Apply: WFP Monitoring Assistant

Deadline: 31 May, 2021

Location: Kibuye, Rwanda

The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Monitoring Assistant.

WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor the processes and quality of implementation of social protection and resilience activities in line with guidance and corporate standards and procedures
  • Carry out regular field visits, supervise and monitor the implementation of Food assistance for Assets (FFA) project activities such as land terracing, progressive terraces, marshland development, agriculture and livestock extension services and value chains, income generating activities
  • Provide technical support to the implementing partner and advocacy to local authorities, where requested, in connection with SMART components
  • Supervise the FFA scheme by overseeing the participant’s identification and enrolment, validating the list of payments based on actual days worked and ensuring that all participants get their full and quality entitlements, agriculture inputs, seeds, livestock
  • Collect and summarise programme data, collaborating with cooperating partners where required
  • Conduct analysis and prepare reports to support programme reviews and informative decision making
  • Verify the planned movements and distribution of transfers or non-food items, resolving routine issues and escalating, where appropriate, to ensure that the quantity distributed and the quality of the operation is in line with WFP standards

Requirements

  • University degree in International Affairs, Economics, Nutrition/Health, Agriculture, Environmental Science, Social Sciences, or a related field
  • Three years, minimum, of relevant professional experience in the implementation or monitoring and evaluation of development or humanitarian projects or programmes
  • Work experience in the agricultural livelihoods, resilience or social protection thematic fields will be a plus
  • Experience in collecting programme output and outcome data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and reporting findings to management team, partners and other stakeholders
  • Experience in utilising monitoring and evaluation systems and standards
  • Fluency (level C) in English and Kinyarwanda

To apply and for more information, click here.

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