Senior Evaluation Officer

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The position is located in the Strategic Planning, Programme Management, Evaluation and Change Management Service of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland. The incumbent reports to the Chief of the Service.

• Ensures evaluations are conducted in an impartial, independent and credible manner;
• Leads the design and management of all process and programme evaluations in collaboration with the relevant Divisions/Branches;
• Ensures the integration of gender and other cross-cutting issues into the OHCHR's evaluation System;
• Provides guidance and technical support to staff members for conducting evaluations, assessments and reviews and conducts them him/herself when required;
• Ensures that evaluations meet the highest professional standards, in accordance with the United Nations evaluation Norms and Standards and are informed by emerging innovative evaluation practices;
• Participates in Human Rights and OHCHR performance and impact evaluations conducted by other entities when appropriate, e.g., donor evaluations;
• Cooperates with other UN evaluation units and professional evaluation bodies and networks to ensure the sharing of lessons learned and good practices. This may include but not be limited to representing OHCHR in the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG);
• Ensures evaluation results are systematically used to inform decision‑making at the strategic and programme levels; prepares reports and briefings to the Senior Executive Team (SET) on evaluation recommendations and lessons learned of strategic importance;
• Coordinates with relevant Divisions to prepare and finalize all management responses to evaluation results;
• Prepares follow‑up action plans to closely monitor the implementation of evaluation recommendations across OHCHR;
• Maintains effective liaison with all Divisions and Branches responsible for implementing evaluation recommendations
• Prepares progress reports to the SMT and other relevant entities such as the General Assembly when required on progress made towards the implementation of evaluation recommendations;
• Prepares progress reports to the SET, OG and other relevant entities such as the General Assembly when required on progress made towards the implementation of evaluation recommendations;
• In collaboration with Divisions and Branches, ensures that evaluation results are taken into account for the design and appraisal of strategies, policies and new projects/programmes;
• Ensures evaluation principles, prerequisites and benefits are widely known and recognised in the organisation;
• Designs and implements an evaluation capacity development programme as part of the OHCHR capacity building strategy on Results Based Management (RBM);
• Participates in conducting the RBM training for staff Office‑wide; ensures continuous methodological improvement of and support to self‑evaluation,
• Contributes to maintaining a network of evaluation focal points across the organisation;
• Provides effective supervision for evaluation colleagues, assists in planning the human and financial resources needed for a fully operational monitoring and evaluation function;
• Selects and supervises evaluation consultants effectively.
• Provides leadership, guidance and direction for the effective application of the evaluation function at the strategic and policy‑related levels;
• Ensures that the evaluation function serves as an effective feedback loop, within OHCHR’s RBM system, supplementing the self‑assessment in the Performance Monitoring System with office‑wide evaluative evidence;
• Ensures the effective linkage and synergies between information provided through the Performance Monitoring System and the evaluation…