Key Responsibilities
The
main accountabilities and responsibilities are:
Coordinate the WFP/OCHA
partnership (30%):
- Act as the liaison between the WFP and OCHA impact evaluation units.
- Engage with OCHA and WFP Country teams, as well as other United
Nations agencies, to assess opportunities and feasibility for impact
evaluations.
- Hold regular engagements with WFP Anticipatory Action team within
WFP Climate and Resilience Service to identify priority countries and
impact evaluation designs that align with the service’s priorities.
- Develop impact evaluation designs for priority countries in
coordination with country and global headquarter teams.
- Lead the day-to-day engagement with stakeholders at country and
regional office level.
- Prepare progress updates, donor reports, briefing notes, and
presentations on partnership
- Document lessons learned, good practices, and partnership results.
- Contribute to joint planning, resource mobilization efforts, and
proposal development for partnership.
- Provide analysis and recommendations to strengthen coherence between
implementing partners.
- Coordinate joint communication materials, success stories, and
visibility products on partnership. Ensure consistent messaging aligned
with OEV communication guidelines.
- Support organization of public events, field missions, and donor
visits as required.
Lead or support the
delivery of impact evaluations under the WFP/OCHA partnership (70%):
- Lead the implementation of the impact evaluations (Randomized
Control Trials).
- Lead or contribute to the procurement of Institutional Review Board
(IRB) approvals.
- Lead in the design, revision, and support the programming of
household survey questionnaires.
- Support the selection and contracting of data collection firms and
support data collection activities in a manner that is best suited for the
impact evaluation and has the potential for meeting other WFP monitoring
and evaluation needs.
- Lead or support data analysis in accordance with agreed impact
evaluation designs and within timeframes that maximise the opportunity for
evidence use.
- Lead the day-to-day engagement with field coordinators and other
stakeholders at country and regional office levels.
- Participate in field missions as needed to support the
implementation and management of impact evaluations.
- Support enumerators’ training for data collection and provide
technical guidance on data quality checks and analysis, ensuring data
accuracy and reliability.
- Closely monitor programme implementation to ensure alignment with
the evaluation design and data collection protocols.
- Co-author briefs, reports, and other evaluation-related
publications, adhering to WFP’s reporting standards and WFP
evaluation quality assurance systems (EQAS).
- Lead or support the planning and delivery of dissemination workshops
and undertake field visits as required to support impact evaluation
related activities.
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF
THE CONTRACT:
- Effective engagements with stakeholders to deliver on the
partnership workplan
- Effective feasibility discussions with the priority countries to
co-create impact evaluations
- Successful design and management of 3 to 4 impact evaluations
- Clear and effective impact evaluation communications outputs
Qualifications
Education:
Doctoral
degree in academic disciplines relevant to the assignment (economics, political
science, development studies, etc.).
Experience:
- A minimum of 6 years’ professional experience supporting the
delivery and quality of impact evaluations, and preferably with
exposure to climate/resilience impact evaluations or research.
- Experience managing RCTs in the field; experience in hardship duty
stations is considered a plus.
- Experience working with UN and multilateral agencies; experience
working on multi-agency impact evaluations is considered a plus.
Knowledge
& Skills:
- Excellent research skills
- Solid knowledge of quantitative methods used for identifying and
measuring impacts (e.g. survey design, implicit association tests,
etc.).
- Proficiency in using statistical software packages (Stata, R, SPSS,
etc.).
- Fully computer-literate with excellent skills in Word, Excel, Power
Point and database management.
- Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work
effectively and sensitively in diverse teams. Experience working with
government partners is desirable.
- Strong organizational and planning skills to manage multi‑partner
workplans. Ability to track implementation progress and ensure timely
follow‑up.
- Adapt in bringing together diverse stakeholders and facilitating
collaborative decision‑making
- Problem‑solving skills to address bottlenecks and operational
challenges. Ability to analyse partnership dynamics, identify synergies,
and propose strategic adjustments.
- Excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills. Ability
to effectively bridge academic and practitioner audiences.
- Well organised and systematic.
Languages:
- Fluency (level C) in English language and level B in French.
How to Apply
