Vacancy Announcement Details

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The WHO Western Pacific Region is made up of 37 countries and areas. The diversity of people and health situations requires a solid understanding of the emerging socioeconomic, epidemiologic and demographic patterns and trends in order to provide relevant and timely responses to countries and areas needs and expectations.

The Division of Programme Management provides overall direction and coordination for the management of regional technical cooperation with countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region.
 

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Working under the close supervision of the Executive Officer, Office of the Director for Programme Management, and overall guidance and direction of the Director, Programme Management, the incumbent will perform the following duties:

1.  Facilitate the development and implementation of regional and country evaluation workplans, including budget considerations, to ensure adequate evaluation coverage of the most salient topics in the Region.
2.  Manage these plans and budgets to successful completion so that all evaluations are relevant, timely, credible and useful.
3.  Provide overall technical and strategic leadership on evaluation issues in order to strengthen the evaluation functions, develop evaluation practice and foster an evaluation culture in the Region.
4.  Design and conduct individual evaluations that are impartial, independent and credible and also manage evaluations carried out by external evaluation teams.
5.  Apply Organization-wide quality assurance system to ensure that regional and country-level evaluations are conducted in accordance with the WHO Evaluation Policy (2018) and the revised United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for evaluation.
6.  Contribute, together with other regional evaluation advisers and the WHO Evaluation Office, to strategies, approaches, guidance, procedures and tools for strengthening the evaluation functions and evaluation practice in the Organization.
7.  Support corporate evaluations managed by the WHO Evaluation Office, through facilitation of data collection in the Region, liaison with key stakeholders in the Regional Office and with its partners and provision of technical and strategic inputs into these evaluations.
8.  Provide advice, information and guidance on the conduct of decentralized evaluations through the ongoing implementation of the Framework on decentralized evaluation in WHO.
9.  Ensure that all applicable evaluation findings and recommendations emanating from both decentralized and corporate evaluations are followed up in the Region, by organizing meetings, workshops and other discussions on evaluation results, advising key stakeholders in the management response process and assisting with efforts to follow up on management responses and their associated action plans.
10.  Support evaluation capacity development in the Region, through briefings, trainings, workshops and other platforms.
11.  Develop material to promote transparent and effective communication of WHO's evaluation work and findings in support of organizational learning, including preparation of an annual progress report to the Regional Committee on evaluative activities of the Region.
12.  Contribute to the work of the UNEG and regional evaluation network activities, as appropriate.

Full details available on the WHO website. Application deadline 12 February.