Evaluation Officer at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Job Posting : 14/Sep/2026 Closure Date : 05/Oct/2026, 4:59:00 PM Organizational Unit: OED Job Type : Staff position Type of Requisition: Professional Project Grade Level: P-2 Primary Location : Italy-Rome Duration: Fixed-term: one year with possibility of extension Post Number: 2011185 CCOG Code: 1A02e

IMPORTANT NOTICE

• 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.
• All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
• All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.
• FAO staff are subject to the authority of the Director-General, who may assign them to any of the activities or offices of the Organization.

FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations.

Organizational Setting

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the 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.

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.

Reporting Lines

The Evaluation Officer reports to a 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

• Supports evaluations of programmes, programme components or cluster of projects.
• Supports lead evaluators in the preparation of evaluation reports and related materials.
• Assists with the organization and preparation of meetings, missions, workshops and other events.
• Keeps abreast of methodological developments in evaluation and contributes to the development of evaluation methodologies and tools.
• Liaises and collaborates with other units of the Organization with a view to promoting results-based and evaluation culture, and enhanced learning from evaluations.
• Liaises and collaborates with the evaluation units of other United Nations organizations as well as professional evaluation bodies.
• Performs other duties as required.

Specific Functions

• Helps design and conduct evaluations of projects, programmes, and thematic or geographic areas focused on measuring results, that is, outcomes and impacts.
• Supports the preparation of evaluation reports and related materials, such as briefs, papers, and presentations.
• Supports the development and improvement of OED corporate processes, including conducting research, analysing good practices, and contributing to the design and implementation of process enhancements.
• Applies (and enforces in others) rigorous analytical thinking in conducting analyses (qualitative and quantitative), preparing dissemination materials (reports, papers and journal articles, presentations, and so on), and documenting work completed to ensure it is reproducible.
• Ensures the quality of the work conducted or managed