Job Title: Evaluation Officer P3 (Impact Evaluation)
Organization: World Food Programme (WFP)
Requisition ID: 829320
Grade: P3
Duty Station: Rome, Italy
Working Job Language: English
WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to
the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and
encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national
origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender
identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status
or disability.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Sunday, 01 October 2023 (11.59 CET)
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's
largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to
help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works
worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and
most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious
food they need.
We are looking for a dynamic, collaborative, highly
motivated person to join WFP’s Impact Evaluation Unit as Evaluation Officer at the
P3 level, based in the Office of Evaluation (OEV) at our Headquarters in Rome,
Italy.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
Our office provides global leadership, standard-setting and
oversight of WFP’s entire evaluation function and are accountable for setting and
enhancing the framework of norms and standards, accountabilities, and coverage
for the different categories of evaluations (centralized, decentralized and
impact); as well as maintaining the high quality of WFP’s evaluation function
with continued innovation and improvement in evaluation quality and relevance.
WFP is gearing up to play a leadership role in the delivery
of operationally relevant and useful impact evaluations that contribute to
global evidence. Realizing this ambition requires delivering responsive and
adaptive impact evaluations in rapidly evolving contexts. New programmes,
technologies and data sources present great opportunities for WFP to harness
the full potential of impact evaluation as a tool for learning. Impact
evaluations are aligned with corporate evidence priorities through impact
evaluation “windows”, which are OEV coordinated portfolios of country-specific
impact evaluations. Current windows focus on 1) cash-based transfers and gender
equality and women's empowerment (GEWE), 2) climate change and resilience, and
3) school-based programmes, and we are developing a 4th window on nutrition.
Our Impact Evaluation Unit aims to achieve four main
objectives: 1) contribute to the evidence base for achieving global goals; 2)
deliver operationally relevant and useful Impact Evaluations; 3) maximize
Impact Evaluation responsiveness to rapidly evolving contexts; and 4) harness
the best tools and technologies for Impact Evaluation.
This position reports to the window coordinator for
cash-based transfers and gender and will mainly focus on supporting impact
evaluations that are part of the optimizing humanitarian impact evaluation
workstream.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
You will be responsible for:
1. Supporting impact evaluations that are
part of OEV’s Optimising Humanitarian Interventions Workstream (cross-cutting
with Impact Evaluation Windows) and individual impact evaluations (70%):
• Respond to demand and assess feasibility
to partner with WFP country offices to conduct impact evaluations, while
ensuring alignment with ongoing IEs.
• Make key contributions to the design of impact
evaluations.
• Help develop and manage (window-level) pre-analysis plans.
• Manage all elements of IEs, including coordinating across
academic partners and COs, undertaking field missions, supervising field
coordinators and data collection firms, training enumerators supervising
incoming data quality (with assistance from research assistants), analysing
data, and contribute to writing impact evaluation reports and (academic)
articles for different audiences.
• Contribute to and oversee analysis and output development
for impact evaluations.
• Contribute to grant-reporting, internal reporting,
budgeting, and fundraising efforts.
• Keep relevant internal stock-taking and budgetary systems
up to date.
2. Production of additional analytical
outputs (20%):
• In addition to contributing to final IE
reports and academic papers: use impact evaluation or other data to produce
insightful analytical outputs of varying length, e.g., diagnostic pieces,
descriptive articles, blog posts, etc.
3. Capacity building & Communications
for WFP’s impact evaluations (10%):
• On-demand technical support to impact
evaluation queries from Country Offices and Regional Bureaus.
• Build impact evaluation capacity of WFP staff and partners
through development and management/oversight of trainings and events.
• Support communications and dissemination of impact
evaluation results in coordination with OEV’s communications team.
• Participate in seminars, conferences, and workshops to
field demand for IE, present IE, or other results, engage in active dialogue
with academics and practitioners.
• Support WFP’s efforts to develop a community of practice on
IEs in humanitarian contexts.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Advanced
University degree in disciplines relevant to impact evaluation (e.g.,
evaluation, economics, political science, development studies, etc.), or a
First University degree with additional years of related work experience
and/or training/courses.
Experience:
- You
have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience supporting the
delivery of impact evaluations or relevant experimental social science
research.
Language:
- Fluency
(level C) in the English language.
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
You have:
- Solid
knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods used for
identifying and measuring impacts. Experience designing, managing, and
analysing household surveys is highly desirable.
- Significant
experience providing impact evaluation specific guidance, training and
capacity support is desirable.
- Proficiency
in using statistical analysis software packages, including Stata and/or R,
is essential. Experience with data management, including de-identifying,
cleaning, encrypting, storing, and making secure transfers is essential.
- Fully
computer-literate with excellent skills in Word, Excel, Power Point and
database management. Experience managing research or evaluation budgets,
contributing to funding proposals, and overseeing timely payments is
desirable.
- Strong
interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively and
sensitively in diverse teams. Experience working with academic, civil
society, private sector, NGO and/or government partners in countries where
development and/or humanitarian projects are delivered is essential.
- Excellent
communication skills, written, verbal and visual. Experience effectively
translating between academics and practitioners is highly desirable.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This is an International Professional position and is open
to all nationalities.
A Limited Fixed-Term Appointment (LFT) position is a
non-mobile staff appointment in the international professional category for an
initial period of 02 years.
WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package
in line with ICSC standards (http://icsc.un.org) including basic salary, post
adjustment, relocation entitlement, visa, travel and shipment allowances, 30
days’ annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, a
pension plan, and medical insurance.
The selected candidate will be required to relocate to Rome,
Italy to take up this assignment.
REMINDERS BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION
- We
strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete and includes
your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN
Grade (if applicable). Once your profile is completed, please apply, and
submit your application.
- Please
make sure you upload your professional CV in English.
- Kindly
note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV
and Cover Letter. Additional documents such as passport, recommendation
letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a
future time.
- Please
contact us at hq.talentacquisition@wfp.org in case you face any challenges
with submitting your application.
WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud,
sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and
discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s
standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background
verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also
be required to provide additional information as part of the verification
exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment
process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment
WFP will not request payment at any stage of the
recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment
should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for
appropriate action.
0 comments:
Post a Comment