About The Position
UNICEF’s Evaluation Office is commissioning a global evaluation of UNICEF’s risk governance frameworks and practices in humanitarian action. Building on case studies across different emergency contexts, the evaluation will trace decision-making that led to action or no action during past emergency responses and seek to assess the repercussions on service delivery and outcomes for children, especially children in hard-to-reach areas. The evaluation aims to recommend ways to help UNICEF staff manage, prevent, and share risks more responsibly and effectively in future emergencies. This 10-month consultancy is home-based, with travel to countries for data collection as relevant. The expert will bring substantial experience in organizational learning, adaptive management, or developmental evaluation in humanitarian organizations, and in conducting humanitarian evaluations. The assignment calls for methodological innovation, facilitation with senior managers, and the ability to translate evidence into useful decision tools and practitioner-oriented outputs.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in International Development, Management, Anthropology, or Social Sciences.
- At least 15 years of experience in organizational learning, adaptive management, or developmental evaluation in humanitarian organizations.
- Demonstrated experience in humanitarian evaluations, including UNICEF L3 evaluations.
- Experience facilitating workshops with senior managers and translating evidence into decision tools or frameworks.
- Experience with participatory visualization of evaluation key messages.
- Experience designing and conducting interviews with local and national NGOs and affected populations, using safe and ethical protocols.
- English language proficiency.
- Experience developing innovative methodologies.
- Knowledge of the UN system and the global humanitarian system.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and writing skills.
- Ability to integrate youth, gender, age, disability, and other equity considerations into evaluation design, data analysis, and reporting.
- Strong writing skills for practitioner audiences.
- Working knowledge of localization commitments and the Grand Bargain, especially risk sharing.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of additional UN languages.
- Experience with process tracing and the critical incident technique.
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Career Level
Senior
