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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Contract Type: Special Service AgreementGrade: Level 4
Duration: 6 monthsNumber of Positions: 3
Duty Station: Qamishli, SyriaUnit/Division: Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:
Syria has been experiencing a prolonged crisis since 2011, severely damaging its economy and social fabric. Currently, almost 33 percent of the people in need of humanitarian assistance in 2024 are internally displaced persons (IDPs) and out of the 7.2 million IDPs, 5.5 million are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The 2024 Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) states that around 15.5 million people (66 percent of the population) need food, livelihood support, agricultural assistance, or assistance from national safety nets. At least 12.9 million people are in need of food assistance, including more than 2.1 million who live in camps and a further 2.6 million are at risk of food insecurity. The main causes are the prolonged crisis, economic collapse, eroding purchasing power, the impacts of the Coronavirus disease pandemic, and an earthquake, these pre-exiting effects compound with recent crises including influx from Lebanon, internal displacements following ongoing change in control coupled with dwindling humanitarian funding further exacerbates food insecurity and strains livelihoods.
As a response to this situation, the World Food Programme (WFP) has developed an interim country strategic plan (iCSP) that addresses the growing food and nutrition needs, livelihood deterioration, and the collapse of food systems. The iCSP began implementation in January 2022, drawing from WFP's experience and lessons learned and collaborating with humanitarian and development stakeholders.
JOB PURPOSE:
The Monitoring Assistant will work within the Monitoring Unit and in collaboration with the other units from the Field Office, colleagues and counterparts in CO and WFP cooperating partners.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (not all-inclusive):
Under the supervision of the Head of M&E, and within delegated authority the incumbent will:
- Act as primary source of data collected in the field, in agreement with monitoring plans established priorities and WFP operational standards, such as data quality standards, minimum monitoring requirements, benchmark for compliance, quality assurance and mitigation of risks, efficiency of programme and accountability to affected populations.
- Undertake regular field visits to verify the distribution of food commodities, nutrition, livelihoods activities, and other WFP interventions, and provide a timely summary of findings, including documenting any issues, and/or observations from field visits through WFPโs platform and weekly reports to the HoP/HoFO.
- Provide guidance, support and training on WFP methodologies, tools and operational practices to cooperating partners, in order to enable their monitoring capacity and enable to collect information on behalf of WFP.
- Provide inputs and feedback for the creation and validation of monitoring plans based on information received by monitoring and programme colleagues as well as cooperating partners.
- Maintain information archive records including, monitoring checklist, commodity movements, monitoring plan and monitoring findings.
- Provide continuous feedback for the improvement of monitoring tools.
- Report on issues or discrepancies for timely resolution in line with WFP standards.
- Collect and consolidate field level activities data to support program reviews and decision-making processes including summarizing field monitoring findings from the field, partners, beneficiaries and governmental authorities and link them to observations to contribute in strategic decision-making to ensure proper response from WFP is provided.
- Receive and consolidate comments and feedback from cooperating partners and beneficiaries and arrange for regular meetings with community members and cooperating partners on distribution arrangements, food entitlements and other relevant issues to support effective communication flow and efficient operations.
- Prepare field mission reports documenting program implementation including collecting information before each monitoring visit on previous visits and key information needs, report back on progress and resolution of previous issues, and ensure timely and accurate achievement of weekly, monthly, and biannual monitoring plans.
- Ensure diligent follow-up on field findings and verify that resolutions identified by the programme are effectively implemented at the field level.
- When needed, and in coordination with Head of Unit, participate to beneficiaries targeting and registration activities, and ensure eligible households registered through the registration platform.
- When needed, provide with monitoring of emergency response activities.
- Undertake additional duties as identified by the Head of Monitoring & Evaluation and the Head of Programme, in accordance with the TOR framework.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Education:
- Completion of secondary school education.
- A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.
Experience:
- Minimum four (4) years of experience of which one (1) year in the field of M&E in humanitarian operations and three (3) years in any other field but preferably in the field of the position or related.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Knowledge of qualitative and/or quantitative methodologies
- Knowledge of monitoring essentials
- Knowledge and experience in data analysis using tools Excel, R SPSS
- Knowledge and experience in summarizing information and reporting
- Advanced skills in designing data collection forms in MS Excel and Open Data Kit (ODK) or equivalent are considered assets.
Languages:
- Fluency in both oral and written communication in both English and Arabic.
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- Fluency in both oral and written communication in both English and Arabic.
- Minimum four (4) years of experience of which one (1) year in the field of M&E in humanitarian operations and three (3) years in any other field but preferably in the field of the position or related.