Evaluation Officer

Job Posting: 07/Jul/2025

Closure Date: 29/Jul/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: OED

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Professional

Grade Level: P-3

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

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

Post Number: 2002942

CCOG Code: 1A02

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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 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 of Evaluation (OED), which is led by the Director of OED who reports to the Director-General and the FAO Programme Committee. OED evaluates FAO strategies, initiatives, programmes, and projects at 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 advances knowledge and provides results accountability to both the Director-General and Member Nations. OED also participates in system-wide evaluation initiatives, thereby contributing to assessments of development and humanitarian effectiveness by the UN system.

The position is located the Office of Evaluation (OED) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

**Reporting Lines**

The Evaluation Officer (Technical) reports to a more senior Evaluation Officer in OED.

**Technical Focus**

Evaluations.

**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, and enriched learning by the Organization; and improved results-based management.

**Key Functions**
- Designs and conducts evaluations of projects, programmes, and thematic or geographic areas focused on measuring impacts.
- Prepares evaluation reports and related materials, such as briefs, papers, and presentations.
- Applies (and enforces in others) rigorous analytical thinking in leading/conducting analyses (qualitative and quantitative) and preparing dissemination materials (reports, papers and journal articles, presentations, and so on).
- Ensures the quality of the work conducted or managed, including reports and presentations, and assists in quality enhancement of evaluations conducted by others.
- Presents findings, conclusions and recommendations of evaluation reports to relevant audiences.
- Promotes the use of evaluations so that their results are taken into account for the design and implementation of strategies, programmes and projects.
- Keeps abreast of methodological developments in evaluation and contributes to the development of evaluation methodologies and tools.
- Participates actively and productively in multidisciplinary evaluation teams, often with internal and external partners.
- Effectively liaises wit