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ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: BA in Statistics, Agriculture, Food Security or related field.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Sesotho.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
Under the overall supervision of the Project Coordinator and technical guidance from Head of VAM/M&E in WFP, the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Associate will perform the following duties under the Adaptation Fund Project
JOB PURPOSE
To provide effective specialized support and technical analyses to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
1. Prepare detailed monthly calendar of M&E activities for the project.
2. Develop the Project M&E Plan and ensure that it is regularly followed both at the country office and field level.
3. Develop project baselines against project indicators, and regularly monitor all project indicators in line with the monitoring and evaluation framework and annual monitoring plans.
4. Ensure that data collection tools are in accordance with the exisiting M&E logframe and are programmed on odk.
5. Provide training to the enumerators on monitoring data collection tools for outcome and process monitoring.
6. Prepare Output Monitoring Reports against the project output indicators; provide analysis of achievement against each output indicator on monthly basis and share it with the Head of VAM/M&E Unit and Activity Managers.
7. Train field staff including government staff to conduct process monitoring and ensure the achievements of Output Indicators.
8. Report on operational bottlenecks related to M&E and share progress reports on weekly basis.
9. Prepare monthly reports and share the monitoring findings with Programme on monthly basis; ensure that recommendations are included in the Recommendation Matrix and are tracked regularly.
10. Follow up with Field Offices on complaints and feedback mechanism; follow up on issues that require further assessment and report on them.
11. Assist Communication and Reporting Officer to follow up with FOs on timely submission of stories worth telling and pictures for visibility.
12. Regularly ensure that the operational maps are up to date.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
- Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
- Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
- Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
- Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
- Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.
FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES
| Capability Name | Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level |
| Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance | Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design. |
| Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Vouchers) | Demonstrates ability to implement, under guidance, food assistance programmes deploying the full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and implementation. |
| Broad Knowledge of Specialized Areas | Understands basic technical concepts and data and their relevance to food assistance programmes. |
| Emergency Programming | Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes. |
| Strategic Policy Engagement w/Government | Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level. |
OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS
In-depth knowledge of results-based management principles and practices and M&E frameworks;
• Proven knowledge, abilities and skills in the areas of Monitoring and Evaluation;
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• Practical knowledge on how monitoring data is collected, compiled, analysed and presented
for management decisions, programme adjustment and donor reporting;
• In-depth knowledge of statistical applications such as SPSS (statistical package for social
sciences) and reporting systems; analytical skills;
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders;
• Willingness to build capacity of others through formal and informal training processes;
• Ability to facilitate and train different audiences; ability to prepare relevant documentation
and training materials
DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE
• Has worked with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, VAM, etc.).
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline is 13 November 2022
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