Background
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, it was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.[1]
The UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) 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. It is currently undertaking various corporate and IES-led evaluations as part of its revised corporate evaluation plan for 2021.
As part of its 2021 evaluation plan, IES is conducting evaluations directly with the leadership of evaluation specialists and thematic consultants. Evaluation Specialists from IES are supported, where needed and where relevant, by thematic and methodological consultants as well as research assistants that adhere to UN Women’s Evaluation Policy and UNEG Norms, Standards, Ethical and other relevant guidelines.
Quality assurance of outputs and deliverables are measured against the UN Women’s Evaluation Policy and UNEG Norms, Standards, Ethical guidelines as well as guided by the UN Women Global Evaluation Reports Assessment and Analysis System (GERAAS) available at https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/accountability/evaluation/decentralized-evaluations.
[1] UN Women website: http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us |
Duties and Responsibilities
As assigned by the Chief, Evaluation, the Research Assistant Consultant will be expected to support the IES evaluation specialists and analysts in the overall implementation of corporate thematic evaluations (80%), and regional and country portfolio evaluations (20%). During the assignment it is expected that the consultant will support two evaluations: Corporate Evaluation on UN Women’s work in the area of climate change and Corporate Evaluation on UN Women’s work around engaging men and boys; and provide targeted assistance to selected country portfolio evaluations.
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Competencies
Core Values:
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To learn more about UN Women values and competencies, please follow the link https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637 |
Required Skills and Experience
- Master’s degree or PhD in social sciences, or another relevant field, required.
- Knowledge and experience conducting evaluative research using tools for systematizing and analyzing large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data. Completed graduate research experience may also be considered relevant.
- Knowledge of evaluation approaches and methods including some knowledge of gender equality and human rights responsive evaluation (e.g. participatory and inclusive approaches).
- Strong knowledge of NVivo or other similar data analysis software.
- Strong analytical and report writing skills.
- Knowledge of the United Nations or a similar international organization context a plus.
- English required, Spanish and French skills desirable.