Job Title: EYE Endline Evaluation; Team Leader: Public Health or Sexual Reproductive Health Expert & Gender/Adolescent and Youth Expert (2 UN Jobs)
Organisation: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. Since UNFPA started working in 1969, the number – and rate – of women dying from complications of pregnancy or childbirth has been halved. Families are smaller and healthier. Young people are more connected and empowered than ever before.
Job Summary: To undertake the endline evaluation for the project, “My Body, My Life, My World – Empowering Young girls and women to decide over their own bodies and Ensure universal access to comprehensive adolescent and youth friendly SRHR information and services (EYE universal SRHR)” implemented by UNFPA in partnership with CARE and Marie Stopes Uganda (MSU) in Kamuli and Mayuge districts with support from Norwegian Government.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with evaluation team members to develop an inception report containing the evaluation approach, methodology, evaluation matrix, review of the project theory of change, data collection tools, and submit it to the Evaluation Reference Group for review.
- Present the inception report to UNFPA, the donor and the evaluation reference group and thereafter finalise the report based on feedback received.
- Recruit and train research assistants to assist with the collection of relevant quantitative and qualitative data during the field mission.
- Undertake desk review and analysis of key background documents, including the Project documents, Results framework, Project progress reports, baseline reports, SRH Integration framework, SRH Integration Score Card
- Seek ethical clearance from an Institutional Review Board and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology
- Collect primary quantitative and qualitative data from selected sites (schools, health facilities, and community levels etc). A list of key stakeholders to be engaged by the evaluation team will be established at the beginning of the inception phase but will include Donor staff, UNFPA staff, implementing partners, district officials, and key beneficiaries.
- Conduct an in-depth analysis and triangulation of primary and secondary data. The analysis should reflect the progress concerning the evaluation criteria above. Data on indicators should be disaggregated for sex, age, and key vulnerability groups (PWDs, KPs, etc.) as guided by UNFPA M&E advisors.
- Write a draft evaluation report summarising the background, evaluation approach and methodology, findings, lessons, best practices, conclusions, and recommendations. (max 50 pages excluding annexes).
- Present the draft report Evaluation and Health Facility Assessment Report to UNFPA, the donor and the Evaluation Reference group, and representatives of stakeholders who participated in the Endline, at a virtual validation workshop, and finalise the report based on the feedback received.
- Disseminate the Endline findings to the EYE partners during a regional l dissemination workshop.
- Update the Results framework with endline indicator values
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
Team Leader: Public Health or Sexual Reproductive Health Expert
- An advanced degree in Medicine or related fields, Health Economics, Epidemiology or Biostatistics.
- Specialization in public health;
- 8 years’ experience in conducting evaluations in the field of development aid for UN agencies and/or other international organizations;
- Substantive knowledge of sexual and reproductive health as a thematic area
- Knowledge of evaluation methods, data collection and analysis
- Excellent data analysis skills in qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Past experience as evaluation team leader in a related assignment(s).
- Ability to provide deliverables on time
- Excellent written and spoken English Language skills
- Evidence of having carried out similar work before, especially within the East African Region, particularly in the health, gender/Youth and human rights sectors
- Proven experience of conducting studies using mixed methods approach (quantitative and qualitative)
- Expertise in developing or updating a M&E Results Frameworks
- Excellent analytical, writing and communication skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Familiarity with UN operations is an added advantage
Gender/Adolescent and Youth Expert
- An advanced degree in Gender and Development, Human Rights, Sociology, Social Work.
- Substantive knowledge of Gender Equality as a thematic area
- Good knowledge of the national development context
- 5 years’ experience in conducting complex evaluations in the field of development aid for UN agencies and/or other international organizations including experience in leading evaluations
- Extensive knowledge and experience in the application of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods with a strong gender focus.
- In-depth knowledge of evaluation methods, data collection and analysis
- Excellent data analysis skills in qualitative and quantitative methods
- Familiarity with UN operations
- Excellent analytical, writing and communication skills
- Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team of experts
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Experience and understanding of UN programming processes.
- Experience on evaluation of UN supported programmes will be an added advantage.
Languages:
- English
- Required Competencies:
- Values:
- Exemplifying integrity,
- Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system,
- Embracing cultural diversity,
- Embracing change
Core Competencies:
- Achieving results,
- Being accountable,
- Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen,
- Thinking analytically and strategically,
- Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships,
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should apply online through the UNFPA portal
Deadline: 11th August 2025
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