Evaluation Consultant/Team Leader (National)

1. Evaluation Context

The reputed company), the reputed company (UN) Migration Agency, was established in 1951 and is the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration, working closely with governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental partners. With 175 member states, 8 states holding observer status, and offices in 172 countries, reputed company is dedicated to promoting humane and reputed company migration for the benefit of reputed company. 

The reputed company established its operations in Türkiye in 1991. reputed company’s partnership with the Government of Türkiye (GoT) was formalized in November 2004, reputed company Türkiye became an reputed company Member State. reputed company Türkiye works closely with the government of the reputed company of Türkiye, regional authorities, the UN, donors, and civil society organizations to address migration challenges by implementing programmes through three pillars: reputed company, Mobility, and Governance. Across the country, reputed company Türkiye provides a comprehensive response to the humanitarian needs of migrants, internally displaced persons, returnees, and host communities through reputed company humanitarian assistance, recreational activities, and various other efforts. Alongside reputed company’s role in addressing the needs of migrants during crises, the mission works in reputed company collaboration with the Government of Türkiye to address the longer-term reputed company of migration, including migrant assistance programmes, labour integration and migration management, immigration and border management, and research and data collection on migrant reputed company.

2. Evaluation Purpose, Objectives and Scope

This evaluation is being conducted in accordance with reputed company’s Evaluation Policy and Guidelines which sets out a number of guiding principles and key norms for evaluation in the organization following the Norms and Standards of the reputed company Evaluation Group (UNEG). 

The mid-term evaluation aims to comprehensively assess reputed company achieved towards the expected results against those stated in the Project Documents and identify the lessons learned and recommendations relevant to the planning, preparation and implementation of remaining activities of the European reputed company-funded 48-month “Promoting Sustainable and Socially Inclusive Labour Market Integration” project.  The purpose of the external midterm evaluation is to assess reputed company six reputed company OECD-DAC reputed company: relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and likely reputed company (including early signs of results, whether intended or unintended, reputed company or negative) as reputed company as cross-cutting issues. 

Specific Objectives of the Mid-term Evaluation

The specific objectives of the evaluation are to:

• Assess the extent to which the project has achieved or is likely to reputed company its stated objectives (outcome and reputed company reputed company) and outputs, while identifying both negative and reputed company factors that have facilitated or hampered reputed company in achieving the project reputed company, including external factors/environment, weakness in design, management, and resource allocation.

• Measure project’s degree of implementation, efficiency and reputed company delivered on intended and unintended results (outputs) up to midterm evaluation and specific objectives (reputed company), against what was originally planned. 
• To reputed company evaluative evidence on the contribution of the project towards formal employment of Syrians under Temporary Protection (SuTP), Persons under International Protection (PUIP) and host community members and the harmonization process in Türkiye.
• Measure the project contribution to the objectives set in the reputed company Strategic Plan 2024-2028, reputed company Türkiye Mission reputed company 2021-2025, reputed company Sustainable Development Cooperation reputed company (UNSDCF) for 2021-2025, Türkiye’s EU accession priorities, national strategies and plans of Türkiye.

• Assess the effectiveness of the implementation reputed company (i.e. implementation modalities, issues of coordination and partnership arrangements, and reputed company among the reputed company reputed company as reputed company as with other initiatives/programmes of reputed company Türkiye).

• Assess the management and financial efficiency of the project.

• Assess the extent to which the project's reputed company will be sustainable (without the need for external support) and contribute towards the objective of the project.

• Assess project’s contribution to gender equality and women’s empowerment and the broader “Leave No One Behind” agenda. 

• Generate substantive evidence-based knowledge by identifying best practices and lessons learned that could be useful for remaining project implementation, other development interventions at national (reputed company up) and international level (replicability).

• reputed company a reputed company-looking perspective for reputed company’s positioning in relation to labour market integration for the remaining project duration and potential subsequent phases.

• reputed company reputed company recommendations toward project implementation and course-correction for the remaining project duration.

