You will:

• Lead or contribute to cross-country, sector-wide evaluations.
• Prepare or contribute sector assistance program evaluations.
• Lead or contribute to high-level evaluations (corporate, thematic, country/regional) and the Annual Evaluation Review report with regard to the water and urban sectors or the agriculture, rural development and food security sectors.
• Prepare or contribute to synthesis and working papers, and other evaluation products concerning water, urban, agriculture, rural development and food security.
• Prepare project or Technical Assistance (TA) performance evaluation reports.
• Prepare validations on project or TA completion reports.
• Participate in joint evaluations with development partners.
• Comment on draft evaluation reports and ADB operational documents.
• Contribute to development and updating approach and methodology for sector and project-level evaluations and validations.
• Promote learning from evaluations in ADB, development partners, and developing member countries.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by Director, IESP or tasks that may be assigned as reflected in your work plan.

Qualifications

You will need:

• Master’s degree, or equivalent, in urban, water, agriculture, environmental policy, natural resource management, rural development, and food security operations, economics, or a related field and at least 5 years specialized experience relevant to the position can be considered.
• At least 10 years of work experience in project management, sector operations, or development evaluation in developing countries, with familiarity in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Advanced knowledge in the water and urban sectors and agriculture, rural development, and food security sectors including select areas such as social development, environment, gender, and governance.
• Experience in policy and technical dialogue, strategy and programming, and environmental and social safeguards in multilateral and bilateral settings is necessary.
• Advanced skills in applied research, economic, sector/thematic development work, and country/sector/project-level analysis.
• Functional experience in knowledge management and capacity building.
• Proficient in oral or written English and ability to mentor a multi-disciplinary team.
• Please refer to the link for ADB Competency Framework for Technical International Staff level 2.