UN Monitoring & Evaluation Officer Job Careers – United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Duty Station: Uganda
Grade: SC8
About US:
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It is the largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. Currently WFP focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition & Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets. WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.
Job Summary: The Monitoring & Evaluation Officer will be providing technical support on M&E to all Satellite Offices under the Area Office and any other in case need arises.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide technical inputs to the annual work planning processes, ensuring coordination with the recommended timelines and guidelines from Country Office.
- Support planning and implementation of monitoring activities on effectiveness of all program interventions (e.g. beneficiary needs and status, food security status, programme modalities, implementation challenges, etc.).
- Produce frequent monitoring and evaluation progress reports with status of results and implementation of improvements and follow up for corrective actions in programmes.
- Work in liaison with internal counterparts and external partners to strengthen the quality and consistency of monitoring and evaluation activities in the field.
- Support identification of monitoring, review and evaluation needs during programmes/project planning and implementation.
- Support training of WFP and partner staff in appropriate monitoring and evaluation techniques to build capacity of staff and lead the Field Office demonstration of results
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme (WFP) Monitoring & Evaluation Officer job placement should hold an advanced University degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Sociology, Social Development, Development Economics or Performance Management or another relevant field.
- At least four years of professional experience in the field of monitoring, evaluation and reporting;
- Has research experience using variety of analytical tools and methods for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modeling needs.
- Experience in performing monitoring, evaluations and assessments at multiple field locations.
- Sound knowledge of regional local dialects is very desirable
- Cultivated sustainable relationships with local NGOs, government authorities, and other implementation partners.
- Previous research experience using variety of analytical tools and methods for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modeling needs.
- Experience in performing monitoring, evaluations and assessments at multiple field locations.
Competencies:
- Strategic Management: Utilizes up-to-date understanding of humanitarian and development actions in different contexts and knowledge of global geo-political issues, monitoring requirements and/or the evaluation mandate to enhance existing approaches, systems and processes to monitoring and/or evaluation that suit WFP’s strategic and operational needs.
- Performance Management: Demonstrates thorough understanding of WFP’s performance management system and ability to manage resources and relationships to lead monitoring actions or deliver complex evaluations (including joint & interagency) of a variety of WFP programmes, processes or policies to WFP monitoring and/or evaluation quality standards.
- Qualitative/Quantitative Methodology: Applies in-depth understanding of developing practice in analytical approaches, methods and tools for an appropriate mix to deliver quality monitoring results or complex evaluations on diverse topics relevant to WFP’s strategic and operational results frameworks.
- Technical Communication: Able to tailor and synthesize evaluation evidence and engage diverse internal and external stakeholders proactively in appropriate ways to maximize learning and use of evaluation concepts and evidence for improving WFP programme performance.
- Programme Monitoring and Review: Applies programme lifecycle knowledge to the development of monitoring systems and applies corporate guidance to draft ToR, co-lead Programme Review implementation, and draft initial findings and recommendations on the effectiveness of food assistance activities.
NB: Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply
How to Apply:
All candidates who desire to join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit their applications online at the link below.
Deadline: 26th May 2019
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