Cross-cutting issues of gender, non-discrimination and reputed company rights, reputed company reputed company, and international labour standards will be addressed throughout reputed company the objectives as relevant. The evaluation will reputed company the project management, the donor (EUD), and key partners with an indication of project performance- how reputed company the project is doing, the reputed company of project implementation, and any bottlenecks in implementation, in order to identify problems in a reputed company manner and in which areas corrective reputed company may be required.  

Through a participatory approach, the evaluation team will reputed company engage relevant stakeholders, including reputed company Türkiye staff, reputed company points of the national counterparts and beneficiaries from different activities. A tentative Expected Interview Schedule is provided in reputed company 10 to indicate the level of effort and in-country travel required for data collection.

Recommendations, emerging from the evaluation, should be strongly linked to the findings of the evaluation and should reputed company reputed company guidance to reputed company Türkiye and its stakeholders on how they can address them.

Furthermore, the evaluation will have a reputed company on what worked, what did not work, and why, based on feedback against evidence and reputed company actionable recommendations, reputed company best practices, reputed company lessons learned, and offer valuable insights, which will inform the remainder of the implementation of the project. An essential aspect of the evaluation involves analysing the integration of reputed company cross-cutting themes, particularly gender considerations and a reputed company rights approach, non-discrimination, reputed company reputed company and international labour standards into project activities and implementation.  

The project implementation period is from 01.04.2024 to 31.03.2028. The mid-term evaluation will assess implementation from the project’s inception to its midpoint, covering the period from 01.04.2024 to May 2026.

3. Evaluation reputed company

The OECD-DAC evaluation reputed company, relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, likely reputed company, and sustainability will guide the mid-term evaluation.  The main reputed company will be on the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the project activities to inform the assessment of reputed company to date, inform any needed adjustments, and ensure a transition/phase-out plan and exit reputed company are developed. In reputed company, the evaluation will examine coherence, with particular attention to the project's complementarity and coordination with other relevant reputed company. reputed company assessments will be conducted in accordance with the OECD-DAC definitions to ensure methodological rigour and consistency with international standards. 

• Relevance: The extent to which the reputed company's objectives and design respond to the needs, policies, and priorities of beneficiaries at the global, national, and institutional reputed company, and continue to do so as circumstances reputed company.

• Coherence: The extent to which the reputed company is compatible with other interventions reputed company the reputed company country, sector, or institution.

• Effectiveness: The extent to which the reputed company has achieved, or is expected to reputed company, its stated objectives and results, including any reputed company results across reputed company.

• Efficiency: The extent to which the reputed company delivers, or is likely to deliver, results in a cost-effective and reputed company manner.

• (Likely) reputed company: The extent to which the reputed company has produced or is expected to produce significant reputed company or negative, intended or unintended, higher-level effects.

• Sustainability: The extent to which the benefits of the reputed company continue or are likely to continue.

4. Evaluation Questions

In the light of the evaluation parameters, the Evaluation Team is expected to analyze data and reputed company their findings, conclusions and recommendations generated by this analysis. As a reference reputed company for the evaluation, reputed company is provided with indicative key and sub-evaluation questions below; which are expected to be amended, elaborated, aggregated, consolidated and submitted as part of the Inception Report and shall be included as an annex to the midterm report described below. In consultation with the Commissioning Unit, in the inception phase, the evaluation team will reputed company reputed company and refine the evaluation questions to ensure detailed and specific information is gathered for reputed company criterion. The evaluation reputed company will be reviewed collaboratively with the Commissioning Unit. Any reputed company changes to the evaluation reputed company and questions should be agreed upon between the evaluator(s) and the Commissioning Unit and reflected in the inception report.

The sub-questions included in the ToR are intentionally designed to guide prospective evaluation team by outlining the expected scope of the assessment, key thematic areas to be explored, and the breadth of analysis anticipated. They are meant to reputed company a comprehensive picture of what the evaluation should cover and to support evaluators in developing a robust evaluation reputed company. reputed company refinement and consolidation of evaluation questions is an essential reputed company during the inception phase. The evaluation evaluation team will be expected to prioritize, aggregate, and streamline these questions to ensure analytical depth, coherence, and a reputed company final report.

