Impact Evaluation Coordinator (Anticipatory Action) at World Food Programme (WFP)

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

The main accountabilities and responsibilities are:

Coordinate the WFP/OCHA partnership (30%):

• Act as the liaison between the WFP and OCHA impact evaluation units.
• Engage with OCHA and WFP Country teams, as well as other United Nations agencies, to assess opportunities and feasibility for impact evaluations.
• Hold regular engagements with WFP Anticipatory Action team within WFP Climate and Resilience Service to identify priority countries and impact evaluation designs that align with the service’s priorities.
• Develop impact evaluation designs for priority countries in coordination with country and global headquarter teams.
• Lead the day-to-day engagement with stakeholders at country and regional office level.
• Prepare progress updates, donor reports, briefing notes, and presentations on partnership
• Document lessons learned, good practices, and partnership results.
• Contribute to joint planning, resource mobilization efforts, and proposal development for partnership.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to strengthen coherence between implementing partners.
• Coordinate joint communication materials, success stories, and visibility products on partnership. Ensure consistent messaging aligned with OEV communication guidelines.
• Support organization of public events, field missions, and donor visits as required.

Lead or support the delivery of impact evaluations under the WFP/OCHA partnership (70%):

• Lead the implementation of the impact evaluations (Randomized Control Trials).
• Lead or contribute to the procurement of Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals.
• Lead in the design, revision, and support the programming of household survey questionnaires.
• Support the selection and contracting of data collection firms and support data collection activities in a manner that is best suited for the impact evaluation and has the potential for meeting other WFP monitoring and evaluation needs. 
• Lead or support data analysis in accordance with agreed impact evaluation designs and within timeframes that maximise the opportunity for evidence use. 
• Lead the day-to-day engagement with field coordinators and other stakeholders at country and regional office levels.
• Participate in field missions as needed to support the implementation and management of impact evaluations.
• Support enumerators’ training for data collection and provide technical guidance on data quality checks and analysis, ensuring data accuracy and reliability.
• Closely monitor programme implementation to ensure alignment with the evaluation design and data collection protocols.
• Co-author briefs, reports, and other evaluation-related publications, adhering to WFP's reporting standards and WFP evaluation quality assurance systems (EQAS).
• Lead or support the planning and delivery of dissemination workshops and undertake field visits as required to support impact evaluation related activities.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Effective engagements with stakeholders to deliver on the partnership workplan
• Effective feasibility discussions with the priority countries to co-create impact evaluations
• Successful design and management of 3 to 4 impact evaluations
• Clear and effective impact evaluation communications outputs

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:

Doctoral degree in academic disciplines relevant to the assignment (economics, political science, development studies, etc.).

Experience:

• A minimum of 6 years’ professional experience supporting the delivery and quality of impact evaluations, and preferably with exposure to climate/resilience impact evaluations or research.
• Experience managing RCTs in the field; experience in hardship duty stations is considered a plus.
• Experience working with UN and multilateral agencies; experience working on multi-agency impact evaluations is considered a plus.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Excellent research skills
• Solid knowledge of quantitative methods used for identifying and measuring impacts (e.g. survey design, implicit association tests, etc.).  
• Proficiency in using statistical software packages (Stata, R, SPSS, etc.). 
• Fully computer-literate with excellent skills in Word, Excel, Power Point and database management.  
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to work effectively and sensitively in diverse teams. Experience working with government partners is desirable.  
• Strong organizational and planning skills to manage multi‑partner workplans. Ability to track implementation progress and ensure timely follow‑up.
• Adapt in bringing together diverse stakeholders and facilitating collaborative decision‑making
• Problem‑solving skills to address bottlenecks and operational challenges. Ability to analyse partnership dynamics, identify synergies, and propose strategic adjustments.
• Excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills. Ability to effectively bridge academic and practitioner audiences.  
• Well organised and systematic. 

Languages:

• Fluency (level C) in English language and level B in French.