Overview
JOB TITLE: Monitoring Assistant
Working type: full-time
Application Deadline
East Africa Time (Dar es Salaam) 31 January 2025-23:59 +/-03:00
WFP welcomes and appreciates variety. It is dedicated to the equal employment opportunity for all of its employees and invites qualified candidates to apply regardless of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status, or disability.
REGARD WFP
Serving people recovering from conflict, disasters, and the effects of climate change, the World Food Program is the largest humanitarian organisation saving lives in emergencies and utilising food assistance to create a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity.
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Why List WFP?
Laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize is WFP.
WFP presents a quite welcoming, varied, and cosmopolitan workplace.
Through a variety of training, accreditation, coaching, mentoring, and other programs as well as internal mobility chances, WFP invests in the personal and professional growth of its staff.
A career path at WFP offers an interesting chance to work across the several national, regional, and global offices across the world and with enthusiastic colleagues who labour relentlessly to guarantee that efficient humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people worldwide.
Please see the Terms and Conditions part of this vacancy announcement for our appealing pay scale.
Under the direction of the Head of Field Office and Head of RAM, the job description entails helping to prepare and execute monthly monitoring plans and tracking WFP project activities to guarantee they satisfy minimum criteria and promote timely implementation. It covers organising data collection activities involving several stakeholders, assisting in the gathering of monitoring data using several approaches, and closely working with local government and partners to gather and examine data for program evaluations. Along with recording monitoring visits, offering changes to monitoring procedures, and giving training to collaborating partners, the function also includes creating monitoring reports that guarantee issues found during visiting trips are noted and fixed. Technical support missions, alignment with corporate monitoring standards, ethical behaviour, coordination with the Complaints and Feedback Mechanism manager, updating monitoring tracking sheets, and assistance of the supervisor in report compilation are also covered. The supervisor could assign other tasks as well.
Organisational Text:
Based in Kasulu, Sub Office, this post answers to the Head of RAM and Monitoring Associate in consultation with the Head of Field Office.
The Role:
Working with little direction, the monitoring assistant is in charge of creating precise and neat technical reports and tasks. For colleagues in their field of knowledge, they could also provide direction on accepted procedures.
NOT all-inclusive, nor exhaustive; KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Under general direction from the Country Office (CO), support the formulation and implementation of monthly monitoring plans of the individual catchment regions with overall guidance from the Head of Field Office and Head of RAM.
Observe WFP project activities, including partner performance, to meet minimum monitoring criteria and support timely project implementation.
Working with relevant government and other stakeholders, coordinate data collection activities at the field level in line with the CO Monitoring team, cooperating partners (CPs), and respective programmes and FOs; provide information about activity sites to the CO to guide sampling plans.
Using questionnaires and question guides developed by the CO Monitoring, assist in the gathering of process, output, and outcome monitoring data, including distribution monitoring, activity implementation monitoring, post-distribution monitoring, surveys, and qualitative data collection methodologies (i.e., observation, group interviews, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions).
Work closely with sub-national government, NGOs, CSOs, village and ward leaders, religious and community leaders, and cooperative partners to gather and summarise assistance program(s) data; conduct analysis and prepare reports in order to support program reviews and informative decision-making.
Prepare process monitoring reports and keep track of and update program teams with the state of action items.
After a field visit, make sure that problems found through process and activity implementation monitoring visits are appropriately noted immediately in the CO Process Monitoring Issues Escalation system and escalated in a timely manner; support issue resolution; and track actions taken by pertinent actors to fully resolve issues.
Report actual monitoring visits to CO M&E on a monthly basis to keep track of monitoring visits and coverage inside the catchment zones, therefore assuring that all activity sites are under constant observation.
9. Recommend enhancements for effective use of the aid programs in field monitoring systems and practices.
10. Give cooperating partners standard trainings on WFP monitoring tools and techniques to help them to independently self-monitor and to contribute to the visibility of WFP in the coverage areas.
11. Help to coordinate technical assistance trips from the CO M&E team, evaluation teams, or other M&E-related operations.
12. Verify that standard operating procedures (SOPs), the Corporate Results Framework (CRF), other corporate monitoring guidelines, data security, and privacy policies match corporate and CO monitoring criteria.
13. Make sure monitoring operations apply ethical standards.
Work with the Complaints and Feedback Mechanism (CFM) manager to coordinate and provide beneficiaries timely information about the measures performed depending on monitoring and CFM results.
15. For tracking sheets on output data for inputs to COMET, give frequent and timely updates.
16. Help the supervisor to compile data for field office reports with half-month intervals.
17 Attend to other tasks as directed by supervisor.
Requirements and Experience:
Development: Education
One must have finished secondary school. Ideally, one has a post-secondary certificate in the relevant functional field. One advantage is having a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agricultural economics, agribusiness, rural development, nutrition, food security, statistics, natural resources management, and other relevant disciplines.
Experience
Has a minimum of 4 years of relevant monitoring and/or operational experience, including coordinating project implementation and monitoring activities, developing monitoring data, collecting questionnaires and digitising them, collecting monitoring data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and reporting findings to management, partners, and other stakeholders.
Has collaborated with technical teams—that is, in agriculture, nutrition, food security analysis, etc.?
Has helped initiatives supporting food aid, resilience building, livelihood support, and smallholder farmer support come to pass.
Has handled horticulture crops before.
Has practical knowledge implementing agricultural environmental preservation techniques and sustainable farming methods.
Skills and Knowledge:
Program output and outcome data monitoring data analytical knowledge and skills
general awareness of systems of monitoring, procedures, techniques, and guidelines.
data compiling, analysis, and data presentation applying statistical and presentation tools including Excel, SPSS, and PowerPoint.
Direct implementation or field monitoring experience with initiatives centred on communities or villages.
Show your ability to solve problems.
English and Swahili languages allow fluency in both spoken and written communication.
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Reasonable Adaptation
WFP is committed to promoting inclusion, equality, and diversity. Our hiring procedure is designed inclusively to celebrate diversity and guarantee polite surroundings for all by welcoming applicants from many backgrounds. Our goal is for a fair and easily available recruiting path. Please contact us confidentially at [email protected] should you require any reasonable concessions or have accessibility issues. Here to guarantee your complete involvement in our hiring process is our DEI team.
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Reminisers BEFORE YOU ENDORSE YOUR APPROVAL
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Organisational needs, work criteria, merit, and personal credentials guide all employment decisions. WFP is dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all kinds of discrimination, any type of harassment, and misuse of authority. All chosen applicants will thus go through thorough background and reference investigations.
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.
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