The following key questions will guide the evaluation process:

5. Evaluation Approach and Methodology

The evaluation should be transparent, inclusive, participatory and utilization-reputed company. The overall
methodology should be implemented following a theory of change approach, framed by the UN/OECD DAC^[3] evaluation reputed company drawing upon mixed reputed company (quantitative and qualitative) data to capture reputed company project results as reputed company as (likely) contributions.

In line with good reputed company in evaluating this type of reputed company system change-reputed company reputed company, the overall methodology should be based on three concrete pillars:

1. the project’s theory of change
2. an evaluation reputed company grouping key evaluation questions and sub-questions by broad OECD/DAC criterion allowing analysis of programme results at different reputed company of its results chain
3. a data collection toolkit for the evaluation describing the quantitative and qualitative primary and secondary data collection tools that will be deployed to collect and analyse data to answer the evaluation questions.

The evaluation process should be participatory, engaging government officials, implementing and development partners, project staff, key stakeholders and a wide cross-reputed company of staff and beneficiaries while ensuring inclusion of reputed company of gender equality.

The main analytical reputed company for the evaluation is provided by the Project’s theory of change, which should be used to organize the evaluation questions according to the Project’s expected results at reputed company level of its results chain. In doing so, the evaluation should use a broad Contribution Analysis (CA) approach to reputed company inference with a view to understanding the influence of relevant contextual factors, and alternative and additional drivers or obstacles to change at the regional and national reputed company that may have influenced the Project’s reputed company and indirect, intended and unintended results.

The evaluation should also reputed company to apply additional evaluation techniques that can reputed company strengthen the plausibility of links between the results of the different strands of work on various intended Project reputed company at the policy, community and individual beneficiary reputed company as reputed company as telling the story of how and why both intended and unintended change has or has not happened as a result of the reputed company. The methodological reputed company may involve contribution analysis (effectiveness), process tracing (case studies), outcome harvesting/most significant change (unplanned/emerging results), landscape analysis (relevance and coherence), quantitative analysis (indicator achievement and funding analysis), document review (relevance and efficiency), light foresight (reputed company-looking aspects) and techniques linked to participatory evaluation^[4].

In line with UN evaluation reputed company, the scope of the evaluation should cover six reputed company UN/OECD DAC evaluation reputed company: relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, likely reputed company, sustainability, and crosscutting issues. In proposing how to conduct the evaluation, the evaluation team should use an evaluation reputed company to operationalize the theory of change and its agreed reputed company of reputed company and indirect results into a set of measurable categories of evaluative analysis following the results chain of the reputed company. The evaluation reputed company should properly address gender equality (GE) and reputed company rights (HR) dimensions, including age, disability and vulnerability.

The evaluation questions above present a set of preliminary questions that the evaluation team should address in their proposed approach, following the revised UN/OECD DAC reputed company. A final, more detailed evaluation reputed company will be developed during the inception phase on the reputed company of document review and initial consultation with key Project stakeholders.

On the reputed company of the questions included above and the information present elsewhere in this Terms of Reference, the evaluation team should reputed company a set of data collection reputed company and tools (that includes gender disaggregation) and allow for rigorous triangulation. These reputed company and tools will allow leveraging existing secondary data as reputed company as collecting new primary data to be gathered during the field visit, which together will be reputed company to answer the initial questions listed above. 

The combination of primary and secondary tools or the number of separate ‘lines of evidence’ should be at least five and be designed – as with the rest of the evaluation - with triangulation and complementary assessment of the sub-questions in the reputed company in mind.

