Monitoring Assistant G5

The Monitoring Assistant supports field monitoring, verification, and quality assurance of WFP activities including food assistance and nutrition programs. The role involves data collection, analysis, reporting, coordination with partners, and providing technical guidance to ensure compliance with WFP monitoring standards and effective programme implementation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and conduct monitoring of WFP activities, including General Food Assistance, School Feeding, Nutrition, and Livelihoods/Asset Creation.
• Verify movement and distribution of food and non-food items; resolve routine issues and escalate as required.
• Ensure compliance with WFP monitoring standards, checklists, and accountability frameworks.
• Document monitoring findings, risks, good practices, and follow-up actions in Back-to-Office, designed checklists, and mission reports.
• Collect, validate, and summarize monitoring data using corporate tools (e.g., MODA).
• Collaborate with Cooperating Partners (CPs) and Third-Party Monitors (TPMs) to gather programme data and validate findings.
• Prepare high-quality monitoring reports, dashboards, and analytical summaries.
• Contribute to assessments (market, food security, rapid needs, post-distribution monitoring, etc.)
• Liaise regularly with CPs, internal units, and community stakeholders to gather feedback and identify programme bottlenecks.
• Organize regular meetings with community leaders and CPs on distribution plans, commodity pipeline, food entitlements, and related issues to support smooth field implementation.
• Liaise internal units to share monitoring findings and ensure follow-up of corrective actions, including coordination with Cooperating Partners, community leaders, and authorities.
• Provide technical guidance to partners on monitoring methodology and reporting.
• Participate in missions with donors, partners, and internal teams as required.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with local authorities, TPMs, UN agencies, and partners.
• Ensure effective two-way communication between WFP and partners (e.g. CPs, TPMs) regarding monitoring findings and corrective actions.
• Support timely verification, follow-up, and tracking of feedback and complaints received.
• Coordinate with Activity Managers, CPs, TPMs, and communities to obtain timely responses and ensure closure of CFM cases.
• Liaise with Activity Managers to ensure timely closure of cases in line with SOPs.
• Identify trends and escalate issues requiring attention.
• Provide training and capacity support to TPM monitoring staff on WFP monitoring tools, practices, and reporting requirements.
• Deliver standard trainings to CPs and relevant stakeholders on monitoring tools, processes, and WFP operational requirements.
• Recommend improvements to monitoring processes, tools, and workflows for enhanced efficiency.
• Support VAME focal point to perform other assigned priorities (e.g. TPM coordination, monitoring planning, leading assessment and data collection, etc.)
• Perform any other monitoring tasks as assigned.

Requirements

• Completion of secondary school. Having bachelor’s degree in economics, Statistics, Business Administration, Development/Humanitarian studies or relevant area would be an added advantage.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in Programme, Monitoring and Evaluation, data management, and Field monitoring and any other relevant fields.
• Previous experience working on Monitoring and Evaluation or field monitors is a plus.
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with team members, colleagues, and external partners and supporters.
• Experience coordinating with partners and supervising support staff is an asset.
• Ability to work independently under minimum supervision and manage multiple priorities.
• Solid understanding of M&E principles, including data relevance, accuracy, coherence, and reliability.
• Solid analytical skills to interpret monitoring data and take any required corrective actions.
• High proficiency in Excel and the full Microsoft Office suite, with strong ability to produce accurate reports, tables, and data visualizations.
• Ability to prepare good, precise and complete monitoring reports.
• Ability to speak fluently in Afghanistan’s formal languages.
• Fluency in both oral and written English.
• Readiness to take on additional responsibilities and make decisions when required.

Skills

• Programme Monitoring
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Data Management
• Field Monitoring
• Partner Coordination
• Staff Supervision
• M&E Principles
• Data Analysis
• Corrective Actions Management
• Excel
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Report Writing
• Data Visualization
• Quality Assurance
• Technical Guidance
• Compliance Monitoring
• Fluency in English

Languages

English