Programme Policy Officer (M&E Nutrition) Temporary

The World Food Programme is hiring a Programme Policy Officer (M&E Nutrition), for Maputo.

Job Purpose

In close collaboration with partnering agencies and the under the leadership of the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) of the Government, various nutrition and health related assessment are undertaken or planned to be conducted in the near future, especially in the Northern region of Mozambique, currently classified as a Level 2 emergency. WFPs participation in these assessments is key. The updated nutrition information will facilitate alignment of the response with the most urgent needs in the affected areas. WFP, in coordination with the nutrition cluster, will also ensure that food consumption deficits for the most nutritionally vulnerable groups are address through blanket supplementary feeding programme (BSFP) for children under five (CU5) and pregnant and lactating women (PLW). Moreover, WFP will collect regular programme data to inform and track the response.

Act as MER Team lead for M&E and Reporting workstream through the following activities:

• Planning, implementation, oversight, trainings for relevant staff, analyses, reporting and adaptations guided by WFP M&E frameworks for Nutrition and HIV programmes. Ensuring timely and high-quality analysis of nutrition and social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) data. Includes M&E for PRN, Nutrition-sensitive (as well as GTNS) and HIV;
• Cultivate solid relationship between Nutrition and HIV Unit and VAM unit of WFP for alignment and regular collaboration;
• Oversee and coordination dashboard updates (PRN, Nutrition-sensitive, HIV etc.);
• Timely reporting as requested by HoU with data from various programmes;
• Ensuring active WFP participation in nutrition cluster on M&E-related work;
• Coordination and inputs (strategic and technical) on nutrition related assessments (for example: SMART, coverage and demographic health surveys). Liaising between multiple partners for nutrition M&E (example: Government counterparts such as SETSAN) as needed for a successful undertaking of nutrition surveys with full support as requested by WFP;
• Collaborating internally with other CO units on nutrition assessments and M&E;
• Support the M&E of activities with special focus on the emergency response (caseload planning, coordination, data management and reporting);
• Ensuring that programme data is being analyzed and utilized for programme adaptations by each M&E focal point in the unit.

Requeriments

Education

• Post-gratuation/Advanced university degree in Nutrition, Health, or other relevant field of study;
• Experience: 5 years of professional experience in Nutrition, Health, Monitoring & Evaluation and international humanitarian development;
• At least 3 years of professional experience in a relevant field of work (nutrition/health and M&E), with a background and interest in international humanitarian development.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Rigours experience in Nutrition M&E project management in a related field;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyse, interpret and extract key information;
• Strong oral and written communication skills, able to clearly articulate insights internally (within WFP – at CO, RB and HQ level) as well as to external stakeholder;
• In-depth understanding of WFP programmes, objectives and strategic priorities;
• Willingness and flexibility to travel when requested to the field;
• Solid organizational skills with attention to detail;
• Positive attitude to teamwork.

Languages

• Fluency (level C) in both English language and Portuguese.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