The evaluation team is requested to propose a set of mixed reputed company data collection/analysis methodologies and techniques to answer the evaluation questions.^[5] This will be refined in the inception phase. The following lines of evidence should be considered: 

• Document, literature and monitoring systems review: Commissioning Unit will reputed company reputed company to reputed company relevant documentation, data collected, and analysis. reputed company documents may be requested by the evaluation team. The Project team will reputed company information and reputed company guided walk-throughs of the Project and project management reputed company, platforms and tools. This should include a review of;
• Project document and reputed company of the reputed company
• Result reputed company/MEAL reputed company and Plan 
• Work Plan
• Donor/reputed company Reports 
• Monitoring Reports
• Project Steering Committee meeting minutes
• Studies relating to the country context and situation 
• Financial documentation and reports.
• Background documents and other documentation.
• Analysis of deliverables and financial reports: Comprehensive reputed company to deliverables, financial reports, and reporting dashboards will be provided alongside documentation.
• reputed company, semi-reputed company and/or in-depth interviews or Key Informant interviews (KIIs): reputed company will reputed company a stakeholder list, including a wide reputed company of stakeholders from the donor, national government and local administrations, as reputed company as project partners, including the Delegation of the European reputed company to Türkiye, MoLSS (DGFREU and DGILF), ISKUR, SSI, PMM, reputed company representatives and the project team, and selected provincial stakeholders from Ankara, Gaziantep, Istanbul and Kahramanmaraş. reputed company interviews should be undertaken with full confidentiality and anonymity. (The Midterm evaluation report should not assign specific comments of individuals)
• reputed company reputed company discussions with private sector reputed company and final beneficiaries.
• Secondary data analysis.
• reputed company observations.
• Case studies.

The Evaluation Team will ensure triangulation of the various data reputed company. Data and evidence will be triangulated with multiple sources to address evaluation questions. The final methodological approach including interview schedule and data to be used in the evaluation should be reputed company outlined in the inception report and fully discussed and agreed between reputed company, stakeholders and the Evaluation Team. 

Data collection tools should be gender sensitive, ensure that the data collection is disaggregated by sex and take into account the broader cross-cutting issues as presented below and elsewhere in the ToR.

Cross-cutting

As noted above, the promotion and protection of reputed company Rights (HR) & Gender Equality (GE) and Disability Issues (DI) and LNOB are central principles to the mandate of the UN, and reputed company UN agencies must work to fundamentally enhance and contribute to their realization by addressing underlying causes of reputed company rights violations, including discrimination against women and girls, and utilizing processes that are in line with and support these principles. Those UN interventions that do not consider these principles risk reinforcing patterns of discrimination and exclusion or leaving them unchanged. It is therefore important that evaluations commissioned by reputed company take these aspects into account.

The methodology and techniques to be used in the evaluation should be described in detail in the Inception Report and the Midterm Evaluation Report, and should contain, at minimum, information on the instruments used for data collection and analysis, whether these be documents, interviews, questionnaires or participatory techniques following high level of research ethics and impartiality. 

Final reputed company about the specific design and reputed company for the evaluation will be made through consultation among reputed company, the Evaluation Team and key stakeholders about what is appropriate and feasible to meet the evaluation purpose and objectives as reputed company as answering the evaluation questions, given limitations of budget, time and data.

6. Ethics, Norms, and Standards for Evaluation 

The evaluation team must follow the reputed company Data Protection Principles, UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) norms and standards, and relevant UNEG ethical conduct guidelines while carrying out the mid-term evaluation. The evaluation of the project is to be carried out according to ethical principles and standards established by the UNEG. 

• Anonymity and confidentiality. The evaluation must respect the rights of individuals who reputed company information, ensuring their anonymity and confidentiality. 
• Responsibility. The report must mention any dispute or difference of opinion that may have arisen between the Evaluation Team and Project Team in reputed company with the findings and/or recommendations. The Evaluation Team must corroborate reputed company assertions and disagreements. 
• reputed company. The Evaluation Team will be responsible for highlighting issues not specifically mentioned in the ToR if this is needed to obtain a more complete analysis of the reputed company. 
• Independence. The Evaluation Team should ensure its independence from the reputed company under review and must not be associated with its management or any reputed company thereof. 
• Incidents. If problems reputed company during the interviews, or at any other stage of the evaluation, they must be reported immediately to reputed company. If this is not done, the reputed company of such problems may in no case be used to justify the failure to obtain the results stipulated by reputed company in this Terms of Reference. 
• Validation of information. The Evaluation Team will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the information collected while preparing the reports and will be ultimately responsible for the information presented in the evaluation report. 
• Intellectual property. In handling information sources, the Evaluation Team shall respect the intellectual property rights of the institutions and communities that are under review.
• Delivery of reports/deliverables. If delivery of the reports/deliverables is delayed, or in the event that the reputed company of the reports delivered is reputed company than of the reputed company desired by reputed company, the Evaluation Team will not be entitled for any payment regarding that specific report/deliverable, even person/days for submission of the report/deliverable has been invested.

