UN Jobs – Monitoring & Evaluation Officer – United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Organization: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About WFP:

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 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. In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to United help communities rebuild their lives. On average, WFP reaches more than 80 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. The organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to food and contribute to lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

Job Summary:  The Monitoring & Evaluation Officer will support planning, implementation and coordination of the learning function of WFP Uganda, with an aim to champion a culture of learning and management for results in line with WFP’s country-wide priority of Measuring Change, Quality and Impact.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Monitoring and Evaluation

• 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.
• Budget for M&E costs and advocate through line manager for both appropriate financial and human resourcing.
• 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.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Monitoring & Evaluation Officer job vacancy must hold an advanced Degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Studies, Economics, Agriculture Economics Statistics, or other closely relevant field.
• At least seven (7) years of postgraduate progressively responsible and professional experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning with expertise in setting up complex monitoring and learning systems, capacity development and establishment of results-based data systems.
• Experience of managing stakeholders: Cultivated sustainable relationships with office colleagues, government authorities, local NGOs, and other implementation partners.
• Research experience: collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data using a variety of tools and approaches.

Competencies:

• Strategic Management: Utilizes up-to-date understanding of humanitarian and development actions in different contexts and knowledge of global geo-political issues, monitoring requirements and/or the evaluation mandate to enhance existing approaches, systems and processes to monitoring and/or evaluation that suit WFP’s strategic and operational needs.
• Performance Management: Demonstrates thorough understanding of WFP’s performance management system and ability to manage resources and relationships to lead monitoring actions or deliver complex evaluations (including joint & interagency) of a variety of WFP programmes, processes or policies to WFP monitoring and/or evaluation quality standards.
• Qualitative/Quantitative Methodology: Applies in-depth understanding of developing practice in analytical approaches, methods and tools for an appropriate mix to deliver quality monitoring results or complex evaluations on diverse topics relevant to WFP’s strategic and operational results frameworks.
• Technical Communication: Able to tailor and synthesize evaluation evidence and engage diverse internal and external stakeholders proactively in appropriate ways to maximize learning and use of evaluation concepts and evidence for improving WFP programme performance.
• Programme Monitoring and Review: Applies programme lifecycle knowledge to the development of monitoring systems and applies corporate guidance to draft ToR, co-lead Programme Review implementation, and draft initial findings and recommendations on the effectiveness of food assistance activities.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates who wish to join the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are encouraged to apply online at the link below

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Deadline: 10^th September 2020