UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. 

UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.

UNFPA results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

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In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

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The Independent Evaluation Office is the custodian of the evaluation function. It reports functionally to the Executive Board and administratively to the Executive Director. The office is independent from the operational, management and decision-making functions in the organization, and is impartial, objective and free from undue influence.

The IEO conducts or commissions centralized evaluations, including selected country programme and regional programme evaluations, selected global and country-level humanitarian evaluations, as well as other types of evaluations. It develops evaluation standards, criteria and methodological guidance and maintains evaluation quality assessment mechanisms. The IEO provides the necessary capacity development on issues related to evaluation and engages in partnerships with professional evaluation networks, such as the United Nations Evaluation Group and the Interagency Humanitarian Evaluation Steering Group, and supports the harmonization of the evaluation function in the United Nations system. It also promotes multistakeholder and intergenerational partnerships to strengthen national evaluation capacities, including meaningful involvement of young evaluators.

Within the IEO, the Humanitarian Evaluation Team, led by the Humanitarian Evaluation Adviser, aims to provide evaluative evidence with a view to accounting for the performance of UNFPA in humanitarian assistance and informing UNFPA’s current and future humanitarian programming. 

Responsibilities include: 

A. Leading the humanitarian evaluation function within the IEO

• Provides strategic inputs for the development of the humanitarian portfolio of the UNFPA multi-year costed evaluation plan;
• Enhances the quality of UNFPA humanitarian evaluation methods and tools;
• Represents the IEO in various fora related to humanitarian assistance in general, and humanitarian evaluation in general;
• Supervises the humanitarian evaluation team.

Knowledge and Experience: 

• At least 10 years of experience in managing complex humanitarian evaluations in the areas of gender, health and/or population dynamics, as well as UNFPA’s other core programming areas; 
• Demonstrable experience in managing and conducting humanitarian evaluations in or for UN organizations, other multi-lateral or bilateral development organizations;
• Proven track record as an evaluator of humanitarian operations, programmes and projects;
• Demonstrable experience in working collaboratively within the office  and with external partners and experts;
• Demonstrable experience in conducting evaluation-related workshops and training courses – both in person and online;
• Strong leadership and management skills, with a focus on overseeing teams in different duty stations
• Knowledge of specialized software applied to evaluation; knowledge of AI is desirable.

Languages: 

• Excellent verbal and writing skills in English required;
• Fluency in Arabic or in French is an asset.