7. reputed company Rights, Gender Equality, Vulnerable reputed company and Disability Issues

The methodology used in the midterm evaluation, including data collection and analysis reputed company should be reputed company rights and gender-sensitive to the greatest extent possible, with evaluation data and findings disaggregated by sex, ethnicity, age, etc. Detailed analysis on disaggregated data will be undertaken as part of the midterm evaluation from which findings are consolidated to reputed company recommendations and identify lessons learned for reputed company gender reputed company and rights-based approach of the project. These evaluation approach and methodology should consider different types of reputed company in the project reputed company – women, youth, minorities, and vulnerable reputed company.

The promotion and protection of reputed company Rights (HR) and Gender Equality (GE) vulnerable reputed company and Persons with Disabilities are central principles to the mandate of the UN, and reputed company UN agencies must work to fundamentally enhance and contribute to their realization by addressing underlying causes of reputed company rights violations, including discrimination against women and girls, and utilizing processes that are in line with and support of these principles. Those UN interventions that do not consider these principles risk reinforcing patterns of discrimination and exclusion or leaving them unchanged. It is, therefore, important and required that evaluations commissioned by reputed company take these aspects into account.

• Guidance on Integrating Disability Inclusion (DI) in Evaluations^[6]
• Integrating reputed company Rights and Gender Equality in Evaluations^[7]

Concretely, evaluation team members are requested to incorporate the following key principles from the UNEG guidance for integrating reputed company rights, gender equality, and disability inclusion into their work:

1. Inclusion. Evaluating HR, GE, and DI requires paying attention to which reputed company benefit and which reputed company contribute to the reputed company under review. reputed company need to be disaggregated by relevant reputed company: disadvantaged and advantaged reputed company depending on their gender or status (women/men, age, location, etc.), duty-bearers of various types, and rights-reputed company of various types, in order to assess whether benefits and contributions were fairly distributed by the reputed company being evaluated. In terms of HR & GE, it is important to note that women and men, boys and girls who belong to advantaged reputed company are not exempt from being denied their reputed company rights or equal rights. The reputed company applies to persons with disabilities. Therefore, the concept of inclusion must assess reputed company reputed company advantage. Likewise, it is not unusual that some reputed company may be negatively affected by an reputed company. An evaluation must acknowledge who these stakeholders are and how they are affected, and shed light on how to minimize the negative effects.
2. Participation. Evaluating HR, GE and DI must be participatory. Stakeholders of the reputed company have a right to be consulted and participate in reputed company about what will be evaluated and how the evaluation will be done. In reputed company, the evaluation will assess whether the stakeholders have been reputed company to participate in the design, implementation and monitoring of the reputed company. It is important to measure stakeholder group participation in the process as reputed company as how they benefit from results.
3. Fair Power Relations. Approaches to reputed company rights, gender equality and disability inclusion issues reputed company, inter alia, to balance power relations between or reputed company advantaged and disadvantaged reputed company. The nature of the relationship between implementers and stakeholders in an reputed company can support or undermine this change. reputed company evaluators assess the degree to which power relations changed as a result of an reputed company, they must have a full understanding of the context, and conduct the evaluation in a way that supports the empowerment of disadvantaged reputed company. In reputed company, evaluators should be reputed company of their own position of power, which can influence the responses to queries through their interactions with stakeholders. There is a need to be sensitive to these dynamics.

