Director of Impact Assessment and Measures

Rare (www.rareconservation.org), an international environmental conservation NGO, is searching for a M&E expert to join a group of global programmatic specialists. Working out of Rare’s Arlington, VA headquarters, this person will be responsible for creating and validating a set of standards to ensure that Rare is designing and executing projects with clear and measurable outcomes, especially around behavior change, conservation threat reduction, and biological impact.

Download the Director, Impact Assessment and Measures position description for full details.

Please email a resume and cover letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and stating how you heard about this opportunity, both in Word format, to Deborah Chamberlin, Sr. Director of Human Resources: humres@rareconservation.org. Subject line of the email should read, “Director, Impact Assessment & Measures.” Please indicate current salary and salary expectations. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Posted: July 21, 2010

AIDSTAR-One Senior Specialist – EnCompass LLC

EnCompass LLC seeks a full-time Senior Specialist to be based in Rockville, MD. Reporting directly to the EnCompass AIDSTAR-One Project Manager, the Senior Specialist will join the EnCompass team to support the development, design, and management of a robust, innovative project in assessment, quality improvement, and technical assistance in a range of HIV/AIDS issues including prevention, treatment, care and support, counseling and testing, and PMTCT.

Download the AIDSTAR Senior Specialist position description for full details.

Please send an email to HR@encompassworld.com (subject line: AIDSTAR-One Senior Specialist) with cover letter, salary requirements and resume. Applications accepted until August 13, 2010.

Posted: July 19, 2010

Peace Corpps Mozambique
Mozambique Impact Study – Contractor Request for Proposal

Peace Corps Mozambique (PC/MZ) seeks a Contractor to conduct an impact study of the work of the Peace Corps (PC) in Mozambique. The study will document the impact of the work of Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) from the perspective of the Mozambicans with whom the Volunteers live and work.

Proposals in English are required by August 9, 2010 and the impact study will be conducted by the contractor upon award of the contract on or about September 13, 2010 through January 17, 2011. The contract shall be firm fixed-price, paid in Mozambican Metical.

To obtain a copy of the full requirements for the request for proposal including:
• Complete scope and requirements including the location of the work,
• Payment schedule, and Evaluation Factors for Contract Award

Please email Peace Corps at pcmzimpact@mz.peacecorps.gov; go to http://mozambique.peacecorps.gov, click on JOBS, or contact Anabela Da Silva at 82 843 1700.

Download the Impact Study Contractor Request for Proposal.

Posted: July 6, 2010

United Nationals World Food Program
Director, Office of Evaluation D2

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. We are currently seeking to fill the position of the Director, Office of Evaluation (D2), which will become available in our headquarters in Rome, Italy.

Download the vacancy statement for more information.

Duty station: Rome, Italy

Application deadline: August 1, 2010

Application link and job description: http://i-recruitment.wfp.org/vacancies/10-0010718

Posted: June 25, 2010

Terms of Reference for Final Evaluation
EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development And Peace

Recruitment Type: Team of consultants / Organization
Contract Type: Professional Services Contract
Location: Home-based with some travel
Date of Start: 1 July 2010
End Date: 30 September 2010
Duration of the Consultancy: 66 days

RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Please send a Technical Proposal (5-pages maximum) which includes a financial proposal and the CVs of the Evaluation Team members to unifem.crp@gmail.com by Thursday 17th June 2010 5pm US Eastern Time. Only pre-selected candidates will be notified.

Download the Terms of Reference for full details.

Posted: June 3, 2010

Request for Proposals: External Support for A&T Review Process

Following the signing of the Affirmation of Commitments, ICANN established a Review Team (RT) to perform a review of ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency. The RT is currently looking for an independent expert to perform an assessment of ICANN decision-making to identify whether ICANN’s processes and procedures are designed and executed in a manner that ensures its AoC commitments which are: to maintain and improve robust mechanisms for public input, accountability and transparency so as to guarantee that the outcomes of its decision-making reflect the public interest and are accountable to all stakeholders. Further background information may be found at http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-02jun10-en.htm.

Download the Request for Proposals for full details.

Interested parties are invited to provide relevant background material, written methodology for execution of this task, views on the tentative timeline enclosed in the RFP, a proposed budget, resumes, references and financial information by June 11, 2010 to Alice E. Jansen, ICANN, Assistant, Organizational Reviews at alice.jansen@icann.org.

Posted: June 3, 2010

EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and Peace

Recruitment Type: Team of five consultants composed of 1 team leader and 4 regional consultants
Contract Type: SSA’s
Location: Home-based with some travel
Date of Start: 15 June 2010
End Date: 30 September 2010
Duration of the Consultancy: 80 days

Download the Terms of Reference for Final Evaluation for full details.

