritized and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage the country programmes, including tracking and assessing UNICEFs distinct contribution.
Duties & Tasks
Make professional contributions to and provide technical assistance for the planning and establishing the evaluation objectives, priorities, and activities in country office IMEPs.
Contribute to the
development of UNDAF M&E Plans from a sound results-based programming perspective in the five countries.
Identify and follows up on the implementation of strategic evaluations in the five country offices,Support country offices in the identification of evaluations for inclusion in Costed Evaluation Plans and monitor implementation of Costed Evaluation Plans for the country offices.
Evaluation capacity development;Ensure that evaluation capacities of country office staff and national partners - government and civil society - are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead evaluation processes.
Duties & Tasks
In close collaboration with partners, ensure that an RBM strategy for UNICEF/UN staff national partners and institutions exists in the context of the IMEP, or UNDAF M&E plan.
Support country offices in rolling out and complying with the revised UNICEF evaluation policy that was just shared by HQ
Identify capacity needs of national partners such as professional evaluation associations and design specific capacity building initiatives and collaborate to implement capacity building strategies with other UN agencies.
Actively seek partnerships with knowledge institutions for the identification of capacity gaps and development of strategies to address them, including identifying opportunities for south to south or north to south cooperation on government evaluation offices and even academic institutions.
Build capacity of research and evaluation committees in Country offices and working closely with country offices to build partnerships for evaluation.
Key expected results
Supporting planning and management of evaluation function in the country offices in line with UNICEF's Evaluation Policy by developing workplan for evaluation function in each country office.
Supporting country offices to identify evaluation opportunities to meet evaluation coverage norms as per evaluation policy.
Developing and supporting quality assurance systems for evaluations in country offices.
Supports country programmes to comply with UNICEF evaluation Policy.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in social sciences, statistics, international development or development economics.
At least five years of relevant professional work experience in evaluation, specifically on managing evaluation plans and actual evaluations.
Experience in supporting national evaluation capacity or working with professional evaluation associations
Experience in developing comprehensive and well-focused terms of reference and experience in evaluation design as per UNICEF and UNEG norms and standards for evaluation in UN system
Experience in working with multiple stakeholders is an asset.
Language Proficiency
Fluency in English required.
Competencies
Core Values
Commitment
Diversity
Integrity
Core Competencies
Communication II
Working with people II
Drive for results II
Functional Competencies
Formulating Strategies and Concepts II
Analyzing II
Applying Technical Expertise II
Planning and Organizing III
Networking II
Technical Knowledge
Specific Technical Knowledge & Competencies
Strong analytical, quantitative and qualitative research skills
Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methodologies.
Ability to organize and implement capacity development initiatives including training
Common Technical Knowledge
Professional technical knowledge/expertise in demography, statistics, and data management.
Professional technical knowledge/expertise in evaluation/research design, data analysis, and reporting.
Gender equality and diversity awareness
Knowledge of computer management skills including internet navigation and various office applications.
View our competency framework at
http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates are requested to submit their application to the following link:https://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=517847 by 27 November 2018.
This notice will also appear on http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/, http://www.unicef.org/southafrica, UN Job List, UN Jobs.
Remarks: ONLY Qualified South Africa Nationals who are shortlisted will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
For more information and job application details, see; UN Children's Fund Evaluation Specialist, (NOC), Temporary Appointment (TA), ESARO Johannesburg, South Africa (for South African Nationals only) Jobs in South Africa
