Lead Corporate, Country, and Thematic Evaluation Specialist
1 week ago
Join the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) as a Lead Corporate, Country, and Thematic Evaluation Specialist and contribute to the improvement of the development effectiveness and the Bank's corporate performance.
Job PurposeThis 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.
Key Responsibilities- Strategic Planning and Operational Management
- 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 the Manager, CCTE, 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).
- 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.
- 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 and execution of the corporate, sector, thematic and country policies and strategies.
- Present IEvD's evaluations findings and discuss the lessons learned and recommendations during Department Meetings, Management Meetings, IsDB Annual Meetings, Board Meetings, and other internal stakeholders.
- Guide, mentor, and support evaluators in disseminating the evaluation results, lessons, and recommendations to the Executing Agencies, Line Ministries, and other stakeholders in the Member and Non-Member Countries.
- Master's Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Evaluation, Economics, Development Studies, Public Policy, Finance, Business Administration, or any related discipline.
- A professional certification in development evaluation or in policy and strategy management is preferable.
- Minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience in development evaluation, monitoring and evaluation, country/sector/thematic portfolio management and quality, policy/strategy work in key corporate/sectors/thematic areas, and country-level strategies in a multilateral development sector, of which a minimum of 3 years of technical supervisory experience.
- Expertise in development evaluation and effectiveness methods.
- Advanced poverty diagnostic analysis.
- Advanced country/sector/policy programming skills.
- Country Portfolio Assessment.
- Vast experience in economic analysis role in institutions like a development bank, central bank, or a relevant ministry.
- Advanced knowledge of results-based management concepts.
- Advanced analytical, synthesis, writing, and editing skills.
- Advanced planning and organization skills.
- Economic Analysis and Assessment.
- Full awareness of the latest international development issues policies and economies of developing countries.
- Knowledge Management and Dissemination.
- MS Office-Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
- English - Mandatory.
- Arabic - Preferred.
- French - Preferred.
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