Overview
The M&E Associate has an essential role in the implementation of the Country Office M&E Strategy/ M&E Action Plan at the field level. The staff coordinates all M&E activities at field office level including conducting and managing data collection, ensuring monitoring findings are discussed with field office and partners and are escalated for action.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead/manage M&E field processes at field office level.
- Implement the Country Office M&E Strategy/ M&E Action Plan.
- Ensure Field Office meets corporate Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) standards.
- Maintain close communication with CO M&E team for latest guidelines, updates and support.
- Continuously identify evidence of needs in consultation with head of field office and technical units.
- Establish and maintain good partnerships with WFP’s participants, communities, Partners, and Third Party or Outsourced Monitoring partners.
- Ensure gender, equity, disability, protection, human rights and other inclusion issues are mainstreamed in all M&E work at the FO level.
- Prepare monthly monitoring plans.
- Develop samples for the respective office through the corporate risk-based sampling framework.
- Lead data collection for process and outcome monitoring data, including distribution monitoring, activity implementation monitoring, Post-Distribution Monitoring, retail performance monitoring, surveys and qualitative monitoring methodologies.
- Support in setting up remote monitoring arrangements.
- Support the design of questionnaires, question guides and data analysis plans.
- Coordinate all M&E related data collection exercises at the field level.
- Keep track of monitoring visits and coverage.
- Report on actual monitoring visits to CO on monthly basis.
- Ensure ethical guidelines are followed during monitoring activities.
- Assist in organizing technical support missions.
- Verify, clean, analyze, interpret and visualize monitoring data.
- Ensure datasets are submitted to centralized databases.
- Submit back-to-office reports from field missions and use an escalation system for reporting on issues.
- Conduct meetings with WFP and partner staff to review monitoring findings and agree on actions.
- Deliver timely information to participants about the actions taken based on monitoring findings.
- Support, as appropriate, data collection exercises related to reviews, research and evaluations.
- Manage enumerators and TPM at field office level.
- Support line manager in preparing and tracking detailed budgets for evidence generation activities.
- Provide timely information to support CO monitoring plans and budgets.
- Ensure data collection by WFP staff or outsourced partners is supervised.
- Conduct regular data quality checks.
- Help build monitoring capacity enumerators, TPM, partners and government actors.
- Suggest improvements to field monitoring processes and procedures.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years progressively responsible work experience including at least one year in Information systems management, project monitoring and evaluation, data collection analysis and report writing.
- Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods, analysis, reporting and dissemination and follow up of findings and recommendation.
- Has experience collecting programme output and outcome data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and reporting findings to management team, partners and other stakeholders.
- Has experience utilizing WFP monitoring and evaluation systems and standards.
Qualifications
• A degree in Social Sciences, M&E, Project Management, community development, Development Studies or statistics.
