A career opportunity awaits at World Food Programme (WFP) — they are hiring a Joint Resilience Programme (JRP) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer in Mogadishu. The ideal candidate will have 5 - 6 years of professional experience in the Monitoring And Evaluation field. Interested applicants should submit their applications before Nov, 12.
Vacancy Announcement No: JR128059
Job Title: Joint Resilience Programme (JRP) Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
Contract Type/Grade: Consultant level II
Duty Station: Mogadishu,
Contract
Duration: Months (Renewable)
Date of Issue: October 29, 2026, |
Closing Date: November 12, 2026
BACKGROUND: The Joint Resilience Programme (JRP 2.0) is implemented jointly by WFP and UNICEF in Somalia. It uses an integrated, area-based approach across nutrition,
education, school feeding, WASH, health, food systems, livelihoods, social and behaviour change, and government capacity strengthening. The programme seeks to improve
the resilience of households, communities, and government systems to economic and climate-related shocks. JRP 2.0 focuses on three linked outcomes: stronger human
capital through integrated basic services and foundational education; improved food security and livelihoods through productive assets, income generation and strengthened
food systems; and stronger government and community systems through enhanced coordination, oversight, and implementation capacity.
The JRP Crisis Modifier complements the main JRP 2.0 programme with rapid, integrated support intended to protect resilience gains during drought. It combines
humanitarian assistance and early recovery support across food security, nutrition, livelihoods, WASH, health, and education. The Crisis Modifier monitoring approach is
intended to follow relevant households across baseline, midline and endline points to assess whether and how assistance contributes to stabilization, prevention of negative
coping, protection of productive assets and resilience gains, recovery, and transition or reconnection to longer-term resilience programming.
The JRP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer will provide dedicated technical leadership for monitoring, evaluation, research, evidence generation, reporting,
learning, and knowledge management for both JRP 2.0 and the JRP Crisis Modifier. The MEL Officer will support WFP and UNICEF programme teams to generate reliable
evidence, strengthen accountability, promote adaptive management, and demonstrate results to government, communities, management, and donors.
- A particular focus of the assignment during the coming implementation cycle will be to: strengthen the JRP’s ability to monitor and generate timely evidence to inform
and support the effective concurrent implementation of JRP 2.0 and the Crisis Modifier, including demonstrating the added value of the Crisis Modifier;
- generate a focused body of evidence and learning to inform programme adaptation, strategic engagement, and advocacy; and support evidence-based analysis and
dialogue on the sustainability and transition of JRP-supported services, systems, and investments.
- strengthen the JRP’s ability to move beyond routine indicator reporting towards understanding what is working, for whom and under what conditions, and translating
this evidence into implementation, programme, and strategic decisions.
The MEL Officer will report to the JRP Coordinator with close technical and working lines to the designated WFP and UNICEF monitoring and evaluation focal points and will
work closely with WFP and UNICEF technical teams at country and area office levels.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, within delegated authority)
Joint MEL leadership and coordination
- Lead the development, implementation, and periodic updating of a joint JRP monitoring, evaluation, and learning workplan covering JRP 2.0 and the Crisis
Modifier.
- Coordinate monitoring and evidence activities across WFP and UNICEF, maintaining clear roles, common standards, agreed timelines and consistent technical
approaches, while ensuring alignment with the joint programme priorities and the respective corporate requirements of both agencies.
- Serve as the technical focal point for JRP monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and evidence use, and support programme governance and technical
review meetings.
- Coordinate and collaborate with relevant government counterparts, programme teams, field offices, cooperating partners, third-party monitors, research
firms and research/academic institutions, and other stakeholders in the planning, implementation, and use of JRP monitoring, evaluation, and evidencegeneration activities.
Results framework and routine performance monitoring
- Update, maintain and operationalize the joint results measurement framework, indicator reference sheets, monitoring plan, reporting calendar, and
performance tracker for the JRP 2.0 and the Crisis Modifier, ensuring coherence between the two monitoring streams where relevant.
- Ensure indicators, targets, disaggregation, data sources, and responsibilities are clearly defined and aligned with programme commitments and WFP and
UNICEF requirements, while ensuring that monitoring remains responsive to agreed programme learning, donor’s priorities and evidence needs.
- Consolidate and analyze monitoring findings across sectors, locations, agencies, and implementation partners, highlighting progress against workplans and
targets, gaps, risks, and required management action, and identifying cross-sectoral and implementation issues requiring joint programme attention.
- Develop and operationalize approaches to monitor programme integration and convergence, including the layering and sequencing of interventions, referral
pathways, continuity of services, and household and community exposure to different JRP intervention packages.
- Develop or refine practical monitoring tools, guidance notes, standard operating procedures, and dashboard specifications.
