Evaluation Consultant for the Go Blue Project at UN-Habitat

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Chief, Evaluation Unit, UN-Habitat, the Evaluation Expert will: 

• Assess the performance of the project in terms of its progress towards the achievement of results at the expected accomplishment and output levels. 
• Assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, coherence, outlook sustainability and impact of the project in applying integrated ecosystem approach to land-sea planning and management.
• Assess the planning, adequacy of resources, working arrangements and how these may be impacting on the effectiveness of the project.
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• Assess how cross-cutting issues such as gender equality, persons with disability, youth and human rights have been integrated in the project. 
• Assess how the effects of pandemics including COVID-19 and other internal factors such as changes in government and institutional reorganisation may have affected the performance of the project.
• Identify and validate areas of improvement, lessons learnt and make recommendations actionable to improve performance of the project for the remaining period of the project.  
• Linking scaling up of project outputs to County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) to enable development of bankable projects for fundraising.

Qualifications/special skills 

• Advanced academic degree in Political Sciences, Project Management, International Development, Program Evaluation, Statistics, Communication, Information Technology, Urban Planning, Economics, Sociology or another relevant field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• 7 years of project management experience in results-based management working with development projects/ programmes is required
• Extensive evaluation experience. The lead consultant should have the ability to present credible findings derived from evidence and prepare conclusions and recommendations supported by the findings is required.
• Knowledge and understanding of UN-Habitat mandate, operations and experience of regional/ multi-country projects is desired.
• Knowledge and experience of country programming is highly preferred

Languages 

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this post, fluency in written and oral English is required.

Deadline : Dec 28, 2023