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Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer Career Opportunities at the World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Bureau Cairo

admin July 5, 2023

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DEADLINE: 16 July 2023

Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer Career Opportunities at the World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Bureau Cairo

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.

JOB PURPOSE

The Regional Monitoring team is providing technical support and oversight to 15 countries (Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, Palestine, Moldova) during their implementation of the Country Strategic Plans (CSP). The team guides and ensures that the CSP Monitoring, Review and Evaluation plans will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results, while being compliant with WFP corporate monitoring requirements.

The job holder will report to the Senior Regional Programme Advisor and will work closely with the Research, Assessment and Evidence team to support specific tasks outlined in the Terms of Reference, while ensuring consistency and holistic support to country offices in relation to the integrated map processes (IRM) and in adopting the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) approach. The incumbent will be expected to deploy to support the Country Offices M&E staff with the development and implementation of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation Plans (MRE) aligned to WFP corporate standards to generate quality evidence on the lives of beneficiaries and inform policy, strategy and programme design and implementation. This includes oversight of COs monitoring activities, supporting design and implementation of thematic/mid-term reviews and positioning WFP as a reliable partner for governments to build monitoring capacity.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1.   Support CO colleagues in the design and strengthening of monitoring frameworks to track progress against corporate commitments of key thematic areas that are relevant to their CSPs, through remote and in-person technical advice.
2.   Build capacity of WFP CO staff and partners through development and delivery of training and information sharing to increase COs awareness of the importance of monitoring and evaluation, evidence and overall performance management and promote individual and organizational accountability across WFP.
3.   Provide technical support to ensure that COs monitoring systems and tools are in place and compliant with corporate standards, including the minimum monitoring requirements (MMR), standard operational procedures (SOP) and establishment of baselines and targets in alignment with the updated corporate result framework (CRF).
4.   Liaise closely with COs to ensure the completion and quality of monitoring data in COMET in preparation for Annual Country Reports and provide guidance to COs in order to calculate and analyze their outcome information.
5.   Support the collection and review CO monitoring inputs in preparation for the APR.
6.   Support COs in their conduct of Mid Term Reviews and other thematic reviews of CSPs, including the development of tools and guidance to prepare the results analysis that are required to support the Mid Term Reviews.
7.   Support CO Management in addressing recommendations from Mid Term Reviews and thematic reviews to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required in complex portfolios.
8.   Support COs in development and revisions of logframes.
9.   Contribute to the development and implementation of country national government and inter-agency monitoring, reporting and evaluation frameworks, including United Nations Cooperation Development Framework (UNCDF) aligned with nationally-owned sustainable development goals.
10. Support COs with development of MRE plans and monitoring budgets that will provide the most relevant and strategic information to manage progress towards achieving expected results, while being compliant with WFP evaluation and monitoring requirements.
11. Contribute to the production of monitoring reports with status of results and implementation progress.
12. Support the operationalization of RBC Regional Monitoring Strategy and Action Plan
13. Represent WFP at regional and inter-agency meetings to contribute to technical discussions, exchange knowledge and experiences, promote the importance of monitoring and evaluation, identify opportunities for strengthening regional monitoring and evaluation capacity and develop strategic partnerships.
14. Manage junior staff members and mentor, coach and guide as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.
15. Any other duty assigned that are within the scope of monitoring

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Advanced University degree in social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or other related fields, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.

Experience:

A minimum of 3 years of relevant professional work experience in international development or humanitarian work, including national and/or international positions at UN agencies, international organizations and government ministries.
Minimum of two years of experience in managing complex monitoring and/or evaluation activities spanning a range of policies and programme initiatives.
Minimum of one year country office experience.

Knowledge:

Proven experience in technical support and coordination of country and regional level monitoring activities in humanitarian or development contexts.
Operational experience in programme design, implementation, monitoring and reporting, including development of M&E Strategies.
Technical knowledge of various monitoring and evaluation methods and tools, and data collection and reporting systems used at WFP, including COMET is an asset. Knowledge of qualitative data collection methodologies is highly desirable. Experience in change management or knowledge management is desirable. Ability to set clear targets for self and others, and to manage, mentor and build capacity of junior staff members. Strong and positive team-spirit.

Languages:

The work in the Regional Bureau is conducted in English. The candidate must have a working knowledge of English (proficiency/level C) and Arabic is an asset.