Regional Evaluation Consultant

Background

1. Background

The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.[1]

The UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) evaluates the work of UN women to enhance organizational accountability, provide evidence-based information for decision-making and to contribute to learning on gender equality and the empowerment of women. It is currently undertaking various IES-led evaluations and supporting decentralized evaluation function as part of its global evaluation plan for 2023.

As part of its 2023 evaluation plan, IES is conducting evaluations directly with the leadership of evaluation specialists and thematic consultants. Evaluation Specialists from IES are supported, where needed and where relevant, by thematic and methodological consultants as well as evaluation analysts that adhere to UN Women’s Evaluation Policy and UNEG Norms, Standards, Ethical and other relevant guidelines.

Quality assurance of outputs and deliverables are measured against the UN Women’s Evaluation Policy and UNEG Norms, Standards, Ethical guidelines as well as guided by the UN Women Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and Analysis System (GERAAS) available at https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/accountability/evaluation/decentralized-evaluations.

[1] UN Women website: http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us

Duties and Responsibilities

2. Duties and Responsibilities

As assigned by the Regional Evaluation Specialist, the Regional Evaluation Consultant will be expected to support the overall conduct of IES-led evaluations and support decentralized evaluation function.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Preparation phase: The scoping and design of evaluations by supporting document collection, management and review. This includes:
Support collection of documents by scanning UN Women internal databases and accessing UN, academic and international non-governmental organization or think tanks for relevant documents relative to the evaluation
Support summaries of evaluations, donor reports or programmatic work to inform evaluation desk reviews
Support the systematization and analysis of Annual Work Plans (AWPs) and Strategic Notes across countries and thematic areas
Support the extraction of data per evaluation intervention strategy, budget allocation and expenditure for thematic areas and/or countries, and by year
Support the analysis of data and visualization in the forms of graphs, tables and other innovative ways.
Support stakeholder mapping assessments for evaluations with identification of right holders and duty bearers in order to inform the human rights and gender equality stakeholder mapping of an evaluation
Support drafting of presentations as required for stakeholder workshops and inception report
Data collection phase: The implementation of data collection instruments, and logistics and organization of stakeholder meetings
Support the design of frameworks to input data from desk reviews, surveys, interviews, and other methods
Support logistics for setting up meetings with stakeholders
Support data collection, as required undertaking field visits
Data visualization, data analysis, coding and synthesis of data
Support the use of NviVo, or other programmes, for coding data from qualitative interviews and other materials
Support synthesis of findings from data coding and analysis for input into evaluations
Support survey data analysis
Data cleaning and archiving
Reporting phase: Preliminary analysis of data collected, drafting and compilation of evaluation report annexes.
Support drafting of sections of the draft and final evaluation report (visualizations among others) and compilation of annexes and references for final evaluation report
Communications with stakeholders, meeting organization, and drafting communication products. Support communications with stakeholders, meeting organizations and communication products
Decentralized evaluation function support: Facilitate dissemination and exchange on topics based on evaluation evidence through the regional COP on RBM. Provide technical guidance to evaluation processes managed by field offices.

3. Expected deliverables and timelines

Tasks and Deliverables

Target dates

Monthly status Report provided. This report can include updates on the progress in any of the following areas of work:

Evaluation preparation phase
Evaluation data collection phase
Evaluation reporting phase
Supporting decentralized evaluation function

By the first week following each month

4. Payments:

The consultant is expected to work 18 days a month based in Thailand, and a monthly rate will be paid upon satisfactory completion of tasks and deliverables that will be summarized in a monthly report.

UN Women will cover travel and related visa and terminal fees for Thailand duty station.

Competencies

5. Competencies

Core Values:

Respect for Diversity
Integrity
Professionalism

Core Competencies:

Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
Accountability
Effective Communication
Inclusive Collaboration

Required Skills and Experience

6. Required Skills and Experience

Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Political Science, Development, Public Administration, Evaluation, or another relevant field, is required.
A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree;
Experience in conducting evaluative research 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).
Strong analytical and report writing skills.
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.

7. Selection Criteria

The candidates will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Experience aligned with required skills and qualifications
Quality of 2 writing samples (must be a sample where the applicant was directly responsible for writing and demonstrating analytical skills) demonstrating analysis from gender perspective.

The evaluation methods include desk review and/or interview.

8. Evaluation

Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis:

Technical qualification (100 points); weight: (100%)

A one-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria: Technical Evaluation Criteria

Obtainable Score

A) Education

Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Political Science, Development, Public Administration, Evaluation, or another relevant field, is required.
A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree

15

B) Experience and skills

Experience in conducting evaluative research 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).
Strong analytical and report writing skills.
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.

20 10

15

10

10

C) Language and report writing skills

8. Language proficiency in English required

20

Total Obtainable Score

100 %