Graduate Trainee - Evaluation, Johannesburg at World Food Programme

Overview 

• You will learn about WFP and its culture through real-life work experience and we will provide you on-the-job training and performance feedback to kick-start your professional career.
• Through this experience, you will develop new skills and make new connections that very well might provide professional references for you someday. 

Learning & Development:

• You will work with professional teams and receive formal training and ongoing coaching. The Graduate Trainee will have access to an industry leading learning platforms.  

Networking opportunities:

• You will get the chance to enrich your skills and work with people from different nationalities.  Depending on available opportunities Graduate Trainees may travel to other locations for learning and exposure.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in the following disciplines:  Programme (Monitoring and) Evaluation, Research Methods, Applied Statistics, Public Health, Sociology, Psychology or related fields.
• Qualification's must have been obtained within the previous year (2022) or current year (2023) with an academic average of at least 75%.   
• The undergraduate or postgraduate qualification must be recognised by https://www.whed.net/home.php)
• Language:  Fluency in both oral and written communication in the UN language in use at the duty station (English).  Knowledge of French and/or Portuguese will be an added advantage.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Evaluation data and evidence visualization and communication:
• Participate in training/capacity development for storifying evaluation for evidence use.
• Participate in communication activities designed to disseminate and promote evaluation.
• Support in the development of communication and knowledge management products extracted from evaluation findings. 
• Evaluation evidence use experimentation and measurement:
• Identify evidence needs for country strategic programme (CSP) design and ensure adequate planning, tracking and documenting evidence use during the CSP implementation. 
• Contribute to tracking management responses to evaluation recommendations and their results.
• Support in drafting evaluation or evidence summaries and briefs
• Produce evaluation evidence summaries for use in decision-making.
• Contribute to producing summaries of evaluation evidence. 
• Support document case studies, lessons learned, and best practices demonstrating evidence and results of the implementation of the actions against evaluation recommendations
• Supporting country offices in data collection, cleaning, and tabulating:
• Participate in secondary data analyses and reporting to inform the design of outsourced decentralized evaluations. 
• Participate in the collection of visual data and evidence for use in evaluation communication.
• In collaboration with Evaluation team members, produce preliminary analyses of existing datasets to decision-making.
• Perform other related duties as required.