National Evaluation Consultant - HSCI End of Project Evaluation

The consultant will contribute to the final independent evaluation of the Harare Sustainable City Initiative (HSCI) project, assessing its performance, relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. The evaluation supports accountability and learning for stronger performance and results in sustainable urban development in Zimbabwe.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to assess the overall performance of the project in terms of its availability of outputs and achievement of outcomes.
• Contribute to assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, sustainability and likelihood of impact of the project in promoting carbon neutral urban basic services and energy efficient built environment.
• Contribute to assess the planning, adequacy of resources, working arrangements and how these impacted on the effectiveness of the project.
• Contribute to assess the effectiveness of the working arrangements between UN-Habitat and its partners at national, municipality and community levels.
• Contribute to assess how cross-cutting issues such as gender equality, persons with disability, youth and human rights have been integrated in the activities of the project.
• Contribute to identify and validate lessons learnt, areas of improvement and make actionable recommendations to future interventions.
• Contribute to assess scope for scaling up project outputs to support municipal-level and national processes to enable development of bankable projects for fundraising.
• Contribute to assess whether an effective project exit strategy has been developed by the project team to ensure future sustainability and use of project outputs and outcomes.

Requirements

• Advanced academic degree in urban planning, economics, project management, international development, program evaluation, statistics and survey research is required.
• A first level university degree in combination with 2 additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of professional practical experience in evaluation and results-based management is required.
• Experience in working with local governments, especially in conducting evaluations, is required.
• Ability to present credible findings derived from evidence and putting conclusions and recommendations supported findings, including through charts, infographics and other graphic design products is desirable.
• Familiarity with the work of the United Nations and with UN-Habitat’s mandate is an asset and desirable.
• Fluency in written and oral English and Shona is required.

Skills

• Urban Planning
• Economics
• Project Management
• International Development
• Program Evaluation
• Statistics
• Survey Research
• Evaluation
• Result-Based Management
• Local Government Engagement
• Data Presentation
• Infographic Design
• Graphic Design
• UN System Familiarity
• UN-Habitat Mandate Knowledge

Languages

English, Shona