UN World Food Programme Programme Associate (JP RWEE Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Coordinator) Jobs in Tanzania

UN World Food Programme Programme Associate (JP RWEE Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Coordinator) Jobs in Tanzania


About WFP

  • The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. WFP pursues a vision of the world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the diverse food needed for an active and healthy life. 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

  • Education: Completion of secondary school education and preffered a first University degree in Statistics, M&E, food security, economics or related fields.

  • Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Swahili and any other official UN language would be an asset.

    Organizational Context

  • The MEAL Coordinator reports to the JP RWEE National Coordinator and also has accountability to the global M&E Specialist, based in WFP’s headquarters in Rome. He/she will liaise closely with the participating agencies to ensure high quality M&E is in place for the programme.

    Job Purpose

  • The MEAL Coordinator is responsible for ensuring the implementation of the M&E system across the JP RWEE in Tanzania. He/she will work in close collaboration with the technical focal points and M&E officers of the four participating agencies to ensure the implementation of the approved M&E plan.

    Key Accountabilities

    Programme Implementation

    • Oversee the implementation of the JP RWEE M&E plan and ensure the implementation of timely and quality MEAL activities, providing technical guidance, ensuring programme quality and enabling timely and accurate reporting on indicators.

    • Oversee the implementation of programme baselines and endlines including the provision of technical support to ensure they are implemented to a high-quality standard (including review and approval of survey tools, data collection and sampling methods).

    • Develop indicator guidelines for output level indicators (in addition to existing outcome level indicator guidelines).

    • Review and compile baseline and endline reports, ensuring they are of the standard required.

    • Review and consolidate the M&E plan on an annual basis as part of the annual work plan submission and ensure M&E activities are adequately budgeted for.

    Technical Support

    • Provide technical MEAL leadership for the programme, including ensuring appropriate, quality data collection, analysis and use.

    • Work closely with the participating agencies to ensure that MEAL becomes an integral element of project implementation leading to enhanced quality and accountability.

    • Carry out frequent field visits to assess programme quality and monitoring systems.

    • Provide feedback to field monitoring reports and ensure that action plans are included and followed up.

    • Participate in technical working group meetings and JP RWEE coordination platforms.

    Reporting

    • Review donor bi-annual and annual reports submitted by the participating agencies, with specific focus on the performance indicator reporting.Compile and consolidate performance indicator progress as part of the donor reports and for submission to the global coordination unit.

    • Contribute to the review of narrative reporting on results within reports and ensure strong programme analysis based on indicator progress.

    • Provide any other internal reports and updates as requested.

    Learning

    • With the National Coordinator, lead on developing a culture of learning across the programme, ensuring that learning is consistently used to drive improvements in programming.

    • Lead on the analysis of monitoring data and provide recommendations for programme adaptation as necessary.

    • Lead on the documentation of good practices.

    Capacity Building

    • In close collaboration with the global M&E Specialist, identify gaps in capacity and carry out training in M&E for participating agency and implementing partner staff as required (e.g. data collection methods, data analysis, data quality assurance and result-based management).

    • Prepare training materials as needed.

    • Provide ongoing technical support.

    Accountability

    • Ensure that functioning complaints response mechanisms (CRM) are in place for the programme and included in reporting.

    • Check the implementation of CRM mechanisms during field visits.

    • Provide suggestions for CRM improvement as needed.

    • Perform other related duties as required.

    4Ps Core Organisational Capabilities

    Purpose

  • Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.

  • Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.

  • Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.

  • Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

    People

  • Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.

  • Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.

  • Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.

  • Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

    Performance

  • Encourage innovation & creative solutions: 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.

  • Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.

  • Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.

  • Be Decisive: 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.

    Partnership

  • Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.

  • Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.

  • Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.

    Other Specific Job Requirements

    Experience:

    • 4 years minimum experience in monitoring and evaluation of integrated development programmes.
    Experience in women's economic empowerment programming will be considered an asset.

    • Excellent knowledge and understanding of logframes and of quantative and qualitative indicators relating to multi sectoral programmes including food security and nutrition, livelihoods, women’s empowerment and gender equality.

    • Experience of conducting baseline and endline surveys.

    • Experience in developing and carrying out training and capacity building.

    • Experience in providing technical guidance (including the development of guidance material).

    • Experience of working on partnership programmes with multiple stakeholders.

    Desired Experiences for Entry Into the Role

    Knowledge & Skills:

    • Knowledge of quantative and qualitative indicators in relation to food security and nutrition, livelihoods, women’s empowerment and gender equality (including participation, leadership and gender transformation);

    • Excellent knowledge of data collection tools, including baseline and endline surveys (e.g., food security and nutrition survey tools, household surveys, Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index).

    • Excellent training and capacity building skills.

    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

    • Ability to develop strong working relationships with partners and stakeholders.

    • Ability to demonstrate leadership and show initiative.

    • Strong understanding of gender equality and women's empowerment issues and concepts in relation to rural development and poverty alleviation.

    • Familiarity with the sustainable development goals, including SDG5.

    How to Apply

  • For more information and job application details, see; UN World Food Programme Programme Associate (JP RWEE Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Coordinator) Jobs in Tanzania

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