Evaluation Capacity Development and Quality Assurance Consultant - NYHQ, Evaluation office, (Remote/Work from home)

Contract Duration: 6 months

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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For every child, education

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The UNICEF Evaluation Office (EO), located in New York HQ, provides global leadership and oversight of the evaluation function in the organization. As such, it manages independent, corporate evaluations and evaluation syntheses, provides technical assistance and quality assurance for evaluations commissioned at the decentralized level (country and regional offices, as well as other divisions in HQ offices), develops evaluation methods, and reports to the UNICEF Executive Board.

The Director of Evaluation provides strategic leadership to the global evaluation function at all three levels of the organization (global, regional and national). The mission of the UNICEF evaluation function is to help drive results for children by fostering evidence-informed decision-making. Evaluation in UNICEF supports both learning and decision-making, which in turn support better results for children. Evaluation also helps to hold UNICEF accountable for contributing to results for children, or for failing to do so.

The evaluation function conducts a diverse set of independ