UN Jobs – Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Job Title: Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Organisation: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
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 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.
Organizational Context
These jobs are found primarily in Country and Field Offices and report to the Deputy Country Director, Head of Programme or the designate, and operate under technical guidance from Performance Management & Monitoring Division and Office of Evaluation. Job holders are likely to be part of a team where senior support is readily available and may supervise a small number of junior staff to ensure that activities and project objectives are achieved in full.
Job Summary: The position plays a co-lead role in driving attitudinal change, drawing attention to new issues and affecting the awareness, attitudes or perceptions of key stakeholders. This function will lead the AO’s coordination of monitoring activities, managing or supporting the management of feasibility and other programmatic studies, supporting thematic/mid-term reviews and positioning WFP as a reliable partner for governments to build monitoring and evaluation strategies. This function is critical in clearly articulating the institutional arrangements and data sources needed to facilitate a reliable flow of information to track the implementation of social protection programmes. Institutional arrangements such as integrated delivery systems and Management Information Systems (MIS) are critical for programme improvement in terms of design and implementations as they enable largescale and frequent reviews of the social protection programmes. A key component will be to derive discursive commitments from District Local Governments and other policy actors through rigorous participatory approaches to measure impact, quality and progress while influencing behaviour change in stakeholders where policy change requires changes in behaviour and implementation at various levels in order to be meaningful and sustainable.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute to evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, notably through making monitoring, review and evaluations findings accessible, developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products.
- Design and supervise baseline data collection and analysis to illustrate the situation prior to response or intervention while leading field teams in development and interpretation of indicators for outcomes.
- Guide the introduction and implementation of robust analysis, monitoring and evaluation that programme’s effectiveness and provide guidance for improvements. support social protection systems and offer the most productive tools to simultaneously assess
- Supervise, disseminate and enable field teams to understand the analysis of data collected on outputs and how and whether they contribute toward achievement of outcomes
- Expand field teams’ focus on perceptions of change among stakeholders to define monitoring and learning
- Support WFP Management in addressing recommendations from monitoring, reviews and evaluations to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required.
- Provide inputs to AO and CO management regarding the development and implementation of national government and inter-agency monitoring, reporting and evaluation frameworks, including United Nations Development Assistance Cooperation Framework aligned with nationally owned sustainable development goals.
- Co-lead in creating an evidence base for decisions regarding various organizational investments and programmes which not only brings in transparency but also provides objective (rather than emotional or moral) grounds to engage with public/political opposition to such expenditure.
- Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men.
- Promote knowledge and influence policy by strengthening the field teams’ interpretation of analysis and research to improve the level of knowledge for decision-making.
- Strengthen collaboration with strategic partners in measuring impact, quality and change
- Guide and support the collection, analysis and utilization information on success or failure of partnership strategy in achieving desired outcomes.
- Analysis of partner-centred development and behaviour change and tracking changes in behaviour of stakeholders in order to enable the field teams to understand how influencing change requires engaging with partners, their role, their relationships, their mindsets and motivations.
- Guide field teams in the art of community and stakeholder engagement and accountability with emphasis of reflection on relationships and responsibilities while fostering a two-way accountability
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must hold a University degree in Project Management, Development Studies, Social Studies, Economics or equivalent.
- At least 4-5 years of professional practice in results-based management, monitoring, evaluation, analysis and research
- Sound knowledge, ability and practice in guiding the management teams to draw causal connections between policy priorities, the resourcing of policy objectives, the programmes designed to implement them, the outputs achieved, and their impact on communities.
- Sound research experience using variety of analytical tools and methods for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modeling needs.
- Excellent written and oral presentation and communication skills
- Proven experience in participatory approaches with the community, local government and stakeholders
- Membership in a National or International Professional Evaluations or Research body or association.
- Ability to communicate fluently in one of the main languages of Northern Uganda
- Cultivated sustainable relationships with local NGOs, government authorities, and other implementation partners.
- Has research experience using variety of analytical tools and methods for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modeling needs.
- Performed monitoring, evaluations and assessments at multiple field locations.
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) should apply online at the link below.
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