Senior Planning Evaluation Expert
Organizational Context
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is supporting the final evaluation of Oman’s Tenth Five-Year Development Plan (2021–2025). This role provides senior-level peer review and quality assurance for the evaluation report, ensuring its analytical soundness and consistency. The consultant will work remotely and coordinate closely with the ESCWA technical team and project management.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this role is to provide expert, independent senior-level peer review and substantive drafting support for the Final Evaluation of Oman’s Tenth Five-Year Development Plan (2021–2025). The consultant will ensure the evaluation report is coherent, analytically sound, and methodologically robust. Contributions will enhance the quality of findings, conclusions, lessons learned, and recommendations, ensuring consistency across all sections, including executive and strategic summaries. This role is critical for delivering an objective and high-quality assessment of the plan's achievements, impacts, and remaining gaps, thereby informing future development planning and implementation.
Responsibilities
Independently peer review technical chapters of the Final Evaluation of Oman’s Tenth Five-Year Development Plan, assessing analytical, methodological, and evidentiary quality. Provide consolidated substantive comments and identify analytical and evidence gaps. Participate in selected stakeholder consultations and technical meetings, coordinating with ESCWA and the Ministry of Economy. Collaborate closely with the Project Manager, ESCWA technical team, and other consultants. Contribute substantively to drafting and revising the report, consolidating technical contributions, and harmonizing findings, conclusions, lessons learned, and recommendations. Support the preparation and revision of the executive and strategic summaries.
Work Experience
A minimum of 15 years of professional experience in development planning, economic policy, or programme evaluation is required. Experience in drafting/evaluating national development plans, conducting government stakeholder consultations, and consolidating multidisciplinary analytical reports is necessary. Experience in results-based planning, monitoring and evaluation, governance, or institutional performance is desirable.
Skills
Analytical and methodological assessment, substantive drafting and revision, report consolidation and harmonization, stakeholder consultation, results-based planning, monitoring and evaluation, governance, institutional performance, fluency in English and Arabic.