Impact Evaluation Specialist
Pubblicato il 19-10-2026 - Logistics Cluster in Italia
JOB TITLE: Impact Evaluation SpecialistTYPE OF CONTRACT: CSLT Regular (Level 2)UNIT/DIVISION: Office of Evaluation, Impact Evaluation UnitDUTY STATION (City, Country): Rome, ItalyDURATION: 11 months# BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:As the largest humanitarian agency in the world, WFP is committed to generating rigorous impact evaluation evidence to better understand the needs of the people they serve and to support them in transitioning out of food insecurity. WFP’s 2022 Evaluation Policy defines impact evaluations as measuring changes in development outcomes of interest for a target population that can be attributed to a specific programme or policy through a credible counterfactual. Impact evaluations have already significantly altered the way the world understands poverty and the effectiveness of development interventions. But humanitarian and transitional development contexts have not yet benefitted from the same level of impact evaluation evidence. The Impact Evaluation Strategy (2019-2026)
lays out WFP's vision for increasing the coverage and use of rigorous impact evaluations in humanitarian and development settings, highlighting the organization's renewed commitment to generating operationally relevant evidence of global significance. This position will help WFP respond to growing demand from host countries, donors and policymakers for high-quality impact evaluation evidence. Impact evaluations are delivered by WFP’s Office of Evaluation (OEV) at the request of country offices. They are usually undertaken during programme implementation over a multi-year period. Impact evaluations are delivered in line with corporate evidence priorities through impact evaluation “windows”. These windows are portfolios of impact evaluations in specific priority evidence areas, agreed with WFP management, which will be updated over time as the organization’s evidence priorities change. Current impact evaluation windows include: 1) cash-based transfer and gender; 2) cl