Please send CVs of Evaluation Team members and a Technical Proposal (5-pages maximum) to unifem.crp@gmail.com by Sunday 30th May 2010 5pm US Eastern Time. Please include a Financial Proposal in a separate email clearly identifying in the subject line that it contains your team’s financial proposal. Only pre-selected candidates will be notified (See Annex 2 in the Terms of Reference for the criteria on how the Evaluation Teams and their proposals will be assessed).

Posted: May 27, 2010

Evaluation Consultant
United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA)

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA) is seeking to engage the services of a professional evaluation consultant with substantial experience in evaluating programme performance, with demonstrated experience in the UN environment.

Full details are available for download in the job description.

Interested candidates are requested to apply through ESCWA’s vacancy page and submit an online application using the following link: http://www.escwa.un.org/main/vacancies/experts/logon.asp.

The deadline for applications is May 7, 2010.

Posted: April 27, 2010

Vacancy Announcement
Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, L4

UNICEF Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Under the general guidance of the Representative and in collaboration with the Deputy Representative, the Programme Section Chiefs and the Social Policy Specialist you will provide technical and managerial guidance to strengthen the evaluation function in UNICEF Burkina Faso towards the achievement of strategic results in line with UNICEF’s Global Evaluation Policy:

1. Stronger national monitoring and evaluation capacities
2. Monitoring is evidence-based and focuses on
3. Major programme themes are evaluated
4. Evaluations are of high quality and their results are used

Full details are available for download in the job description.

Send applications to Julienne Guerrero, email jguerrero@unicef.org.

Posted: April 6, 2010

Government of the Republic of Cape Verde and the
United Nations in Cape Verde

INVITATION FOR BIDS

In the context of the United Nations accelerated reforms programme known as the “Delivering as One” initiative, which Cape Verde is one of the pilot implementing countries, the Government of Cape Verde and the United Nations Found and Programmes Office in Cape Verde invites bids from national and international eligible and qualified consulting companies to conduct an overall evaluation of the “Delivering as One” process and impact at the country level.

Bidding documents are available to download, and also available at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/index.cfm. The offer should reach the United Nations Found and Programmes Office no later than 12:00 hrs Cape Verde time on 20th April 2010.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR SUBMITTING PROPOSALS FOR THE "Delivering as One Country Level Evaluation" – procurement.cv@cv.jo.un.org

Posted: March 24, 2010

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
to host a regional center in Africa

CLEAR (Regional Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results) is a multiregional initiative, whose goal is to contribute to strengthening the monitoring, evaluation, and results-based management capacity of countries and their governments to achieve development outcomes. CLEAR will support academic/training institutions based in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia to develop and provide demand-driven, cost-effective, and sustainable capacity development services in monitoring, evaluation, and performance management. CLEAR will support the centers for fi ve years, with the expectation that the centers will begin developing other sources of revenue during this period.

CLEAR is inviting expressions of interest (EOIs) from existing academic/training institutions based in Africa to host the Africa regional center. CLEAR expects to contribute approximately $1 million per year for the first three years and lesser amounts in the remaining two years to help the selected institution(s) achieve international quality standards in the areas covered by the program and to reach fi nancial self-suffi ciency within that period.

The Africa center will be selected through a two-stage process. Institutions will be shortlisted based on the EOIs they provide. The shortlisted institutions will be invited to present full proposals for the fi nal selection. The selected center will provide demand-based capacity development and technical and advisory services to governments, civil society, and other potential clients. The deadline to submit EOIs is March 30, 2010.

Further information on CLEAR and instructions for submitting the EOI are available at http://www.worldbank.org/ieg/clear. Requests for further information should be sent to clear@worldbank.org, attention: Ms. Ximena Fernandez Ordonez, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the World Bank Group.

Download the CLEAR Description for more information on the CLEAR initiative.

CLEAR Africa is supported by the AfDB, SIDA, DfID, and the World Bank Group, with the Secretariat currently housed in IEG.

Posted: March 9, 2010

World Food Programme – Evaluation Officer P4

Fighting Hunger Worldwide – The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. We are currently seeking qualified individual for the position of Evaluation Officer at P4 level. This position is a specialist position requiring significant evaluation expertise. It will be based in the organization’s Office of Evaluation (OE) at headquarters in Rome, Italy. The selected candidate will be required to travel abroad sometimes to remote and difficult locations.

Full more details, please download the position description or
visit the application link: http://i-recruitment.wfp.org/vacancies/10-0010543.

Deadline for applications: March 28, 2010

Posted: March 3, 2010

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