Senior Evaluation Officer
Senior Evaluation Officer
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Qualified female applicants qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply
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FAO staff are subject to the authority of the Director-General who may assign them to any of the activities or offices of the Organization.
FAOs commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient inclusive resilient and sustainable agrifood systems for better production better nutrition a better environment and a better life leaving no one behind.
Organizational Setting
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Our goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active healthy lives. With 195 members (194 countries and the European Union) FAO works in more than 130 countries worldwide.
FAO implements a wide portfolio of projects programmes and initiatives across multiple sectors. These include animal production and health fisheries food and nutrition food systems and safety forestry social protection inclusive rural development information management systems / data systems for monitoring and decision making land and water plant production and protection and others. FAO has a growing portfolio of work in the development and humanitarian (emergency and resilience) sectors.
FAO evaluates the strategic alignment implementation efficacy and efficiency of its portfolio of work through its independent Office
OED values candidates who are highly motivated to excel and want to join OED colleagues in generating transformative knowledge for FAO its Member Nations and others working in the fields in which FAO operates to achieve its mission of ending hunger.
The position is located in the Office of Evaluation (OED) at FAO headquarters in Rome Italy.
Reporting Lines
The Senior Evaluation Officer reports to the Deputy Director OED.
Technical Focus
Leadership in (a) promoting policy strategy and planning activities for the office to foster high quality work; (b) leading evaluations and conducting quality assurance reviews of evaluations; and (c) mentoring personnel.
Key Results
- Supporting the Deputy Director/Director in designing and executing process/system changes especially using technology and data science.
- Designs and conducts complex evaluations of outcomes and impacts focused on specific themes strategies or clusters of projects or initiatives such as the evaluation of specific sustainable development goals priority programme areas or thematic areas of technical focus.
- Provides quality assurance to enhance the quality of OED evaluations.
- Represents OED in meetings with donors Members and in national and international events.
- Mentors junior evaluation personnel.
Key Functions
Develops new or enhances existing strategies processes and guidance to streamline the work of OED optimize decisions and resource allocation and monitors the portfolio of work building efficiencies and promoting work effectiveness.
Provides technical leadership in complex research and evaluations:
o Designs and leads rigorous thematic strategic and programme (cluster) evaluations.
o Applies and enforces in others rigorous analytic thinking in leading/conducting analyses (qualitative and quantitative) and preparing dissemination materials (reports papers and journal articles presentations and so on).
o Participates actively and productively in multidisciplinary evaluation teams often with internal and external partners.
o Provides substantive leadership and expertise in at least one area of FAOs work such as agriculture agrifood systems climate change nutrition water social protection and other areas in development and emergency settings and one cross-cutting theme or accelerator of change per FAOs Strategic Framework such as private sector engagement data and technologies and innovations.
Provides quality assurance across the portfolio of evaluations:
o Reviews evaluation outputs and provides detailed feedback (such as evaluation designs and reports).
o Assesses evaluation outputs to provide approval (for release or publication payments to partners and so on).
Maintains technical leadership:
o Keeps abreast of methodological developments in evaluation.
Performs other duties as required.
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING
Minimum Requirements
- Advanced university degree in a social science (such as economics international studies/development political science public policy sociology) data science or statistics.
- A career focused on evaluation with at least ten years of experience conducting rigorous thematic and strategic evaluations.
- Working knowledge (proficiency - level C) of English and intermediate knowledge (intermediate proficiency - level B) of another official FAO language (Arabic Chinese French Russian or Spanish).
Competencies
- Results Focus
- Leading Engaging and Empowering
- Strong Communications Skills
- Partnering and Advocating
- Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
- Strategic Thinking
Technical/Functional Skills
- Ph.D. is highly desirable.
- Understanding and knowledge of FAOs portfolio of work is considered a strong asset.
- Extensive and relevant expertise developing or enhancing processes systems or procedures to streamline office functions as demonstrated through a brief description of at least one process system or procedure developed or enhanced (file to upload #1: submit a brief description in a separate Word of PDF file).
- Extensive and relevant of technical expertise in leading and conducting rigorous evaluations (that is evaluations using designs that are well aligned with the evaluation questions) (file to upload #2: evaluation as an example).
- Extensive and relevant of work experience conducting evaluations in substantive fields related to FAOs mission (agriculture agrifood systems climate change nutrition water social protection and other areas in development and emergency settings) as demonstrated through your CV (file to upload #3).
- Proven ability to deliver clear and concise reports and presentations (in particular to leadership) as demonstrated through a writing sample of evaluation conducted (file to upload #2 or additional) (2) a presentation based on that writing sample (file to upload #4) and (3) a brief justification for the writing sample selected (upload #5).
- Candidates considered qualified may be asked to participate in a test and deliver a presentation on a topic to be provided.
- Work experience in more than one location in which FAO works or area of work (such as agriculture and environment) is essential as demonstrated through experience listed in the CV (upload #3).
FAO staff are expected to adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency.
- Extension of fixed term appointments is based on certification of performance and availability of funds
- FAO reserves the right not to make an appointment.
- Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment accreditation any residency or visa requirements and security clearances.
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
Dependency allowances
Rental subsidy
Education grant for children
Home leave travel
30 working days of annual leave per year
Pension fund entitlements under the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund
International health insurance; optional life insurance
Disability protection
elements of family-friendly policies
flexible working arrangements
standards of conduct.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
