Impact Evaluation Specialist

Final date to receive applications
31 October 2026-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)
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WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
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A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
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JOB TITLE:

Impact Evaluation Specialist
TYPE OF

CONTRACT:

CSLT Regular (Level
2)
UNIT/DIVISION:  Office of Evaluation, Impact Evaluation Unit
DUTY STATION (City, Country):  Rome, Italy
DURATION:  11 months
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:  As the largest humanitarian agency in the world, WFP is committed to generating rigorous impact evaluation evidence to better understand the needs of the people they serve and to support them in transitioning out of food insecurity.
WFP’s 2022 Evaluation Policy defines impact evaluations as measuring changes in development outcomes of interest for a target population that can be attributed to a specific programme or policy through a credible counterfactual.
Impact evaluations have already significantly altered the way the world understands poverty and the effectiveness of development interventions. But humanitarian and transitional development contexts have not yet benefitted from the same level of impact evaluation evidence. The Impact Evaluation Strategy ) lays out WFP’s vision for increasing the coverage and use of rigorous impact evaluations in humanitarian and development settings, highlighting the organization’s renewed commitment to generating operationally relevant evidence of global significance.
This position will help WFP respond to growing demand from host countries, donors and policymakers for high-quality impact evaluation evidence. Impact evaluations are delivered by WFP’s Office of Evaluation (OEV) at the request of country offices. They are usually undertaken during programme implementation over a multi-year period.
Impact evaluations are delivered in line with corporate evidence priorities…