Field Coordinator (Impact Evaluation), SC8, Cox’s Bazar

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

1 December 2024-23:59-GMT+06:00 Bangladesh Standard Time (Dhaka)

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• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

The purpose of the consultancy is to support the development and field level, in-country supervision of potential or ongoing impact evaluations.

The consultant will work under the supervision of the evaluation team, including the principal investigators, WFP Bangladesh Country Office, WFP OEV (Office of Evaluation), Regional Evaluation Unit and the technical partners. He /she or they will oversee the day-to-day implementation of the FbF and CBT-FFC pilot impact evaluation, and liaise with the implementing partner organization, their assigned enumerators, and the evaluation team. This will include dialogue with local governments, UN agencies in Cox’s Bazaar and other stakeholders, supervision of data collection activities, analysis, and preparation of papers and reports. Specifically, the position of field coordinator will involve the following elements: 

Effective Cooperation 

• Provide daily coordination between the impact evaluation team and local counterparts (including the project implementing partners who will also act as enumerators), ensuring that concerns are effectively communicated between parties, flagging emerging issues that may be of potential concern to one or both parties, and ensuring that effective and productive collaboration is maintained. 
• Help ensure that targets are met on time, and that all activities are carried out in accordance with the study design. 
• Cooperate effectively with all co-workers, as well as national, provincial, and local government officials, and any other stakeholders or external collaborators. 

Impact Evaluation Field Coordination and Supervision 

• Work closely with the implementing organization to ensure compliance with randomization protocols and treatment assignments are administered according to the agreed upon protocols and plans. 
• Ensure that evaluation activities that need to take place prior to rollout of interventions (e.g., baseline data collection; randomization) are effectively carried out. 
• Visit as many study communities as possible to ensure that they have the assigned program status and gather general information about the implementation process. 
• Attend community-based targeting sessions (as relevant and where appropriate); take notes on discussions/participation. 
• Monitor implementation activities so that the evaluation team understands and has documented the details of implementation across study areas. 
• As requested, gather observational data on key contextual factors (e.g., data on other development organizations operating in study communities). 
• Take notes on problems with implementation issues and challenges that deviate from the study protocols and alert the evaluation team as soon as possible. 

Quantitative Survey Design and Data Collection Supervision 

• Assist in the design and revision of quantitative survey questionnaires for baseline and follow-up data collection as well as survey manuals; and liaise with technical support staff for survey software, as necessary. 
• Participate in training and sensitizing of enumerators and field-testing of questionnaires. 
• Run pilot survey exercises, provide feedback on field operations and survey instruments, and make and monitor improvements. 
• Conduct daily monitoring and supervision of the cooperating partner providing data collection services, helping to ensure that sampling strategies are implemented adequately and that activities are carried out in a timely manner per the TOR. 
• Assist the survey team to prepare weekly progress reports of field work. 
• Conduct high frequency checks during data collection to ensure quality control; conduct spot-checks, household re-visits, and re-training of enumerators if needed. 
• Ensure data quality, integrity of analysis, and adherence to budget throughout the fieldwork and data entry phases. 

Data analysis and report writing 

• Keep the impact evaluation team and relevant members of the project implementation team routinely updated on activities, concerns, and decisions that need to be made. 
• Prepare written reports on findings from qualitative investigations on matters. 
• Prepare written reports with feedback and analysis of how the progress of program implementation. 
• Prepare written reports with feedback and analysis on the piloting and fielding of survey instruments. 
• As requested, clean collected data with accompanying documentation (Stata or R).  
• As requested, conduct data analysis, and contribute to reports, academic papers, and policy briefs. 

Education: Advanced University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Development Studies, Social Sciences or other field relevant.

Language: Fluency (level C) in English and Bangla language.

Experience: At least 5 years of solid and responsible work experience with the humanitarian or development sector; including a minimum of 3 years of professional relevant working experience in programme. 

Job Title:  Field Coordinator for impact evaluation

Grade: SC8

Type of contract: Service Contract                                           

Duration: 12 months                

Duty Station: Cox’s bazar

Number of positions: 01

Date of Publication:  18 November 2024

Deadline of Application: 01 December 2024

This vacancy announcement is for Bangladeshi Nationals.

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