Monitoring Officer

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

16 December 2024-23:59-GMT+01:00 Central European Time (Rome)

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:
Assisting more than 100 million people in over 80 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian food security organization - saving and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. To achieve its mandate, WFP must ensure that it reaches the right people and that it manages its relationship with those individuals and their communities in a responsible, accountable, and effective manner.
The Analysis, Planning, and Performance (APP) Division is instrumental in advancing WFP’s Zero Hunger mandate by placing high-quality evidence at the core of strategic and operational decision-making, resource mobilization and accountability. This approach ensures that operations are not only efficient and cost-effective but also transparent and responsive to the needs of beneficiaries. APP works to ensure that decision-making within WFP is grounded in credible, relevant, and timely data. This is achieved through a structured approach that spans the full programme lifecycle, from conducting initial assessments that inform programme design to monitoring outcomes for ongoing projects.
WFP APP-MF is seeking a Monitoring officer with technical capacities and responsibilities within the remote programme monitoring project, a key deliverable of WFP’s Global Assurance Project (GAP). She/he will contribute to ensuring the implementation of the corporate remote programme monitoring approach in line with monitoring business requirements and developing analytical products for performance measurement and management. The monitoring officer should have advanced technical expertise in remote monitoring systems within humanitarian settings and prior experience in high-risk country contexts.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under the supervision of the APP MF Data Systems and Analysis lead, the Monitoring Officer contributes to building quality monitoring evidence on remote programme monitoring findings through the strengthening of data analysis, pipeline and visualization systems, and analytical monitoring products of such evidence for internal and external stakeholders. The Monitoring Officer will have the following responsibilities in the following four sub-work areas:
Field Support & Implementation
Support Country Offices (COs) and Regional Bureaux (RBsx) in adapting new measurements and implementing remote monitoring tools and systems in line with the minimum monitoring requirements (MMR).

This includes:

- Manage the roll-out of “Remote process and outcome monitoring” under the critical corporate initiatives (CCI), including leading on the methodology development and field implementation for high-risk contexts.
- Develop and ensure use of operational guidance and tools, standard operational procedures for remote monitoring; and
- Implement minimum monitoring and measurement requirements with particular focus on the multilayered monitoring approach.

Systems & Analysis
Support the efforts to standardize and maintain CO-level monitoring systems and tools for data capturing, processing and analysis in line with WFP’s Minimum Monitoring Requirement.
- Undertake relevant analysis of remote outcome and process monitoring data contributing to define technical requirements for the development of global monitoring data visualization temp