Impact Evaluation Coordinator (Anticipatory Action)

Key Responsibilities

Coordinate the WFP/OCHA Partnership (30%)

• Act as the liaison between the WFP and OCHA impact evaluation units.
• Engage with OCHA and WFP Country teams, as well as other United Nations agencies, to assess opportunities and feasibility for impact evaluations.
• Hold regular engagements with WFP Anticipatory Action team within WFP Climate and Resilience Service to identify priority countries and impact evaluation designs that align with the service’s priorities.
• Develop impact evaluation designs for priority countries in coordination with country and global headquarter teams.
• Lead the day-to-day engagement with stakeholders at country and regional office level.
• Prepare progress updates, donor reports, briefing notes, and presentations on partnership.
• Document lessons learned, good practices, and partnership results.
• Contribute to joint planning, resource mobilization efforts, and proposal development for partnership.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to strengthen coherence between implementing partners.
• Coordinate joint communication materials, success stories, and visibility products on partnership. Ensure consistent messaging aligned with OEV communication guidelines.
• Support organization of public events, field missions, and donor visits as required.

Delivery of Impact Evaluations under the WFP/OCHA Partnership (70%)

• Lead the implementation of the impact evaluations (Randomized Control Trials).
• Lead or contribute to the procurement of Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals.
• Lead in the design, revision, and support the programming of household survey questionnaires.
• Support the selection and contracting of data collection firms and support data collection activities in a manner that is best suited for the impact evaluation and has the potential for meeting other WFP monitoring and evaluation needs.
• Lead or support data analysis in accordance with agreed impact evaluation designs and within timeframes that maximise the opportunity for evidence use.
• Lead the day-to-day engagement with field coordinators and other stakeholders at country and regional office levels.
• Participate in field missions as needed to support the implementation and management of impact evaluations.
• Support enumerators’ training for data collection and provide technical guidance on data quality checks and analysis, ensuring data accuracy and reliability.
• Closely monitor programme implementation to ensure alignment with the evaluation design and data collection protocols.
• Co-author briefs, reports, and other evaluation-related publications, adhering to WFP's reporting standards and WFP evaluation quality assurance systems (EQAS).
• Lead or support the planning and delivery of dissemination workshops and undertake field visits as required to support impact evaluation related activities.

Deliverables at the End of the Contract

• Effective engagements with stakeholders to deliver on the partnership workplan.
• Effective feasibility discussions with the priority countries to co-create impact evaluations.
• Successful design and management of 3 to 4 impact evaluations.
• Clear and effective impact evaluation communications outputs.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Education: Doctoral degree (PhD) in academic disciplines relevant to the assignment (economics, political science, development studies, etc.).
• Experience: A minimum of 6 years’ professional experience supporting the delivery and quality of impact evaluations, preferably with exposure to climate/resilience impact evaluations or research.
• Field Experience: Experience managing Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) in the field; experience in hardship duty stations is considered a plus.
• Sector Experience: Experience working with UN and multilateral agencies; experience working on multi-agency impact evaluations is considered a plus.
• Language: Fluency (level C) in English language and level B in French.