Vacancy Announcement Details

Regional Evaluation Officer (P4), multiple locations

19 Nov 2020

WFP

Are you an Evaluation Officer interested in further developing your professional experience while contributing to ending global hunger? Would you like to join WFP, a highly reputable organisation bringing positive change to lives of people affected by hardships? Would you like to join a global organisation investing in its people?

If your answer is yes, then this is a great opportunity for you to become an integral member of a diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly contributing to beneficiary assistance.

The evaluation function plays a key role in strengthening WFP’s contribution to ending global hunger. As outlined in WFP Evaluation Policy, the Evaluation Function aims to embed evaluation into the heart of an organizational culture of accountability and learning, ensuring that evaluation is planned for, and evaluation findings are comprehensively incorporated into all WFP’s policies, strategies and programmes. Evaluations provide WFP decision-makers and all stakeholders with independent assessment of results for accountability and learning and enable WFP to better respond to the needs and expectations of the populations it serves.
 
The evaluation function is an integral, complementary yet distinct element of WFP’s oversight and performance management system. To respond to its Strategic Plan commitments and related organizational strengthening initiatives, WFP adopted a model for its evaluation function, which combines centralized evaluation with demand-led decentralized evaluation. This model requires a strongly integrated function across WFP. 
 
We are seeking to fill the Regional Evaluation Officer, at the P4 level, to be based in WFP Regional Bureau in Panama covering Latin American and Caribbean. This is a specialist position and requires a high level of evaluation expertise. Equivalent positions in other WFP Regional Bureaux may be filled through this selection process. 

This position will support the Regional Director and regional and country office colleagues in meeting their responsibilities and accountabilities under the Evaluation Policy. The Regional Evaluation Officer will be expected to lead the development and implementation of the regional evaluation strategy; and will provide technical advice, quality support and coaching on evaluation across the Region, ensuring consistent application of the Evaluation Policy. Collaborating closely with WFP’s complementary monitoring function, the job holder will provide guidance and support to CO Monitoring & Evaluation Officers, or focal points across the region.

Full details are available on the WFP website. Deadline for applications 6 December.