Opportunités de carrière : Evaluation Officer, NOC_Regional Bureau Dakar Office (105053)
Identifiant de la demande 105053 – Publié 29/04/2019 – Fixed Term – Africa, Western – Senegal – Dakar – Langue de travail (2) – EVALUATION

ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme 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.

1. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. As a major part of WFP’s accountability framework, evaluations assess the performance and results of WFP’s policies, strategies, programmes, and activities for accountability and learning to inform future direction. The Evaluation Policy 2016-2021 aims to strengthen WFP’s contribution to ending global hunger by embedding evaluation into the core of its culture, ensuring evidence-based decision making in all its work.
Since 2017, a new Regional Evaluation Officer (REO) position in the Dakar Regional Bureau for West and Central Africa (RBD) is supporting the regional Management and regional and Country Office (CO) colleagues in meeting their responsibilities and accountabilities under the Evaluation Policy and Charter. Framed by the first Regional Evaluation Strategy (RES) 2018-2021 recently approved by the Regional Evaluation Committee (REvCo), the regional decentralized evaluation function aims at fostering the use of CO-led decentralized and corporate centralized evaluation findings.
In helping to implement the RES, the Evaluation Unit of the Regional Bureau in Dakar is seeking to fill one (1) evaluation officer (NOC) position on evaluation with development/humanitarian experience to be based in Dakar Regional Bureau.
The jobholder will support the REO on his tasks related to the implementation of the Regional Evaluation Strategy with a focus on support to Country Offices management of decentralized evaluation and capacity strengthening activities across the region.

2. ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
The jobholder will report to the Regional Evaluation Officer or alternate in Dakar Regional Bureau Office. S/he will be responsible for the following key accountabilities:
• Contributing to ensure consistent application of the Decentralized Evaluation Quality Assurance System (DEQAS) and related services by means of coaching, technical support and learning services to COs and RBD colleagues, and ensuring appropriate use of quality support advisory services.
• Supporting the implementation of the corporate learning programme on evaluation in the region and strengthening of CO capacity for managing decentralized evaluations.
• Assisting the REO in helping to contribute to national and regional Evaluation Capacity Development activities.
• Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men.
• Support the use of information management systems for evaluation processes in the organization.
• Travel to WFP field operations is required.
• Other s required.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

EDUCATION:
Master or Advanced University degree in one of the following fields: social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation; or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.
Advance University degree or Diploma on Evaluation will be an asset.

EXPERIENCE:
Five (5) years of valuable relevant professional work experience in evaluation-related activities in development and/or humanitarian international cooperation.
Has worked in humanitarian or development contexts.
Has experience with UN agencies in the field of M&E, Knowledge Management or Reporting.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Performance Management & Technical Skills
Broad knowledge of diverse monitoring and evaluation practices, concepts, and principles.
Broad knowledge of internal and external best practices and partnerships to develop and implement optimal evaluation arrangements.
Has organizational and management skills to manage evaluation processes and budgets.

Methodology, Approaches and Analysis
Has knowledge of and ability to develop high-quality terms of references for evaluations, including clear and focused evaluation questions.
Has knowledge of a range of evaluation methods, data collection and analysis methods seeking advice where appropriate.
Has knowledge of how to analyze data from diverse sources.

Ethics
Understands the specific implications of ethics in evaluation and social research activities and is able to consistently ensure that appropriate actions are taken to safeguard ethics.
Demonstrates ethical behavior at all times and communicates WFP’s expectation that all WFP personnel act ethically in furtherance of the ideals of the UN and WFP’s mission.

TERMS & CONDITIONS
Position open to Senegalese nationals only.
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Applications received after the deadline on 13 May 2019 will not be considered.