NATIONAL CONSULTANT

Together with our partners, Action Against Hunger has been fighting hunger for more than 40 years, supporting affected communities and people in over 50 countries. People and communities are at the centre of everything we do as we work hand-in-hand with them to develop and implement effective solutions to prevent and reduce hunger.

Name of the project: Evaluation of China WFP Country Strategic Plan 2022-2025
Job title: National Consultant
Country: Based in China
Nationality: Be a national and resident of China.
Dates: May 2024 – February 2025
Language: Fluency in Mandarin is a requirement. Fluency in English is a requirement.
Experience: Five years’ evaluation experience. Candidates with experience in any of the areas listed below are particularly encouraged to apply:

Nutrition-sensitive school feeding programmes

• Experience in evaluating school-based programming and transition to national ownership. Prior experience of WFP’s school feeding programmes would be desirable.
• Experience in evaluating nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming, policies, and systems. Education background in nutrition or nutrition-related studies would be desirable.

Technical cooperation, facilitation for development and humanitarian cooperations

• Experience in and knowledge of technical cooperation-focused programmes. Experience in and knowledge of WFP field-level programme implementation of development and humanitarian cooperation.
• Experience in evaluating facilitation of development and humanitarian cooperation in middle-income countries.
• Knowledge of interagency coordination and response mechanisms for the SDGs.
• Experience in evaluating technical assistance to government agencies on policy development/reform and capacity and systems strengthening interventions in nutrition-sensitive programming, or school feeding programmes.
• Experience of provision of technical assistance to government agencies is desirable.

Resilience/livelihoods/food systems

• Expertise in evaluating integration of smallholder farmers to national-level value chains, support, or market access, or food systems, or anticipatory action and climate change adaptation activities.
• Experience in evaluating, implementing market systems/food systems programmes in middle-income countries would be desirable.