WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, color, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status, or disability.
The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters, and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do, and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high-performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values (integrity, collaboration, commitment, humanity, and inclusion), and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
Why join WFP?
- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs, as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional, and global offices around the world and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
This position will report directly to the Head of Mtwara Field Office with overall supervision by the Head of Research Assessment and Monitoring at the Country Office level. At this level, work is carried out under minimum supervision. Job holders are expected to produce organized and accurate technical work and reports. They may provide guidance on standard practices to other staff and counterparts in their area of work.
Key accountabilities/responsibilities:
- In consultation with the Head of Field Office and Head of RAM, support the preparation and implementation of monthly monitoring plans of the respective catchment areas with overall guidance from the Country Office (CO) M&E.
- Monitor WFP project activities (including observation of partner performance) to meet minimum monitoring requirements and to support timely project implementation.
- Coordinate data collection exercises at the field level in cooperation with the CO Monitoring team, cooperating partners (CPs), relevant government, and other stakeholders; in coordination with the respective program and FO, provide information about activity sites to the CO to inform sampling plans.
- Support the collection 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 interview, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions), using questionnaires and question guides developed by the CO Monitoring.
- Work closely with sub-national government, NGOs, CSOs, village and ward leaders, religious and community leaders, and cooperating partners to collect and summarize assistance program(s) data; conduct analysis and prepare reports to support program reviews and informative decision-making.
- Prepare activity implementation monitoring reports and monitor and update the monitoring and program teams on the status of action items.
- Ensure that issues identified through activity implementation monitoring visits are properly recorded immediately in the CO Process Monitoring Issues Escalation system after a field visit and escalated in a timely manner; support issue resolution; and track actions taken by relevant actors to fully resolve the issue.
- Keep track of monitoring visits and coverage within the catchment areas, ensuring that all activity sites are monitored; report actual monitoring visits to CO Monitoring on a monthly basis.
- Suggest improvements to field monitoring processes and procedures for efficient implementation of the assistance programs.
- Provide standard trainings for cooperating partners on WFP monitoring tools and methods to support them to independently self-monitor and to contribute to the visibility of WFP in the coverage areas.
- Assist in organizing technical support missions from the CO Monitoring team, evaluation teams, or other missions related to M&E.
- Ensure the Field Office monitoring practices align with corporate and CO monitoring standards, including standard operating procedures (SOPs), the Corporate Results Framework (CRF), other corporate monitoring guidance, and data protection and privacy policies.
- Ensure ethical guidelines are followed during monitoring activities.
- Work with the Complaints and Feedback Mechanism (CFM) manager to coordinate and deliver timely information to beneficiaries about the actions taken based on monitoring and CFM findings.
- Provide regular and timely updates to monitoring tracking sheets on output data for inputs to COMET.
- Support the supervisor in compiling inputs for semi-monthly field office reports.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Minimum Qualification and Experience:
Education:
Completion of secondary education certificate. A university (bachelor’s) degree in nutrition, public health, economics, rural development, statistics, or other related fields would be an added advantage.
Experience:
- Has a minimum of 4 years of relevant monitoring and/or operational experience, including coordinating project implementation and monitoring activities, developing monitoring data collection questionnaires and digitizing them, collecting monitoring data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and reporting findings to management, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Has worked with technical teams (i.e., nutrition, social behavior change, food fortification, agriculture, food security analysis, etc.).
Knowledge & Skills:
- Data analytical knowledge and skills on program output and outcome data monitoring.
- General knowledge of monitoring systems, processes, tools, and standards.
- Compilation, analysis, and presentation of data using statistical and presentation software such as Excel, SPSS, and PowerPoint.
- Experience in direct implementation or field monitoring of community- or village-based projects.
- Demonstrate to have problem-solving skills.
- Has contributed to the implementation of programs in support of nutrition, public health, and food security.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Swahili languages.
Duty Station: Mtwara
Reminders before your submit your application:
- We strongly recommend that your profile be accurate, complete, and include your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills, and UN grade (if applicable).
- Once your profile is completed, please apply and submit your application.
- Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
- Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
- Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
- Please contact us at global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
- Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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.