Re-Advertisement: Evaluation Specialist (Multi-country), P-4, Fixed Term Position, ECAMENA RO, Istanbul, Turkiye, #00136987 (Open to all UNICEF Personnel)

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The ECAMENA Regional Office leverages expertise and scale across a diverse and rapidly evolving region that is playing an increasingly important role in shaping global agendas on the realization of child rights, human capital, migration, climate, equity, and digital transformation. It supports the achievement of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan results in the context of rising needs and constrained resources. The region encompasses all country typologies, including high-income, middle-income, and low-income contexts, as well as fragile and conflict-affected settings, each with distinct development trajectories and policy drivers. This requires differentiated approaches, agile business models, strategic partnerships, and strengthened risk management. The region is further shaped by ongoing challenges such as conflict, migration, economic volatility, and varying degrees of political openness and reform. At the same time, countries across the region are connected by shared challenges and opportunities, including investment in the early years, addressing learning gaps and equipping adolescents and young people with 21st-century skills, the need for resilient national systems, and the imperative to strengthen child rights governance.

In this context, the ECAMENA Regional Office acts in line with the organization’s value proposition for Regional Offices through: (i) strategic leadership and governance; (ii) regional and political representation and engagement; (iii) programme oversight, knowledge, and foresight; (iv) digital transformation and innovation; (v) people-centered management; (vi) financial and risk management; (vii) supply and logistics; (viii) emergency preparedness and response; (ix) communication and strategic advocacy; and (x) partnerships and financing.

Evaluation is a critical function for understanding whether development objectives have been achieved in a way that contributes to the progressive realization of children’s rights. Evaluation supports accountability, 

learning, decision-making, and programme improvement by helping determine what is working, why, and under what conditions, and by informing adjustments needed to strengthen results for children. Evaluation also contributes to wider organizational and national learning and, when implemented in participatory ways, can help strengthen transparency, civic engagement, and the ability of stakeholders and rights holders to assess development initiatives and hold duty bearers to account.  

This position forms part of the ECAMENA Regional Office evaluation function and advances decentralized evaluation across a large, diverse, and evolving region through multi-country technical leadership and support. Under the supervision of the Regional Adviser Evaluation (P-5), the Evaluation Specialist - Multi-Country (P-4) provides technical leadership and direct support to the management of country programme evaluations, multi-country evaluations, and national evaluation capacity development. The role will also guide UNICEF Country Offices in the conduct of high-quality strategic evaluations that will require a quantitative approach, such as experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations, as well as innovative approaches using causal machine learning across assigned COs, while also contributing to RO-commissioned evaluations and other regional evaluation work, as required. The role helps ensure that evaluations are credible, independent, useful, and aligned with organizational standards, and supports the systematic use of evaluative evidence for accountability, learning, decision-making, programme improvement, and policy dialogue across humanitarian and non-humanitarian contexts. In close collaboration with Country Office evaluation focal points, management teams, governments, and other partners, the post also contributes to national evaluation capacity development, evaluation partnerships, and the strengthening of regional evaluation practice, including through methodological support, innovation, and the promotion of quality and use, in line with the ECAMENA operating model and the wider regional agenda on programme oversight, knowledge, and foresight.

1. Evaluation leadership
2. Evaluation conduct and use
3. Evaluation capacity strengthening and partnership building

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD - Evaluation Specialist - Multi-Country_P4_00136987.docx

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in Economics, Data Sciences, Statistics or a related field is required.
  A Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in a relevant area combined with 2 additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. This is applicable to internal (FT, Continuing and Permanent) staff only.
• Work Experience:
  • A minimum of eight 8 years of professional work experience in conducting quantitative evaluations, working with governments and government data to conduct experimental or quasi-experimental evaluations and/ or empirical research, and/ or modeling for policy making is required.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Results-Based Management (RBM), theories of change, stakeholder mapping, standards and models, research designs, mixed methods of data collections and analysis, validation and reliability testing of evidence and qualitative information analysis and interpretation, and statistical inference methods, is required.
  • Experience in using open-source econometric packages, including R and/or python, and in applying causal machine learning and using administrative data & household survey data of government systems for evaluation or policy purposes, is required.
  • Professional work experience in providing oversight and technical guidance on designing and implementing evaluations, on evaluation process management, quality assurance, ethical review processes, contracting processes for evaluation, on the dissemination and the use of evaluation findings, in accordance with UNICEF and UNEG norms and standards for evaluation in the UN system, is required.
  • Experience in development settings is required; experience in high- and middle-income countries, preferably in the ECAMENA region, is desirable.
• Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the demonstrated ability to engage with governments, academia and other partners on a technical level, and to mobilize stakeholder engagement in a variety of contexts. Demonstrated ability in communicating complex analyses to decision-makers and non-technical audiences.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to the use of AI for evidence generation and to the use of mobile technology platforms, big data, and other innovative techniques, is desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to design and conduct evaluation capacity building programmes on experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations, targeting decision-makers at government level and other external stakeholders, is desirable.
• Experience with co-designing and co-implementing with governments experimental and quasi-experimental evaluations of government programmes and policies is desirable.
• Technical knowledge on the use of evaluation and other evidence approaches to support gender equality and human-rights-based development is desirable.
• Experience in related evidence functions including social policy, social and behavioral change, Research, and Programme Planning and Monitoring, is an asset. Experience in these areas cannot be substituted for evaluation experience but is an advantage.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others

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UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable candidates are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants' bank account information.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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Advertised: 11 Nov 2026 GTB Standard Time
Applications close: 18 Nov 2026 GTB Standard Time

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