2 UN Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Job Vacancies – United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (2 Job Vacancies)
Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station: Mbarara and Arua, Uganda
About WFP:
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 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. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to United help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.
Job Summary: The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will coordinate and execute monitoring and evaluation activities within the respective Area office, ensuring that WFP programmes generate quality evidence on the outcomes and effects of WFP’s food assistance, social protection activities on the lives of beneficiaries hence informing effective operational decision making and strategic reorientation.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare and implement the Area office M&E Plan. Collect timely, strategic and relevant information to facilitate planning, reporting, decision making, learning and performance measurement at the different results levels as set out in the Annual Performance Plan and Country Strategic Plan (CSP).
- Provide technical inputs to the District Technical Planning process to align with results-based planning of social protection activities.
- Support WFP, DLG and partners’ planning and implementation of Social Protection monitoring activities on effectiveness integrated programme intervention (e.g. beneficiary needs and status, social inclusion and transfer, food and nutrition security status, poverty levels, programme modalities, implementation challenges, etc.).
- Introduce participatory M&E with the DLGs with the potential benefits for local governance, for key actors, and for multi-stakeholder processes. Support identification of monitoring, review and evaluation needs during programmes/project planning and implementation.
- Provide leadership on strengthening the capacity of WFP staff district local governments, WFP cooperating partners and key stakeholders in planning, monitoring, evaluation and analysis in the implementation of food security, nutrition and resilience programmes.
- Amplify the role of M&E across all programmes and DLGs development plans and includes broad indicators. Also refers to cases where DLGs have established M&E systems.
- Contribute to the analysis of output and outcome data and recommend improvements to Social Protection programme interventions and to enhance WFP’s and DLGs’ ability to demonstrate outcome focused results.
- Support participatory M&E processes including strengthening the knowledge of DLGs, beneficiaries, local leaders and other key stakeholders enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead monitoring and evaluation of WFP supported interventions and investments.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (NOB) job vacancy must hold an advanced University degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Sociology, Social Development, Development Economics or Performance Management or another relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.
- A minimum of six years of progressive professional experience in monitoring and evaluation.
- Membership of a recognized M&E Professional Association
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain productive, professional relationships with government and local community counterparts, donors, civil society and other stakeholders
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Deep technical knowledge through exposure to technical teams
- Leadership in implementing programmes.
- Contribution in policy discussions and decisions.
- Language: Fluency (level C) in English language (written and oral).
Competencies:
- Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Displays ability to identify the main hunger problem at the national or subnational level to design and implement context-specific programmes that integrate complex analysis and the full range of food assistance tools.
- Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Voucher): Demonstrates ability to analyse and consolidate quantitative and qualitative information from different sources (e.g., market studies) to inform transfer modality selection and programme development.
- Broad Knowledge of Specialized areas (i.e. Nutrition, VAM, etc.): Demonstrates the ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialised fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation and monitoring.
- Emergency Programming: Displays ability to translate understanding of programme principles in emergencies and protracted conflict situations into relevant, effective, and context specific approaches.
- Strategic Policy Engagement w/ Government: Develops thorough recommendations using multiple inputs (e.g., government counsel, research, own experience) to strengthen national or subnational entities and government owned food and nutrition security programmes.
NB: Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates who wish to join the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are encouraged to apply online at the link below
Deadline: 4th February 2021
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