Overview
The incumbent will support the development and implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and reporting plans to generate evidence about beneficiaries' lives and inform program design and implementation. This includes coordinating monitoring activities, supporting evaluations, and positioning WFP as a reliable partner for governments in developing M&E strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Implement WFP corporate Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) standards, including SOPs, the Corporate Results Framework (CRF), and data privacy and protection policies.
- Identify evidence needs related to monitoring in consultation with management and technical units.
- Maintain strong relationships with WFP beneficiary communities, cooperating partners, and third-party monitoring partners.
- Ensure the integration of gender, equity, disability, protection, human rights, and inclusion concerns into all M&E work.
- Propose and develop innovation projects within the RAM unit.
- Coordinate with partner institutions to consolidate activity site information to inform sampling plans.
- Prepare monthly monitoring plans with guidance from the CO.
- Monitor activity sites, ensuring each is visited quarterly, with a focus on high-priority sites.
- Ensure disaggregation of primary data in alignment with Analysis, planning and performance (APP) Stratification and Disaggregation guidelines.
- Design questionnaires, interview guides, and data analysis plans tailored to CO information needs.
- Conduct various monitoring activities, including distribution, implementation processes, post-distribution, and retail performance monitoring, using CO-developed tools.
- Verify, clean, analyse, interpret, and visualize monitoring data based on the needs of diverse target audiences.
- Produce regular monitoring and evaluation reports, leveraging quantitative and qualitative analyses.
- Provide findings and recommendations to inform performance planning and risk analysis.
- Strengthen monitoring capacity for WFP Field Monitors, partners, and government actors through learning opportunities and information-sharing.
- Represent WFP in inter-agency meetings to exchange knowledge and promote the importance of inter-agency M&E.
- Perform other duties aligned with the role as required by the supervisor.
- Support the Unit's emergency response activities.
- Deploy to affected countries to assist with operations as required.
- Work beyond regular working hours as needed.
Required Experience
- Proven knowledge, abilities and skills in the areas of Monitoring and Evaluation;
- Has worked with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, vulnerability analysis and mapping, research, Monitoring& Evaluation etc.).
- Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
- Experience in implementing qualitative and quantitative surveys
- Expertise in digital data collection using tools such as KoboToolBox, ODK
- Strong report writing and analytical skills.
- At least six years of relevant experience in program design, implementation, or monitoring in development or community engagement, preferably in food security, nutrition, or rural livelihoods.
Qualifications
- Completion of secondary school education.
- A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area.
- A Bachelor’s Degree would be an asset.
