Senior Research and Evaluation Consultant
UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) (company site, opens in a new tab)7–10 yrsDelhi NCROn-siteDirect career pageEst. 15–30 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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Job description
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About This Role
- Provide senior technical and evaluation-management support across approximately four to five UNICEF India evaluations during a six-month consultancy.
- Draft or review evaluation deliverables, coordinate evaluation processes, and quality-assure selected research and studies while protecting evaluation independence and impartiality.
- Support evidence use and organizational learning, including board-approved and thematic donor-funded evaluations.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in evaluation and research, including substantial experience managing or quality-assuring complex evaluations in international development settings.
- Education: Master’s degree in evaluation, public health, social sciences, statistics, economics, development studies, planning, or another relevant field.
- Required expertise: Evaluation deliverables and methods, including theories of change, quantitative/qualitative/mixed-methods designs, sampling, data quality, analysis, ethics, equity, gender, and human rights; senior stakeholder engagement is essential.
- Excellent written and spoken English is required. The role is New Delhi-based and office-based, with possible travel.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Has experience managing or assuring complex evaluations in international development and can work across a portfolio of concurrent assignments.
- Can balance methodological rigour and ethical independence with practical coordination involving programme teams, evaluators, government counterparts, and reference groups.
- UNICEF, UN-system, or large international-organization experience is an asset; knowledge of Hindi or other Indian languages is desirable.