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JOB TITLE: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Fixed Term (FT)
GRADE: NOB
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
DURATION: 12 months
NUMBER OF POSITION: 1
ABOUT THE 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.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
With 27.3 million highly food-insecure people, DRC is the largest food security crisis in the world in absolute numbers. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the highest estimated number of food-insecure people worldwide, with 27.3 million people who are food insecure between February and July 2021, representing about 28% of analysed population. Of this figure, 20.5 million people are facing “crisis” levels (IPC Phase 3) and 6.7 million people are facing “emergency” levels (IPC Phase 4) of food insecurity. An additional 41 million people are in a “stressed” state with high risk of slipping into food insecurity. Humanitarian actors continue their assistance operations despite the difficulties of access and insecurity in several provinces of the country; following the crisis in the East, WFP has scaled up its operation in 2022 despite funding challenges.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
The job holder is expected to support the development and implementation of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation Plans aligned to WFP corporate standards to generate quality evidence on the lives of beneficiaries and inform policy, strategy and programme design and implementation. This includes coordinating monitoring activities, managing or supporting the management of decentralized evaluations, supporting thematic/mid-term reviews and positioning WFP as a reliable partner for governments to build monitoring and evaluation strategies. He/she may also support the formulation of country monitoring and evaluation strategies and contribute to policy development and various initiatives.
ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES (not all inclusive):
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Provide inputs to the development of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results (as set out in the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and other global and regional plans), while being compliant with WFP evaluation and monitoring requirements.
- Budget for M&E costs and advocate through line manager for both appropriate financial and human resourcing.
- Provide feedback on the formulation of the Regional Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies and support their operationalization.
- Contribute to evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, notably through making monitoring, review and evaluations findings accessible, developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products.
- Support WFP Management in addressing recommendations from monitoring, reviews and evaluations to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required.
- Contribute to building M&E capacity of WFP staff and partners through training and information sharing. Manage junior staff members and guide as required to enable high performance.
- Provide inputs to line manager regarding the development and implementation of national government and inter-agency monitoring, reporting and evaluation frameworks, including United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) aligned with nationally owned sustainable development goals.
- Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men.
Specific to the monitoring function
- At Country Strategic Plan (CSP) design stage, support the Head of M&E or Head of Programme in developing a Theory of Change outlining how the expected results are likely to occur and listing key assumptions and risks.
- Support line manager in ensuring that CO monitoring systems and tools are in place and compliant with corporate standards including the minimum monitoring requirements (MMR), standard operational procedures (SOP) and establishment of baselines and targets in alignment with the updated corporate results framework (CRF).
- Draft regular monitoring reports on status of results and implementation progress and contribute to the data analysis.
- Support mid-term reviews and thematic reviews which are intended for internal learning, strategic and operational decision-making.
Specific to the evaluation function
- Manage or support senior officer in the management of decentralized evaluations in line with WFP Evaluation Policy and Decentralized Evaluation Quality Assurance System (DEQAS). This entails managing or supporting evaluation processes from planning to completion: sourcing, hiring and supervising external evaluators; engaging stakeholders appropriately in the evaluation process and managing communications and budgets.
- Support centralized evaluations managed by the Office of Evaluation, joint UNDAF evaluations and donor-led evaluation in country.
- Other duties as required.
OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS (details to be determined by Post Managers):
- Harmonise tools across sub-offices, and ensuring compliance with WFP Minimum Monitoring Requirements across all offices of DRC;
- Ensure that monitoring tools are up to date and available for all CSP Activities
- Establish methodology to triangulate data across multiple sources, including various monitoring tools ;
- Responsible for Community Feedback Mechanisms, including regular extraction and communication of CFM data from all channels, and maintaining tight communication with Protection team;
- Establish communication methods and tools to regularly update management on monitoring findings (including dashboards, bulletins, presentations, etc);
- Excellent interpersonal skills to work regularly with other teams, including Programme, Partnerships, Supply Chain, etc.
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OUR WFP VALUES :
- Integrity
- Collaboration
- Engagement
- Humanity
- Inclusion
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
19/03/2024
Ref.: VA 831779
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