Facilitator for EvalforEarth Community of Practice

The Facilitator for EvalforEarth Community of Practice will manage and enhance the activities of the EvalforEarth CoP, ensuring engagement and knowledge sharing among members. The role includes community engagement, content management, governance and reporting, and finance and partnering, reporting to the WFP Office of Evaluation Use and Communications Unit.

Responsibilities

• Conduct background research to identify emerging topics for online discussions, webinars, or resource offerings, liaising with sponsoring agencies and members to shape proposals or topics.
• Review and approve new members and update mailing list and members database, including demographic and engagement indicators.
• Facilitate discussions by engaging members, preparing webpages, managing flow on website and mailing list, reviewing, editing and translating contributions, summarizing discussions in English, French, and Spanish.
• Foster active participation and interaction among members and external experts.
• Organize and facilitate webinars, virtual meetings, and other events including developing formats, agendas, promotional material, and follow-up.
• Contribute to events and conferences through presentations or facilitating collaborative inputs.
• Curate and update content on the EvalForEarth web platform including discussions, blogs, publications, guidelines, and calendar of events.
• Ensure timely translation of main content items into French and Spanish.
• Manage social media engagement on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube to amplify initiatives' reach and visibility.
• Monitor community activities including data collection on MEL indicators and web analytics, provide updates to IAES and community Steering Group.
• Maintain regular exchanges with supporting agencies and coordinate monthly Steering Group meetings.
• Prepare mid-year and end-of-year progress reports with input from the Steering Committee.
• Support operationalisation of partnerships among sponsoring agencies and engage with counterparts and prospective Steering Group/Executive Group members.
• Seek opportunities for technical collaboration with institutions and networks, focusing on academic institutions in the Global South.
• Lead partnership budget monitoring with support from hosting entity admin team and present financial monitoring to Steering and Executive groups.

Requirements

• Advanced University degree in Communications, Social Sciences or other related fields obtained from a reputable Institution.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant post-graduate experience in community management, facilitation, or information and knowledge management, international relations and related areas of work.
• Excellent understanding of developing and managing web-based systems and working with Content Management Systems (Drupal as a preference).
• Excellent writing and editing skills.
• Excellent communication skills, to engage a varied range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to deal patiently and tactfully with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to lead and work independently.
• Understanding of evaluation and M&E methods and practices, particularly in agriculture, food security, and rural development is an asset.
• Familiarity with the work of WFP, FAO, IFAD, the GEF, and CGIAR is a strong asset.
• Fluency (Level C) in oral and written English.
• Level B in French and/or Spanish proficiency.

Skills

• Community Management
• Facilitation
• Information Management
• Knowledge Management
• International Relations
• Content Management Systems
• Drupal
• Writing and Editing
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Interpersonal Skills
• Independent Work
• Evaluation Methodologies
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Rural Development Evaluation
• Governance Reporting
• Finance Management
• Partnership Management
• Web-based Management Systems
• Agriculture Project Evaluation
• Food Security Analysis

Languages

English, French, Spanish