JOB DESCRIPTION

BACKGROUND:

In July 2023, the World Food Programme (WFP) Zambia Country Office commenced a new five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP), informed by, and aligned with national and United Nations priorities and global commitments under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It embraces the Government’s long-term Vision 2030; aligns with 16 key strategic areas of the 8th National Development Plan (NDP8); and contributes to the joint Zambia-United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).

WFP Zambia’s integrated and pragmatic CSP shifts away from unsustainable localized and micro-level interventions, to embrace more effective advocacy and engagement with national policies, systems, and programmes to achieve national impact on SDG2. Given the Government’s commitment to budget support for nutrition, social protection, and agriculture, despite the constraints in the country’s fiscal position, WFP’s overarching strategy seeks to enable the government to meet its national priorities with better systems, expertise, and resources for implementation. This means a decisive shift of WFP’s country positioning towards the provision of innovative, sustainable, upstream technical assistance for nationally owned solutions.

Advancing the global WFP Strategic Plan (2022-2025), the CSP addresses both SDG2 and SDG17, and WFP’s Strategic Results 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. WFP will implement seven activities to achieve five Strategic Outcomes (SO). These SOs include: responding to crises and shocks, including support to refugees (SO1); addressing the root causes of malnutrition (SO2); building the resilience, enabling environment and market access for smallholder farmers, especially women and youth (SO3); supporting government institutions to provide social protection systems (including home grown school meals) and disaster preparedness and response and anticipatory actions (SO4); and improving access to supply chain services for humanitarian and development actors (SO5).

REPORTING

Reporting to the Head of Field Office and working closely with the Research Assessment and Monitoring unit, the field-based Monitoring Assistants will play a key role in undertaking timely process and output monitoring to support WFP generate accurate data on beneficiary reach and quality of implementation of activities. The holder of this position will also ensure all relevant tools and templates are available and utilized by WFP and its partners to collect and report on project implementation.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Develop a monitoring strategy for the field office focusing on the monitoring activities to be implemented, monitoring coverage, capacity development initiatives for implementing partners, data quality assessments and utilization.

Liaise with M&E Officer, internal counterparts and cooperating partners to support effective accurate, timely collection and recording of data and support in the development of monitoring frameworks including logical frameworks and theory of change.

Collaborate with WFP programme teams and cooperating partners to undertake field monitoring exercises including spot checks, activity implementation monitoring and process monitoring including distribution and post-distribution monitoring for food assistance programmes.

Maintain a database of beneficiaries per project and activity for each field office and update monthly beneficiary reach using real-time visualization platforms.

Design data collection tools in mobile applications such as ONA, MDCA and ODK and support in training research assistants during baseline surveys, outcome monitoring and other M&E studies. Consolidate output data from monitoring Implementing Partners and Support carrying out Data Quality Assessments (DQA) for WFP’s Cooperating Partners’ monitoring information.

Liaise with cooperating partners and internal counterparts to establish community feedback and complaints systems and gather feedback from cooperating partners, beneficiaries, and beneficiaries.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education: University degree in Statistics, Monitoring, and Evaluation, Mathematics, Sociology, Social Development, Development Economics or Performance Management or other relevant fields.

Experience:

Three (3) years of related work experience in Monitoring and Evaluation with extensive experience in developing monitoring frameworks (logframes, indicators, M&E strategies), data collection tools, facilitating monitoring trainings and discussions, advanced data analysis and visualization.

Experience in quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis and reporting including use of software such as SPSS, STATA, R, NVivo, MAXQDA and/or ATLAS.ti)

Knowledge and Skills:

Ability to analyze and translate M&E numerical data to show WFP’s outcomes and impact against the objectives; ability to explain WFP projects and operations to counterparts and to communicate with Government and partners clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing;

General knowledge of UN system policies, rules, regulations, and procedures; Good quantitative and qualitative analysis skills;

Ability to understand the cultural and political environment and to work well with colleagues.

Languages:

Fluency (level C) in English.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements