Overview
The Monitoring Assistant will support the implementation of the country office's M&E strategy by collecting and analyzing data, reporting on program activities, and ensuring the quality of monitoring data.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply organizational standards in all monitoring work, including SOPs, CRF, and M&E policies.
- Collaborate with field program units to ensure monitoring provides necessary information for program improvement.
- Establish and maintain partnerships with beneficiary communities, cooperating partners, and third-party monitors.
- Integrate gender, equity, disability, protection, human rights, and other inclusion issues into all M&E work.
- Support training of enumerators, call center operators, and third-party monitors.
- Propose improvements to field monitoring processes and procedures.
- Collect outcome, process, and output monitoring data, including distribution monitoring, activity implementation monitoring, post-distribution monitoring, retail performance monitoring, surveys, and qualitative monitoring methodologies.
- Support remote monitoring implementation.
- Provide information on activity sites to inform sampling plans.
- Ensure WFP programs are implemented in accordance with Field Level Agreements (FLAs).
- Conduct regular spot checks and coverage, ensuring all activity sites are checked at least annually, with more frequent visits to priority sites.
- Adhere to ethical rules during monitoring activities.
- Assist with central office M&E team technical support missions, evaluation teams, or other M&E-related missions.
- Implement community feedback mechanism activities at the local organizational level.
- Conduct regular data quality checks at various stages of the monitoring cycle.
- Verify, clean, analyze, interpret, and visualize monitoring data.
- Submit data to centralized databases.
- Submit field mission reports and use an escalation system to report issues.
- Insert timely and quality data into the country office management tool (COMET).
- Participate in regular M&E and field program meetings.
- Provide beneficiaries with information on actions taken based on monitoring results and public financial management.
- Support data collection for reviews and evaluations.
- Perform other tasks as requested by the supervisor, especially during emergencies.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 4 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation, data collection, or humanitarian project implementation.
- General knowledge of WFP's M&E systems and standards is an advantage.
Qualifications
- Secondary school diploma (mandatory).
- Additional studies or a university degree (Bac+2/3) in social services, development, nutrition, agronomy, or any other related field would be an asset.