• Work with M&E related tasks of Nutrition and HIV interventions in WFP Mozambique;
• Planning, implementation, oversight, analyses, reporting and adaptations guided by WFP M&E frameworks as well as the CO review and evaluation plan;
• Ensuring timely and high-quality analysis of these nutrition, SBCC and health data;
• Regular coordination and planning with team members of other workstreams (HIV, Nutrition- sensitive, GTNS, MAM treatment/PRN, BSFP);
• Coordinate the provision of data as requested for any reporting based on M&E of programmes;
• Trainings for relevant staff (CO/FO) on data analysis of nutrition and health indicators;
• Provide data and conduct in-depth analysis on data from nutrition programmes and larger surveys upon discussion and request of team members (examples include figures for donor reporting, communication purposes etc.);
• Support with caseload planning for interventions, especially those related to prevention to treatment of acute malnutrition;
• In consultation with the Head of M&E, provide oversight to the process of decentralized evaluations, if any, for Nutrition-specific portfolio, managed by the designated Evaluation Managers, in line with WFP Evaluation Policy and Decentralized Evaluation Quality Assurance System (DEQAS). This entails ensuring that the Evaluation Managers are following up on all evaluation processes from planning to completion; sourcing, hiring and supervising external evaluators; engaging stakeholders appropriately in the evaluation process and managing communications and budgets;
• Budget for Nutrition-specific monitoring costs and advocate for appropriate financial and human resourcing in consultation with the Head of Nutrition Unit, Head of M&E, Heads of Field Offices, Head of Business Support, and Human Resources, including on equipment requirements and staffing at the Country Office and Field Office levels;
• In consultation with the Head of M&E, ensure the Nutrition Unit has an adequate Outcome, Output, Cross-Cutting data management for Nutrition-specific interventions, and storage system using WFP corporate systems (COMET, MoDA/ODK, Tableau, etc) and provide regular oversight in using the systems, following corporate requirements on reporting and data protection;

Focal point from WFP at inter-agency fora related to M&E for Nutrition

• Active participation at Nutrition cluster, SETSAN organized meeting and any other meetings for national or provincial level surveys, assessments and information management of nutrition and health related data (SMART Rapid Assessments, Food security and nutrition (FSN) Vulnerability Assessments, Demographic Health Surveys (DHS), Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP)-related surveys etc.);
• Strategic and technical inputs on behalf of WFP – aligned with objectives of the organization;
• Critically analyze data from these sources to feed into communication among the nutrition community on nutrition data as well as decision making of caseload and programme planning (examples include beneficiary needs, nutrition status among population groups, programme modalities, implementation challenges, etc.);

Focal point from Nutrition and HIV Unit for collaboration with VAM Unit

• Regular coordination with VAM Unit – ensuring nutrition data is well represented in surveys and manage the data analysis and reporting of those indicators;
• Regularly analyze all data from the abovementioned surveys and recommend improvements to programme interventions to enhance WFPs ability to demonstrate outcome-focused results;
• Deployment to field as requested and when needed for assessment or M&E related queries;
• Perform other tasks as required.

DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT

• All nutrition and HIV programmes have fully functioning M&E systems which include nutrition, health and SBCC indicators according to programme objectives;
• A solid partnership and regular engagement between Nutrition and HIV Unit and the VAM Unit of CO and realizing the linkage in food and nutrition security assessments from theory to practice;
• Carefully executed beneficiary and caseload calculations as needed (development and or emergency interventions);
• High quality data analysis and reporting produced when request from various data sources;
• At least 2 training sessions held for CO/FO staff on the data management of key indicators for nutrition and health;
• Successful participation and integration of WFP inputs for nutrition and health related assessments with different stakeholder, as national and sub-national level;
• Timely support for nutrition assessments together with partners (nutrition cluster) and Government counterparts (data analysis, interpretation, reporting);
• Clear recommendations based on solid data analysis for responses by the larger nutrition community, but particularly WFPs role;
• Deep engagement with SETSAN, including other Government departments about M&E for nutrition and HIV which WFP works/will work with on a regular basis.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Cultivated sustainable relationships with local NGOs, government authorities, and other implementation partner at national and provincial level;
• Proven ability to analyse nutrition context and content and hands-on knowledge of M&E frameworks including qualitative data analysis;
• Strong understanding of the Food Security and Nutrition context and infrastructure in Mozambique;
• Analytical capability to assess possibilities and limitations presented in the emergency context of Cabo Delgado related to nutrition programming;
• Experience in using a variety of analytical tools and methods for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modelling needs;
• Performed monitoring, evaluations and assessments at different field locations;
• In-depth understanding of WFP systems and processes on nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming and M&E;
• Fluent in data analysis on Excel, SPSS and SMART ENA tool for nutrition and SBCC indicators.

How to Apply

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