UN Women: Regional Evaluation Specialist for the Americas and the Caribbean - Panama City

Core Values and Guiding Principles:

Ethics:

Acts according to the standards of ethical conduct for evaluators, including policies on receiving and giving gifts, conflicting financial interests, outside employment and activities, misuse of position, impartiality in performing official duties and related statutory authorities. Acts with integrity and honesty in relationships with all stakeholders.

Integrity:

Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Cultural Sensitivity/Valuing diversity:

Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.

National ownership:

Promotes the leadership and ownership of evaluation processes by country key stakeholders.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating Organizational Precedents.

Organizational Awareness:

Building support and political acumen.
Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring: Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation.

Working in Teams:

Building and promoting effective teams.

Communicating Information and Ideas:

Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication.

Self-management and Emotional intelligence:

Creating an emotionally intelligent organization.
Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements: Leveraging conflict in the interests of the organization & setting standards.

Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning:

Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning.

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge of UN context and gender equality:

Has a detailed knowledge of the role of the UN and its components and UN Women’s mandate with the UN system. Has a detailed understanding of the Organization, funds and programs and the distinctions between them. Has a good knowledge of key UN topics. Has competencies to provide supervision to evaluation staff in the evaluation of gender equality and women's human rights activities, projects and programmes.

Technical and professional skills:

Evaluation design - Has the required competencies to develop well-focused Terms of Reference that includes a complete background, addresses salient issues, and identifies potential impact, with minimal guidance. Has a good understanding of various methodologies in evaluation, both qualitative and quantitative, such as surveys, record reviews, focus groups and case studies and is able to contribute to the development of the most efficient and effective methodology for the design, with minimal guidance. Has a good understanding of various sampling techniques and their applications and is able to develop the most accurate sampling technique for the methodology.Has grounded knowledge of how to address gender equality on evaluation design.Data collection and analysis - Has the required competencies to collect reliable, valid and accurate information in an objective way. Masters effective interviewing skills and is able to conduct interviews independently. Has a good understanding of questionnaire design and is able to develop questionnaires and other review instruments that will address issues identified in the design, independently. Masters effective interviewing skills and is able to conduct interviews independently. Has the skills to use programme data and documents and to design and conduct case studies independently. Is able to guide and direct junior staff in data collection and to ensure the data analysis addresses evaluation issues.Gender analysis – has experience in conducting gender analysis; has grounded knowledge of gender equality and women’s human rights.

Oral and written communication:

Has the required competencies to: articulate relevant subject matter in a clear and concise way; pose basic questions and contribute information appropriately in formal settings; effectively use appropriate support items, including charts, graphs, audio-visual techniques, and hand-outs; conceptualize ideas and issues during the evaluation reporting process; and use critical thinking to formulate findings and recommendations based on the results of both qualitative and quantitative data, and the broader context of evaluation issues. Is able to develop clear, concise and compelling evaluation reports that meet UNEG reporting standards, with minimal guidance. Evaluation process management:
Masters the skills of evaluation management, including developing a plan and schedule, assigning tasks, ensuring milestones are met on a timely basis, ensuring project costs are within and approved budget and ensuring evaluation objectives are adequately addressed. Is able to independently assume responsibility for managing complex evaluation projects and to supervise evaluation team members. Has skills to negotiate outside the organization on issues related to evaluations and conflict resolution skills.Knowledge Management and Learning:Shares knowledge and experience;Encourages office staff to share knowledge and contribute to UN Women practice areas;Develops substantive knowledge of one or more Practice Areas;Promotes a learning environment in the office;Provides helpful feedback and advice to others in the office; Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more practice areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.Development and Operational Effectiveness: Ability to perform a variety of specialized activities related to HR management, including performance evaluation, learning and reporting;Strong IT skills;Ability to provide input to business processes re-engineering, implementation of new systems. Leadership and Self-Management:Focuses on result for the client; Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude; Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills;Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure;Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities; Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view; Autonomy, working remotely and prioritizing.

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