Senior Evaluation Officer (Head of ITC’s Independent Evaluation Office), OED/SPPG, P4

The International Trade Centre (ITC) is the technical cooperation agency of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO). With the vision ‘Transforming Trade, Changing Lives’, ITC assists developing countries and economies in transition in expanding sustainable trade and generating inclusive income opportunities in small firms. The Independent Evaluation Unit (IEU) is the custodian of the evaluation function at ITC, supporting organizational learning and accountability. Evaluations provide insights into what works and what doesn’t, and help to improve ITC policies, programmes, and projects by informing decision-making. Evaluations provide evidence of the results achieved by ITC and help to hold managers accountable for the use of resources. Ultimately, the IEU’s results are assessed by the contributions evaluations make to decision-making and to ITC’s performance. ITC’s senior leadership and governance bodies determine the priorities of IEU’s work. IEU is functionally situated in the Office of the Executive Director (OED) with direct communication and reporting lines to the Executive and Deputy Executive Director. Operationally, it is part of the Strategic Planning, Performance and Governance (SPPG) section of the OED, with a focus on generating synergies with other parts of SPPG - strategic planning, project design support, corporate performance monitoring and reporting, external relations and governance, diversity and inclusion. The Senior Evaluation Officer will discuss priorities, objectives and content of IEU’s work with the Executive and Deputy Executive Director, and with the ITC’s Senior Management Committee, for final endorsement. They will approve the workplan of the IEU, and management responses to IEU evaluations. The Senior Evaluation Officer will report to the Chief SPPG on the IEU’s workplan execution and use of resources.