Programme Associate - Monitoring & Evaluation (SC6)

Programme & Policy

Overview

Support monitoring, reporting and evaluation aligned to WFP standards.

You have:

• Completion of secondary school education; Bachelor's degree in Statistic, Nutrition, Social Work or related field is desirable.
• Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Farsi.
• Demonstrated interest and/or experience (up to 5 years) in monitoring, data collection, social work or related area.
• Good interpersonal, networking, and communication skills.
• Computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and social media.

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This vacancy is open to Iranian nationals only

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 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.

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ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT

The World Food Programme, the leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide and the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate reopened offices in Iran in 1987. Since then, the organization has played a crucial role in supporting Afghan and Iraqi asylum seekers residing in the country. Iran currently hosts one of the world’s largest and protracted urban refugee situations in the world.

WFP Iran country office supports 31,000 most vulnerable refugees residing in 20 settlements in 13 provinces in Iran through providing food assistance (in-kind and cash); school snacks to boys and girls at primary and junior high schools, incentive for girls education at primary and junior high schools and capacity strengthening activities to improve livelihoods and food security of the most vulnerable refugees in settlements.

Although WFP’s intervention in Iran is focused mainly on assisting refugees, the organization has the operational capacity to support the Government and people of Iran in an emergency response should the need be felt in case of a major natural disaster that would exacerbate the capacity of the Government to respond.

JOB PURPOSE

The purpose of this role is to support the development and implementation of monitoring, reporting and evaluation aligned to WFP corporate standards and to generate evidence on results of activities, in order to inform policy, strategy and programme design and implementation. This includes conducting different monitoring activities, analysing the data, drafting relevant reports, acting as focal point as well as supporting thematic reviews, decentralized evaluations, and assessments as required. The role may also support the formulation of monitoring strategies and contribute to policy development and various initiatives.

This role will report to the Head of Programme Unit

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Provide inputs to the development of monitoring, review and evaluation plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results.
2. Contribute to evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, through making monitoring, review and evaluations findings accessible, and developing innovative, user-friendly and informative products.
3. Support WFP management in addressing recommendations from audit, monitoring, reviews and evaluations to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required.
4. Support line manager in ensuring that CO monitoring system/s and tools are incompliant with corporate standards including the minimum monitoring requirements/standard operational procedures at any given time.
5. Collect monthly reports on food item distribution from all settlements, consolidate and enter in WFP corporate tools.
6. Conduct field monitoring visits to monitor implementation of different activities and provide report accordingly. The frequency is based on the monitoring requirements.
7. Conduct post distribution monitoring visits at household beneficiaries' level and collect their views on WFP assistance to conducting semi-structured interviews using enumerators on annual basis. Analyse the data using SPSS, develop report and enter data/follow up values at outcome level in WFP corporate tool.
8. Conduct process monitoring visits to selected settlements at least once a year.
9. Conduct remote monitoring through making phone calls to beneficiaries on monthly basis - 3 days per month - and develop report accordingly.
10. Conduct any other monitoring visits for any new initiative as required.
11. Ensuring that all data is synchronized with WFP's M&E database before the set deadline.
12. Ad hoc M&E data collection requirements might be collected if and when needed.
13. Represent WFP in related working groups with other partners.
14. Any other related tasks as agreed with supervisor.

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 politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
• 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.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A bachelor’s degree in Statistic, Nutrition, Social Work or any other related field is desirable. Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Farsi.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

Capability Name Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance 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. Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Vouchers) 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. Broad Knowledge of Specialized Areas Understands basic technical concepts and data and their relevance to food assistance programmes. Emergency Programming Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development, implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes. Strategic Policy Engagement w/Government Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level.

DESIRED EXPERIENCES FOR ENTRY INTO THE ROLE

• Demonstrated interest and/or experience (up to 5 years) in monitoring, data collection, social work or any related area.
• Good interpersonal, networking and communication skills.
• Willingness to contribute and work as part of a team.
• Flexible and open to learning and new experiences.
• Respect for diversity and adaptability to other cultures, environments and living conditions.
• Computer skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, social media, and others).

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

JOB TITLE: PROGRAMME ASSOCIATE - MONITORING & EVALUATION TYPE & LEVEL OF CONTRACT: SERVICE CONTRACT/SC6 DURATION & START DATE: 1 YEAR - RENEWABLE DUTY STATION (CITY, COUNTRY): TEHRAN, IRAN REPORTS TO: HEAD OF PROGRAMME UNIT

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Interested candidates are invited to apply online not later than Tuesday, 14 June 2022.

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All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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.

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