Director, Independent Evaluation Department

2 weeks ago

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Islamic Development Bank Full time

Job Purpose

The Director of the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) supports the IsDB’s BED in its oversight role. S/he leads the independent evaluation function to assess whether the Bank’s development interventions and corporate programs achieved their intended outputs, outcomes, and impacts and ascertain their alignment with IsDB strategy, thus holding the IsDB accountable to its stakeholders in terms of development effectiveness and proper allocation and use of resources.

The Director, IED provides strategic direction, motivational leadership, and operational oversight for the evaluation team to undertake independent evaluation work at the macro level (e.g., Country, Sector, Thematic, Corporate, and Process evaluations) and project and program level covering operations in the Member Countries and Non-Member Countries.

The Director steers the drawing and dissemination of evidence-based lessons and recommendations to feed into future IsDB policies, strategies, and operations, thus contributing to maximizing the impact of the Bank’s interventions and its performance and development effectiveness.

The Director, IED leads the development and enhancement of the evaluation policy, strategies, guidelines, and tools to be at a state-of-the-art level and ensures adherence of the IsDB’s evaluation activities to the internationally accepted principles and good practice standards for evaluating development interventionsKey Accountabilities
**Strategic Planning & Evaluation Activities**:

- Set strategic objectives and direction for the Bank’s Independent Evaluation work, formulate Annual Work Program covering both macro-level evaluation and project-level evaluation, process and on-demand evaluations as well as Enabling, Learning, and Outreach activities.
- Independently assess the IsDB Strategies such as Member Country Partnership Strategy (MCPS), Sector Strategies, and Thematic Strategies and suggest measures for their enhancement.
- Plan and provide direction to an in-depth evaluation of the Bank’s operations and processes both in the MCs and Non-MCs to assess their Relevance, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Sustainability, and Impact
- Lead the Annual Resource Planning and Annual Budget Planning exercise for the Department and manage these resources to ensure achieving the set objectives within the allocated resources and budget.
- Identify key lessons learned from the evaluation process and recommend measures for enhancing the effectiveness of IsDB’s strategies and financing operations.
- Follow up on and assess steps taken by the IsDB to implement recommendations made in evaluation reports and studies to ensure that the findings, lessons learned, and recommendations made are reflected in the future strategies and operations of the Bank.
- Validate the self-evaluation work undertaken by various organizational units of IsDB and ensure that independent evaluations and self-evaluation complement each other.
- Ensure compliance with the quality standards/quality assurance mechanism and guidelines for evaluation-related work, in line with the Good Practices Standards (GPS) of the MDBs' Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG).
- Lead the development of a comprehensive evaluation framework for carrying out evaluation work at the corporate, strategic and intervention levels.
- Oversee the preparation of reports, briefs, presentations, etc. on the evaluation findings, lessons learnt, and actions taken for the IsDB Management and the BED.
- Lead, engage and communicate with the relevant Units in the Bank to enhance collaboration and effectiveness in addressing systemic, cross-cutting and sectorial issues affecting the Bank.
- Lead the preparation of the annual report on the evaluation work and share it with the IsDB Management and the BED
- Participate and contribute to the Annual Development Effectiveness Review of the Bank.

**Knowledge Sharing Partnership, and Evaluation Capacity Development**:

- Develop a knowledge management system related to the evaluation work to share the lessons learned, practices, and recommendations for use of the relevant Units and Staff of IsDB
- Diligently seek and act on feedback from internal and external stakeholders.
- Serve as a focal point and 'resource center' for all matters related to corporate and operations evaluation and development effectiveness.
- Participate in the benchmarking exercise and keep abreast of the initiatives taken by other MDB’s on enhancing evaluation and development effectiveness and adopt the best practices in IsDB.
- Engage in partnerships with the professional evaluation networks, evaluation staff of peer institutions, and the MDBs’ Evaluation Coordination Group to enhance the Bank’s evaluation capacity and support the harmonization of the evaluation standards across MDBs.
- Promote the evaluation culture - both within the IsDB Group and in IsDB member countries - to ensure that evaluation contributes towards improved learning and performa

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