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Re-Advertisement: Evaluation Officer (NO-2), TA (364 days), #138317, Amman - Jordan, MENA

Unicef CHAD · Jordan, PA · 1 mo ago
OTHRFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. We need to parse the job posting. Let's extract relevant content: Job title: Evaluation Officer (implied). Not to repeat as heading. Metadata: Job no: 595477, Contract type: Temporary Appointment, Duty Station: Amman, Location: Jordan, Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. This is a re-advertisement... Those who applied to previous advertisement do not need to re-apply; they are still being considered. We can fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. Probably include a short paragraph with Job no, Contract type, Duty Station, Location, Categories, note about re-advertisement. Then the description about UNICEF mission etc. That's generic but maybe considered boilerplate? It's about UNICEF works... Might be considered boilerplate but it's substantive about organization. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The mission statement may be considered generic but not necessarily boilerplate. However we need to preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep the description of UNICEF's work, mission, values, etc. But we need to avoid duplication. We need to structure into sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to see what content maps. From posting: - "How can you make a difference? As an Evaluation Officer, you are responsible for the effective implementation of the evaluations of the Country Programme’s Costed Evaluation Plan and for evaluations triggered by other requirements. Your role contributes to the achievement of key end-results by providing professional expertise in evaluation. You support communication, partnerships, and the design and implementation of capacity development activities aimed at strengthening national and sub-national evaluation capacity. In addition, you coordinate office-wide knowledge management, promoting good practices on evaluation use and evaluation culture more largely within the JCO. As an Evaluation Officer, you have a formal reporting line to the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, and work in close collaboration with the MENARO Multi-Country Evaluation Specialist who provides systematic oversight (quality assurance) on all evaluations of JCO, combined with guidance and technical support when required. Given the nature of evaluation being an independent oversight function, and the Representative being accountable for evaluation in the Country Office, you need to have direct access to the Representative on evaluation, expressed through a dotted-line reporting relationship to the JCO Representative. You manage the planning, design, implementation, and follow-up of evaluation activities across the country office, including coordination with other agencies and engagement with national and international stakeholders, as appropriate, ensuring the delivery and use of high-quality evaluations in accordance with UNICEF’s Evaluation Policy, with the evaluation and ethics procedures and guidance of UNICEF and of other recognized professional norms and standards including the 2016 UN Evaluation Group Norms and Standards for Evaluation." That's responsibilities. - "Summary Of Key Functions/accountabilities Evaluation Planning, Management, and ImplementationEvaluation design and implementation Evaluation useCoordination, Networking, and Evaluation Capacity Development" This seems like a list of functions. - Minimum Requirements: Education, Work Experience, Technical knowledge, Language Requirements. - Desirables: Language, Experience in supporting national evaluation capacity, etc. - Core Values and Competencies: list of competencies. - Benefits: "We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities." Also earlier: "we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world." Also "attractive compensation and benefits package." So we have some benefits. - Pay: Not specified. No salary info. So we should NOT create Pay section. - Schedule: Not specified. No schedule info. So no Schedule section. - Benefits: we have some specifics: paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. Also professional development opportunities. We'll include Benefits section. - Skills: maybe list of key skills: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Design, Data Analysis, Process Management, Knowledge Management, Planning & Monitoring. Also competencies list: Builds and maintains partnerships, Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness, Drive to achieve results for impact, Innovates and embraces change, Manages ambiguity and complexity, Thinks and acts strategically, Works collaboratively with others. Those could be under Skills or Competencies. We'll put under Skills. - Qualifications: maybe Education and Experience? The Minimum Requirements includes Education and Work Experience. Could be Qualifications. - Requirements: maybe Language Requirements, Desirables. We need to avoid duplication. Let's decide sections: - About the role: brief summary of purpose (maybe first paragraph after mission). Could be the "How can you make a difference?" paragraph as About the role. - Responsibilities: detailed responsibilities list (the longer paragraph). Could be bullet list. - Requirements: Minimum Requirements (Education, Work Experience, Technical knowledge, Language Requirements). Could be bullet list. - Qualifications: maybe Desirables? Or we could combine Requirements and Qualifications. But we need to follow instruction: use headings only when posting has real specific content. We can have both if content distinct. - Skills: Key skills and competencies. - Benefits: benefits listed. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc as headings; we can put them in a short p. We must remove boilerplate like "Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF." That's generic; maybe remove. Also "For every child, the right to Results" maybe tagline; could keep? It's part of mission but maybe not essential. We'll keep mission description but remove generic promotional lines. Also remove duplicated lines: there is duplication of "As an Evaluation Officer, you have a formal reporting line..." appears twice? Actually appears once. There's duplication of "UNICEF works in over 190 countries..." appears early; we might keep once. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:

Job no: 595477 • Contract type: Temporary Appointment • Duty Station: Amman, Jordan • Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation • This is a re‑advertisement; previous applicants need not re‑apply.

