Data Visualization Specialist (Monitoring & Evaluation Data - Service Contract Level 8)

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The Regional Monitoring team is providing technical support and oversight to 17 countries during their implementation of the Country Strategic Plans (CSP). The team guides and ensures that the CSP Monitoring, Review and Evaluation plans will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results, while being compliant with WFP corporate monitoring and evaluation requirements.

To ensure effective programming, it is essential that monitoring and evaluation (M&E) ensures risks are mitigated and decision makers can adjust programme based on findings coming in through M&E systems. However, the systems used in collecting data, use and visualization of findings are not yet consistent across the organization.

, WFP seeks to build its capacity to centrally receive, store, process and analyse digital operational data for the purpose of promoting accountability, controls and efficiencies across its programmes and use data to better inform WFP’s programme design through the analysis of data collected from humanitarian operations.

Particularly for this position, the regional M&E officer (data scientist) will focus on monitoring data visualization by developing and standardizing insightful Tableau dashboards to best leverage M&E data both within Country Offices and across the region.

The position includes also knowledge management and capacity building of M&E staff on data visualization.

• Produce and manage the standardization of regional M&E dashboards and reporting templates in Tableau ensuring dashboards respond to the analytics & data visualization needs of M&E.
• Structure and maintain centralized platforms to store relevant M&E data, standard operational procedures documents and best practices from the region.
• Engage with HQ to develop strategies for standardizing data points and analytical approaches particularly Programme Monitoring, the Tableau Platform Manager and Data Programme.
• Work with Monitoring team analysts to establish the systematic processing, analysis & visualization/reporting of regional M&E data from beneficiaries, service providers, staff and partners.
• Support overall systems coherence and functionality for WFP’s relevant M&E corporate and non-corporate systems and processes.
• Ensure standard operating procedures are in place to ensure the quality and integrity of quantitative & qualitative data as well as processes.
• Work with medium/large Country Offices to train/recruit local data analysts to perform selected analysis and visualization tasks in-country.
• Work closely with business units to identify and report issues and use data to propose solutions for follow-up and effective decision making.
• Support and coordinate technology, platform, data dictionary and visual analytics standards for Monitoring and Evaluation activities across the RBC region.
• Provide trainings in COs or in RBC on data processing, analysis and/or visualization, as needed.
• Support the implementation of guidelines and tools to facilitate the implementation of data processing, data analysis and data visualization guidelines both at RB and field level.
• Any other duties as required.

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
•  Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
•  Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

• Cultivated sustainable relationships with local NGOs, government authorities, and other implementation partners.
• Has research experience using variety of analytical tools and methods for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modeling needs.
• Performed monitoring, evaluations and assessments at multiple field locations.

JOB TITLE: Data Visualization Specialist (Monitoring & Evaluation Data) 
TYPE & LEVEL OF CONTRACT: Service Contract, SC 8
DURATION & START DATE: 12 months, renewable
UNIT/DIVISION: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
DUTY STATION (City, Country): Regional Bureau in Cairo (RBC), Cairo, Egypt
REPORT TO (JOB TITLE):  Regional Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

No later than 4th August 2019

Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.