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
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