Background
1. 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 evaluations and to support country office personnel with the management of decentralized evaluations. UN Women Regional Evaluation Specialist for Asia and the Pacific is recruiting evaluation consultants with expertise in integrating LGBTIQ+ and disability inclusion perspectives in UN Women’s evaluation work, including through inclusive approaches with the aim of ensuring the “leave no one behind” principle is prioritized in evaluations. The consultant will have experience integrating analysis on intersecting forms of discrimination in research and/or evaluation. This consultancy is on a retainer basis to ensure UN Women’s evaluations are human rights focused, inclusive, gender responsive, culturally responsive, and participatory. The consultant should specify whether expertise is in integrating LGBTIQ+ inclusion OR disability inclusion in the cover letter (they do not need to have both sets of expertise).
Duties and Responsibilities
2. Duties and responsibilities The Evaluation consultant is an integral member of the evaluation team. The work of the consultant will be home-based and they will need to connect with the team during Asia and the Pacific working hours via online platforms. Under the overall oversight of the Regional Evaluation Specialist, the consultant will contribute to the following:
3. Tasks and deliverables The inputs provided by the evaluation consultant will be particularly useful to ensure diverse LGBTIQ+ and/or disability inclusion perspectives are included in all phases of the evaluation process and in each type of evaluation. Deliverables include the following: contributions to capacity building efforts such as the development of tools or training modules, contributions to the inception report, presentations and final synthesis reports and annexes for evaluations that reflect high quality in line with the GERAAS criteria established by UN Women.
4. Supervision The consultant will be directly supervised by the Regional Evaluation Specialist for Asia and the Pacific who is based in the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand. The Regional Evaluation Specialist reports to the Chief of Independent Evaluation Service at UN Women headquarters. |
Competencies
5. Competencies
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Required Skills and Experience
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