Deputy Director, Evaluation D1

WFP is seeking qualified candidates to join its team for the position of Deputy Director of Evaluation at D1 level, based at Headquarters in Rome, Italy. The position reports to the Director of Evaluation and works closely with the other Deputy Director of Evaluation. 

The purpose of the role is to provide leadership and management in support of the Director of Evaluation with implementing the corporate evaluation strategy, delivering the programme of work for centralized evaluations, strengthening the use of evaluation evidence across the organization and leading a highly performing team.

• Provide leading technical advice to contribute to the implementation of the evaluation function normative framework set out in the Evaluation Policy, the corporate evaluation strategy and the Charter and their updates, as and when required.
• Oversee the updates of the quality assurance systems (including guidance, process and technical notes) for the centralized evaluations such as strategic policy, corporate emergency, country strategic plan, syntheses, joint, system-wide, and inter-agency humanitarian evaluations, ensuring that these systems reflect latest international United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG) norms and standards and other global developments as required.
• Lead innovations in evaluation methods and approaches to strengthen centralized evaluations quality.
• Lead the development of the centralized evaluation work plan (including potential updates in the coverage norms) in consultation with the Director of Evaluation, WFP Senior Management and the Executive Board. 
• Oversee the quality of centralized evaluation reports, approve them for publication and direct presentation to the Executive Board.
• Promote the use of overall evaluation findings, lessons and recommendations throughout the organization and ensure that evaluation findings are accessible to staff and stakeholders and are built into the WFP knowledge-management systems, contribute to strategies for enhancing organizational learning, continuous improvement of WFP’s work and contribute to enterprise risk management.
• Strengthen, in collaboration with the other Deputy Director, the availability of qualified resources for conducting centralized evaluations.
• Proactively contribute to WFP’s engagement in the international evaluation system and professional networks to ensure evaluation in WFP reflects and contributes to international best practice.
• Provide strategic inputs to the Director of Evaluation in advising the Executive Board, the Executive Director and Senior Management on developments in the evaluation of international development and humanitarian assistance in the United Nations.
• Effectively manage human and financial resources, under delegated authority, fostering the ongoing growth of a unified and high-performing team to ensure achievement of set objectives.
• Enhance WFP’s evaluation culture, capacity, and systems, in collaboration with WFP’s Senior Management, the Evaluation Function Steering Group, the Internal Oversight and Advisory Committee, the Oversight and Policy Committee, the Office of Evaluation Management Group, the Regional Evaluation Units and WFP’s evaluation community of practice. This collaborative effort aims to fortify and improve the evaluation practices within the organization.
• Collaborate with the other Deputy Director on evaluation function reporting and performance monitoring requirements for areas of work responsible for.
• Mainstream effectively cross-cutting issues (equity, gender, inclusion of persons with disability, human rights, humanitarian principles, protection, accountability to affected population) into WFP evaluation processes.
• Accountable for an equitable and inclusive workplace which incorporates all dimensions of the WFP diversity and inclusion framework.
• Perform other duties as required. 

Full details available on the WFP website . Application deadline 20 August.

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