IsDB are currently looking for a Director for the Independent Evaluation Department.
The Director of the Independent Evaluation Department (IED) supports the IsDB’s BED in its oversight role. S/he leads the independent evaluation function to assess whether the Bank’s development interventions and corporate programs achieved their intended outputs, outcomes, and impacts and ascertain their alignment with IsDB strategy, thus holding the IsDB accountable to its stakeholders in terms of development effectiveness and proper allocation and use of resources.
Provides strategic direction, motivational leadership, and operational oversight for the evaluation team to undertake independent evaluation work at the macro level (e.g., Country, Sector, Thematic, Corporate, and Process evaluations) and project and program level covering operations in the Member Countries and Non-Member Countries.
Steers the drawing and dissemination of evidence-based lessons and recommendations to feed into future IsDB policies, strategies, and operations, thus contributing to maximizing the impact of the Bank’s interventions and its performance and development effectiveness.
Leads the development and enhancement of the evaluation policy, strategies, guidelines, and tools to be at a state-of-the-art level and ensures adherence of the IsDB’s evaluation activities to the internationally accepted principles and good practice standards for evaluating development interventions.
Full details available on the IsDB website. Application deadline 30 November.