TEAM LEADER (CONSULTANCY)

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: Team Leader (Consultancy)
Country: China (any time zone)
Dates: May 2024 – February 2025
Language: English is required. Mandarin is desirable but not essential.
Experience: At least 10 years’ experience. The following skills and experiences are essential to be considered for this role:

• Team management, supervision, coordination, planning, ability to resolve problems and deliver on time.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent report writing and analytical skills.
• Experience evaluating technical co-operation instruments in middle income contexts.
• Experience in leading complex, strategic evaluations at country level, such as evaluations of country strategic plans, joint programmes, organisational positioning, and nexus dynamics, including with UN organizations.
• Experience with applying theory-based evaluation approaches, reconstruction, and use of theories of change.
• Strong ability to navigate political sensitivities, and strong understanding the complexity of the relation between UN and member states.
• It is also essential that the team leader has some demonstrable experience in the evaluation of capacity building programmes.

The following skills are desirable:

• Fluency in Mandarin.
• Experience working in China.
• Experience conducting evaluations on behalf of WFP.

In addition, candidates are also expected to have expertise in some (but not all) of the areas listed below.

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.