Programme Policy Officer (M&E)

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WFP encourages female candidates and people with disabilities to apply. WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles. Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis. We are committed to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity and disability.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Job Title: Programme Policy Officer (M&E) Grade: NOA Type of contract: Fixed Term contract Duration: One year (Extendable) Duty Station: Thimphu, Bhutan Vacancy Number: 176341 Date of Publication: 17 October 2022 Deadline of Application: 31 October 2022 at 23.59 Bhutan time

This vacancy announcement is for Nationals from Bhutan only.

BACKGROUND

The World Food Programme (WFP) has been in Bhutan since 1974. After 48 years of support to school meals in Bhutan, WFP, through its Country Strategic Plan (2019 – 2023) shifted its focus from direct implementation of food support for school feeding to providing institutional strengthening and capacity development in food security systems/agriculture, nutrition/school feeding and disaster risk management (DRM), including climate adaptation. WFP Bhutan will support the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) in its graduation to lower middle-income country status by 2023.

Under Bhutan’s UN Sustainable Development Partnership Framework (2019 – 2023) WFP leads outcomes on implementing national rapid post-disaster needs assessment capacity, national rice fortification, transition of the National School Feeding Programme to a National School Feeding and Nutrition Programme (NSFNP), and strengthening national capacity to prepare for and respond to disasters. Since the successful hand over of the school feeding programme to the RGoB, WFP now provides technical assistance to systematically improving and strengthening the NSFNP. WFP assists the RGoB in developing a national framework for improvement of dietary and health practices among school aged children, including social and behaviour change communication. Further, WFP will support a scale-up of the school feeding programme with supply chain cost optimization, linking farmers to schools and school infrastructure. WFP also supports the RGoB in setting up national DRM platforms to guide coordination, actions and investments in emergency preparedness and response; WFP presently chairs the UN DRR working group. To address accelerating inequalities within the country, and between countries, resulting from new technology, including artificial intelligence, WFP is introducing a number of innovations that are integrated into national frameworks to build national human capital and support the RGoB to reduce costs of programmes and services through the use of new technology.

JOB PURPOSE

The M&E Officer is expected to support the development and implementation of monitoring, review and evaluation plans aligned to WFP corporate standards, generating quality evidence on the lives of beneficiaries and inform WFP Bhutan’s policy, strategy and programme design and implementation. This includes coordinating monitoring activities, managing or supporting the management of evaluations, supporting thematic/mid-term reviews and positioning WFP as a reliable partner for the RGoB to build M&E strategies. S/he will support the formulation of country M&E strategies and contribute to policy development and various initiatives.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. 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, and other global and regional corporate plans, while being compliant with WFP evaluation and monitoring requirements. 2. Budget for M&E costs and advocate through line manager for both appropriate financial and human resourcing. 3. Contribute to evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, notably through making monitoring, review and evaluations findings accessible and developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products. 4. Support WFP management in addressing recommendations from monitoring, reviews and evaluations to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required. 5. Work with WFP and RGoB implementing partners to continuously improve the quality, efficiency and usability of programme monitoring data. 6. Contribute to building M&E capacity of WFP staff and partners through capacity building and information sharing. Manage junior staff members and guide as and when required to enable high performance. 7. Provide inputs to WFP activity managers to support the development and implementation of national government and inter-agency monitoring, reporting and evaluation frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF). 8. Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men. 9. Assist with data analysis and report writing on WFP supported research or other special projects as required.

Specific to the monitoring function

10. During the WFP country strategic plan (CSP) design stage, support the country office in developing the logframe, and contribute to theories of change for the CSP and new UNSDCF that outline how the expected results are likely to occur, listing key assumptions and risks. 11. Ensure that country office 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 WFP corporate results framework (CRF). 12. Manage the day-to-day oversight and support to the country office on the use and programme data quality of COMET (country office tool for managing [programme operations] effectively). 13. Ensure that the CSP log frame, output, needs-based plans data are captured in COMET. 14. Draft regular monitoring reports on status of results and implementation progress and contribute to the data analysis. 15. Support mid-term reviews and thematic reviews which are intended for internal learning, strategic and operational decision-making. 16. Support in preparation of the WFP annual country report and other regular analytical monitoring reports as required.

Technology and innovation 17. Provide recommendations on design and development of innovative systems and solutions (e.g. SMP PLUS, EduTrition), real-time monitoring and reporting systems, and other digital and IT solutions based on national context and implementing and scaling up projects. 18. Contribute technical support to the further development of nutrition, agriculture, DRM, and supply chain (field-based preparedness) statistical, monitoring and reporting systems. 19. Other duties as required.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION:

Masters or Bachelor’s 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.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

At least one year of experience for master’s degree and additional years of experience for Bachelor’s degree with relevant professional work experience, including monitoring and evaluation activities.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: 1. Experience using a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools and methods. 2. Ability to work with relevant technology and software, e.g. SPSS, STATA, SAS, Kobo Toolkit, Excel and/or other software, web-based databases and statistical applications.

LANGUAGE: Fluency (oral and written) in English language and Dzongkha.

HOW TO APPLY

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

We want to ensure the recruitment process is fully accessible. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of any accessibility needs you may have.

To be considered, interested candidates are invited to apply through the WFP careers website (https://www.wfp.org/careers/job-openings).

WFP is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce. WFP has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, abuse of authority or discrimination. All selected candidates will, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.