Overview
The Monitoring Assistant is responsible for supporting the partner in program implementation, reporting on food aid delivery, partner activities, implementation challenges, and beneficiary feedback. The role involves monitoring the implementation of WFP activities and their effects to determine access to food, understand beneficiary use of food aid, and ensure the proper functioning of field activities.
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 monitoring partners.
- Integrate gender, equity, disability, protection, human rights, and other inclusion issues into 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 according to field level agreements.
- Monitor spot checks and coverage, ensuring all activity sites are checked at least annually.
- Adhere to ethical rules during monitoring activities.
- Assist M&E team missions, evaluation teams, or other M&E-related missions.
- Implement community feedback mechanism activities at the local organization level.
- Perform regular data quality checks.
- 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 S&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
- At least four years of experience in the relevant field.
- At least three (3) years of professional experience in the required tasks, preferably within the United Nations System or in NGOs in the private sector.
Qualifications
- Completed secondary education with several years of relevant professional experience and/or training.
- A four-year university degree would be an asset in the fields of economics, education, social sciences, agronomy, sociology, and development.
