UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, protection

How can you make a difference?

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.

For more information regarding the specific activities and requirements please refer to the complete job profile,  Evaluation Officer NO2.pdf

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.

It will be considered an asset if you have…

• Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme.

Professional Technical Knowledge/Expertise Required in:

• Programme, Project, and Activity Evaluation.
• Evaluation/learning scoping (identifying evaluation/learning needs) and evaluation/learning design.
• Data collection and use.
• Evaluation/learning process management, follow-up on recommendations, and dissemination of results and integration of learnings into programme design.
• A range of different methodologies and approaches for research and evaluation, including theories, standards and models, quantitative/qualitative/mixed methods, validity/reliability testing of data, data analysis and interpretation, and statistical inference methods.
• Reporting evaluation/learning/research findings, formulation of recommendations and dissemination of evaluation/learning/research results.
• Emerging international good practice in evaluation and learning partnerships and capacity strengthening.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF core competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

**This post is for a National Officer; therefore, it is available only for nationals of Venezuela**