Then sections. About the role:

About the role

As an Evaluation Officer, you are responsible for the effective implementation of the evaluations of the Country Programme’s Costed Evaluation Plan and for evaluations triggered by other requirements. Your role contributes to the achievement of key end‑results by providing professional expertise in evaluation. You support communication, partnerships, and the design and implementation of capacity development activities aimed at strengthening national and sub‑national evaluation capacity. In addition, you coordinate office‑wide knowledge management, promoting good practices on evaluation use and evaluation culture within the JCO.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

  • Manage the planning, design, implementation, and follow‑up of evaluation activities across the country office, including coordination with other agencies and engagement with national and international stakeholders.
  • Ensure delivery and use of high‑quality evaluations in accordance with UNICEF’s Evaluation Policy and the evaluation and ethics procedures and guidance of UNICEF and other recognized professional norms and standards (including the 2016 UN Evaluation Group Norms and Standards for Evaluation).
  • Have a formal reporting line to the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and work closely with the MENARO Multi‑Country Evaluation Specialist for systematic oversight, quality assurance, guidance and technical support.
  • Maintain a dotted‑line reporting relationship to the JCO Representative to ensure direct access on evaluation matters.
  • Promote evaluation use and foster an evaluation culture office‑wide through knowledge management activities.
Requirements:

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in humanities, social sciences, development economics, statistics, public administration, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or other related fields. A degree or certification/accreditation in Evaluation is a significant advantage.
  • Work Experience: Minimum 2 years of professional experience in supporting or implementing equity‑focused evaluations and managing the evaluation function at the national and/or international level per UNICEF/UNEG norms and standards.
  • Technical knowledge and experience in programme evaluation, evaluation design, data analysis, and reporting is required.
  • Experience in managing evaluations, strong analytical skills, and the ability to synthesize and clearly summarize qualitative and quantitative data are essential.
  • Language Requirements: Fluency of English and Arabic required.
Skills:

Skills

  • Key skills: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Design, Data Analysis, Process Management, Knowledge Management, Planning & Monitoring.
  • Core competencies: Builds and maintains partnerships; Demonstrates self‑awareness and ethical awareness; Drive to achieve results for impact; Innovates and embraces change; Manages ambiguity and complexity; Thinks and acts strategically; Works collaboratively with others.
Benefits:

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave
  • Breastfeeding breaks
  • Reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities
  • Opportunities for professional and personal development
  • Attractive compensation and benefits package
We should not include Pay or Schedule sections. Check for any duplicated content: we have covered. We removed boilerplate like "Visit our website to learn more..." etc. We kept mission description? We omitted the generic UNICEF mission paragraphs. Might be considered substantive but maybe not required. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. The mission description about UNICEF works in over 190 countries etc is substantive about the organization. Should we keep it? It could be placed under About the role or a separate section like "About UNICEF". But we only have allowed headings list; we could add a section "About UNICEF" but not in list. The instruction says use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It gives examples but not exclusive? It says "use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect only those headings. So we should fit content into those sections. The mission description could go under About the role as introductory paragraph. We could incorporate a sentence about UNICEF's mission in About the role. Let's adjust About the role to include UNICEF mission brief. About the role:

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. As an Evaluation Officer, you are responsible for ...

That preserves mission. Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate like "For every child, the right to Results" etc. We can drop that tagline. Also remove lines like "We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package." That's somewhat generic but could be considered benefits; we already have benefits. Might be okay to keep as part of Benefits? But we already have benefits list. Could incorporate that sentence into Benefits paragraph but we already have list. Might be okay to omit as it's somewhat generic. We also need to remove duplicated lines: there is duplication of "UN

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