INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANCY - REGIONAL EVALUATION CONSULTANT- HOME BASED- RETAINER

at  United Nations Development Programme UNDP

II. BACKGROUND

The UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) of the Independent Evaluation and Audit Service (IEAS) 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. IES posts Regional Evaluation Specialists in the Regional Offices of UN Women with a key task to lead independent country portfolio evaluations and regional evaluations and to support country office personnel with the management of decentralized evaluations. During the regional Strategic Note cycle of 2022-2025, the RES is leading several Country Portfolio Evaluations and regional evaluations, as well as supporting quality assurance of other decentralized evaluations. In this context, UN Women is seeking to hire a consultant to support the Regional Evaluation Specialist in analyzing data and evaluations generated in the framework of programs and country portfolios in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The consultant’s will have independence and autonomy in carrying out their duties, they will have authority to request information, make data collection, draft ToRs, Inception and Evaluation Reports, as well as make decisions and act within the scope of their assignment, while supporting the management of evaluations.

X. SELECTION PROCEDURE AND APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:

The selection process will be carried out through a desk review, which consists of a formal verification to verify that the applications comply with the documentary evidence to be examined and the minimum requirements established for the consultancy, followed by the technical evaluation of the received applications, which will be qualified based on the technical requirements established in the following qualification table:
Evaluation criteria
Points
1. Bachelor’s degree in a field of relevance for the evaluation (i.e. Social Sciences, Gender Equality, Evaluation, international affairs).
5
2. Master’s degree in a field of relevance for the evaluation (i.e. Social Sciences, Gender Equality, Evaluation, international affairs), OR two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
15
3. At least 5 years of work experience in monitoring, evaluation, or applied research, preferably specific to the conduction of evaluations for UN Agencies.
40
4. Experience using qualitative data analysis tools, developing infographics, graphs and figures for useful and impactful products such as evaluation reports
20
5. Experience conducting UN evaluations in the Latin America and Caribbean region
20