Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant SSA5, (3m Contract) Luanda, Angola

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WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to end global hunger. 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.

In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives. Present in nearly 80 countries, the organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to nutritious food and contribute to the lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas. We manage an operating budget of approximately $5.9 billion each year, distributing 12.6 billion rations to those most in need. We reach an average of 80 million people with food assistance in around 80 countries each year. The World Food Programme office in Johannesburg is a Regional Office coordinating and supporting the delivery of humanitarian assistance to 11 Southern Africa countries including, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, Malawi, Madagascar, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville.

JOB PURPOSE

In the area of M&E, WFP Angola aims to enhance the development and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation plans aligned with WFP’s corporate requirements. This will ensure that the Programme team will be able to show the progress of activities on required performance indicators and alert the potential areas of improvement on a regular basis for decision making by the management.

Under the general supervision and guidance of the Head of Office, and technical guidance by the VAM Consultant, the Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant will help the Angola office to collect and analyze relevant data, and inform decision making with the view to making project activities more effective.

The special focus of this assignment will be on the development and implementation of monitoring plans for different projects, with special focus on providing technical and administrative leadership, ensuring optimum utilization of all resources and achievement of M&E objectives.

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 job holders are expected to take responsibility for completion of a range of processes and activities related to monitoring that require some interpretation of standard guidelines/practices. Job holders are able to recommend a course of action to staff at various levels and may allocate tasks to other support staff.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Develop specific monitoring plans for different projects and context that focus on measurement results, support in implementing the standards, processes and tools for M & E in consultation with the relevant technical units of the regional office.
2. Provide analysis and feedback for new projects, as appropriate, to ensure that outcome indicators are selected for logical frameworks, goals are appropriate and that quality M&E systems are documented in program documents;
3. Ensure that minimum M&E standards and requirements for WFP operations are identified in the project documents;
4. Review reports on assigned operations and provide technical feedback to the CO to improve the quality of production and results reports;
5. Support the analysis of CO M&E data and provide feedback to improve the reporting of results;
6. Contribute to the development and review of the corporate strategic results structure;
7. Consult all relevant technical units to ensure that the outcome indicators are periodically reviewed and modified based on the CO measurement and feedback trends;
8. Support the measurement of results analysis as appropriate;
9. Identify the core elements to be included in COMET resources (for example, monitoring checklists, assessment tools, nutritional calculator, reports from cooperating partners, integration with (LESS) etc.)
10. Conduct an M&E System Assessment to map, review content, quality and capacities of monitoring and reporting of a national school feeding programme on four levels to understand the flow and process of the system.

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
•  Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
•  Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
•  Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
   

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.

Experience: At least 4 years experience in Monitoring & Evaluation, Programme or related field.

Languages: Fluency in Portuguese and English

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

The deadline for applications is Wednesday, 19 May 2021, 11:59PM Angola Time

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This position is open to Angolan Nationals and Permanent Residence Holders.

Female applicants are especially encouraged to apply.

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.