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 country portfolio evaluations and regional evaluations and to support country office personnel with the management of decentralized evaluations. During 2021, the RES will be leading 2 Country Portfolio Evaluations (CPE’s) and one regional evaluation and managing one CPE and one regional evaluation.

Duties and Responsibilities

2. Responsibilities

The Evaluation Consultant is an integral member of the team and is expected to support the evaluation management and conduct. The work of the consultant will be home-based and will thus 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 may be responsible for the following:

  • Planning stage:
    • Collecting, organizing and reviewing all relevant documents (i.e. Strategic notes, project documents, donor and/or other monitoring reports, evaluation and audit reports, etc.).
    • The portfolio analysis aims to provide an overview of the different efforts under the CO/RO area by systematically organizing and analysing the type of initiatives / projects, budgets, and stakeholders involved.
    • Lead any necessary scoping interview guide and staff survey design and support interviews and consultations by taking detailed notes.
    • Support drafting Terms of Reference for evaluations including for the Evaluation Management and Reference Groups.
  • Inception phase:
    • Evaluability assessment
    • Human rights-based stakeholder analysis and visualization
    • Reconstruction of theory of change and visualization
    • Development of evaluation matrix
    • Evaluation data collection tool design (interview and focus group guides, etc.)
    • Drafting and presentation of inception report PowerPoint presentation.
    • Drafting inception report, including creating data visualizations, tables and graphs and annexes.
    • Editing of final inception report including annexes, ensuring all feedback from the ERG and peer reviewers has been integrated and tracked for transparency.
  • Data collection:
    • Support interviews and consultations by taking detailed notes.
    • Lead analyses and support others (in-depth analysis of project or sub-theme selected during inception phase), including systematic document review and triangulation and potentially drafting 2-3 page case study report.
    • Conduct results mapping and analyse according to Gender@work framework (systematize information reported on results; excel format and visualization)
    • Undertake qualitative (using software such as NVivo) and quantitative data analysis (including survey analysis) and produce summary reports.
    • Create data visualizations, tables and graphs as necessary.
  • Reporting phase:
    • Support drafting and presentation of the Preliminary Findings PowerPoint
    • Support the drafting of the synthesis evaluation report (provide substantive input to findings, conclusions and recommendations) and annexes.
    • Support editing of final report including preparing annexes, ensuring all feedback from the ERG and peer reviewers has been integrated and tracked for transparency.
  • Other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

 

Competencies

3. Duration of Assignment

From 17 May 2021 to 16 May 2022 (Maximum 75 days of assignment period; UN Women does not warrant that the maximum of 75 days. The service will be purchased during the term of the Agreement). The consultant will be engaged under a retainer contract, which facilitates direct engagement of the consultant depending on need and availability within the contract period for a pre-agreed fee.

 

4. Deliverables

  • Terms of Reference, inception report, presentations and final synthesis reports for evaluations that reflect high quality in line with the GERAAS criteria established by UN Women.

Required Skills and Experience

  1. Required Skills and Qualifications
    1. Master’s degree in a field of relevance for the evaluation (i.e. Social Sciences, Gender Equality, Evaluation, international affairs).
    2. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree;
    3. At least 3 years of work experience in evaluation or research, preferably specific to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
    4. Proven work experience contributing to gender-responsive evaluation or experience in gender analysis and human-rights based approaches.
    5. Experience using qualitative data analysis tools such as NVIVO/Dedoose.
    6. Knowledge of the role of UN Women or the UN system and its programming, coordination, and normative roles at the regional and/or country level is an asset.
    7. Experience working in India and/or Pakistan preferred.
    8. Language proficiency in English required.

 

Selection Criteria

The candidates will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  1. Experience aligned with required skills and qualifications
  2. Professional fee including daily consultancy rate
  3. Quality of 2 writing samples (must be a sample where the applicant was directly responsible for writing and demonstrating analytical skills) demonstrating analysis from gender perspective.

 

The evaluation will be based on the combination of the weighted technical and financial scores (70 per cent technical and 30 per cent financial). The evaluation methods include desk review and/or interview.

 

How to apply

Interested candidates are requested to submit the following documents to hr.bangkok@unwomen.org and copy to suwanna.sangsuwan@unwomen.org:

  1. CV and UN Women P11
  2. Letter of motivation with professional fee specifying a daily consultancy rate.
  3. 2 writing samples (must be a sample where the applicant was directly responsible for writing and demonstrating gender analytical skills) 
  4. List of 3 professional references that can be contacted.