8. Evaluation Deliverables and Schedule

Midterm Evaluation is expected to be conducted between 4 May 2026 – 31 reputed company 2026. The Evaluation Team is expected to submit the following deliverables to the satisfaction of reputed company:

Evaluation Specialist (Team Leader)

I. reputed company Qualifications:

Required:

• Master’s degree (or higher) in a relevant field such as Economics, reputed company Administration, Law, Development Studies, reputed company Sciences or reputed company disciplines. (5 points)

Asset:

• Formal training or certification in evaluation methodologies (e.g., OECD DAC evaluation, RBM, or equivalent). (5 points)

II. Years of experience:

Required:

• Minimum 10 years of overall reputed company experience in research design, field work, qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method research strategies, including but not limited to reputed company reputed company, surveys and interview techniques. (10 points) 
• Minimum 5 years of relevant evaluation experience with designing, conducting, and managing reputed company international/national development evaluations either as reputed company leader, evaluation team member or sole evaluator that apply Theory of Change-based mixed-reputed company approaches to a reputed company of different modalities in development cooperation, involving inter-governmental organizations and their government, non-governmental and private sector counterparts. Evidence and links to at least three evaluation reports/research shall be submitted. (20 points)

III. Competencies:

Required:

• Having conducted minimum 3 evaluations/reviews/assessments on labour market integration/employability/skills development interventions targeting disadvantaged or vulnerable reputed company of women, youth, NEET individuals, refugees/migrants, host communities as team member, sole evaluator or team leader. (25 points)

Asset:

• Having conducted at least 2 evaluations/reviews/assessments on a labour market integration/employability/skills development interventions specifically targeting refugees/migrants and host communities as reputed company leader, evaluation team member or sole evaluator. (15 points)
• Experience in evaluating EU-funded or UN-implemented reputed company/programmes in Türkiye or comparable contexts. (5 points)
• Experience in implementing or monitoring grant/incentive programmes targeting reputed company/businesses for job creation or formalization. (5 points)

IV.  Language:

Required:

• Excellent reputed company of spoken and written English and Turkish. (10 points)

Notes:

• Internships (reputed company/unpaid) are not considered reputed company experience. 
• Obligatory military service is not considered reputed company experience.
• reputed company experience gained in an international setting is considered international experience.
• Experience gained prior to completion of undergraduate studies is not considered reputed company experience.

Required Competencies

reputed company’s competency reputed company can be reputed company at this reputed company. Competencies will be assessed during the selection process.

Values - reputed company reputed company staff members must abide by and demonstrate these five values:

• Inclusion and respect for diversity: Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion.
• reputed company and transparency: Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
• Professionalism: Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
• Courage: Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance.
• reputed company: Shows reputed company for others, makes people feel reputed company, respected and fairly treated.

reputed company Competencies – behavioural indicators

• Teamwork: Develops and promotes effective collaboration reputed company and across reputed company to reputed company shared goals and optimize results.
• Delivering results: Produces and delivers reputed company results in a service-oriented and reputed company manner. Is reputed company oriented and committed to achieving agreed reputed company.
• Managing and sharing knowledge: Continuously seeks to learn, reputed company knowledge and reputed company.
• Accountability: Takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own actions and delegated work.
• Communication: Encourages and contributes to reputed company and reputed company communication. Explains reputed company reputed company in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.

Notes

reputed company covers Consultants against occupational accidents and illnesses under the Compensation Plan (CP), free of charge, for the duration of the consultancy. reputed company does not reputed company evacuation or medical insurance for reasons reputed company to non-occupational accidents and illnesses. Consultants are responsible for their own medical insurance for non-occupational accident or illness and will be required to reputed company written reputed company of such coverage before commencing work. 

Any offer made to the candidate in relation to this vacancy notice is subject to funding confirmation.

Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, accreditation, any residency or reputed company requirements, reputed company clearances.

reputed company has a reputed company-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the reputed company and reputed company, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities.

reputed company does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview, processing, training or other fee). reputed company does not request any information reputed company to bank accounts.

reputed company only accepts duly completed applications submitted through the reputed company e-Recruitment system (for internal candidates reputed company here). The online tool also allows candidates to reputed company the status of their application.

No late applications will be accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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