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Evaluation Graduate Trainee Position at World Food Programme (Johannesburg, South Africa)

admin August 11, 2023

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DEADLINE: 13 August 2023

Evaluation Graduate Trainee Position at World Food Programme (Johannesburg, South Africa)

Job Title: Graduate Trainee – Evaluation
Unit / Division: Evaluation
Duty Station: Johannesburg, South Africa
Duration: 11 months
Salary & Benefits: Graduates will receive competitive monthly remuneration and Medical Aid

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in the following disciplines: Programme (Monitoring and) Evaluation, Research Methods, Applied Statistics, Public Health, Sociology, Psychology or related fields.

Qualification’s must have been obtained within the previous year (2022) or current year (2023) with an academic average of at least 75%.

The undergraduate or postgraduate qualification must be recognised by https://www.whed.net/home.php)

Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in the UN language in use at the duty station (English). Knowledge of French and/or Portuguese will be an added advantage.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Evaluation data and evidence visualization and communication:

Participate in training/capacity development for storifying evaluation for evidence use.
Participate in communication activities designed to disseminate and promote evaluation.
Support in the development of communication and knowledge management products extracted from evaluation findings.

Evaluation evidence use experimentation and measurement:

Identify evidence needs for country strategic programme (CSP) design and ensure adequate planning, tracking and documenting evidence use during the CSP implementation.
Contribute to tracking management responses to evaluation recommendations and their results.

Support in drafting evaluation or evidence summaries and briefs

Produce evaluation evidence summaries for use in decision-making.
Contribute to producing summaries of evaluation evidence.
Support document case studies, lessons learned, and best practices demonstrating evidence and results of the implementation of the actions against evaluation recommendations

Supporting country offices in data collection, cleaning, and tabulating:

Participate in secondary data analyses and reporting to inform the design of outsourced decentralized evaluations.
Participate in the collection of visual data and evidence for use in evaluation communication.
In collaboration with Evaluation team members, produce preliminary analyses of existing datasets to decision-making.

Perform other related duties as required.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Applicants must:

be national or permanent resident of the country in which the position is advertised.
attach the following: a CV in English, University Transcript, Degree Certificate and Identity Document with application.
not have a first-level family member working for WFP (parent, sibling, or child)
have no work experience or up to a maximum of 12 months’ post-graduate cumulative formal work experience (this excludes work undertaken during full-time studies