Evaluation Officer

The Evaluation Officer provides technical and operational support to facilitate and support the overall planning, design, and implementation of the country office Plan for Research, Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation (PRIME), Costed Evaluation Plan and lead evaluation, learning and knowledge management activities. The role supports quality evaluations, lessons learned, research, and overall Learning and Review functions in accordance with UNICEF mission and standards, including emergency response related evaluation work.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have a well-prioritized and realistic plan of evaluation and learning activities, developed collaboratively that provides all the relevant and strategic information needed to manage the Country Programme.
• Ensure that UNICEF-supported evaluations are designed and implemented to UNICEF policies and guidance and established UN quality standards, and the evaluation findings, recommendations and reports are used and disseminated in a timely fashion internally and to stakeholders to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning.
• Ensure that the evaluation and learning capacities of Country Office staff and partners – government, civil society and others – are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead evaluation processes.
• Ensure that effective communication and partnerships are achieved in carrying out planning of evaluation activities within the Country Office and with the Regional office, and with all other stakeholders, including national partners, the UN Country Team and the international community; and the results are shared with all partners to stimulate joint engagement.

Requirements

• Completed First Level University Degree (Bachelor or equivalent) social sciences, evaluation, economics, statistics or relevant field, including use of research and evaluation methods
• Minimum two years of professional work experience in programme development, implementation and evaluation is required.
• Relevant field work experience is required.
• At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning is required.
• Professional technical knowledge/expertise in data collection, analysis, use and interpretation and statistical inference methods.
• Professional technical knowledge/expertise in reporting evaluation/learning/research findings, formulation of recommendations and dissemination of evaluation/learning/research results.
• Professional technical knowledge/expertise in evaluation/learning process management and integration of learnings into programme design.
• Professional technical knowledge/expertise in emerging international good practice in evaluation and learning partnerships and capacity strengthening.
• Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian) or a local language is desirable.
• Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme is preferred.
• Work experience in monitoring and evaluation related areas in NGO and/or UN is desirable.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Skills

• Research and Evaluation
• Program Development
• Programme Implementation
• Programme Evaluation
• Field Work Experience
• Emergency Programming
• Preparedness Planning
• Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Statistical inference methods
• Evaluation Reporting
• Formulation of recommendations
• Dissemination of evaluation results
• Evaluation Process Management
• Integration of learnings into programme design
• Evaluation partnerships
• Capacity Strengthening
• Humanitarian Response
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Knowledge Management and Learning Systems

Languages

Spanish, English