Evaluation Officer

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.
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.
OED values candidates who are highly motivated to excel and want to join OED colleagues in generating transformative knowledge for FAO, its Member Nations, and others working in the fields in which FAO operates to achieve its mission of ending hunger!
The position is located in the Office of Evaluation (OED) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.
Reporting Lines  The Evaluation Officer 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   Composes and manages project evaluation teams.
Supports evaluations of programmes, programme components or cluster of projects.
Supports lead evaluators in the preparation of evaluation reports and related materials.
Assist 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.
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…