Monitoring Assistant – SSA4 Full-Time

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.

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Mozambique made the transition to the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in 2017. Through the CSP, WFP Mozambique is committed to assist Shock affected people in the country as to enable them to meet their basic food and nutrition needs during and immediately after a crisis. Gaza Province has been repeatedly affected by seasonal droughts, and Inhambane Province has suffered some of the effects of Cyclone Idai (March 2019) and also seasonal droughts. As a result, thousands of families in the two provinces are suffering from high chronic and acute food insecurity, especially the western areas. As part of its emergency response in Gaza (Mapai, Chicualacuala, Massangena and Chigubo), WFP cooperates with the local authorities to assist the families most affected by acute food insecurity with a conditional transfer of food/voucher/cash for the creation of community assets and participation in trainings. In response to the severity of food insecurity in the region, WFP will also expand the lean season emergency assistance through FFA activities to Inhambane Province (Mabote, Govuro). WFP wants to ensure that the work of the beneficiaries during the lean season activities is well applied and provides real benefit and added value to the communities. Complementarily, WFP will start a post-emergency social protection support through CBT to assist the vulnerable food insecure population in 2 districts in Gaza: Guijá, and Chibuto. This way,

To certify the quality of the projects and ensure that the assets created and the trainings delivered support the communities to improve agriculture and/or livestock practices, building resilience within the household and community, promote livelihoods’ diversification, and meet the standards main focus in the asset creation component,

Standard minimum qualifications

• Education: Completion of secondary school education;
• Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in the UN language in use at the duty station and in the duty station’s language, if different.

Organizational context

These jobs are found primarily in WFP Field based Offices, and job holders typically report to Programme Policy Officer or Programme Associate. The reporting lines may change depending on the size of the office.
At this level work is carried out under minimum supervision. Job holders are expected to produce organised and accurate technical work and reports. They may provide guidance on standard practices to other staff and counterparts in their area of work.

Job purpose

To perform monitoring activities within the district, assist in the coordination with local authorities, and provide reports to support the effective delivery of assistance packages.

Key accountabilities (not all-inclusive)

1. Verify the planned movements and distribution of food or non-food items, reporting issues or discrepancies to the supervisor for timely resolution of problems and to ensure that the quantity distributed and the quality of the operation is in line with WFP standards;
2. Maintain information records and monitoring plan documentation, such as records of commodity movements and programme checklists, in order to assist in the effective delivery and distribution of food items or non-food items;
3.  Collate assistance programme(s) data in accordance with clear direction, in order to support programme reviews and informative decision-making;
4. Liaise with cooperating partners and internal counterparts to gather feedback and comments to support programme reviews and improve services;
5. Receive and collate comments and feedback from cooperating partners, beneficiaries, and beneficiaries, to support identifying programmatic issues with a view to fostering efficient operations;
6. Provide guidance for cooperating partners on WFP operational practices, monitoring tools and methods in order to support them to complete self-monitoring tasks and to contribute to the visibility of WFP in the coverage areas;
7. Prepare field mission reports to document programme implementation;
8. Follow set emergency response processes and procedures for emergency food assistance.

4Ps Core organisational capabilities

• Experience in monitoring data collection and analysis (programme outputs and outcomes) preferably relevant to specific are of development activities;
• Experience working with Food/ vouchers/cash transfers is an advantage;
• Knowledge and experience of the WFP, UN Agencies or NGOs, especially on emergency, development, resileience, agriculture or livestock sectors;
• Ability to communicate both orally and in Writing;
• Ability to work in multi-functional team (WFP, cooperating partners, local authorities), and establish effective working relation with person of different national and cultural backgrounds;
• Ability to work in multi-functional team (WFP, cooperating partners, local authorities), and establish effective working relation with person of different national and cultural backgrounds;
• Good knowledge of working softwares such as Microsoft;
• Sufficient knowledge in the agriculture and livestock sector, as well as a good understanding of the social protection sector.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Has experience analysing programme output and outcome data;
• General knowledge of WFP monitoring and evaluation systems and standards.