Senior Evaluation Specialist

COMPANY PRESENTATION

**UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency**, takes the lead in protecting people forced to flee wars and persecution around the world, providing life-saving aid including shelter, food and water to ensure their basic safety, rights and dignity. With
** **16,803 women and men working in 134 countries, we work tirelessly to make a difference in the lives of 70.8 million forcibly displaced people worldwide.
- Our dedicated and professional staff work around the clock in roles including legal protection, community services, public affairs, health and more. Despite the challenges they can face, our staff are proud to work for UNHCR and determined to make a positive impact. Our colleagues bring a wide range of specialized skills, including expertise in legal protection, administration, community services, public affairs, health and other disciplines.

**Work with us to help build better futures for people forced to flee.**

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**Organizational Setting and Work Relationships**

In a Regional Bureau working under the overall leadership of the Senior Evaluation Coordinator, the position will complement existing HQ evaluation capacity to lead on the development of organizational norms for evaluation, guidance and tools, planning and delivery of country strategy and decentralised evaluations with UNHCR regional bureau and country operation colleagues (including the development of evaluation Terms of Reference, procurement and contract management of evaluation services, and providing quality assurance of evaluation deliverables). The incumbent directly participates in decentralised evaluation processes at a Regional Bureau and country operation level as relevant and required. S/he supports the design and delivery of UNHCR evaluation-related capacity building efforts in UNHCR Regional Bureaux and Country Offices. S/he also supports the Regional Bureau, Multi-Country Office and Country Office to identify key evidence gaps and priorities and develop appropriate evaluative strategies and plans to address these.

All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR's core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.

**Duties**

**In Headquarters**
- Lead the design and timely management of global independent strategic, thematic and/or Level 3 Emergency Response Evaluations.
- Deploy on mission as needed, notably scoping and draft report/ recommendation co-creation phases to build stakeholder involvement and ensure products are developed to standard. Lead the dissemination and follow-up
- on global and/or L3 Emergency Response Evaluations.
- Contribute to strengthening the global normative evaluation framework, including the revision of policies, strategies and procedures.
- Enhance the technical quality of UNHCR's evaluation approaches, methodologies and tools.
- Contribute to the preparation of other technical evaluation products including evaluation syntheses.
- Lead and participate in the selection and procurement of quality evaluation services (evaluation firms and individual consultants).
- Provide technical assistance and quality assure decentralized evaluations commissioned by divisions. Respond to requests for details of the evaluation work programme and
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- Participate in conferences, workshops, and seminars relevant to UNHCR's evaluation work and contribute to UN professional evaluation practice through active participation in UN Evaluation Group working groups and events.
- Provide technical continuity and advice on specialist evaluation areas to rotational colleagues.

**In a Regional Bureau**
- Lead the design and management of independent Country Strategy Evaluations (CSEs).
- Deploy on mission as needed, notably scoping and draft report/ recommendation co-creation phases for CSEs and technical assistance in commissioning and design of decentralized evaluations to build stakeholder involvement and ensure products are developed to standard. Lead the dissemination and follow-up
- of independent CSEs.
- Contribute to strengthening the global normative evaluation framework, including the revision of policies and procedures with a specific emphasis on those relevant to the decentralized evaluation function.
- Enhance the technical quality of UNHCR's evaluation approaches, methodologies and tools.
- Contribute to the preparation of other technical evaluation products including evaluation syntheses.
- Lead the development and s