Monitoring & Evaluation Officer NOB, Regional Bureau in Cairo, Egypt
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
JOB TITLE: Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
TYPE & LEVEL OF CONTRACT: National Fixed-Term – NOB
DURATION & START DATE: 1 year, renewable
UNIT/DIVISION: Monitoring
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Regional Bureau in Cairo (RBC), Cairo, Egypt
REPORT TO (JOB TITLE): Regional Monitoring Advisor
Note: Only Egyptian nationals / citizens are eligible to apply. This vacancy announcement will also be used to build a roster of prequalified applicants for future opportunities within same job profile.
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.
WFP’s Regional Bureau for the Middle East and Northern Africa (RBC), based in Cairo, Egypt, provides strategic guidance, policy/technical support and direction to WFP operations and activities in 16 countries: Algeria, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, State of Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine and Yemen. These country offices aim to assist roughly one-third of all of WFP’s beneficiaries (approx. 30 million) in some of the most critical humanitarian emergencies of our time. RBC is also active in the ‘Changing Lives’ side of WFP’s mandate, helping national governments and local communities improve nutrition, livelihoods, school feeding, social protection, climate and disaster risk reduction and other programmes that build resilience and support development.
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JOB PURPOSE
In Regional Bureaux job holders at NOB level are 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. They may also support the formulation of country monitoring and evaluation strategies and contribute to policy development and various initiatives.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
Regional Monitoring Function
- 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 monitoring and evaluation requirements.
- Provide feedback on Regional Monitoring Strategies and support their operationalization.
- Support in the creation of new and innovative ways of displaying monitoring and COMET team’s performance and achievements and communicate to Management and Country Offices (COs).
- Draft regular monitoring (outcome and output) reports on status of results and implementation progress of the Monitoring performance in the region
- Support and be the focal point as delegated by the RMA of the Annual Country Report exercise worldwide and to all Country Offices.
- Participate in all Regional Calls and Country Office calls and lead them as delegated by the RMA or while being the OIC.
- Serve as the Focal Point as delegated by the RMA between Headquarters (WFP) and the Country Offices.
- Support mid-term reviews and thematic reviews which are intended for internal learning, strategic and operational decision-making
- Support the COMET Team as necessary and as delegated by the RMA in all the necessary decisions, tasks, follow ups and initiatives.
Managerial Functions
- Coordinate team-tasks and team-project as delegated by the RMA and act as Officer In Charge (OIC) when necessary.
- Budget for M&E costs and advocate as delegated by the RMA for both appropriate financial and human resourcing.
- Contribute to building M&E capacity of WFP staff within the Bureau but specially in the Country Offices through training and information sharing. Manage junior staff members and guide as required to enable high performance.
- Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men.
Support to Country Offices (COs) Function
- Support line manager in ensuring that Country Offices’ 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).
- Support COs to evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, notably through making monitoring and review findings accessible, developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products.
- Support COs with monitoring reports on status of results and implementation progress and contribute to the data analysis.
- Support COs in addressing recommendations from monitoring and reviews to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required.
- Conduct and/or support oversight missions to Country Offices
- Support in the process of Budget Revisions, Log-frames, approval and selection of indicators.
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 | Demonstrates thorough understanding of WFP’s performance management system and ability to manage resources and relationships to lead monitoring actions or deliver complex evaluations (including joint & interagency) of a variety of WFP programmes, processes or policies to WFP monitoring and/or evaluation quality standards. |
| Qualitative/Quantitative Methodology | Applies in-depth understanding of developing practice in analytical approaches, methods and tools for an appropriate mix to deliver quality monitoring results or complex evaluations on diverse topics relevant to WFP’s strategic and operational results frameworks. |
| 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. |
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
Advanced University degree in social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or other related fields, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.
Work Experience:
Minimum of three years of relevant professional work experience including monitoring and evaluation activities. Experience using a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools and methods is mendatory.
Languages:
Fluency (Level C) in spoken and written English and Arabic.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
WFP offers a competitive compensation package including:
- Attractive salary in accordance with industry standards. Please visit United Nations Salary Scales for more details.
- Attractive pension plan
- Child allowance
- Language allowance (subject to passing language assessment)
- Medical coverage for staff and eligible dependents
- Variety of leave entitlements, including but not limited to 30 days annual leaves per year, maternity/paternity leave, and special leave arrangements.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline to apply for this position is Saturday, 29 October 2022 (11:59 PM Cairo Time).
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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment
WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.
