Programme Associate (M&E)

The Programme Associate (M&E) supports monitoring and evaluation activities for school meal programming in Sindh, Pakistan. The role involves coordinating monitoring activities, ensuring data quality, and supporting evidence-based decision-making to enhance programme effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of school meals activities, ensuring alignment with WFP programme objectives, M&E frameworks, and operational guidelines.
• Support the management and monitoring of school meals projects to ensure activities are implemented according to established plans, targets, and WFP policies and procedures.
• Prepare and analyze monitoring reports, field findings, beneficiary data, and programme performance indicators, highlighting issues and recommending corrective actions where required.
• Ensure accurate and timely collection, verification, recording, and management of monitoring data related to school meals implementation, maintaining data quality and consistency for reporting purposes.
• Liaise with internal counterparts to support effective coordination, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of school meals activities across target locations.
• Coordinate and communicate with schools, cooperating partners, government counterparts, and other stakeholders to support monitoring activities, verify programme delivery, and address implementation challenges.
• Support the capacity strengthening of WFP staff, cooperating partners, school personnel, and government counterparts on monitoring tools, data collection processes, and reporting requirements.
• Serve as a focal point for routine monitoring and reporting queries, providing guidance and resolving operational issues within the school meals programme.
• Support the supervision and quality assurance of field monitoring activities, including reviewing data and providing practical guidance to monitoring personnel and partners to ensure compliance with agreed standards.
• Ensure that WFP’s data protection policy is being properly implemented at field level by respective cooperating partners.
• Perform other related duties or assignments in line with the position level and expertise as assigned by the school meals team.

Requirements

• Completion of secondary school education.
• First level University Degree (Bachelor’s) in social sciences, public health/nutrition, project management, development studies or any one of these disciplines or equivalents is desirable.
• Minimum experience of 6 years in project cycle management, monitoring implementation and data collection, processing and analysis systems.
• Strong statistical, analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Ability to work in Excel and database management software.
• Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Urdu.
• Knowledge of local language (Sindhi) is highly desired.

Skills

• Project Cycle Management
• Monitoring Implementation
• Data Collection
• Data Processing
• Data Analysis
• Statistical Analysis
• Excel
• Database Management Tools
• Interpersonal Skills
• Communications Skills

Languages

English, Urdu, Sindhi