Senior Research and Evaluation Consultant

Senior Research and Evaluation Consultant, New Delhi, India, Evaluation, 6 Months, Office Based (With Possible travel). Contract type: Consultant.

Job Summary

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide senior technical and evaluation-management support to UNICEF India for a portfolio of approximately four to five evaluations over six months. The consultant will draft or review defined evaluation outputs, participate in evaluation management meetings and calls linked to those outputs, provide quality assurance for selected research and studies, and support evidence use and organizational learning.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical and evaluation-management support to UNICEF India for a portfolio of approximately four to five evaluations over six months.
• Draft or review defined evaluation outputs, participate in evaluation management meetings and calls linked to those outputs, provide quality assurance for selected research and studies, and support evidence use and organizational learning.
• Support board-approved costed evaluations and thematic donor-funded evaluations, while safeguarding the independence, impartiality and transparency required for evaluation work.
• Provide selected methodological and ethical quality assurance for priority research and studies.

Minimum requirements

• Education: Master's Degree in evaluation, public health, social sciences, statistics, economics, development studies, planning or another relevant field. Formal postgraduate training in research or evaluation methods is highly desirable
• Work Experience: 7-10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in evaluation and research, including substantial experience managing or quality-assuring complex evaluations in international development settings
• Skills: Drafting or reviewing evaluation ToRs, inception reports, pilot or fieldwork reports, presentations and evaluation reports
• Skills: Theory-based evaluation, theories of change, quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods designs, sampling, data quality, analysis and interpretation
• Skills: Evaluation ethics, independence, equity, gender and human-rights considerations
• Skills: Coordinating multi-stakeholder evaluation processes and facilitating technical meetings with programme teams, evaluation teams, government counterparts or reference groups
• Skills: Engaging senior officials (within the UN and outside the UN e.g. government) on evaluation design, processes and uptake is essential

Language Requirements

• Language: Excellent written and spoken English, strong analytical writing and presentation skills, sound judgement, and the ability to manage several concurrent review processes under tight deadlines

Desirables

• Prior experience with UNICEF, the United Nations system or large international organizations is an asset. Knowledge of Hindi and/or other languages in India

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