Organizational Setting
The Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER) is responsible for ensuring FAO's efforts to support countries and partners in preparing for and effectively responding to food and agricultural threats and crises. It is responsible for coordinating the development and maintenance of corporate tools and standards to enable Decentralized Offices to assist Members to prepare for, and respond to emergencies. OER ensures humanitarian policy coordination and knowledge, liaison with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee as well as with humanitarian resource partners, co-leadership with World Food Programme of the global Food Security Cluster, organizational preparedness, surge capacity and response to large-scale emergencies. OER supports food and nutrition security assessment and early warning activities related to emergency and humanitarian analysis and responses. OER plays a major role in the development and leadership of the Organization's programme to increase the resilience of livelihoods to food and agriculture threats and crises.
Reporting Lines
The MEAL Specialist will work under the supervision of the Emergency and Rehabilitation Officer (MEAL) in OER, or, in the case of a field position, working under the supervision of the FAO Representative, and in close collaboration with the OER MEAL team and other relevant teams at headquarters and the regional level.ย
Technical Focusย
The Specialist will be responsible for the development and implementation of a programme level monitoring and evaluation strategy and related tools to systematically collect, analyse and manage data and establish linkages with accountability, learning and knowledge management to inform evidence-based programming decisions.ย
Tasks and responsibilities
โข ย ย Develop and implement a programme level monitoring and evaluation strategy to effectively monitor activity implementation and to measure the food security and livelihood outcomes of the emergency and resilience interventions.
โข ย ย Contribute to project design including the development of a sound theory of change to ensure the inclusion of consistent and relevant indicators and realistic targets in logical frameworks, data collection and analyses and appropriate budget.ย
โข ย ย Support and/or coordinate the effective generation, management and visualization of data to provide management with useful information for decision making. ย
โข ย ย Ensure the accurate registration, verification, validation and counting of beneficiaries targeted with FAOโs assistance.ย
โข ย ย Implementation of post-distribution monitoring and reporting for enhanced accountability and to inform adaptive management.
โข ย ย Contribute to food security and livelihood outcome and impact assessments, through baseline and endline data collection and quantitative analyses, including where appropriate, regression analyses. ย
โข ย ย Ensure accurate and up to date information on the results of FAOโs seasonal assistance packages, including agricultural production estimates.
โข ย ย Contribute to consistent return on investment and cost benefit analyses of the main assistance packages provided by FAO.
โข ย ย Aggregate project level data into a regularly updated programmatic dashboard for the emergency and resilience portfolio tracking key performance indicators, and ensure regular updating of the Project Activity Information Database (PAID).
โข ย ย Regular updates and reporting to management and relevant stakeholders at country, regional and headquarters level on key data for messaging and strategic positioning.
โข ย ย Contribute to internal and donor reporting requirements.ย
โข ย ย Where applicable, oversee M&E related contracts, including third party monitoring entities, to ensure timely and quality delivery on tasks.
โข ย ย Perform other duties as required.
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING
Minimum Requirements
โข ย ย University degree in Statistics, Economics, Agricultural Sciences, Social Sciences, or other relevant field
โข ย ย At least 2 years (Category C), 5 years (Category B), 10 years (Category A) of relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation accountability and learning, data analysis and/or information management
โข ย ย Working knowledge (level C) of English or French
FAO Core Competencies
โข ย ย Results Focus
โข ย ย Teamwork
โข ย ย Communication
โข ย ย Building Effective Relationships
โข ย ย Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
Technical/Functional Skillsย
โข ย ย Work experience in more than one location or area of work, experience in humanitarian and complex contexts is an asset;ย
โข ย ย Excellent command of R, STATA or SPSS, basic knowledge of other statistical software packages;
โข ย ย Experience with quantitative data analysis;
โข ย ย Knowledge of key food security and agricultural livelihood indicators;
โข ย ย Extent of experience in developing and implementing integrated MEAL frameworks and strategies;
โข ย ย Experience in capacity development for MEAL;
โข ย ย Ability to plan and work with limited supervision to meet objectives.
Selection criteriaย
โข ย ย Limited knowledge (level B) of any other official language of the Organization (Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, Russian) would be an asset.