Monitoring and Evaluation Officer - NOB, Lebanon Country Office, Beirut

Assisting more than 90 million people in 83 countries each year, 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.

In Lebanon, WFP works to support approximately 700,000 people with regular assistance using e-cards. WFP also supports Lebanese schools with school meals, and has run over 300 development activities which include supporting rural infrastructure, as well as education and training opportunities for vulnerable individuals in families. WFP also supports Lebanon’s National Poverty Targeting Programme.

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT: The post is based in Beirut CO and the incumbent is to report to the Head of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and Vulnerability, Analysis & Mapping (VAM) Unit.

JOB PURPOSE: The incumbent is expected to manage the development and implementation of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation Plans aligned to WFP corporate standards to generate quality evidence on the lives of beneficiaries and inform policy, strategy and programme design and implementation. This includes coordinating monitoring activities, managing or supporting the management of decentralized evaluations, supporting thematic/mid-term reviews and positioning WFP as a reliable partner for government of Lebanon and WFP’s partners to build monitoring and evaluation strategies. The incumbent will also support the formulation of country monitoring and evaluation strategies and contribute to policy development and various initiatives.   

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the supervision of Head of M&E and VAM, the incumbent will perform the following tasks:
1. Provide inputs to the development of Monitoring, Review and Evaluation plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results (as set out in the Lebanon Country Strategic Plan (CSP), while being compliant with WFP evaluation and monitoring requirements. 
2. Budget for M&E costs and advocate through line manager for both appropriate financial and human resourcing. 
3. Provide feedback on the formulation of the Monitoring and Evaluation Strategies and support their operationalization in line with innovative methodologies and best practices. 
4. Contribute to evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, notably through making monitoring, review and evaluations findings accessible, developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products.  
5. Support WFP Lebanon Management in addressing recommendations from monitoring, reviews and evaluations to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required. 
6. Contribute to building M&E capacity of WFP staff, partners and government through training and information sharing. Manage junior staff members and M&E team members and guide as required to enable high performance. 
7. Provide inputs to line manager regarding the development and implementation of national government and inter-agency monitoring, reporting and evaluation frameworks, including United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), National Poverty Targeting Programme (NPTP) or Lebanon Crisis Response Plan (LCRP) aligned with nationally owned sustainable development goals. 
8. Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men throughout the entire WFP program in Lebanon.  
9. Ensure that all M&E data is entered into the WFP Lebanon management systems/databases in a timely, accurate and efficient manner. 

Specific to the monitoring function

10. At Country Strategic Plan (CSP) design stage, support the Head of M&E in developing a Theory of Change outlining how the expected results are likely to occur and listing key assumptions and risks. 
11. Support line manager in ensuring that CO monitoring systems and tools are in place and compliant with corporate standards including the minimum monitoring requirements (MMR), standard operational procedures (SOP) and establishment of baselines and targets in alignment with the updated corporate results framework (CRF). 
12. Draft regular monitoring reports on status of results and implementation progress for the entire WFP operation and contribute to the data analysis. 
13. Support mid-term reviews and thematic reviews which are intended for internal learning, strategic and operational decision-making.
14. Communicate results in internal and external fora and support decision-making based on monitoring results. 
15. Work closely with all relevant units and ensure that specific results are communicated and act upon.   

Specific to the evaluation function

16. Manage or support senior officer in the management of decentralized evaluations in line with WFP Evaluation Policy and Decentralized Evaluation Quality Assurance System (DEQAS). This entails managing or supporting evaluation processes from planning to completion: sourcing, hiring and supervising external evaluators; engaging stakeholders appropriately in the evaluation process and managing communications and budgets. 
17. Support centralized evaluations managed by the Office of Evaluation, joint internal and external evaluations and donor-led evaluation in country. 
18. Other duties as required. 
 

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

Education: Advanced University degree in social sciences, statistics, development economics, performance management, monitoring and evaluation or other related fields, or First University degree with additional years of relevant work experience and/or training/courses.

Experience: Five years of relevant professional work experience including monitoring and evaluation activities. Experience using a variety of quantitative and qualitative analytical tools and methods.

Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Arabic. Knowledge of French language is added advantage.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE:

• Previous experience in humanitarian or development contexts.
• Good knowledge of Gender and protection analysis.
• Good experience utilizing statistical processing tools such as SPSS, “R” and/or STATA.