Summary
Date Posted: Monday, June 08, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
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
• Graduated in the last 12 months with a Degree in areas of Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Public Health, Economics, Statistics or another related field.
• Fluent in English
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The COVID 19 pandemic has raised risks, which threaten to disrupt and further erode the livelihoods vulnerable populations. These have potential to reinforce poverty, leading into poverty traps and thus, having long-term consequences. In relation to this, the poorest households often resort to food-related coping strategies as a result of the burden of pandemic impacts on their livelihoods. The COVID-19 outbreak and its debilitating impacts on livelihoods are more likely to erode community coping capacities and deepening food and nutrition insecurity of vulnerable households and individuals. It is with this background that WFP zambia Country Office seeks to assign Monitoring Assistants to provide research on the assesment of the impact of the Covid-19 in the Zambian community.
JOB PURPOSE
To perform monitoring activities within a specific coverage area 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.

Job Skills: Not Specified

OTHER SPECIFIC JOB REQUIREMENTS
• Cultivated sustainable relationships with local NGOs, government authorities, and other implementation partners.
• Has data management experience using variety of analytical tools and methods for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modeling needs and reporting.
• Performed monitoring, evaluations and assessments at multiple field locations
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.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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