International Consultant (Deputy Team Leader) at World Food Programme (WFP)

JOB PURPOSE

Support the team leader in managing the evaluation team

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Contribute, by bringing expertise in capacity strengthening, transition, nutrition and sustainability , in drafting and revising (as required) and finalizing the Inception report that contains among others:
• Detailed evaluation design, sampling methodology, and sample size calculations.
• Quality Assurance Plan
• Detailed work plan, including, timeline and activities
• Bibliography of documents/secondary data sources utilized.
• Final data collection tools, data bases, analysis plan
• Data analysis plan
• Contribute, by bringing expertise in capacity strengthening, transition, nutrition and sustainability in developing a Power-point presentation on methodology, overall survey plan, timeline and activities and support presentation of this to WFP for discussion and inputs before field work begins
• Support in planning for evaluation field work, ensuring data collection tools are tested and digitalized and enumerators are adequately trained
• Conduct field work as per the evaluation work plan

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: At least a master’s social sciences or Education, Statistics, measurements, nutrition
• Experience: Senior researcher with at least 15 years’ experience in evaluations. Demonstrated expertise in managing multidisciplinary and mixed quantitative and qualitative method studies, complemented with good understanding school feeding, capacity strengthening, nutrition, transition
• Knowledge & Skills: Expertise in designing evaluation methodology and data collection tools and demonstrated experience in similar evaluations. Leadership and communication skills, including a track record of excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Languages: English

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:

• Inception report with a clear methodology and timelines to execute the TOR
• Final Evaluation report
• Transcripts from key informant interviews, focus group discussions, etc.
• Table of all standard and custom indicators with final values
• List of supported and sampled schools
• All data including final analysis