Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

CONTRACTUAL INFORMATION

JOB TITLE: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

TYPE OF CONTRACT: International Consultant Level 1

UNIT/DIVISION: Programme

DUTY STATION: Addis Ababa

DURATION: 6 Months

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.

Click the link to learn more about WFP in Ethiopia: WFP Ethiopia Employee Value Proposition.pdf

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, fighting hunger worldwide. In Ethiopia, WFP provides food assistance to 9.8 million people under the Country Strategic Plan (2020 – 2025), through life-saving food and nutrition assistance, school feeding, as well as resilience building activities.

JOB PURPOSE

The purpose of this role is to ensure the efficient and effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of school feeding and resilience building activities within WFP. This involves the regular review and update of project results frameworks and M&E tools, ensuring their alignment with both corporate and donor requirements and the operational context. The candidate will design, implement, and oversee various survey phases, monitor project implementation across sites, and enhance data visualization and reporting mechanisms. Additionally, this role demands active participation in the research agenda development, digital reporting innovation, partner coordination, and the capacity building of field M&E personnel. This position plays a crucial role in supporting WFP’s strategic planning, proposal development, and the fulfillment of reporting obligations to keep all activities aligned with WFP’s mission, thereby maximizing impact, and ensuring accountability to stakeholders.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Regular review and updates to project results frameworks for alignment to corporate and donor requirements and operational contexts.
2. Design and implement baseline, mid and end-line surveys as required – corporate and donor specific.
3. Provide oversight for the implementation of process, output, and outcome monitoring activities in all project sites.
4. Participate in the design and implementation of a research agenda for school feeding and resilience building activities.
5. Regular review of project indicators to ensure alignment with the corporate logframe as well as donor requirements.
6. Regular review and updates of M&E tools for school feeding and resilience building activities.
7. Enhance the visualization of project outputs and outcomes through relevant and creative digital and analogue platforms.
8. Coordinate and consolidate data collection, analysis and reporting for school feeding, resilience building and cross-cutting activities and indicators.
9. Lead the dissemination of project performance results to both internal and external stakeholders.
10 .Provide oversight for the digital reporting platform for resilience activities including innovation for improvement and responsiveness of the M&E tools and system requirements.
11. Coordinate effective partner reporting.
12. Provide training, capacity and skills building support for field M&E officers, field monitors, cooperating partners, and third-party monitors.
13. Develop regular corporate and donor reports.
14. Actively participate in the development of funding proposals, ensuring that M&E requirements are adequately addressed and aligned to both donor and corporate requirements.
15. Actively participate in the development and review processes of corporate planning and implementation tools such as the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and Monitoring plans/frameworks
16. Lead the documentation of best practices and lessons learnt, thereby contributing to the realization of the knowledge management pillar for M&E.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• To effectively manage the outlined deliverables, a person should possess:
• Strong analytical skills combined with proficiency in data collection, analysis, and reporting tools, with additional proficiency in qualitative and quantitative data analysis software and applications.
• Experience in designing and implementing Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) frameworks, baseline, mid-line, and end-line surveys within international development contexts is crucial.
• Excellent project management skills, with an ability to coordinate multi-stakeholder activities and manage partnerships.
• Strong communication, training, and capacity-building skills are essential to support field staff and ensure alignment with corporate and donor requirements.
• Familiarity with digital reporting platforms and innovative M&E technologies, along with creative data visualization capabilities, is also important.

Desirable:

• A background in school feeding and resilience-building initiatives would significantly benefit the role.
• Ability to work independently, and with teams, requiring minimal supervision.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in development studies, social sciences, statistics, economics, public administration

Experience:
At least 3 years’ relevant professional work experience in designing and implementing Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) frameworks, baseline, mid-line, and end-line surveys within international development contexts. A background in school feeding and resilience building initiatives would significantly benefit the role.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Certification in Project Management, specialized Certifications in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Training in Data Visualization and Reporting Tools (desirable).

Language:

Fluency in both oral and written communication in English language. Knowledge of the local language is added advantage.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

25 April 2024