Evaluation Officer

1 mese fa

Roma, Italia FAO A tempo pieno

Job Posting: 26/Jan/2024

Closure Date: 11/Feb/2024, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: OED

**Job Type**: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Professional

Grade Level: P-4

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed-term: Two years with possibility of extension

Post Number: 0014184

CCOG Code: 1A02
- **FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture**

**- Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply**

**- Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO's values**
- **FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination**

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**
FAO is a specialized agency leading international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO strives to build more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems.

To this end, FAO implements a wide portfolio of projects, programmes, and initiatives across multiple sectors, including fisheries, forestry, animal production and health, land and water, plant production and protection, inclusive rural development, food and nutrition, food systems and safety, social protection, information management systems/data systems for monitoring and decision making, and others. FAO has a growing portfolios of work in the development and humanitarian (emergency and resilience interventions) sectors. FAO conducts its work through a skilled technical workforce and internal and external partnerships.

FAO evaluates the strategic alignment, implementation, efficacy, and efficiency of its portfolio of work through its independent Office of Evaluation (OED), which is led by the Director, OED who reports to the Governing Bodies and to the Director-General. OED evaluates FAO strategies, initiatives, programmes and projects at the global, regional and national levels. OED seeks to generate credible and useful evidence and insights to inform decisions, support oversight, and help FAO achieve its mission. In so doing, OED provides results accountability to both Member Nations and the Director-General. OED also participates in system-wide evaluation

The post is located in OED at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

**Reporting Lines**
The Evaluation Officer (Impact Evaluations) reports to the Senior Evaluation Officer, OED.

**Technical Focus**
Impact evaluations of projects and programmes.

**Key Results**
Planning, designing, conducting and promoting the use of evaluations, thereby contributing to enhanced results-accountability to the Director-General and the Governing Bodies, enriched learning by the Organization, and mentoring of junior evaluation staff.

**Key Functions**
- Participates actively and productively in multidisciplinary evaluation teams, often with internal and external partners.
- Designs and leads impact evaluations of complex projects, programmes, operations, and themes using experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluation designs, including randomized control trials, regression discontinuity, and propensity score matching.
- Applies rigorous analytic thinking in leading the analysis of data collected (qualitative and quantitative) and the preparation of evaluation reports and other materials for dissemination.
- Presents findings, conclusions and recommendations of evaluations to relevant audiences.
- Promotes the use of evaluation findings in the design and implementation of strategies, programmes and projects.
- Liaises and collaborates with other units of the Organization to promote results-based and evaluation culture, and enhanced learning from evaluations.
- Keeps abreast of methodological developments in evaluation.
- Guides junior evaluation officers and consultants in conducting evaluations.
- Performs other duties as required.
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CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

**Minimum Requirements**
- Advanced university degree in a social science field (such as economics, sociology, orpsychology) or evaluation, with a focus on research and evaluation methods.
- Seven years of demonstrated work experience conducting impact evaluations.
- Three publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- Working knowledge (proficient - level C) of English and limited knowledge (intermediate - level B) of another offic

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