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Title:              Programme
Assistant (M&E Change Support)

Organization: United
Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Duty Station: 
Kampala, Uganda

Grade: SC5

About US:

The UN World Food
Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency against world hunger. It
is the largest and longest serving humanitarian agency in Uganda. Currently WFP
focuses on three priority areas: Saving lives in Emergencies; Building
Resilience through Predictable Safety Nets; Improving Nutrition &
Mother-and Child Health; and Supporting Small Holder Farmers to Access Markets.
WFP has operations in various parts of the Country.

Job Summary:  The Programme Assistant (M&E Change
Support) will be charged with providing support services to the Monitoring,
Learning and Capacity Building Officer, International Consultant. The incumbent
will perform specialized and/or standardized policy and programme-related
processes and activities to support the effective delivery of assistance
packages. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provide support to the International Consultant in the revision and
  expansion of the M&E Standard Operating Procedures as a guiding
  document for monitoring at all levels: CO, AO, FOs, satellite offices, and
  Cooperating Partners.
• Identify monitoring, evaluation and learning needs of staff during
  planning and implementation of the CSP.
• Support the International Consultant, M&E in the development of
  the Learning Agendas for all Outcomes/Activities:
• Provide technical and logistical support in the training of WFP and
  partner staff in appropriate monitoring, evaluation and learning
  techniques.
• Produce frequent progress reports with status of results and
  implementation of improvements and follow up for corrective actions in
  programmes.
• Develop and/or update CSP Results Dashboards
• Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts and external
  partners to strengthen the quality and consistency of monitoring,
  evaluation and learning at the Country Office.
• Contribute to the analysis of output and outcome data and recommend
  improvements to programme interventions and to enhance WFPs ability to
  demonstrate results.
• Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts and external
  partners to strengthen the data quality, accuracy and consistency to build
  credible performance evidence.
• Compile data sources, employing collection and/or analysis of
  monitoring data from the national data sources;
• Contribute to report writing and updating of progress achieved
  against indicators on the indicator tracking table.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations UN World Food Programme
  (WFP) Programme Assistant (M&E Change Support) job placement should a
  University degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Sociology, Social
  Development, Development Economics or Performance Management or another
  relevant field.
• At least four years of professional experience in the field of
  monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Research experience using variety of analytical tools and methods
  for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modeling needs.
• Good experience in development of dashboards.
• Sound knowledge of regional local dialects is very desirable

Desired:

• Has facilitated communication with technical teams (i.e. nutrition,
  VAM, etc.).
• Has contributed to implementation of programmes.
• Has observed or assisted with policy discussions.

Competencies:

• Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance: Can facilitate implementation of food
  assistance programmes under guidance using basic understanding of
  principles and good practices of programme design, implementation and
  monitoring.
• Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Vouchers): Demonstrates ability to facilitate,
  under guidance, food assistance programme implementation that deploys full
  range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles
  guiding modality selection and implementation.
• Knowledge of Specialized Areas: Understands basic technical concepts and data and their relevance to
  food assistance programmes.
• Emergency Programming: Displays capacity to provide inputs into the development,
  implementation and realignment of high quality emergency programmes.
• Strategic Policy Engagement w/Govt: Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with
  government counterparts at the national or local level.

How to Apply:

All candidates who
desire to join the United Nations World Food Programme are encouraged to submit
their applications online at the link below.

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Deadline: 1^st August 2019

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