Overview
The Programme Associate (Monitoring) is responsible for planning, implementing, and ensuring the quality of monitoring for WFP programmes, supporting accountability, evidence generation, risk identification, and performance management. The role provides specialized support and technical analyses to programme teams, oversight of partner monitoring systems, and coordination with government stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the planning, organization and implementation of monitoring activities for WFP programmes.
- Provide support to the development and implementation of monitoring plans for capacity strengthening and technical assistance projects.
- Verify programme implementation progress, identify deviations, risks or bottlenecks, and escalate issues.
- Review and validate data generated by government counterparts and cooperating partners.
- Support efficient tracking of beneficiary targeting, transfer delivery, and service quality.
- Provide support in the development of monitoring plans, logic models, indicator reference sheets, field monitoring checklists, feedback mechanisms, and other M&E tools.
- Clean, manage, and analyse quantitative and qualitative monitoring data; produce analytical summaries, dashboards, briefs and other evidence products.
- Provide support to outcome monitoring exercises, decentralized evaluations, after-action reviews, and learning events.
- Serve as key monitoring focal person for coordination with provincial and local governments, implementing partners, UN agencies, and civil society actors.
- Facilitate joint field visits, review meetings, and capacity strengthening sessions.
- Provide technical backstopping to cooperating partners on monitoring standards, digital data collection, reporting requirements, and accountability practices.
- Document challenges, lessons learned and good practices.
- Support the implementation and monitoring of community feedback mechanisms.
- Promote participatory monitoring approaches and ensure inclusion of women, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups.
- Provide on-the-job coaching to field enumerators, cooperating partner staff, and government monitoring counterparts.
- Support the rollout of digital data collection systems and tools.
- Support in preparing high-quality field monitoring reports or other RAM products.
- Maintain updated documentation on monitoring plans, datasets, risk logs, and follow-up actions.
- Provide support to emergency preparedness and response monitoring when necessary.
- Perform any other tasks required by the Field Office or RAM Unit.
Required Experience
Minimum 6 years of progressively responsible experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in development or humanitarian contexts. Experience in monitoring capacity strengthening or technical assistance projects is highly desirable. Experience coordinating with government institutions at municipal/ provincial levels is a strong asset. Experience with UN agencies or international organizations is preferred.
Qualifications
Completion of secondary school education with a post-secondary certificate in a related field is required. A first university degree (Bachelor’s) in social sciences, statistics, development studies, economics, public administration, monitoring and evaluation, or related fields is desirable for the position.
