🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ World Food Programme (WFP) – Monitoring & Evaluation Associate

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

28 December 2024-23:59-GMT Greenwich Mean Time (Freetown)

WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

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WHY JOIN WFP?

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
This position is based in Freetown and reports to the head of RAM.

THE ROLE: To provide effective specialized support and technical analyses to policy and program activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive, nor exhaustive):

• Support the design and management of data collection tools, particularly for VAM and M&E surveys. This involves setting up questionnaires, developing data collection protocols, and utilizing tools in electronic data collection (Open Data Kit (ODK)) for gathering field data.
• Collect and summarise assistance programme(s) data, collaborating with cooperating partners where required, conduct analysis and prepare reports in order to support programme reviews and informative decision-making.
• Maintain and update national and regional databases, ensuring data quality, data confidentiality and consistency across WFP offices and teams. The role also includes rationalizing data storage systems to enhance accessibility and operational efficiency.
• Prepare data reports and dashboards using tools such as R, SPSS, Tableau, and ArcGIS to present real-time visualizations of food security, price monitoring, and vulnerability metrics.
• Suggest improvements to field monitoring processes and procedures for efficient implementation of the assistance programmes towards data driven decision.
• Provide standard trainings for cooperating partners on WFP operational practices, data management, data analysis, ODK, monitoring tools and methods in order to support them to independently self-monitor and to contribute to the visibility of WFP in the coverage areas.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

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

Experience: Six or more years of progressively responsible work experience in the relative business stream with experience in general administrative work.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Good knowledge of data, data management and programming
•   Experience in specialized statistical software (SPSS/R/python/Stata)
•   Ability to plan and conduct neutral analysis and reporting

Language: Fluency in English both oral and written communication.

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