Regional Evaluation Officer, P4 - Cairo, Egypt

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WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

Are you an Evaluation Officer interested in further developing your professional experience while contributing to ending global hunger? Are you passionate about helping those in need? Would you like to join a global organization investing in its people?

If so, an exciting & fulfilling career awaits you! Join our diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly contributing to saving & changing millions of lives around the globe.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Deadline to receive applications is Monday, 9 May 2022, 11.59 pm (CET)

WHO WE ARE

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

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WHY JOIN US?

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section)

ABOUT THE OFFICE OF EVALUATION UNIT AT WFP

The evaluation function plays a key role in strengthening WFP’s contribution to ending global hunger. As outlined in WFP Evaluation Policy, the Evaluation Function aims to embed evaluation into the heart of an organizational culture of accountability and learning, ensuring that evaluation is planned for, and evaluation findings are comprehensively incorporated into all WFP’s policies, strategies and programmes. Evaluations provide WFP decision-makers and all stakeholders with independent assessment of results for accountability and learning and enable WFP to better respond to the needs and expectations of the populations it serves.

The evaluation function is an integral, complementary yet distinct element of WFP’s oversight and performance management system. To respond to its Strategic Plan commitments and related organizational strengthening initiatives, WFP adopted a model for its evaluation function, which combines centralized evaluation with demand- led decentralized evaluation. This model requires a strongly integrated function across WFP.

THE ROLE

You will support the Regional Director and regional and country office colleagues in meeting their responsibilities and accountabilities under the Evaluation Policy. The Regional Evaluation Officer will be expected to lead the development and implementation of the regional evaluation strategy; and will provide technical advice, quality support and coaching on evaluation across the Region, ensuring consistent application of the Evaluation Policy. Collaborating closely with WFP’s complimentary monitoring function, the job holder will provide guidance and support to CO Monitoring & Evaluation Officers, or focal points across the region.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Reporting to the Regional Director or Deputy Regional Director, and functionally to the Director of Evaluation, you will be responsible for the following key accountabilities:

• Lead the Development and implementation of the regional evaluation strategy in line with WFP Evaluation Policy and Corporate Evaluation Strategy. Engage with the Regional Monitoring Adviser to ensure complementarity with regional monitoring strategies.
• Act as Secretariat to the Regional Evaluation Committee that supports the Regional Director in steering the evaluation work across the region.
• Develop and regularly update the Regional Evaluation Plan tailored to regional learning needs and priorities and meeting WFP Evaluation Policy coverage norms; engage with Country Offices (COs), Regional Advisers and the Office of Evaluation (OEV) to identify key evidence gaps, define regional priorities for generating evidence and ensure complementarity in planning of centralized and decentralized evaluations.
• Lead the Regional Evaluation Unit, developing an annual work plan, monitoring its budget and managing staff members, providing coaching and guidance as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.
• Support Regional Bureau (RB) and Country Office (CO) Management to ensure at regional and country levels a consistent application of the Evaluation Policy provisions and normative framework, including appropriate evaluation planning, budgeting and resourcing, safeguarding impartiality and quality standards of decentralized evaluations.
• Provide inputs to OEV on corporate reports such as the annual evaluation report.
• Contribute to the strengthening of evaluation staffing capacity across the region.
• Support commissioning and management of joint evaluations at country and regional levels.
• Lead or co-lead in partnership with other UN agencies on National evaluation capacity development efforts at country and regional levels.
• Establish regional partnerships with UN agencies and other regional partners including regional and national evaluation associations; engage, as WFP or within these partnerships, with UNSDCF evaluations
• Promote WFP’s evaluation culture of accountability and learning and working with internal and external stakeholders to enhance learning from and use of evaluation.
• Ensure that evaluation results are widely disseminated through the development of innovative learning products, the analysis and consolidation of evaluative evidence into country or regional thematic evidence summaries.
• Support country offices on any other evaluation-related issues.
• Actively participate to WFP evaluation Community of Practice and foster engagement from CO M&E staff.
• Effectively mainstream cross-cutting issues (equity, gender, inclusion of persons with disability, human rights, humanitarian principles, protection, accountability to affected population) into WFP evaluation processes and support the organization in mainstreaming these approaches in programme design and implementation to help ensure that the most vulnerable benefit from WFP services.
• Other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS AND KEY REQUIREMENTS

Education:

You have:

• Advanced University degree in International Development, Economics, Social Science, or other relevant fields, OR first University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.

Experience:

You have:

• 8 years or more (of which at least 4 are international) of postgraduate professional experience both in the field and in Headquarters in international development or humanitarian work, evaluation and monitoring or assessment and/or policy studies with progressively increasing responsibilities
• Minimum five 5 years of experience in managing and/or conducting broad and complex evaluations in areas of relevance to WFP
• Design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian assistance and development cooperation
• Proven experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams

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Language:

You have:

• Fluency (level C) in the English language
• Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or Portuguese (A WFP’s working language)
• Fluency in Arabic, French or Spanish is an asset.

MORE ABOUT YOU

• You have in-depth knowledge of humanitarian and development actions, global geo-political issues and UN Reform
• You have strong performance management cycle skills and solid knowledge of international norms and standards for evaluation
• You have a solid knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods and analytical approaches to oversee and guide others in the selection and application of those to WFP monitoring, review and evaluation exercises
• You understand the specific implications of ethics in monitoring, reviewing and evaluating activities; and demonstrate ethical behaviour at all times

ADDITIONAL / NICE-TO-HAVE REQUIREMENTS

• Familiarity with the region applied for or similar contexts.
• Familiarity with WFP and the UN system will be regarded as an asset

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Mobility is and continues to be, a core contractual requirement in WFP. The selected candidate will be employed on a fixed-term as well as a rotational contract with a probationary period of one year

WFP offers an attractive compensation and benefits package in line with ICSC standards (http://icsc.un.org) including basic salary, post adjustment, relocation entitlement, visa, travel and shipment allowances, 30 days annual leave, home leave, an education grant for dependent children, a pension plan, and medical insurance.

The selected candidate will be required to relocate to Cairo, Egypt to take up this assignment.

REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

• We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application. Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
• Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
• Please contact us at [email protected] in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified

Note: This recruitment process may be used to fill similar Evaluation Officer positions that open up in the near future.

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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, 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.