Programme Policy Officer (M & E)  

March 23rd, 2022 at 01:15 pm

The office of the United Nations World Food Programme invites applications from suitable candidates to fill the vacancy below. Programme Policy Officer (M & E)   

Job Title: Programme Policy Officer (M & E)

About

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.

Context

Ghana’s CSP is anchored on capacity strengthening, which runs through all the five strategic outcomes with their various activity categories. The priorities of WFP’s first country strategic plan (CSP) covering the period 2019-2023 are in line with the findings of the Ghana zero hunger strategic review; interventions focus on direct food assistance using commodity vouchers and social behaviour change communication (SBCC) to improve the nutritional status of targeted populations, in line with national targets. The country office (CO) also aims to ensure vulnerable communities benefit from: (a) efficient and resilient food systems which support nutritional value chains; (b) capacity strengthening interventions to manage food security, nutrition, and social protection programmes; and (c) advocacy and coherent policy frameworks support to key cooperating partners

The Country Office is planning to implement a project:  Strengthening Food Systems to Empower Smallholder Farmers and Young People project with the goal to contribute to the modernization and transformation of Ghana’s agricultural sector and improved livelihoods of smallholder farmers (SHFs) with deliberate focus on youth. The project is aimed at creating jobs and contributing to reducing unemployment in Ghana among youth especially females through improvement in existing and creation of new opportunities in the agriculture sector. This will be achieved through reduction in post harvest losses, connecting smallholder farmers (SHFs) predominantly the youth, and other agriculture value chain actors to organised value chains and structured markets.

The project main objectives include.

• To reduce post harvest loss among smallholders, improve food safety and quality standards of the targeted commodity value chains.
• To enhance capacity of farmers and provide access to structured and digital markets to Improve Livelihoods.

The project intends to reach 100,000 smallholder farmers (direct beneficiaries-56 percent women) organised in 400 farmers organisations and engaged in production of maize, soybean, rice, sorghum, and millet as the primary target commodities or value chains.  The project will cover 9 regions of Ghana including Ashanti, Bono East, Bono, Upper East, Upper West, Savanna, Eastern region, Northern and North East. Of the 100,000 SHFs, 60 percent of project beneficiaries (60,000) will be youth aged between 18 -35 years, 60 percent of the youth beneficiaries will be young women (36,000). The focus of the project is on creating job opportunities for the youth especially young women and will analyse all bottlenecks that hinder young women from accessing available opportunities and will provide sustainable solutions to those bottlenecks. The project also intends to engage 50 aggregators/SME buyers, 20 agro-processors, commercial, institutional, and regional buyers and will ensure that the targeted youths acquire new work created through wage and self-employment. The project is expected to be implemented in 5 years effective January 2022 to January 2027

The project will adopt an integrated value chain approach to implement context-specific interventions aimed at reaching the following outcomes: 

• Young people, especially women, have improved employment opportunities along the value chain  
• Smallholder farmers, especially youth and women, increase the value of their sales, resulting in improved income 
• Smallholder farmers, especially youth and women, reduce post-harvest losses and improve the quality for targeted crops 
• Improved inclusiveness of marginalized groups in agricultural value chains 
• Improved value chain efficiency for young people, in particular women 

In addition, whenever possible the initiative will explore and advance digital solutions to attract young people to the sector and increase value chain efficiencies. 

Major duties and Responsibilities

The overall responsibility is to coordinate/implement monitoring and evaluation activities for the project. The selected candidate will report to the Country Office Research, Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation (RAME) Officer, in liaison with Food Systems Project Coordinator.

1. Support the development of Results Monitoring Framework for the project for impact measurement,
2. In collaboration with the RAME officer, support the development of the project M & E strategy
3. Support the study design, methodology development, data collection, analysis, and reporting on activities including special studies, surveys, and assessments.
4. Develop M&E tools: questionnaires/Checklists for various assessments and outcome/output monitoring, and programme same onto data collection platforms
5. Develop dashboards for the project as well as reporting templates for ease of reporting, and data/information sharing
6. Support the development of ToRs for assessments, the supervision of consultants carrying out assessments or M & E activities for the project in Ghana
7. Support and coordinate project baselines and endline surveys
8. Conduct outcome, output and process monitoring for all activities and document lessons learned
9. Coordinate validation meetings for outcome monitoring results, annual outcome review meetings, and product quarterly and annual M & E reports, giving programmatic direction to the programme team based on evidence/results from assessments and monitoring
10. Work with other RAME colleagues to respond the WFP global reporting/RAME requests, annual country reporting and other donor reports
11. Take Lead in the development of analytical reports for the Mastercard project and other food systems projects
12. Take up additional monitoring and evaluation responsibilities in support of monitoring activities under the Food Systems unit and the CSP in general

STANDARD MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Education: 

A First degree in Agricultural Economics, Economics, Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, or related fields. A Master’s degree from an accredited institution in the above fields is an added advantage  

Experience: 

Minimum of one or more years of postgraduate professional progressive experience in monitoring and evaluation is essential; Experience in conducting surveys and multiple-sectorial assessments, including the design, data collection and analysis, reporting and working with M & E teams is fundamental

Technical skills:

• Experience in statistical analysis STATA, SPSS, Excel
• Knowledge in data visualization tools like Tableau; Excel; Power Bi is essential
• Knowledge in questionnaire programming with the ODK is required
• Knowledge in M & E work planning, budgeting and project reporting would be an advantage
• Ability to interpret basic data in the context of WFP specialized fields to contribute to technical programme design, implementation, and monitoring
• A proven record of writing technical and non-technical reports

Language: Excellent command of English (oral and written) is essential.

Method Of Application

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Closing Date: 06 April 2022

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