United Nations Population Fund

Note: This position will be moved to Nairobi, Kenya by August 2025

The Position:

The position is home based until the Evaluation Office is relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, with its incumbent, by 2025.

The Evaluation Analyst reports directly to the Director, UNFPA Evaluation Office, with matrix reporting to the Lead, Decentralized Evaluation Team, as the secondary supervisor. 

The incumbent will assist the Director of the Evaluation Office in complying with UNFPA’s Evaluation Policy and support the implementation of the Evaluation Office's multi-year costed evaluation plan. The incumbent will support the implementation of centralized evaluations that are impartial, independent, credible and meet professional standards.

As a member of the Decentralized Evaluation Team, the incumbent will contribute to strengthening the decentralized evaluation function, methods, quality assurance and assessment and capacity development on evaluation. The incumbent will support the implementation of the team’s annual work programme under the supervision of the Decentralized Evaluation team Lead.

This position will require the establishment of strong and effective working relations with Programme Division, HQ business units and Regional M&E Advisors in regional offices.

How you can make a difference:

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. These 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.

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.

Job Purpose:

The 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 Evaluation Office conducts or commissions centralized evaluations, including selected country programme and regional programme evaluations, selected major country-level humanitarian evaluations, as well as other types of evaluations. It develops evaluation standards, criteria and methodological guidance and maintain evaluation quality assessment mechanisms. The Evaluation Office provides the necessary capacity development on issues related to evaluation and engage in partnerships with professional evaluation networks, such as the United Nations Evaluation Group and the Interagency Humanitarian Evaluation Group and support 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.

You would be responsible for:

Supporting the implementation of centralized evaluations within the multi-year costed evaluation plan

• Support the development of concept notes and terms of reference for centralized evaluations
• Support the recruitment, contracting and on-boarding of evaluation consultants/teams
• Support the preparation phase of centralized evaluations, including: 
• document review including analyzing the portfolio of interventions for each evaluation
• financial analysis: (i) Build excel data sets containing financial information from UNFPA reporting and monitoring systems; (ii) Produce qualitative and quantitative analyses of trends in UNFPA budget and expenditure; (iii) Liaise with country and regional offices to obtain additional data/information on UNFPA expenditure
• stakeholder mapping: identify key stakeholders at global and regional levels for each evaluation
• Organize and participate (as required) in field missions and support the implementation of desk case studies (document collection and research); liaise with selected country offices as required; administer surveys
• Support the organization of, and participate in evaluation analysis workshops and contribute to the data analysis phase of evaluations
• Perform quality assurance of evaluation deliverables
• Contribute to dissemination of evaluation results, including preparation of knowledge products, editing and proof-reading evaluation deliverables
• Organize and participate in meetings including evaluation reference group meetings and documenting minutes

Support to the decentralized evaluation function

• Substantively contribute to and carry out key activities (learning initiatives; methodological products; advisory and oversight function) identified in the Decentralized Evaluation Team annual workplan and other IEO priorities as appropriate
• Review and monitor the implementation of country and regional office costed evaluation plans
• Manage and monitor the decentralized evaluations tracker/database
• Provide sound methodological advice and quality assurance support to select strategic decentralized evaluation processes
• Function as Decentralized Evaluation Team regional focal point and provide methodological backstopping as needed
• Review and provide technical guidance on the inclusion of evaluative evidence in new Country Office programmes (CPD) and strategic dialogue white papers, through engagement in Programme Review Committee (PRC) process

Support to evaluation capacity development

• Actively contribute (planning and organization; production of teaching materials; teaching) to evaluation capacity development initiatives
• Organize (incl. logistics), facilitate and conduct webinars, workshops and diverse learning events as required
• Contribute to the development and review of UNFPA methodological framework (handbook, guidance notes and other evaluation tools)
• Coordinate with Regional M&E Advisors and country office M&E staff on the strengthening of decentralized evaluations
• Actively participate in the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) activities to promote professionalization and harmonization within the UN system 

Contribute to Evaluation Office planning and reporting including contributing to the Annual Evaluation Plan and Report to the Executive Board

• Assist in identifying and collecting information relevant for preparing the Annual Evaluation Plan and the Annual report on the Evaluation Function, including from other HQ units
• Assist with other mandatory planning and reporting activities (Quantum)

Other

• Undertake any other assignments as requested by the Lead of the Evaluation Office's Decentralized Evaluation team or by the Director of the Evaluation Office.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education: 

Advanced university degree in public policy, public health, population/demography, international economics, and/or social science disciplines

Knowledge and Experience: 

• Two years of professional experience conducting/ contributing to evaluations including experience in conducting evaluations in lower and middle income countries; ideally within the United Nations or a similar system
• Two years of professional experience conducting/ contributing to evaluations in areas of UNFPA mandate including sexual and reproductive health, gender, data and population dynamics, adolescents and youth
• Knowledge of decentralized evaluation systems and mechanisms
• Excellent technical knowledge of evaluation approaches, evaluation design, data collection including qualitative and quantitative methods, methodologies for data analysis, preparation of evaluation reports, disseminating evaluation results
• Excellent knowledge of emerging global issues and evaluation trends that impact on the work of the Office and skills necessary to advance the evaluation function in the organization
• Excellent analytical, report writing and communication skills
• Excellent presentation (oral and written) skills and the ability to represent the evaluation office and to effectively communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner to all audiences
• Strong statistical skills and advanced user of Stata, SPSS and Excel
• Strong skills in conducting financial analysis and preparation, conduct and analysis of surveys
• Experience organizing conferences, stakeholder workshops, technical sessions
• Experience with PowerPoint, infographics and other presentation tools
• Familiarity with the application of AI to evaluation is a very strong asset

Languages: 

Fluency in English is required, both written and spoken. Fluency in Spanish or French is a very strong asset

Required Competencies: 

Values:

• Exemplifying integrity, 
• Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system, 
• Embracing cultural diversity, 
• Embracing change

Core Competencies: 

• Achieving results,
• Being accountable,
• Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
• Thinking analytically and strategically,
• Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,
• Communicating for impact

Functional Competencies:

• Advocacy/advancing a policy oriented agenda
• Leveraging the resources of national governments and partners/building strategic alliances and partnerships,
• Delivering results based programmes,
• External and internal relations and advocacy for resource mobilization,
• Providing conceptual innovation to support programme effectiveness,
• Providing a technical support system

Compensation and Benefits:

This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.

UNFPA Work Environment:

UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and therefore encourage women to apply. Individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply. UNFPA promotes equal opportunities in terms of appointment, training, compensation and selection for all regardless of personal characteristics and dimensions of diversity. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is at the heart of UNFPA's workforce - click here to learn more.

Disclaimer:

Selection and appointment may be subject to background and reference checks, medical clearance, visa issuance and other administrative requirements. 

UNFPA does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process and does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts. 

Applicants for positions in the international Professional and higher categories, who hold permanent resident status in a country other than their country of nationality, may be required to renounce such status upon their appointment.

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