Programme Associate (M&E/COMET) G6 at World Food Programme (WFP)

Requisition #: 106889
Location: Abuja
Contract type: FT
Position grade: G6
Contract duration: 12 months

Organizational Context

• This job is found in Regional Bureaux (RBs), Country Offices (COs), Area/Field Offices (AOs/FOs). Job holders typically report to a Programme Policy Officer or Head of Field Office.
• At this level, job holders are expected to demonstrate responsibility and initiative to respond independently to various queries with only general guidance. There is a requirement to use judgment in dealing with unforeseen operational problems on a daily basis. Job holders are expected to manage resources and coach and coordinate support staff.

Job Purpose

• To provide effective specialized support and technical analyses to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.

Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)

• Under the general guidance of the head of M&E and the direct supervision of the National M&E Officer, the incumbent will perform the following tasks:
• Contribute to the implementation and strengthening of WFP Nigeria’s M&E system for all activities under the Country Strategic Plan and in line with the Corporate Results Framework;
• Provide overall guidance and technical support to all COMET users in Nigeria, including travel when necessary;
• Perform regular quality control checks on all uploaded data within implementation module;
• Act as a point of contact for resolution of operational queries and problems within COMET;
• Develop and maintain dashboards for reporting distribution achievements, COMET data entry status, and COMET-LESS reconciliation status;
• Serve as secretariat and coordinator for the COMET-LESS reconciliation committee;
• Manage data entry for COMET design module elements under the country office responsibility;
• Coordinate and support facilitation of COMET trainings, workshops, and one-on-one learning;
• Participate in the updating and mainstreaming of the standard operating procedures for planning and reporting through COMET, based on collaborative feedback from COMET users, as required;
• Support and provide back-up to the M&E/COMET focal points in area and sub-office;
• Support the provision of M&E inputs to proposals and reports as relates to output figures;
• Support the National M&E Officer in managing remote monitoring efforts;
• Perform any other duties, as required.

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.

Key Deliverables:

• Weekly status reports on COMET reconciliation and data entry;
• Monthly dashboard for planning and reporting in COMET;
• Monthly note for the record from reconciliation committee meetings;

Standard Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Completion of secondary school; post-secondary certificate in related functional area;
• Professional experience: Three years post-secondary experience in development/food assistance;
• Technical skills: Training and/or experience utilizing computer software, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases; proficiency in Tableau will be an added advantage;
• Language: Excellent spoken and written English; ability to communicate in one local language;
• General: Knowledge of UN system policies, rules, regulations, and procedures.

Desired Experiences for entry into the Role:

• Experience with WFP systems and standards;
• Analytical capacity, attention to detail, resourcefulness, initiative, maturity of judgment, tact;
• Ability to communicate clearly both orally and in writing;
• Ability to establish effective working relations with persons of different backgrounds;
• Ability to cope with situations which may threaten health or safety;
• Flexibility in accepting work assignments outside normal desk description.

Remuneration
WFP offers an attractive compensation package. For more details please visit International Civil Service Commision website: http://icsc.un.org (link: http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/salaries/nigeria.htm).