Programme Policy Officer -International Consultant 1

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

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.

• Education:

         Post graduate qualification in any relevant social sciences: Evaluation design: data analisys.

• Knowledge:

  Technical expertise in evaluation and demonstrated experience in leading and implementing similar evaluations; 

  Leadership, analytical and communication skills;

  Understanding of National development planning and programming processes including National Development plans and strategies;

  Familiarity with the Mozambique country context;

  Knowledge and skills in applying different evaluation design approaches and methodologies

  Track record of excellent Portuguese and English writing (will be asked to submit examples of recent products as evidence of ability to write unless the person has conducted evaluation for WFP recently)

  Good presentation skills.

        Good interpersonall skills and ability to work with people from differente cultures and background.

Work experience:

At least 10 years of relevant working experience;

Experience in leading teams in similar assignments;

Experience in assessments and evaluations of social development programmes

Experience in working with UN agencies

Experience in evaluating similar types of programmes including for WFP;

Experience working in a Developing Country Context.

1. Survey Design (Define the baseline methodology, - Design/adapt/refine the questionnaries, ensuring the questionnaries is appropriate for the local situation and adequate to collect baseline data on hte selected indicators, and Format/layout the questionaires, making sure all skip patterns are clear and coding all questions).
2. Survey Implementation - i) Review Baseline Protocol: Review and provide timely feed back of the Baseline Protocol provided by Local Firm, ii) Training of Field Workers: Attend some trainings of enumerators to ensure comprehension of questionnaire and data collection quality control, iii) Pre-Testing and Piloting Questionnaire: Attend some Pre-testing and Pilot testing exercises to ensure data collection quality control, and iv) Data Entry: Visit the data entry unit of the local firm and perform a quality control of the data entry, and v) Fieldwork Progress Reports: Review the weekly progress reports provide by the Local firm, and provide comments and guidance to the local firm as needed
3. Baseline Report - full data analysis and reporting for the baseline survey, including data sets
4. Inception Report.

These jobs are found in Headquarters (HQ), Regional Bureaux (RBs) or Country Offices (COs) and job holders report to a more senior Programme Policy Officer.
Job holders are likely to be working under the close support and guidance of a more experienced professional staff member receiving guidance and regular feedback on work performed. They are typically involved in programme or policy activities or similar nature and analytical work of limited complexity. 

To provide support to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
•  Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
•  Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

This section is optional to describe additional responsibilities & knowledge required for the specific job.

• Has gained experience in leading teams in similar assignments.
• Has experience in assessments and evaluation of social development programmes.
• Has provided input into policy discussions and decisions.

Deadline of submission of applicatition no later than 13 September 2019.

Duration: 65 working days.

Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.