Overview
The Field Monitoring Assistant (FMA) plays a crucial role in implementing the Country Office’s M&E Strategy/Action Plan at the field level. The FMA is responsible for collecting data on WFP’s programme implementation and ensuring its submission for analysis and dissemination to inform operational decision-making.
Tasks Summary
- Apply corporate standards in all monitoring activities, including SOPs, CRF and M&E corporate policies and guidance.
- Work closely with programme units at the field level to ensure monitoring provides necessary information for programme improvements.
- Establish and maintain good partnerships with WFP’s beneficiary communities and partners.
- Mainstream gender, equity, disability, protection, human rights and other inclusion issues as appropriate in all M&E work.
- Support training of enumerators and partners.
- Suggest improvements to field monitoring processes and procedures.
- Collect output, process and outcome monitoring data, including distribution monitoring, activity implementation monitoring, Post-Distribution Monitoring, retail performance monitoring, surveys and qualitative monitoring methodologies.
- Support the implementation of remote monitoring as relevant.
- Provide information about activity sites to the country office to inform sampling plans.
- Ensure that CFM channels are established and issues raised are incorporated in M&E tools.
- Keep track of monitoring visits and coverage.
- Follow ethical guidelines during monitoring activities.
- Conduct regular data quality checks.
- Verify, clean, analyze and interpret monitoring data.
- Submit data to centralized databases.
- Assist during technical support missions.
- Submit back-to-office reports from field missions and use an escalation system for reporting on issues.
- Work closely with programme staff to ensure quality data is captured in COMET.
- Attend regular meetings between M&E and programme at the field level.
Experience Requirements
- Four years' experience in data collection, analysis or data management.
- Has experience in using one of the analysis software such as microsoft excel, SPSS, R etc.
Qualification Requirements
• Post high-school diploma in social sciences or equivalent
