UN World Food Programme National Consultant - Social Protection Expert Jobs in Malawi

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.

Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Social Protection for the Sustainable Development Goals (SP4SDG) in Malawi

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.

WFP Malawi is looking for an experienced Malawian National to serve as an intermediate evaluator with significant experience in Social Protection or evaluating Social Protection-related projects as part of a team of evaluators with appropriate skills to conduct the evaluation as per the evaluation terms of reference (will be made available).

Duties, Responsibilities and Reporting Lines for the Intermediate Evaluator (Social Protection Expert)- not all inclusive

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Team Leader, the Intermediate Evaluator (Social Protection Expert) will:

Contribute to the design of the evaluation approach;

Support team to review the methodology and sampling for the evaluation;

Contribute to the inception process;

Support the training of enumerators/research assistants;

Supervise data collection

Implement the evaluation from data collection up to dissemination, focusing on socio-economic aspects of the evaluation, including linkages to other social protection programmes;

Participate in field work (data collection) as per the design of the evaluation in the inception report;

Participate in the debriefing of stakeholders on preliminary findings at the end of the

field work;

Draft evaluation report inputs using the WFP template and submit to the leader for consolidation;

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

Finalise the evaluation report.

Deliverables at the end of contract:

• 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;

• Draft 2 Inception Report that has incorporated QS feedback and goes to stakeholders from all three UN agencies + Government of Malawi staff for review and comments;

• Final Inception Report that incorporates stakeholder comments;

• PowerPoint presentation for exit debrief and presentation of preliminary findings;

• Draft 1 Evaluation Report that goes to QS for review and feedback;

• Draft 2 Evaluation Report that has incorporated QS feedback that goes to stakeholders for review and comments;

• Final Evaluation Report that has incorporated stakeholder comments; and

• Other dissemination products as may be agreed and determined during the inception phase.

Education

Post graduate qualification in any relevant social sciences

Language

Fluency in English and Chichewa languages

Key Knowledge and Skills;

• Understanding of National development planning, programming and budgeting processes including National Development plans;

• Understanding of social protection theory and practice, and specifically in the context of low-income countries;

• Knowledge of different evaluation design approaches and methodologies;

• Good written and oral communication skills;

• Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills; and

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

• At least 6 years of relevant working experience in social sciences or other related fields;

• Experience evaluating programmes with technical support to the Government;

• Experience in assessments and evaluations of social protection programmes, policies and legal frameworks;

• Experience in working with UN agencies; Government, National and International NGOs, private sector or any other relevant entity

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UN World Food Programme National Consultant - Social Protection Expert Jobs in Malawi

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