UN Women: Evaluation Consultant, Bangkok, Thailand, International Consultant

Contract Overview

Consultancy Title: Evaluation Consultant
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Practice Area: Gender Equality
Type of Contract: Individual Consultant Category (Eligible applicants): External
Languages Required: English
Starting Date: 25 November 2026
Duration of Contract: 25 November 2026 - 24 November 2027

Consultancy Assignment

Background/Context

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against all women and girls.

The mandate and functions of UN Women call for the promotion of organizational and UN system accountability on gender equality through evaluation, strengthening evaluation capacities and learning from evaluation, and developing systems to measure the results and impact of UN Women with its enhanced role at country, regional and global levels. The purpose and role of evaluation in UN Women is to enhance accountability, inform decision-making and contribute to learning on the best ways to achieve women’s empowerment and gender equality through operational and normative work.

The UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) of the Independent Evaluation and Audit and Investigation Services (IEAIS) serves as the custodian of the evaluation function in UN Women, in line with United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) Norms and Standards. IES evaluates the work of UN women to enhance organizational accountability, provide evidence-based information for decision-making and to contribute to learning on gender equality and the empowerment of women. IES posts Regional Evaluation Specialists in the Regional Offices of UN Women with a key task to lead independent evaluations and to support country office personnel with the management of decentralized evaluations. UN Women hires external consultants to conduct evaluations as evaluation Team Leader, thematic expert or evaluation analysts.

UN Women, through its Strategic Plan 2026-2029, convenes actors from all sectors to promote institutional change, positive social norms and collective action anchored in human rights obligations and commitments. UN Women has identified four impact areas through which the organization strives to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment:

• Women’s leadership and decision-making
• Women Peace and Security, and Humanitarian Action
• Women and girls free from violence
• Women’s Economic Empowerment in resilient economies

Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work

Under the supervision of the Regional Evaluation Specialist for Asia and the Pacific and in consultation with the Chief of the Independent Evaluation Service (IES), the Evaluation Consultant will contribute to corporate evaluations, including synthesis and rapid assessments, IES-led regional evaluations for Asia and the Pacific and support the evaluation function for the Asia and the Pacific region as follows:

• 1. Support the conduct of corporate evaluations as an evaluation team member (70% of time effort)
• Support preliminary research, documentation review and analysis processes, such as document review and evaluation portfolio analysis based on and review of relevant documents (e.g., strategic notes, prodocs, donor reports and evaluation reports etc.) and corporate data (e.g. monitoring and reporting data, financial and HR data etc.)
• Support or lead elements of data collection, including desk review, survey design and implementation, key informant interviews and focus group discussions, and the implementation of other data collection tools. Undertake quantitative and qualitative data analysis for case studies and create data visualizations, tables, and graphs for key documents and analysis as needed.
• During the evaluation reporting phase, support the development and presentation of the preliminary finding and drafting of the synthesis evaluation report and annexes.
• Support the development of the communication package for the evaluation, such as evaluation brief and Transform magazine and support the dissemination of the evaluation.
• 2. Support the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific evaluation function, including conducting IES-led evaluations and managing the quality assurance of decentralized evaluations (Regional and Country Office managed), and providing knowledge management leadership (i.e. facilitating use of evaluation). (30% of time effort)
• IES-led evaluations:
• Support preliminary research, documentation review and analysis processes, such as document review and evaluation portfolio analysis based on and review of relevant documents (e.g., strategic notes, prodocs, donor reports and evaluation reports etc.) and corporate data (e.g. monitoring and reporting data, financial and HR data etc.)
• Support or lead elements of data collection, including desk review, survey design and implementation, key informant interviews and focus group discussions, and the implementation of other data collection tools. Undertake quantitative and qualitative data analysis for case studies and create data visualizations, tables, and graphs for key documents and analysis as needed.
• During the evaluation reporting phase, support the development and presentation of the preliminary finding and drafting of the synthesis evaluation report and annexes.
• Support the development of the communication package for the evaluation, such as evaluation brief and Transform magazine and support the dissemination of the evaluation.
• Provide support to management and quality assurance of evaluation processes in the Asia and the Pacific region, building capacity within the region for high qual