The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the UN agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all

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.
• 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.

Requirements

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.