Position Objective

The Chief Evaluation Adviser – Policy and Impact Evaluations, will be responsible for participating in, leading and managing the ‘policy, thematic and impact evaluations’ work of the IEU while ensuring his/her participation in other work streams of the IEU. He/she will manage and participate in high-quality, credible, and useful thematic, portfolio, policy and project evaluations that contribute to the overall strategic evaluations of the GCF. She/he will also provide overall management tasks, including planning, initiating, managing, budgeting for, staffing, recruiting for, writing and delivering high quality, journal-worthy theory-based impact evaluation studies in a timely manner. The role requires an excellent grasp of theory-based impact evaluation techniques that use counterfactual methods (both experimental and quasi-experimental) combined with qualitative methods. The incumbent should be ready to advocate for, provide advice for, build capacity for and undertake high-quality, credible impact evaluations that can help the IEU answer questions about causal attribution, using theory-based impact evaluation methods and extend this both methodologically and in an applied manner to doing policy evaluations and cost-effectiveness studies that also examine trade-offs. She/he will be responsible for building the field within GCF while also participating in and leading impact evaluations of GCF operations and policy. The incumbent will also be responsible for suggesting innovative evaluation system and methods, and providing capacity building for GCF stakeholders  In doing this, she/he will also need to manage teams composed of both in-house staff as well as external experts., while keeping abreast of the state of the art developments in the field. S/he will also engage with a diversity of stakeholders including GCF secretariat staff as well as others at the region, country and local level in developing, planning, conceiving, implementing and delivering these evaluations. She/he will also lead and participate in assessments of GCF-wide performance and results, and in generating lessons and identifying areas of improvement. He/she will focus on measuring the overall impact within these evaluations, while using evaluation criteria that have been specified. He/she will also make recommendations, both internally within the IEU, and externally to the GCF secretariat and programme/project/activities staff that allows the improvement of designs, projects and portfolios. This position will require traveling as required in the position and also representing IEU at international events while keeping abreast of developments in the field.

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• Master's degree in applied economics, law, applied social sciences, climate change related subject, statistics or fields related to quantitative evaluation;

• A PhD is an added advantage;

• Deep knowledge of key advances in the evaluation field including in data and big data, evaluation methodologies including impact evaluation methods, excellent discipline in quantitative thinking and policy assessments and qualitative research related to evaluation;

• Deep familiarity with participatory approaches and quantitative methods;

• Excellent knowledge of process tracing methods, theories of change and of mixed methods for evaluations;

• Long experience with large, high quality, credible evaluations that use mixed methods and preferably measure impacts and causal changes;

• At least one thematic area of expertise that is applicable to climate change evaluations and strong technical and analytical skills;

• Familiarity with climate change topics and international politics;

• Familiarity with processing information requests from a range stakeholders is an advantage;

• Excellent people management skills;

• Be able to manage multiple tasks with exacting deadlines and deliver on time;

• Be flexible, humble, with a good collegial attitude and an ability to work in multi-cultural environments that may have ambiguously defined structures and policies and have a keen ability to troubleshoot;

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*The person assessed by the Selection Panel as most suitable for the position will be proposed for appointment. Selection among short-listed candidates will also take into account performance at interview, appropriate testing, and references. Applications from women and nationals of developing countries are strongly encouraged.