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Job Description
Leads a terminal evaluation of UNEP and Green Climate Fund work to strengthen Bahrain’s water-sector climate resilience. The home-based principal evaluator manages evaluation design, mixed-method data collection and analysis, stakeholder engagement and reporting, assessing achievements, adaptation outcomes, water-resource management and institutional capacity over a seven-month assignment.
Key Details
Department
Evaluation Office
Position Details
Experience level
Senior
Minimum experience
10 years
Employment type
Contractor / Part-time
Arrangement
Remote
Minimum education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Contract duration
7 months
Work hours
Part time
Language Requirements
Required
English
Preferred
Arabic
Summary of Responsibilities
- Manage the evaluation and ensure timely delivery of its outputs, data collection, analysis and report writing
- Conduct desk reviews, introductory interviews and develop the reconstructed Theory of Change and evaluation framework
- Develop interview, survey and country or site-selection protocols and prepare the inception report
- Conduct in-depth interviews and agreed evaluation missions while ensuring evaluation independence and confidentiality
- Draft and finalise the Main Evaluation Report and response-to-comments annex
- Maintain participatory yet independent relationships with evaluation stakeholders and report issues to the Evaluation Manager
Role Requirements
- Advanced university degree in environmental sciences, international development, evaluation, public policy, political or social sciences or a related field, or a bachelor's degree plus two additional years of qualifying experience
- At least ten years of professional evaluation experience including leading or managing independent development, environment or climate-project evaluations
- Experience leading country-level evaluations with government institutions and national stakeholders
- Experience using Theory of Change approaches and mixed-method evaluation methodologies
- Experience evaluating climate-change adaptation projects
- Fluency in oral and written English
- No prior involvement in the formulation or implementation of UNEP projects and programmes
Desired Criteria
- Experience working in the Middle East
- Experience evaluating Green Climate Fund-financed projects
- Working experience with the United Nations system and UNEP
Skills
Tools and Technologies
Additional Information
- Field visits may be required
- Consultant must sign the Evaluation Consultant Code of Conduct Agreement Form
Source & verification
IGO Jobs sourced this vacancy from UNEP Careers, on 10 Sep 2026.