National Consultant - Endline Evaluation, CRSV Project

About the role

UN Women Ethiopia is seeking a national consultant to carry out an independent endline evaluation of the project "Addressing the Effects of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in Ethiopia", funded by the Gates Foundation and implemented since November 2023. The consultant works under the guidance of the Programme Specialist on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls and the Monitoring Evaluation & Reporting Officer, and the assignment is home-based in Addis Ababa with possible travel to the Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions.

Key responsibilities

• Develop a roadmap and inception report with the evaluation methodology
• Carry out a desk review of legal and policy frameworks, UNSDCF, project documents and partner reports
• Hold initial consultations with UN Women implementation teams and collect primary data via surveys, key informant interviews and focus group discussions
• Analyze primary and secondary data and draft the first version of the evaluation report
• Facilitate validation workshops with stakeholders, incorporate their comments and submit the final report
• Follow UN Women evaluation guidelines (Evaluation Policy, POM, GERAAS, UN-SWAP EPI, Evaluation Handbook)

Required profile

• Masters degree in gender, human rights, development studies, sociology, demography, economics, law or a related field; a first-level degree plus two years of qualifying experience may be accepted
• At least 7 years of evaluation experience, including 3 years as a team leader of evaluations of multi-stakeholder projects for multilateral organizations
• Fluency in Amharic and English
• Experience in similar evaluation assignments and with the UN system is an asset

Required skills

• Extensive knowledge of qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods
• Experience with gender-transformative approaches, women's economic empowerment and human rights work in development cooperation preferred
• Ability to write concise, analyzed evaluation reports