Evaluation Officer

The Evaluation Officer reports to the Chief of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, with a dotted line to the Country Representative. The Evaluation Officer provides technical and operational support to facilitate and support the overall planning, design, and implementation of the country office Plan for Research, Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation (PRIME) and lead evaluation and learning activities where appropriate across field offices, between agencies and with national and international stakeholders and collaborators.

The Evaluation Officer is responsible for contributing to the planning, design, effective conduct and uptake of quality evaluations, lessons learned, research and overall Learning and Review function in accordance with UNICEF mission, guiding principles, standards, commitments, regulatory framework (including evaluation policies, procedures, and guidance), as well as professional norms and standards (such as the 2016 UN Evaluation Group norms and standards for evaluation).

Your main responsibilities will be…

• Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have a well-prioritized and realistic plan of evaluation and learning activities, developed collaboratively that provides all the relevant and strategic information needed to manage the Country Programme.
• Ensure that UNICEF-supported evaluations are designed and implemented to UNICEF policies and guidance and established UN quality standards, and the evaluation findings, recommendations and reports are used and disseminated in a timely fashion internally and to stakeholders in order to improve programme performance and contribute to wider learning.
• Ensure that the evaluation and learning capacities of Country Office staff and partners – government, civil society and others – are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead evaluation processes.
• Ensure that effective communication and partnerships are achieved in carrying out planning of evaluation activities within the Country Office and with the Regional office, and with all other stakeholders, including national partners, the UN Country Team and the international community; and the results are shared with all partners to stimulate joint engagement.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Education: 

• University degree in social sciences, evaluation, economics, statistics or relevant field, including use of research methods.

Experience:

• Two year of relevant professional work experience in the implementation of evaluation activities.
• Field work experience is required.
• At least one instance of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning is required.

Language Requirements: 

• Fluency in Spanish and English is required.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/571092/evaluation-officer-no2-caracas-venezuela-128260-temp-appointment