Consultant Roster of Team Lead Evaluator, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (EAPRO), Bangkok, Thailand

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfilling their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

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For every child, a better future

UNICEF works to ensure the rights of all children in the East Asia and Pacific Region.  This means the rights of every child living in this country, irrespective of their nationality, gender, religion or ethnicity, to:

• survival – to basic healthcare, peace and security;
• development – to a good education, a loving home and adequate nutrition;
• protection – from abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour and other forms of exploitation; and
• participation – to express opinions, be listened to and take part in making any decisions that affect them

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office is issuing a call for the expansion of an evaluation roster expertise as part of ongoing efforts to enhance evaluation capacities in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) Region. Consultancies being sought include Team Lead Evaluator, Senior Consultant, Mid-level/National Consultant, Data Analyst/Researcher, and Young Emerging Evaluators. 

Background

Evaluation in UNICEF is a critical function for understanding if development objectives have been met in a way that contributes to the progressive realization of children’s rights. The evaluation function contributes to UNICEF’s organizational accountability and learning by conducting strategic, independent evaluations and setting standards and guidelines on evaluation for the organization. UNICEF evaluation work is guided by the 2023 Revised UNICEF Evaluation Policy and the Norms and Standards of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG). At the decentralized level, the Evaluation function works independently to determine the effectiveness and impact of the strategies and programs of Country Offices (COs) to realize the rights of all children. Based on multi-year costed evaluation plans (CEPs), the EAP region and its COs conduct a series of country programme evaluations, corporate and thematic evaluations, and evaluation syntheses. These evaluations provide independent and objective assessments of programmatic performance at the country level as well as of thematic strategies at the regional level, informing the future work in the COs and the Regional Office.

Purpose

UNICEF EAPRO is issuing a call for the expansion of an evaluation roster expertise as part of ongoing efforts to enhance evaluation capacities in the EAP Region. Consultancies being sought include Team Lead Evaluator, Senior Consultant, Mid-level/National Consultant, Data Analyst/Researcher, and Young Emerging Evaluators.  

This specific announcement aims to attract qualified individual evaluation consultants for the position of Team Lead Evaluator, to be included in the UNICEF's roster of evaluators for the region. Candidates from the EAP region are strongly encouraged to apply. Details regarding the nature of this roster system and qualifications for each role are outlined in this Terms of Reference (TOR). Additionally, a separate TOR will be provided for each evaluation project to which the consultant is assigned, offering more specific details.

The roster system will complement UNICEF’s ongoing effort to strengthen its evaluation capacity. This announcement targets candidates outside of UNICEF (non-staff) with interest in providing evaluation services at the regional and CO level. The roster will contain only pre-screened individuals found suitable to conduct evaluations in EAP region specifically. Candidates will be placed in the roster for a period of 36 months and will be called up depending on suitability of assignment and availability. However, actual contracting will be based on specific TORs. Note that inclusion in the roster does not guarantee any future contractual relations with UNICEF.

Scope of work

The individual evaluation consultants – selected for the EAP Roster – are external professional evaluators who provide thematic, geographic, and/or policy expertise as a leader of the evaluation team for a given independent evaluation. Once rostered and selected for a particular evaluation, the evaluation consultants will carry out the agreed assignments, as guided by the specific TORs drafted by the Evaluation Mana