UN World Food Programme Evaluation Officer Jobs in Ethiopia

UN World Food Programme Evaluation Officer Jobs in Ethiopia

Who We Are

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, operating in more than 120 countries and territories, bringing life-saving assistance in emergencies, building pathways to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change and supporting sustainable and resilient livelihoods for a world with zero hunger.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

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Why Join Us?

WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment

WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities

A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe

We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section)

Organizational Context

This job is located in the Ethiopia Country Office and will report directly to the Deputy Country Director (Programmes). The position will operate with considerable independence in their area of work with functional oversight from the Regional Evaluation Officer located in the Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa (RBN) in Nairobi.

Job Purpose:

To develop and implement an evaluation strategy, aligned to the regional evaluation strategy and guided by the WFP evaluation policy (2022), Charter and Corporate Evaluation Strategy, to generate quality evidence on the outcomes and effects of WFP’s interventions in Ethiopia on the lives of beneficiaries, and inform policy, strategy and programme design and implementation.

Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)

Manage evaluation processes and budgets from preparation and design through to completion to ensure the production of independent, credible evidence that meets high professional standards in line with UN norms and standards and codes of conduct for evaluation in the UN system, embodied in WFP’s Evaluation Policy and Decentralized Evaluation Quality Assurance System (DEQAS).

Source, hire or procure and supervise external consultants and evaluation firms to conduct evaluations that meet DEQAS requirements.

Engage stakeholder groups, both internal and external to WFP, appropriately in the evaluation process and manage communications.

Contribute to application of the normative framework, quality support, assessment mechanisms and reporting on decentralized evaluation.

Support centralized evaluations commissioned by the Office of Evaluation, including global evaluations, CSP evaluations, Corporate Emergency Evaluation, and impact evaluations, as appropriate.

Promote WFP’s evaluation culture of accountability and learning through analyzing evidence and lessons; preparation of syntheses and summaries of evaluation findings and recommendations; and prepare presentations of these, tailoring messages to specific audiences and platforms, working with internal and external stakeholders to enhance

learning from and use of evaluation evidence in policy, programme and project design.

Promote the use of evaluation evidence internally and externally, including the development of briefs and other learning/knowledge products related to evaluation, support and advocate for the integration of evaluation evidence into programmatic and management presentations and forums, and others.

Participate and represent the country office in external professional forums and networks and internal collaboration on monitoring and evaluation issues.

Participate in WFP internal evaluation expertise groups to enable sharing of experience and development of good practice.

Manage junior staff members, providing coaching and guidance as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.

Take responsibility for incorporating gender and protection perspectives in all areas of evaluation work (data collection, analysis and reporting), to ensure equal participation of women, men and marginalized people.

Qualifications and Key Requirements

Education:

You have:

Advanced University degree in International Development, Economics, Statistics, Social Science or other relevant field, or First University degree with an additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses

Experience:

You have:

A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant postgraduate professional level work experience in development or humanitarian work such as Monitoring, Evaluation, Programme/project design and/or management, needs assessment, research, reporting, with at least four (4) years of professional experience in managing complex monitoring and/or evaluation activities spanning a range of policies and programme initiatives.


Language:

You have:

Fluency (level C) in the English language.

Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or Portuguese (A WFP’s working language)


More About You

You have:

Experience in using a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools, methods and approaches and in managing, supervising and coaching staff.

Very good knowledge in monitoring and evaluation methods, approaches, statistical applications and reporting systems and good understanding of results-based management principles and practices.

Ability to ensure that ethics are incorporated into evaluation processes and can uphold ethics.

Solid knowledge about Norms and Standards for Evaluation, can communicate the essentials of the norms and standards to others and apply them appropriately.

Solid practical knowledge on how data is collected, compiled, analysed and presented for management decisions, programme adjustment and donor reporting.

Ability to develop monitoring systems and databases including preparation of data collection, analysis and reporting tools.

Ability to work with relevant technology, procedures (e.g., web-based databases, other statistical applications) to produce in-depth analysis and develop and share quality reports and visualizations.

Good knowledge of programme design, implementation and operational challenges in food and nutrition security.

Experience in building capacity through formal and informal training processes, including developing documentation and training materials.

Solid knowledge of human rights and gender equality and is able to ensure that evaluation design, questions and analysis incorporate this knowledge.

How to Apply

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