UN Women: Regional Evaluation Specialist

The UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, the UN Women will lead and coordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

The mandate and functions of UN Women call for the promotion of organizational and UN system accountability on gender equality through evaluation, strengthening evaluation capacities and learning from evaluation, and developing systems to measure the results and impact of UN Women with its enhanced role at country, regional and global levels. The purpose and role of evaluation in UN Women is to enhance accountability, inform decision-making and contribute to learning on the best ways to achieve women’s empowerment and gender equality through operational and normative work.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Undertake/manage evaluations and strengthen decentralized evaluation systems at regional and country levels in the Regional Office for the East and Southern Africa
• Promote the use of evaluations and ensure that evaluation findings and recommendations are implemented
• Strengthen evaluation capacity development in UN Women at regional and country levels
• Promote UN coordination on evaluation that is gender responsive
• Manage knowledge building and sharing in Evaluation in the region and IEAS
• Perform other related duties and assignments as and when requested by supervisor

Deadline: 3 February 2021

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