MEAL Specialist

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Organizational Setting

The Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) is responsible for ensuring FAO’s efforts to support countries and partners in preparing for and effectively responding to food and agricultural threats and crises. It is responsible for coordinating the development and maintenance of corporate tools and standards to enable Decentralized Offices to assist Members to prepare for, and respond to emergencies. OER ensures humanitarian policy coordination and knowledge, liaison with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee as well as with humanitarian resource partners, co-leadership with World Food Programme of the global Food Security Cluster, organizational preparedness, surge capacity and response to large-scale emergencies. OER supports food and nutrition security assessment and early warning activities related to emergency and humanitarian analysis and responses. OER plays a major role in the development and leadership of the Organization’s programme to increase the resilience of livelihoods to food and agriculture threats and crises.

Reporting Lines

The MEAL Specialist will report to the Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer (MEAL)/MEAL Team Leader, OER. He/she will work in close collaboration with the other teams within OER, and decentralized offices at all levels.

Technical Focus

The Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist will be part of the MEAL team, set up within OER to improve monitoring and evaluation in emergency and resilience programmes in various countries. The Specialist will be responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of tools and processes to systematically collect and analyse data and establish linkages with accountability, learning and knowledge management to inform evidence-based programming decisions.

Tasks and responsibilities

• contribute to the development and implementation of OER’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) strategy and framework for emergency and resilience programmes, to provide timely information on delivery terms of reach ,outputs, outcomes and impacts at OER and decentralized office levels;
• technically support and build capacity of decentralized offices and partners for all components of the MEAL framework through the development of training materials; technical webinars/seminars, and through virtual and in-person support where required;
• technically support decentralised offices to tailor effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning strategies, tools and practices for emergency and resilience projects/programmes, based on the OER MEAL framework;
• develop tools for quantitative data collection and analyze quantitative data, including data cleaning, curation, and preparation of large volume database from household-level georeferenced survey and other sources, and perform econometric analysis, spatial analysis and other methods;
• develop tools for qualitative data collection and analysis and support the analysis of qualitative data collected by decentralized offices to better understand and explain the outcomes and impacts of emergency and resilience interventions;
• technically support linking M&E data with learning by contributing to the development and implementation of learning agendas, reflection workshops and other learning opportunities and products to effectively inform adaptive measures and evidence-based programming;
• prepare MEAL reports including compiling information to be included in MEAL reports, updates and any other relevant information products as requested by MEAL Team Leader and/or OER Management;
• perform other duties as required.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• University degree in Statistics, Economics, Agricultural Sciences, Social Sciences, or other relevant field;
• At least 1 year (Category C), 5 years (Category B), 12 years (Category A) of relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation accountability and learning, data analysis and/or information management;
• Working knowledge (level C) of English or French and limited knowledge (level B) of any other official language of the Organization (English, French Arabic, Chinese, Spanish or Russian). For PSA, working knowledge (level C) of English or French.

FAO Core Competencies

• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills

• Work experience in more than one location or area of work, experience in humanitarian and complex contexts is an asset;
• Excellent command of R, STATA or SPSS, basic knowledge of other statistical software packages;
• Knowledge of key food security and agricultural livelihood indicators;
• Extent of experience in developing and implementing integrated MEAL frameworks and strategies;
• Experience in capacity development for MEAL;
• Ability to plan and work with limited supervision to meet objectives.

Please note that all candidates should adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO, Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency

HOW TO APPLY

• To apply, visit the recruitment website at Jobs at FAO and complete your online profile. We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, and language skills
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• Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application
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