- Produce periodic analytical monitoring products that synthesize key findings, identify implementation and performance issues, and support timely
programme response and management action.
- Support regular review of monitoring findings with JRP coordination and technical teams to identify implementation bottlenecks, emerging risks and required
corrective actions, and track follow-up on agreed actions.
Assessments, surveys, and evaluations
- Plan, manage and provide technical oversight for baseline, midline, and endline assessments, including methodologies, sampling, questionnaires, field
protocols, analysis plans, and reports.
- Coordinate data collection exercises and the work of field enumerators, third-party monitoring providers, and contracted research firms.
- Ensure mixed-method approaches are fit for purpose and that quantitative and qualitative evidence is triangulated.
- Apply appropriate analytical approaches to assess the JRP’s contribution to observed changes, including longitudinal, comparative and contribution-analysis
approaches where methodologically feasible, and triangulate findings with qualitative and contextual evidence.
- Support independent evaluations, reviews, studies and operational research, and track implementation of agreed recommendations.
- Ensure findings are validated with relevant stakeholders and presented in accessible formats for decision-making.
JRP Crisis Modifier monitoring
- Refine and operationalize the Crisis Modifier theory of change and associated learning questions, clarifying and testing the expected pathways from
emergency assistance to stabilization, early recovery, protection of resilience gains and transition or reconnection to longer-term JRP resilience programming.
- Operationalize the Crisis Modifier monitoring framework and longitudinal panel design, following relevant household cohorts from pre-assistance baseline
through midline and endline.
- Monitor stabilization, food consumption, dietary diversity, coping strategies, access to basic needs and services, livelihood protection, protection of resilience
gains, recovery capacity, and transition from emergency assistance to early recovery and resilience programming.
- Analyze results by cohort, district, sex, age, and other relevant vulnerability characteristics, while maintaining data protection and ethical standards, and taking
account of exposure to shocks and relevant contextual changes.
- Assess how Crisis Modifier interventions interact with and reinforce the main JRP across food security, nutrition, health, WASH, education, and livelihoods,
including whether and how the Crisis Modifier protects existing resilience gains and complements longer-term JRP investments.
- Produce timely analytical updates after each monitoring round and identify practical programme adjustments.
Data, Evidence, Learning and Capacity
- Facilitate the development and operationalization of a jointly prioritized JRP evidence and learning agenda, in consultation with the JRP Coordinator, WFP and
UNICEF M&E and technical teams, relevant government counterparts and other stakeholders. The agenda will identify priority learning questions, evidence
gaps, appropriate methodologies, data requirements, analytical products, and timelines to support adaptive management, strategic engagement, and
demonstration of resilience results.
- Review and refine the JRP theory of change, as required, and operationalize a resilience evidence framework linking the Programme’s pathways and
assumptions to the agreed learning questions, evidence needs, and analytical approaches.
- Lead or technically support priority analytical and evidence products identified through the agreed evidence and learning agenda. Indicative areas may include
evidence on the contribution and added value of integrated JRP programming to resilience outcomes; longitudinal evidence on the Crisis Modifier and
protection of resilience gains; analysis of the value and return on investment of resilience programming, where methodologically feasible; analysis of the
catalytic role of JRP financing; and evidence on sustainability, transition pathways and future financing requirements for JRP-supported services, systems and
investments.
- Generate high-quality evidence and knowledge products for external audiences, particularly KfW and BMZ.
- Produce concise, high-quality evidence pieces for relevant decisionmakers and external audiences, translating monitoring, assessment, and learning findings
into clear messages on JRP results, resilience gains, Crisis Modifier outcomes and learning, lessons learned and strategic investment needs.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, security and compliance across all monitoring and reporting processes.
- Maintain integrated datasets, indicator databases, metadata, and audit trails.
- Analyze and visualize programme result through dashboards, reports, and knowledge products.
- Develop and implement an evidence and learning plan, translating findings into programme improvements.
- Apply ethical, conflict-sensitive, gender-responsive and inclusive monitoring standards.
- Strengthen the capacity of WFP, UNICEF, government, and partner staff through training, coaching, and practical tools.
- Manage knowledge, documentation, and transition processes to strengthen national ownership and sustain programme results including generating and
synthesizing evidence to inform decisions on sustainability, transition pathways, and future financing requirements.
Other duties
- Perform other related duties required to support effective monitoring, evaluation, evidence generation, learning, and reporting for JRP 2.0 and the Crisis
Modifier.
About Mogadishu
Mogadishu, known locally as Muqdisho, is the capital of Somalia and the country's largest city. It serves as the political, economic, and cultural heart of the nation. The city hosts the headquarters of numerous UN agencies, international NGOs, and government institutions, offering diverse career opportunities for development and humanitarian professionals.
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