Senior Programme Associate (Research, Assessment & Monitoring) G7

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The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE APPOINTMENT:

Jordan is a middle-income country with 11.2 million people, including 3.4 million non-citizens (refugees and migrant workers). The country hosts the second-highest share of refugees per capita in the world, putting unprecedented pressure on its budgetary and natural resources, infrastructure and labour market. Over the past decade, Jordan’s stagnating economy has failed to create jobs to meet the requirements of its rapidly growing, and largely urban, population. Furthermore, Jordan is a semi-arid country, facing chronic water scarcity and a growing set of climate hazards.

WFP has been a strategic and operational partner of the Government of Jordan since 1964 assisting vulnerable and food insecure Jordanians and, supporting the national management of the refugee crisis and its consequences. Currently, the Research, Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) unit conducts programme monitoring functions ensuring the required Country office compliance with WFP’s standard operating procedures (SOPs) for monitoring and its Minimum Monitoring Requirements (MMR). Under the new Country Strategic Plan of WFP, RAM unit plans to scale-up technical advisory services to the Government Institutions such as Department of Statistics, National Center for Security and Crisis Management etc. to enhance the effectiveness of generation and utilization of evidence.

This post is based in WFP Amman Country Office, Jordan. The job holder is expected to contribute to the evidence base that supports assessment, market analysis and WFP programming in Jordan (e.g., Needs assessment and situation analysis, m-VAM, FSOM (Food Security Outcome Monitoring Assessment), Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), Market Analysis, Syrian and Non-Syrian refugee targeting, Jordanian targeting, technical support to different units) as well as a full range of proposed capacity strengthening activities that fulfil the objectives of the WFP Country Strategic Plan (2023-2027). The RAM Associate will work under the guidance and supervision of the Senior RAM officer (Monitoring & Evaluation) at CO level and will perform the following responsibilities:

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

Monitoring, analysis, and evidence generation
1. Support line manager in ensuring that the CO monitoring system and tools are in place and compliant with corporate standard operating procedures (SOPs), the Corporate Results Framework (CRF), M&E corporate policies and guidance and data protection and privacy policies.
2. In coordination with the RAM, programme team and Field Office and under the supervision of line manager, support activity implementation monitoring, beneficiary contact monitoring, retail performance monitoring, ensuring both quantitative and qualitative data collection methodologies are employed
3. Suggest improvements and procedures to the monitoring processes based on field implementations and programmatic needs
4. In coordination with Filed Office, Programme, establish and maintain a working database based on the Jordan country office process monitoring system for data storage and analysis
5. Actively contribute to discussions between RAM and programme on Theory of Change, programme adjustment and/or other related strategic conversation
6. Verify, clean, analyze, interpret monitoring and assessment data according to information needs of different audiences.
7. Write regular and high-quality monitoring reports and contribute to other documents where relevant evidence from RAM activities are needed
8. Support the visualization of RAM analysis upon information needs of different audiences
9. Ensure gender, equity, disability, protection, human rights, and other inclusion issues are mainstreamed in all M&E work as appropriate.

Capacity building, quality assurance and sustainability
1. Support the implementation of capacity-strengthening initiatives for RAM and Field Office on process monitoring practices, procedures, and tools in alignment with WFP country office’s strategic goals and objectives
2. Identify capacity and practice gaps in process monitoring for different activities and develop action plans to address them internally and externally
3. Develop and implement the data quality assurance plan in a joint consultation with country office, regional bureau, and the field office to ensure reliable data and information collection for solid analysis
4. Document the lessons learnt and best practices on the process monitoring and other monitoring activities, when needed, to inform RAM team and country office’s future adjustment

COMET (CO Tool for Managing Programme Operations Effectively) and system support
1. Oversee and ensure availability and the quality of the outcome, output indicators (including beneficiaries, tonnage, and cash) to measure the WFP Jordan Country Strategic Plan (CSP) progress and achievements in the Country Office, to enable better operational decision making.
2. Act as a point of contact for COMET at country office level to address operational queries and provide guidance for accurate output reporting in the system according to COMET SOP.
3. Generate analytical reports including data of plans vs. actuals with comparative analysis to inform programme performance
4. Conduct capacity building/training for COMET users at the Country and Field Office level when required
5. Perform other related duties as required

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area. University degree is desirable.

Experience: At least 7 years of progressively experience, of which at four years closely related to statistical analysis, monitoring and evaluation and capacity building.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in Arabic and English.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Sound technical expertise in designing and implementing Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) systems for development programmes/projects, preferably in the field of food security, social protection, safety nets, early warning systems, or related.
• Willingness to innovate and improve the work process in close collaboration with others
• Strong knowledge of WFP’s monitoring concepts, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and tools employed along the project monitoring cycle.
• Proficiency in statistical software, including SPSS, R or STATA.
• Strong planning, analytical and report drafting skills and works with a high degree of independence and responsibility.
• Experience with COMET is an asset

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP’s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
• Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team’s work processes and productivity.
• Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team’s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
• Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
• Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
• Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
• Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
• Focus on getting results: Monitors team’s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
• Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
• Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
• Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
• Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP’s goals and objectives.
• Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team’s efforts to ensure that they will fulfil the needs of internal and external partners.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES

Capability Name	Description of the behaviour expected for the proficiency level
Programme Lifecycle & Food Assistance	Demonstrates ability to identify key variables and contextual factors that affect food assistance problems and programmes throughout the lifecycle to inform quality programme design or re-design.
Transfer Modalities (Food, Cash, Vouchers)	Demonstrates ability to implement, under guidance, food assistance programmes deploying the full range of transfer modalities with an understanding of basic principles guiding modality selection and implementation.
Broad 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/Government	Understands and applies basic principles of engagement with government counterparts at the national or local level.

EXPECTED BENEFITS:

WFP Offers a diverse range of benefits and entitlements including annual, sick and parental leaves, allowance for the eligible spouse and children and UN Joint pension Funds. In addition to a life Changning experience that save and change lives.

WFP is following the UN salary scale in Jordan; the expected net pensionable salary ranges between 24,753 and 31,623 JOD per year; depending on the years of experience exceeding the minimum requirements.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Applications must be submitted online through WFP e-Recruitment System

• Internal WFP staff can access the VA through the internal WFP CAREER page via the link: http://newgo.wfp.org/services/e-recruitment
• External applicants are kindly requested to follow the link: http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings

Make sure that you answer all mandatory questions accurately and to attach your updated CV in English.

• Join WFP to be part of saving lives and changing lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4rFCbNDXiw&feature=youtu.behttp://ar.wfp.org/videos/recruitment-video-ar

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

18 June 2023

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WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.

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