Senior Programme Associate (Monitoring & Reporting), SC7

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ABOUT WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, 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.

JOB RELATED KEY INFORMATION

Job Title: Senior Programme Associate (Monitoring & Reporting), SC7

Grade: SC7

Type of Contract: Service Contract

Duration: 1 Year

Duty Station: Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Vacancy Number: 679242

Date of Publication: 23 March 2023

Deadline of Application: 6 April 2023

BACKGROUND

Despite positive economic growth and progress in poverty reduction, Tajikistan is still facing a challenging food security and nutrition situation. Recent economic challenges compounded by population growth have contributed to the reclassification of the country as low-income in 2018 while the COVID pandemic and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine has further increased household vulnerability. Malnutrition rates remain the highest in Central Asia, and the number of undernourished has remained stagnant. Tajikistan faces different environmental challenges, including environmental and soil degradation and poor natural resource management. Additionally, Tajikistan is extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, which has further exacerbated food security and livelihoods of vulnerable communities. Given the above, the government has identified food security and access to quality nutrition as one of its development priorities.

WFP Tajikistan has commenced its Country Strategic Plan 2023 – 2026 in tandem with the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) covering the same period. By means of the CSP, WFP is undertaking a strategic shift from direct implementation to enabling and strengthening capacities of national and subnational institutions to deliver on their food security and nutrition priorities. WFP activities support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals). The geographic scope of WFP Tajikistan operations encompasses the entirety of the country. In addition to the country office in Dushanbe, WFP has field offices located in Bokhtar, Gharm, Khorog, and Khujand to oversee operations in those specific regions.

WFP responds to government requests following small-scale natural disasters or other emergencies. Natural disasters are recurrent in Tajikistan and their impact and frequency have increased as a result of climate change. Activities will be implemented in partnership with the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defence and other national and subnational authorities, UN agencies, international and local nongovernmental organizations and private sector entities. Preparedness measures include climate services and early warning in the event of crises caused by conflict, political instability, socioeconomic shocks, agricultural failures or natural disasters. In parallel to EPR, supporting the development of state social protection schemes that provide access to food and create productive assets for strengthening capacities to respond to shocks is also critical.

JOB PURPOSE

With simultaneous ongoing crises in the region and globally affecting Tajikistan, and to maintain WFP’s leading role in supporting the Government of Tajikistan in emergency response, the focus of this post will be the monitoring and reporting of emergency preparedness and response (EPR) activities. While the portfolio will include other interventions, the priority focus will be on responses designed to mitigate socioeconomic effects of the global food crisis.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

The position will report directly to the emergency preparedness and response coordinator but will also closely interact with the monitoring team within programme unit as well as the communications, advocacy and marketing unit. All responsibilities are under the general guidance of the head of programme. The incumbent is expected to perform the following duties:

Monitoring • Become conversant in global and WFP corporate guidance on monitoring; • Provide inputs to the development of monitoring and review plans that will provide the most relevant and strategic information toward achieving expected results; • Develop a monitoring toolkit to standardize monitoring approaches across the field offices and/or through outsourced service provision that complies with corporate standards, including the minimum monitoring requirements, standard operating procedures, and corporate results framework; • Contribute to the monitoring data analysis to detect emerging trends; • Support in training and capacity development of all WFP field and partner staff and/or outsourced enumerators on monitoring theory, methods, and toolkits; • Provide effective troubleshooting, suggest corrective measures, and arrange technical assistance to staff and partners based on results of monitoring, where necessary; • Support mid-term reviews and decentralized evaluations intended for learning and decision-making;

Reporting • Review progress reports submitted by partners and provide feedback to improve quality and timeliness of reporting; • Prepare progress and monthly reports, including dashboards, regarding the status of results and implementation progress, highlighting trends and emerging issues; • Ensure timely external reporting, verifying all data, and using appropriate templates; • Identify and disseminate good practices, lessons and knowledge, as identified through programme implementation, monitoring and reporting activities; • Develop human-centred success stories, fact sheets, and other informational and advocacy material;

Cross-cutting • Ensure monitoring and reporting reflects cross-cutting efforts and views, such as nutrition-sensitivity, gender and diversity inclusion, protection and accountability to ensure equal participation and consideration of women and men, boys and girls, and people living with specific needs and/or disabilities; • Provide support to the EPR team as relevant to internal WFP processes and procedures in accordance with all deadlines (e.g., potential partner proposals, field level agreements, service provision processes and contracts; invoice/transfers clearances; corporate systems such as WINGS/COMET/SCOPE; expenditure planning and reporting; monthly deliverables such as mission plans, country brief inputs and bank forecast inputs; responding to official letters requesting support or information; serving as hiring manager; etc.); • Any other business.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EXPERIENCE:

• Seven years of relevant progressive experience in supporting design, implementation, and capacity development for monitoring systems with UN agencies, government entities, or civil society; • Knowledge of food security programming and multistakeholder processes; • Experience in the analysis of food security and nutrition programmes in emergency responses; • Experience with community-based participatory planning approaches.

EDUCATION:

• Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area; • Strong knowledge of project monitoring theory; • Proficiency in Windows MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, etc.) and with data analysis and visualization software (SPSS, STATA, Tableau, etc.); • Strong analytical skills and ability to prepare publications, technical reports and other relevant materials, especially as relates to food security activities; • Behavioural competencies such as action management, client orientation, cognitive capacity, innovation, partnering and teamwork.

LANGUAGE:

• Required fluency (level C) in oral and written English; • Required fluency (level C) in oral and written Tajik or Russian.

TRAVEL:

Will travel extensively and regularly throughout the country to remote and sometimes difficult to reach project locations with potentially minimal services.

APPLICATION PROCESS

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.

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