The position is located in OED at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. The Senior Evaluation Officer (Impact Evaluations) reports to the Director of the Office of Evaluation. Leadership in promoting high quality research and evaluations and serving as Senior Liaison Officer with donors and FAO Members
Responsibilities:
Design and lead rigorous evaluations of projects, programmes, and operations, especially impact evaluations.
Apply (and enforce in others) rigorous analytic thinking in leading/conducting analyses (qualitative and quantitative).
preparing dissemination materials (reports, papers and journal articles, presentations, and so on).
Participate actively and productively in multidisciplinary evaluation teams, often with internal and external partners.
Provide substantive leadership and expertise in at least one area of FAO's work such as agriculture, agrifood systems.
Climate change, nutrition, water, women's economic empowerment, and other areas in development and emergency settings.
One cross-cutting theme or accelerator of change per FAO's Strategic Framework, such as private sector engagement.
Data and technologies, and innovations.
Represent the Office of Evaluation before donors and Member Nations.
Strengthen relationships with donors and Member Nations through the conduct of the work.
Promote use of evaluation findings and response to recommendations.
Requirements:
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in a social science field (such as economics, sociology, or psychology) or evaluation, with a focus on research and evaluation methods.
Ten years of experience conducting rigorous evaluations, especially impact evaluations.
Three publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Working knowledge (proficiency - level C) of English.
Intermediate knowledge (intermediate - level B) of another official FAO language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish).
