Background
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide technical support and assist the M&E team in the development and implementation of various activities and processes within the specific area of work supporting alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines.
- Provide specialized project management support to the M&E programme to ensure that the various activities are performed within the established targets following WFP’s policies and procedures.
- Prepare a range of reports and data analysis on monitoring, highlighting trends/issues ensuring deliverables adhere to corporate standards and quality control.
- Ensure and/or perform accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. assistance programmes, food security and vulnerability assessments) and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
- Support Programme staff in populating and maintaining WFP’s comprehensive tool to design, implement and monitor programmes and improve organizational performance
- Liaise with internal and external counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
- Coordinate and communicate with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions to perform accurate monitoring analyses and to ensure efficient and quality delivery of food assistance.
- Support the capacity building of WFP staff, cooperating partners and national government within the specific technical area.
- Act as a point of contact for resolution of a range of operational queries and problems within M&E.
- Oversee and/or review the work of other support staff, providing practical advice and guidance, to contribute to delivering objectives to agreed standards and deadlines.
- Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.
- Perform other related duties as required.
Results Expected:
- Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
- Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
- Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
- Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission
- Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
- Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
- Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
- Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
- Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately
- Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
- Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.
- Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
- Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
- Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
- Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.
Competencies
- Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.
- Demonstrates ability to implement, under guidance, food assistance programmes deploying the full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and implementation.
- Understands basic technical concepts and data and their relevance to food assistance programmes.
- Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
- Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area.
Experience:
- Has worked with technical teams (i.e. nutrition, vulnerability assessment & mapping, etc.).
- Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
- Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.
Language:
Fluency in both oral and written communication in English, Kurdish and/or Arabic.