International Evaluation Consultant - HSCI End of Project Evaluation

The consultant will conduct the final independent evaluation of the Harare Sustainable City Initiative (HSCI) project, assessing its performance, relevance, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact. The evaluation will inform lessons learned and recommendations for future sustainable urban development interventions in Zimbabwe.

Responsibilities

• Assess the overall performance of the project in terms of its availability of outputs and achievement of outcomes.
• 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.
• Assess the planning, adequacy of resources, working arrangements and how these impacted on the effectiveness of the project.
• Assess the effectiveness of the working arrangements between UN-Habitat and its partners at national, municipality and community levels.
• 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.
• Identify and validate lessons learnt, areas of improvement and make actionable recommendations to future interventions.
• Assess scope for scaling up project outputs to support municipal-level and national processes to enable development of bankable projects for fundraising.
• 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 7 years of professional practical experience in results-based management in the field of policy development and analysis and/or capacity building 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.
• 10 years of evaluation experience (conduct and management) with substantive experience in sustainable development is desirable.
• Familiarity with the work of the United Nations and with UN-Habitat’s mandate is an asset and is desirable.
• Fluency in written and oral English is required.

Skills

• Urban Planning
• Economics
• Project Management
• International Development
• Program Evaluation
• Statistics
• Survey Research
• Result-Based Management
• Policy Development
• Policy Analysis
• Capacity Building
• Evaluation Management
• Sustainable Development
• Data Presentation
• Infographic Design
• UN System Familiarity
• Report Writing

Languages

English