The WHO Western Pacific Region is made up of 37 countries and areas. The diversity of people and health situations requires a solid understanding of the emerging socioeconomic, epidemiologic and demographic patterns and trends in order to provide relevant and timely responses to countries and areas needs and expectations.
The Division of Programme Management provides overall direction and coordination for the management of regional technical cooperation with countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region.
Working under the close supervision of the Executive Officer, Office of the Director for Programme Management, and overall guidance and direction of the Director, Programme Management, the incumbent will perform the following duties:
1. Facilitate the development and implementation of regional and country evaluation workplans, including budget considerations, to ensure adequate evaluation coverage of the most salient topics in the Region.
2. Manage these plans and budgets to successful completion so that all evaluations are relevant, timely, credible and useful.
3. Provide overall technical and strategic leadership on evaluation issues in order to strengthen the evaluation functions, develop evaluation practice and foster an evaluation culture in the Region.
4. Design and conduct individual evaluations that are impartial, independent and credible and also manage evaluations carried out by external evaluation teams.
5. Apply Organization-wide quality assurance system to ensure that regional and country-level evaluations are conducted in accordance with the WHO Evaluation Policy (2018) and the revised United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards for evaluation.
6. Contribute, together with other regional evaluation advisers and the WHO Evaluation Office, to strategies, approaches, guidance, procedures and tools for strengthening the evaluation functions and evaluation practice in the Organization.
7. Support corporate evaluations managed by the WHO Evaluation Office, through facilitation of data collection in the Region, liaison with key stakeholders in the Regional Office and with its partners and provision of technical and strategic inputs into these evaluations.
8. Provide advice, information and guidance on the conduct of decentralized evaluations through the ongoing implementation of the Framework on decentralized evaluation in WHO.
9. Ensure that all applicable evaluation findings and recommendations emanating from both decentralized and corporate evaluations are followed up in the Region, by organizing meetings, workshops and other discussions on evaluation results, advising key stakeholders in the management response process and assisting with efforts to follow up on management responses and their associated action plans.
10. Support evaluation capacity development in the Region, through briefings, trainings, workshops and other platforms.
11. Develop material to promote transparent and effective communication of WHO's evaluation work and findings in support of organizational learning, including preparation of an annual progress report to the Regional Committee on evaluative activities of the Region.
12. Contribute to the work of the UNEG and regional evaluation network activities, as appropriate.
Essential: Advanced university degree in public health, social or natural sciences, international development, epidemiology or economics.
Desirable: Professional evaluation qualification.
Essential: Minimum seven years of professional and progressive experience with international exposure in:
(a) planning, conducting and managing mixed-method evaluations and/or reviews of programmes, thematic topics, policies, projects and other initiatives that are of high credibility and utility;
(b) managing external evaluation teams in the conduct of these evaluations;
(c) managing the process of ensuring stakeholders' positive and constructive engagement in, and receptivity to, evaluations; and
(d) undertaking knowledge management to ensure dissemination and uptake.
Desirable: Work experience with WHO at country and regional levels, or in another agency in the United Nations system.
• Ability to identify evaluation priorities in view of the regional contexts as well as the most salient issues affecting the work of the Regional Office.
• Ability to undertake thorough and open consultations with key stakeholders at all levels of the Organization and with external stakeholders, as appropriate, while also undertaking a systematic, independent and impartial assessment in arriving at a rationale for selected evaluations.
• Plan and budget for selected evaluations, oversee implementation of the budget and for the ongoing strengthening of the evaluation function, practice and culture.
• Ability to design evaluations, manage evaluation processes, establish and manage relevant stakeholder groups.
• Ability to apply a range of evaluation data collection and analysis methods to evaluations using the most appropriate mixed method approaches relevant to each evaluation.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally in writing with maturity of judgement, tact, integrity and discretion with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to build capacity for evaluation.
• Ability to work with competing priorities under pressure.
• Ability to work harmoniously as a member of a team, adapt to diverse educational and cultural backgrounds and maintain a high standard of personal conduct.
• Sound knowledge of evaluation principles, practices, norms and standards.
• Sound knowledge of gender, equity and human rights issues and how to incorporate them into all aspects of evaluations.
• Sound knowledge of the specific contextual issues of one or more of the WHO regions and of the programmatic, institutional and evaluation issues in the Regional Office's operating environment.
Teamwork
Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences
Communication
Knowing and managing yourself
Producing results
Essential: Expert knowledge of written and spoken English.
WHO salaries for staff in the Professional category are calculated in US dollars. The remuneration for the above position comprises an annual base salary starting at USD 75,602 (subject to mandatory deductions for pension contributions and health insurance, as applicable), a variable post adjustment, which reflects the cost of living in a particular duty station, and currently amounts to USD 3037 per month for the duty station indicated above. Other benefits include 30 days of annual leave, allowances for dependent family members, home leave, and an education grant for dependent children.
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