Programme Associate (monitoring)

Organizational Context

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability, and prosperity. WFP operates in emergencies and supports people recovering from conflict, disasters, and climate change impacts. The organization values diversity, inclusion, and a commitment to its mission.

Job Purpose

The Programme Associate (Monitoring) will strengthen WFP Ukraine's monitoring function by supporting effective data management, quality assurance, and structured monitoring practices. This role is crucial for ensuring harmonized monitoring systems, facilitating coordination among field and partner teams, and guaranteeing reliable data flows essential for reporting and informed decision-making. The associate will contribute to the rigorous analysis and visualization of monitoring data, assist in drafting reports, and support the oversight of partner monitoring activities. By providing technical and coordination support, the position plays a key part in assessing programme implementation and ensuring that humanitarian assistance effectively reaches those affected by the conflict in Ukraine.

Responsibilities

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization, dedicated to saving lives in emergencies and building pathways to peace, stability, and prosperity through food assistance. WFP is committed to diversity and equal employment opportunities, encouraging applications from all qualified candidates regardless of background. The organization values integrity, collaboration, commitment, humanity, and inclusion. WFP offers a multicultural work environment with opportunities for personal and professional development, including training, coaching, and internal mobility. A career with WFP provides the chance to work globally with passionate colleagues to deliver effective humanitarian aid to millions. The role focuses on strengthening monitoring functions by supporting effective practices, structured data management, and quality assurance. This involves contributing to harmonized monitoring systems, facilitating coordination among teams, and ensuring reliable data flows for reporting and decision-making. The position requires technical and coordination support for monitoring activities, data management, quality assurance, and cross-cutting RAM tasks. This includes providing technical support for sampling and tool design, maintaining data management processes, conducting data validation and quality assurance, supporting data analysis and reporting, coordinating field monitoring activities, and overseeing partner monitoring efforts. The role also involves supporting training for data collectors and collaborating with the Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) team to ensure beneficiary feedback is documented and escalated.

Work Experience

Requires six or more years of progressive work experience, including at least one year specifically in data analysis within a monitoring function. Post-secondary education can substitute for some years of experience. For example, a Master's degree may count for three years of experience, and a Bachelor's degree for four years.

Skills

Data Management, Data Analysis, Monitoring, Quality Assurance, Coordination, Reporting, Excel, SPSS, STATA, R, Kobo, ODK, Tableau, Information Management, Ukrainian Humanitarian Context, Sampling, Tool Design, Validation, Consolidation, Cleaning, Visualization, Field Monitoring, Partner Oversight, Training, Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)

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