Programme Assistant (Monitoring) - SC5

Job Description

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIESAssist in establishing an effective monitoring system that provides timely and accurate information:

• Work with WFP cooperating partners to implement a collective monitoring strategy that builds on partners? field monitoring and third party monitoring capacities.
• Assist in preparing collective monitoring tools and checklists that respond to the information needs of different stakeholders, including programme, supply chain and donors.
• Assist in preparing monthly monitoring plans for partner and third party monitor with clear targets and based on representational sample. Follow-up with partners on any deviation from the plan and check on data quality.
• Assist in ensuring immediate and appropriate follow-up on implementation issues identified and flag these to programme and SC colleagues.
• Assist in managing and analyzing monitoring data collected, extracting key findings that need to be addressed, and producing effective information products that demonstrate the condition of WFP?s food assistance programmes and their effectiveness and enables informed decision making.

Perform other duties as required, including:

• Assist in preparing field level agreements for the M&E related sections.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives of cooperating partners.
• Support the scale-up of cash-based transfers.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIESPurpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP?s Strategic Objectives.
• ?Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team?s work processes to supervisor.
• ?Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
• ?Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit?s responsibilities will serve WFP?s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen peoples skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
• ?Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
• ?Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
• ?Create an ?I will?/?We will? spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
• ?Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
• ?Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
• ?Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
• ?Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
• ?Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP?s teams and external partners in fulfilling team?s goals and objectives.
• ?Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor?s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
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