Senior Evaluation Expert in Education sts

Join the Sustainable Research and Development Center as a Senior Evaluation Expert to lead a final evaluation of an education programme in Jordan.

• Providing overall technical leadership and management of the evaluation.
• Leading the development and refinement of the evaluation methodology and approach.
• Reviewing programme documents, strategies, results frameworks, monitoring data, previous evaluations, studies, and relevant policy documents.
• Leading preparation of the inception report, including the evaluation matrix, reconstructed Theory of Change, stakeholder mapping, sampling approach, data collection tools, and detailed workplan.
• Supervising and coordinating the work of the evaluation team.
• Allocating responsibilities among team members and ensuring consistency across all evaluation activities.
• Leading key informant interviews, focus group discussions, stakeholder consultations, and other data collection activities.
• Leading the in-country and field component of the evaluation.
• Assessing programme relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability.
• Assessing institutional and system-level changes resulting from the programme.
• Examining the sustainability and institutionalization of programme-supported reforms, systems, tools, processes, and capacities.
• Applying data triangulation and appropriate qualitative and quantitative analytical methods.
• Applying advanced evaluation approaches, where appropriate, including contribution analysis and/or outcome harvesting.
• Identifying achievements, challenges, unintended results, good practices, and lessons learned.
• Developing strategic, prioritized, practical, and actionable recommendations.
• Leading presentations of preliminary and final evaluation findings to relevant stakeholders.
• Leading preparation of the draft and final evaluation reports and recommendations matrix.
• Ensuring that comments and feedback received during the review process are appropriately addressed.
• Ensuring compliance with recognized evaluation quality standards and ethical principles.
• Ensuring integration of gender equality, inclusion, human rights, confidentiality, cultural sensitivity, and “do no harm” principles throughout the evaluation.
• Ensuring timely and high-quality completion of all deliverables.

• advanced degree in relevant field