Recruitment: Apply For UN WFP Recruitment 2022

Recruitment, apply for United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recruitment 2022 below.

Gatekeepers New s reports that UN World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. WFP works worldwide every day 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.

UN WFP is recruiting to fill the positions below:

1.) Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Requisition ID: 176242
Location: Abuja

Organizational Context

These jobs are found primarily in Country and Field Offices and report to the Deputy Country Director, the Head of Programme, or the designate, and operate under technical guidance from the Performance Management & Monitoring Division and Office of Evaluation.
Job holders are likely to be found in an environment where the complexity of food assistance programmes is high (e.g. greater security risks, wider range of programmes, higher levels of partnership working) and are often required to lead and motivate a team.
The incumbent will report to the Head of Research, Assessments, and M&E (RAM) in the Nigeria Country Office, with technical guidance from the deputy head of RAM.

Job Purpose

Lead or support monitoring and evaluation activities within a country of the field office, ensuring that WFP programmes generate quality evidence on the outcomes and effects of WFP’s food assistance activities on the lives of beneficiaries with which to inform operational decision making and strategic reorientation.

Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)

Coordinate planning and implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities on the effectiveness of all food assistance interventions (e.g. beneficiary needs and status, food security status, programme modalities, implementation challenges, etc.).
Review and give technical feedback on monitoring and evaluation plans for new programmes and budget revisions to ensure that plans are risk-based and focus on measuring results (e.g. checking monitoring and evaluation budgets are allocated and appropriate log-frame indicators and outcome targets are documented).
Contribute to the analysis of outcome data and recommend improvements to programme interventions and enhance WFPs ability to demonstrate outcome focussed results.
Produce frequent monitoring and evaluation progress reports with the status of results and implementation of improvements.
Follow-up on monitoring and evaluation findings to ensure that corrective actions are taken and/or adjustments are made to programme responses as required.
Represent WFP (e.g. at inter-agency meetings with other NGOs and government agencies) to exchange knowledge and experience, promote the importance of monitoring and evaluation and build partnerships that enhance inter-agency monitoring and evaluation activities.
Manage junior staff members providing coaching and guidance as required to ensure appropriate development and enable high performance.
Train national and partner staff in appropriate monitoring and evaluation techniques to build the capacity of staff, increase awareness of the importance of monitoring and evaluation and encourage accountability for demonstrating results.
Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts and external partners to strengthen the quality and consistency of monitoring and evaluation activities in the field.
Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts and external partners to strengthen the data quality, accuracy, and consistency to build credible performance evidence.
Provide monitoring and evaluation findings and recommendations to support performance planning and risk analysis, emergency preparedness, security risk management, and risk mitigation activities.
Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
Other as required.

Standard Minimum Qualifications

Education: Advanced University degree in Sociology, Social Development, Development Economics, Performance Management, or other relevant fields, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.
Experience: Minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience including in international development or humanitarian work.
Minimum of two years of experience in monitoring and/or evaluation, including strong experience using a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools and methods.
Language: International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language, Portuguese.
National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.

4Ps Core Organisational Capabilities:
Purpose:

Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Utilizes understanding of WFP’s Strategic Objectives to communicate linkages to team objectives and work.
Be a force for positive change: Proactively identifies and develops new methods or improvements for self and immediate team to address work challenges within own work area.
Make the mission inspiring to our team: Identifies opportunities to further align individual contributions with WFP’s mission of making an impact on local communities.
Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Helps colleagues to see the link between their individual tasks and the contributions of their unit’s goals to the broader context of WFP’s mission.

People:

Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Is able to identify, support, and encourage focused on-the-job learning opportunities to address gaps between current skillsets and needed future skillsets for WFP.
Create an inclusive culture: Recognizes the contributions of teammates, and encourages contributions from culturally different teammates to recognise the value of diversity above and beyond just including it in programming for beneficiaries.
Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Provides and solicits ongoing constructive feedback on strengths and development opportunities to help develop individual skills, whilst also helping others identify areas for improvement.
Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Sets clear targets for self and others to focus team efforts in ambiguous situations (e.g., unprecedented issues and/or scenarios)

Performance:

Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Thinks beyond the team’s conventional approaches to formulate creative methods for delivering food aid and assistance to beneficiaries.
Focus on getting results: Maintains focus on achieving individual results in the face of obstacles such as volatile or fragile environments and/or organizational roadblocks.
Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes personal accountability for upholding and delivering upon the team’s commitments and provides assurance to stakeholders.
Be Decisive: Demonstrates ability to adjust to team’s plans and priorities to optimize outcomes in light of evolving directives, while also responding quickly in high-pressure environments, such as in emergency settings.

Partnership:

Connect and share across WFP units: Demonstrates an understanding of when and how to tactfully engage other units in conversations on impact, timing, or planning
Build strong external partnerships: Networks regularly with key external partners using formal and informal opportunities to understand each partner’s unique value proposition, and to build and strengthen relationships
Be politically agile & adaptable: Demonstrates ability to adapt engagement approach in the context of evolving partner circumstances and expectations
Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Demonstrates ability to articulate to internal and external audiences the value that individual contributions and immediate teams bring to partnerships.

Functional Capabilities:

Capability Name	Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Strategic Management	Utilizes up-to-date understanding of humanitarian and development actions in different contexts and knowledge of global geo-political issues, monitoring requirements, and/or the evaluation mandate to enhance existing approaches, systems, and processes to monitoring and/or evaluation that suit WFP’s strategic and operational needs.
Performance Management	Leverages knowledge of internal and external best practices and partnerships to develop and implement optimal monitoring and/or evaluation arrangements to improve the quality and credibility of monitoring results or the quality, credibility, independence, and utility of WFP’s evaluation processes.
Qualitative/Quantitative Methodology	Oversees and provides guidance to others in the selection and application of high-quality, credible, analytical approaches and qualitative and quantitative methods appropriate to monitoring and review requirements and/or evaluation needs across WFP at different levels.
Technical Communication	Able to tailor and synthesize evaluation evidence and engage diverse internal and external stakeholders proactively in appropriate ways to maximize learning and use of evaluation concepts and evidence for improving WFP programme performance.
Programme Monitoring and Review	Applies programme lifecycle knowledge to the development of monitoring systems and applies corporate guidance to draft ToR, co-lead Programme Review implementation, and draft initial findings and recommendations on the effectiveness of food assistance activities.

Other Specific Job Requirements:

Proficiency in one statistical analysis package (R, STATA, SPSS)

Desired Experiences for Entry into the Role:

Led effective monitoring and evaluation processes across multiple countries or at the global level.
Developed a high-performing team and managed effective monitoring and evaluation operations at a country level.
Participated in defining the strategic direction and objectives of the monitoring and evaluation function at the HQ level.

Application Closing Date
1st November 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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