[Hiring] UN Women Regional Evaluation Research Consultant @UNDP

Role Description

The Regional Evaluation Research Consultant will support the overall implementation of regional and country portfolio evaluations, as well as decentralized evaluations as assigned. The work will be home-based, connecting with the team during Asia and the Pacific working hours via online platforms.

• Systematizing and reviewing all relevant documents (i.e. Strategic notes, project documents, donor and/or other monitoring reports, evaluation and audit reports, etc.) to identify efforts relevant to the evaluation topic.
• Providing support to the portfolio analysis to provide an overview of the different efforts undertaken by the CO/RO for the thematic area.
• Support the management and logistics of the evaluation.
• Support the Human rights-based stakeholder analysis from a thematic perspective.
• Contribute to the development of an inclusive Evaluation methodology tailored to relevant inquiry in the thematic area (including through the evaluation matrix, data collection tools, etc.).
• Support interviews and consultations by taking detailed notes and ensuring adherence to ethical guidelines.
• Contribute to evaluation analysis by capturing results, challenges, gaps, and learning pertinent to the evaluation topic.
• Provide substantive inputs to the final preliminary findings presentation and synthesis report.
• Support to case study through inputs on the thematic areas.
• Leading the compilation of annexes.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a field of relevance for the evaluation (i.e. Social Sciences, Gender Equality, Evaluation, international affairs).
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• At least 2 years of work experience contributing to gender-responsive evaluation or experience in gender analysis and human-rights based approaches or research.
• Prior experience using tools such as NVIVO/Dedoose or other similar data analysis software for systematizing and analyzing large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data.
• Prior experience using evaluation approaches and methods including experience in gender equality and human rights responsive evaluation (e.g. participatory and inclusive approaches).
• Experience working with the United Nations or a similar international organization context is an asset.
• Experience in the Asia and the Pacific region is an asset.
• Language proficiency in English is required.

Requirements

• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong knowledge of UN Women processes and systems.
• Strong networking skills.
• Strong inter-personal skills, communicate effectively with staff at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a highly pressured environment.

Benefits

• This is a home-based consultancy.
• As part of the official duty of this consultancy, the consultant may be expected to travel, which will be processed by UN Women, following the duty travel policy.