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Evaluation Officer (Emergency)
The Evaluation Officer - Humanitarian (EO-H) post is a home-based global AWF position. Working under the supervision of a Snr Evaluation Officer (SEO) based in HQ in Geneva, the post focuses on operational aspects of evaluation work, principally of large scale L3 emergency responses. The EO-H stays abreast of evolving crisis, of UNHCR emergency policies, procedures and standard practices and maintains a good working understanding of organizational systems that support emergency responses (HR, finance, procurement, etc.). The EO-H involves Senior Regional Evaluation Officers/Specialists as needed in emergency evaluations and looks for opportunities to disseminate learning from emergency evaluations.
Duties
- Design and manage emergency evaluations (including budget monitoring) under the supervision of the SES. Ensure adequate quality assurance measures are put in place.
- The incumbent will support with knowledge management activities and the dissemination of the evaluation reports including but not limited to producing infographics, briefs, podcasts etc. in collaboration with the Associate Communications Officer under the supervision of the Senior Evaluation Officer (QA).
- Design and manage emergency evaluations (including budget monitoring) under the supervision of the SES. Ensure adequate quality assurance measures are put in place. Contribute to real time reviews (RTR) of emergency responses upon request.
- Contribute to enhanced technical quality of UNHCR’s evaluation methodologies, tools, and procedures with specific reference to real-time approaches.
- Participate in the selection of qualified external (independent consultants) evaluation team leader/members. Liaising with framework agreement holders.
- Contribute to evaluation reports, publications and other written material produced by the Evaluation Office related to emergency related evaluations.
- Contribute to lessons learnt exercises on emergency management.
- Support design and delivery of UNHCR capacity building efforts by incorporating results and outcomes of evaluations, including development of relevant materials which could be used during different emergency preparedness and response trainings.
- Contribute to the management of system-wide (inter-agency) humanitarian evaluations.
- Provide ‘hands on’ evaluation-related technical support to SREOs on L2 response evaluations where relevant.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Full details available on the UNHCR website. Application deadline 6 December
