SVN: Senior Monitoring Assistant
Organizational Context
Established in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a leading UN agency dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration. It collaborates with governments and partners to save lives, protect people on the move, and facilitate pathways for regular migration. The Senior Monitoring Assistant role operates under the overall supervision of the National Deputy Programme Manager.
Job Purpose
The Senior Monitoring Assistant plays a crucial role in ensuring the effective implementation and oversight of IOM's migration-related projects. This position contributes to the organization's mandate by verifying project activities, assessing quality, and gathering feedback from target communities, particularly vulnerable groups. By collecting, analyzing, and reporting on monitoring data, the role provides essential insights to Program Management, enabling timely identification of implementation gaps, challenges, and risks. The Assistant's work directly supports the improvement of project performance, the documentation of best practices, and the overall achievement of IOM's objectives in promoting humane and orderly migration.
Responsibilities
The Senior Monitoring Assistant is responsible for preparing weekly site visit plans for monitoring ongoing grants and project activities. This includes conducting regular field visits to verify implementation progress, assess quality and compliance, and gather feedback from target communities, especially women and vulnerable groups. The role involves collecting, verifying, and analyzing monitoring data from various sources, and compiling comprehensive monitoring reports with accurate findings for Program Management. Key duties also include identifying implementation gaps, challenges, and risks, providing recommendations for improvement, and documenting success stories and lessons learned. The Assistant will ensure meaningful engagement with female beneficiaries, maintain complete monitoring records, monitor the implementation of corrective actions, and provide regular updates to the supervisor and Program Management. Compliance with organizational policies, safeguarding principles, and confidentiality is paramount.
Work Experience
Required experience includes development assistance projects, engagement with legal and governmental procedures, and program/project monitoring and evaluation, preferably with international organizations. Experience working in challenging field-based environments is essential. Experience in humanitarian situations is highly desirable, as is experience in stakeholder coordination and liaison.
Skills
Project Monitoring & Evaluation, Managing challenging field-based environments, Stakeholder coordination and liaison, Fluency in English and Urdu.