Vacancy Announcement Details

JOB PURPOSE:

To develop and implement an evaluation strategy, aligned to the regional evaluation strategy and guided by the WFP evaluation policy (2022), Charter and Corporate Evaluation Strategy, to generate quality evidence on the outcomes and effects of WFP’s interventions in Ethiopia on the lives of beneficiaries, and inform policy, strategy and programme design and implementation. 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Manage evaluation processes and budgets from preparation and design through to completion to ensure the production of independent, credible evidence that meets high professional standards in line with UN norms and standards and codes of conduct for evaluation in the UN system, embodied in WFP’s Evaluation Policy and Decentralized Evaluation Quality Assurance System (DEQAS).  
2. Source, hire or procure and supervise external consultants and evaluation firms to conduct evaluations that meet DEQAS requirements. 
3. Engage stakeholder groups, both internal and external to WFP, appropriately in the evaluation process and manage communications.
4. Contribute to application of the normative framework, quality support, assessment mechanisms and reporting on decentralized evaluation. 
5. Support centralized evaluations commissioned by the Office of Evaluation, including global evaluations, CSP evaluations, Corporate Emergency Evaluation, and impact evaluations, as appropriate. 
6. Promote WFP’s evaluation culture of accountability and learning through analyzing evidence and lessons; preparation of syntheses and summaries of evaluation findings and recommendations; and prepare presentations of these, tailoring messages to specific audiences and platforms, working with internal and external stakeholders to enhance learning from and use of evaluation evidence in policy, programme and project design. 
7. Promote the use of evaluation evidence internally and externally, including the development of briefs and other learning/knowledge products related to evaluation, support and advocate for the integration of evaluation evidence into programmatic and management presentations and forums, and others.
8. Participate and represent the country office in external professional forums and networks and internal collaboration on monitoring and evaluation issues. 
9. Participate in WFP internal evaluation expertise groups to enable sharing of experience and development of good practice. 
10. Manage junior staff members, providing coaching and guidance as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance. 
11. Take responsibility for incorporating gender and protection perspectives in all areas of evaluation work (data collection, analysis and reporting), to ensure equal participation of women, men and marginalized people. 
12. Other as required.

Full details available on the WFP website. Application deadline 6 November.