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.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:

This position is based in Country Office El Salvador, and report to the Deputy Country Director or the designate with functional supervisions from the Regional Monitoring Adviser and Regional Evaluation Officer.

JOB PURPOSE: to support the development and implementation of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation Plans aligned to WFP corporate standards to generate quality evidence on the lives of beneficiaries and inform policy, strategy and programme design and implementation. This includes coordinating monitoring activities, managing or supporting the management of decentralized evaluations, supporting thematic/mid-term reviews and positioning WFP as a reliable partner for governments to build monitoring and evaluation strategies. They may also support the formulation of country monitoring and evaluation strategies and contribute to policy development and various initiatives

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Provide inputs to the development of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results (as set out in the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and other global and regional plans), while being compliant with WFP evaluation and monitoring requirements.
Draft the budget for M&E costs and advocate through line manager for both appropriate financial and human resourcing.
Contribute towards the formulation of the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies and support their operationalization.
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.
Support WFP Management in addressing recommendations from monitoring, reviews and evaluations to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required.
Contribute to building M&E capacity of WFP staff and partners through training and information sharing. Manage junior staff members and guide as required to enable high performance.
Provide inputs to line manager regarding the development and implementation of national government and inter-agency monitoring, reporting and evaluation frameworks, including United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) aligned with nationally owned sustainable development goals.
Contribute to the integration of protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men.
At Country Strategic Plan (CSP) design stage, support the WFP Management in developing a Theory of Change outlining how the expected results are likely to occur and listing key assumptions and risks.
Support line manager in ensuring that CO monitoring systems and tools are in place and compliant with corporate standards including the minimum monitoring requirements (MMR), standard operational procedures (SOP) and establishment of baselines and targets in alignment with the updated corporate results framework (CRF).
Draft regular monitoring reports on status of results and implementation progress and contribute to the data analysis.
Support mid-term reviews and thematic reviews which are intended for internal learning, strategic and operational decision-making.
Support in the management of decentralized evaluations in line with WFP Evaluation Policy and Decentralized Evaluation Quality Assurance System (DEQAS). This entails supporting evaluation processes from planning to completion: supporting external evaluators work; engaging stakeholders appropriately in the evaluation process and supporting communications and budgets.
Support centralized evaluations managed by the Office of Evaluation, joint UNDAF evaluations and donor-led evaluation in country.
Other duties as required.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES:

Theme

Capability Name

Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level

Purpose

Understand and

communicate the

Strategic Objectives

Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.

Be a force for positive

change

Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).

Make the mission

inspiring to our team

Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual

contributions relate to WFP’s mission.

Make our mission

visible in everyday

actions

Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to

communicate this link to others.

People

Look for ways to

strengthen people's

skills

Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and

includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.

Create an inclusive

culture

Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others,

regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.

Be a coach & provide

constructive feedback

Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence and develop and improve individual skills.

Create an “I will”/”We

will” spirit

Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

Encourage innovation &

creative solution

Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.

Focus on getting

results

Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.

Make commitments

and make good on

commitments

Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.

Be Decisive

Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

Connect and share

across WFP units

Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.

Build strong external

partnerships

Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or

escalate needs of external partners.

Be politically agile &

adaptable

Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.

Be clear about the

value WFP brings to

partnerships

Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES:

Capability Name

Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level

Strategic Management

Demonstrates understanding of humanitarian and development actions in different contexts and knowledge of global geo-political issues and UN Reform, and applies it to enhance existing monitoring and evaluation systems that support WFP’s strategic objectives.

Is able to demonstrate to stakeholders the value of monitoring and evaluation for policy and programming to promote learning within organizations and achieve the SDGs.

Has knowledge of identifying monitoring and evaluation needs and of analysing existing evidence needs and contributes to the design of a comprehensive monitoring, review and evaluation plan that will address learning and accountability needs.

Performance Management

Has performance management cycle skills to support the design and development of monitoring and evaluation systems in line with WFP corporate standards.

Demonstrates understanding of internal and external best practices and supports the development and implementation of optimal monitoring, review and/or evaluation arrangements.

Has knowledge of the Theory of Change approach and process and is able to support the CO team in developing a ToC for moderately complex programmes.

Has knowledge of international norms and standards for evaluation and is able to apply them appropriately, seeking advice where appropriate

Methodology, Approaches and Analysis

Reviews and provides feedback on the selection and application of high quality, credible, analytical approaches and qualitative and quantitative methods appropriate to monitoring and review requirements and evaluation needs.

Support the development of terms of reference for decentralized evaluations and reviews.

Has knowledge of a range of evaluation, data collection and analysis methods and is able to identify key methodological requirements for various types of evaluation and review the evaluation design proposed by evaluation teams seeking advice where appropriate.

Is able to validate data quality and ensure that data collection and analysis have been conducted ethically.

Communication & Use

Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively key evidence from monitoring, reviews and evaluations to a range of stakeholders.

Demonstrates active listening and conflict resolution skills to promote constructive engagement from stakeholders with diverse, complex and high-stake interests and seeks guidance and engagement from CO management where appropriate.

Ethics

Demonstrates ethical behaviour at all times and communicates WFP’s expectation that all WFP personnel act ethically in furtherance of the ideals of the UN and WFP’s mission.

Understands the specific implications of ethics in monitoring, review and evaluation activities and is able to consistently ensure that appropriate actions are taken to safeguard ethics.

EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:

Typically, one or more years of postgraduate professional experience in monitoring and evaluation activities, with an interest in international humanitarian development.
Experience using a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools and methods.

STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Advanced University degree in social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or other related fields, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.

Language: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.

Desirable qualification requirements:

Previous experience in humanitarian or development contexts.

Please visit the following website for detailed information on working with WFP: https://www.wfp.org/ Click on: “Our work” to learn more about WFP’s operations.

Qualified female applicants are especially encouraged to apply.

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate based on HIV/AIDS status.

Deadline for applications: 11/December/2020

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Added 3 years ago - Updated 3 years ago - Source: wfp.org