Lead Corporate, Country and Thematic Evaluation

2 days ago

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Islamic Development Bank Full time

Job Purpose

This role plans and technically leads macro-level evaluation work, including corporate, country, sector, and thematic evaluations. The Lead Corporate, Country, and Thematic Evaluation Specialist is responsible for conducting thorough investigations and analysis to assess the development effectiveness of the Islamic Development Bank's (IsDB) interventions, draws lessons from evaluation studies, and leads the dissemination of knowledge within IsDB and in the member countries to contribute to the improvement of the development effectiveness and the Bank's corporate performance, ensuring that evaluation results are taken into account in the IsDB's policies, strategies and operations. This role is also responsible for providing high-level advice on development effectiveness and technically guiding less experienced staff members in the Division.

Key Accountabilities
**Strategic & Operational Planning**
- Provide inputs in establishing strategic objectives and formulating the work program of the department, with a specific focus on corporate, country, sector, and thematic evaluations as well as on knowledge dissemination.
- Support CCTE Manager, and the Director IEvD in the allocation and utilization of resources for evaluations and knowledge dissemination.
- Lead the development of IsDB policies, guidelines, systems, procedures, and tools related to corporate, country, sector, and thematic evaluations, knowledge management, and dissemination strategy while ensuring alignment with MDBs' Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) Good Practice Standards (GPS).
- Work closely and in synergy with the other lead evaluation specialists to ensure coherence and consistency in policies, guidelines, systems, methods, and processes.
- Identify, plan, and lead the creation of evidence-based knowledge on development effectiveness from the evaluations undertaken in IsDB.
- Provide inputs for IsDB Strategies such as flagship Corporate Strategies, Member Country Partnership Strategy (MCPS), Sector / Thematic Strategies, and Special initiatives.
- Assist Manager, CCTE, in planning evaluations and monitoring progress to ensure adherence to the schedules for conducting corporate, country, sector, and thematic evaluations within allocated resources.
- Plan and coordinate joint evaluations with other development partners and ensure harmonization.
- Coordinate planning, preparation, and outcome of the corporate, country, sector, and thematic evaluation processes, including the oversight of multi-task teams to ensure effective and efficient results.

**Evaluations' Design and Implementation**
- Plan and lead complex macro-level evaluations such as corporate, country, sector, and thematic evaluations, On-Demand evaluations such as formative and real-time evaluations, etc.
- Contribute to the design of complex project, program, and cluster level evaluations such as post-evaluation of selected completed projects financed under the various windows of the IsDB Group as well as completed technical and special assistance operations, projects experiencing major obstacles in implementation, cluster of TA operations.
- Set-up and lead teams (including external consultants) for major evaluations.
- Advise the Manager, CCTE and Director, IEvD on day-to-day decision making relating to corporate, country, sector, and thematic evaluations.
- Ensure that evaluation requirements are comprehensively assessed, and that adequate approach papers with rigorous methods are set to fulfil them.
- Plan, lead / undertake field missions, communicate and interact with internal and external stakeholders particularly member country governments, private sector, beneficiary population, development partners and carry out thorough data and information collection, reviews, and analysis to assess the relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, output, outcome and impact of IsDB interventions and the sustainability of achieved development results.
- Ensure compliance with quality standards and quality assurance mechanism and guidelines for the department's evaluation related work, in line with MDBs' Evaluation Cooperation Group (ECG) Good Practices Standards (GPS) and IEvD guidelines.
- Review and clear evaluation products prepared by the department's staff members and external consultants ensuring validity, accuracy, precision of the content and usefulness of findings and recommendations.
- Ensure planning, delivery and high-quality of validations of Member Country Partnership Strategy Completion Reviews (MCPS-CR) and Mid-term Reviews of MCPS prepared by Operations Complex.

**Evaluation Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Development**
- Lead the knowledge management system related to the macro evaluations to share the lessons learned, best practices adopted, and recommendations for the use of the relevant Units and Staff of IsDB.
- Share evaluation lessons, findings highlighting achievements and shortcomings, and recommend necessary actions to sharpen strategy formulation an

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