Overview
The Monitoring Assistant supports the partner in implementing the program, reporting on food aid delivery, partner activities, implementation challenges, and beneficiary feedback. The role involves monitoring WFP activities and their effects on the ground to determine food access levels, understand beneficiary food aid usage, and ensure smooth field operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor distribution sites (schools, health centers, general distributions, asset creation activities).
- Conduct targeted and random follow-up visits to verify issues, confirm fraud suspicions, and find explanations for irregularities.
- Remediate problems directly during visits, provide support for corrections, explain best practices, and reiterate program objectives.
- Complete required questionnaires and follow-up reports, ensuring accuracy and data quality.
- Monitor the movement of WFP food within partner institutions and communities, verifying implementation according to plans and procedures.
- Collect information through physical counts, observation, and interviews with beneficiaries and cooperating partners.
- Contribute to capacity building of partners and provide on-site support for activity implementation and assistance management.
- Provide on-site support to institutions and communities for better assistance management and WFP activity implementation.
- Encourage community and beneficiary participation in WFP activities.
- Support market price monitoring in communities.
- Supervise and execute baseline and endline surveys, food security surveys, and beneficiary registration/identification surveys.
- Participate in the establishment and execution of action plans.
- Report regularly and in emergencies after each visit to the program manager and M&E team.
- Document each visit with an electronic form submitted via tablet.
- Participate in manual data entry of collected information into the monitoring database.
- Draft required reports on results obtained and difficulties encountered.
- Contribute to the improvement of data collection tools.
- Support data entry and control, including filing distribution reports and verifying data quality.
- Collaborate in quality control of data, reports, and information provided by partners.
- Perform data entry for COMET distribution reports.
- Compare and verify data from different sources to identify discrepancies and propose corrective measures.
- Support program units in data analysis and visualization needs.
- Perform other tasks as requested by the supervisor.
Required Experience
• At least four (4) years of experience in a position related to monitoring and evaluation, field data collection, or humanitarian project implementation.
Qualifications
• A first-cycle university degree in a relevant discipline (social sciences, statistics, international development, anthropology, economics, law, ...).
