UN World Food Programme Evaluation Consultant (Team Leader) - International CST-IV - DS Jobs in Malawi

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty.

SP4SDG is a United Nations Joint Programme that aims to support the Government of Malawi (GoM) to enhance the Malawi social protection system to meet emergency food needs and reduce the vulnerability of those most at risk of food insecurity by 2021, while strengthening the social protection system for all vulnerable households across the lifecycle. The programme combines advancing an innovative Shock-Sensitive Social Protection (SSSP) prototype with reinforced financial structures and the transformation of existing policies into legal frameworks to enhance the existing social protection system to be more robust, comprehensive and sustainable, leaving no one behind.

The three SP4SDG components are as follows:

The Malawi social protection system is adapted to meet emergency food needs together with the humanitarian sector: This constitutes the largest financial component of the joint programme. Global commitments have been made to link humanitarian-development action, such as those articulated in the Grand Bargain; these commitments have been localized in Malawi. The United Nations (UN) and Government of Malawi (GoM) together have collaborated to identify, test, and adapt the most appropriate way to operationalize Shock-Sensitive Social Protection (SSSP) in Malawi. Yet, increasing donor appetite and a yet to be defined coordination structure for SSSP at national level is producing numerous piece-meal SSSP initiatives.

• The Government of Malawi increases its share of the social protection budget and undertakes measures to improve efficiency of spending: The social protection sector in Malawi is largely donor funded (at 93%), heavily fragmented with minimal coordination of disbursement processes and mechanisms, and inadequate for needs, leaving the most marginalized behind in the process. There is an immediate need for sustainable financing of social protection through increased domestic funding with targeted attention to the most vulnerable, including for predictable annual emergency caseloads. Exploring new and/or innovative funding solutions through public and private financing is critical to addressing this need and accelerating action on the SDGs. Lessons from this component can be applied to other sectors for improved financing for a whole-of-society approach.

• The Government of Malawi is advancing towards a more comprehensive social protection legal framework: This component is in line with Malawi’s human rights treaty obligations. The lack of a legal framework threatens the sustainability of the sector, even though the poverty levels in the country point towards social protection as a critical intervention. The existing social protection system is fragmented and not anchored in a comprehensive legal framework. This leads to confusion around who should have access to social protection and how the system should respond to the needs of the people. This justifies the need for a transformative action towards a sustainable, efficient, better coordinated, domestically financed, and nationally owned social protection system, thereby accelerating the achievement of the SDGs.

The evaluation will answer the overarching question “To what extent were the SP4SDG joint programme objectives achieved and how?” This SP4SDG evaluation will serve dual and mutually reinforcing objectives of accountability and learning:

• Accountability – The evaluation will assess and report on the performance and results of the SP4SDG. This evaluation will, therefore, ensure that the Development Assistance Committee of the Economic Cooperation and Development (DAC/OECD) evaluation criteria of Relevance, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Impact and Sustainability are adequately covered.

Data collection will be conducted in April 2021 and the evaluation report is expected by October 2021. Due to COVID-19 restrictions at time of data collection, Team Leader may work remotely throughout the evaluation period.

In addition to the technical expertise and experience noted above, the

team should collectively have:

• Evaluating capacity development and strengthening activities and social policy/social development initiatives in low income countries

• Demonstrated experience in designing and leading complex evaluations;

• Familiarity with Malawi and/or the Eastern and Southern Africa region

• Significant experience in a range of evaluation approaches including approaches that mix quantitative, qualitative and participatory methods;

• Strong knowledge and experience in the selection and implementation of statistically accepted sampling methods;

• Exceptional data analysis skills for both qualitative and quantitative data;

• A sound understanding of the UN system and its approach to working with national governments;

• Excellent report writing skills;

• Proven ability to produce reports or publications in English;

• Gender expertise and good knowledge of gender issues and tools for integrating human rights and their link with nutrition, health and gender equality;

• A high degree of professionalism and ability to systematically follow guidelines;

• Strong analytical and communication skills; and

• Excellent ability to communicate and write in English.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Evaluation Committee, and day-to-day coordination with the evaluation managers, the team leader will:

• Define the evaluation approach and methodology;

• Guide and manage the team to implement the evaluation from inception up to dissemination of key findings;

• Represent the evaluation team in meetings with stakeholders and maintain communication between the UN Evaluation Managers and Quality Assurance Service;

• Draft the inception report using the WFP template and consolidate inputs from other team members;

• Revise the inception report based on feedback from WFP’s external quality support service to produce the second draft;

• Finalise the inception report based on comments from stakeholders;

• Design the data collection tools and programme in-line with statistically significant sampling methodologies;

• Lead the evaluation data collection mission;

• Debrief stakeholders on preliminary findings at the end of the field work/data collection;

• Draft the evaluation report using the WFP template and with inputs from other team members (it is expected that each team member will draft their portion and submit to the team leader);

• Revise the evaluation report based on feedback from quality support services to produce draft 2, which will be circulated to stakeholders for comments;

• Finalise the evaluation report based on stakeholders’ comments and submit draft 3;

• Address any further comments on draft 3 until all issues are resolved and submit final evaluation; and

• Lead the dissemination of evaluation findings and development of communication products.

• Draft 1 of Inception Report with data collection tools, analysis plan, evaluation schedule, communication plan that goes to Quality Support (QS) for review and feedback in line with WFP’s decentralized evaluation policy and templates

Education

Advanced University degree in any relevant social sciences

Experience

At least 12 years of relevant working experience in research, methods design, quantitative and qualitative research in social sciences, etc.;

• Experience in leading teams in similar assignments, preferably within Southern Africa;

• Experience evaluating programmes with technical support to the Government;

• Experience in assessments and evaluations of social policy/social protection programmes in low income countries;

• Experience in working with UN agencies (i.e. ILO, UNICEF and WFP).

Knowledge and Skills:

• * Proven practical expertise of designing and implementing rigorous evaluations, ideally social protection, using different approaches;

• Expertise in designing methodology and data collection tools and demonstrated experience in leading similar evaluations;

• Skill and proven experience in the use of theory-based evaluation approaches such as contribution analysis and/or Qualitative Comparative Analysis in assessing programme performance and contribution to stated outcomes;

• Understanding of national development planning and programming processes including National Development Plans and strategies;

• Leadership, analytical and communication skills;

• Track record of excellent English report writing;

• Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills;

• Good presentation skills; and

• Ability to work with people from different cultures and background.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UN World Food Programme Evaluation Consultant (Team Leader) - International CST-IV - DS Jobs in Malawi

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