Programme Associate (Monitoring), SC L6 - Surkhet

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• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

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• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.

• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

WFP encourages female candidates and people with disabilities to apply

ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT

Under its five-year Country Strategic Plan, WFP Nepal is implementing an integrated set of activities spanning across four outcome areas. Under a food systems umbrella, the plan combines Emergency Preparedness and Response, Nutrition and School Meals, Climate Resilience and Service Provision. A focused gender, disability and social inclusion lens as well as a strong analysis capacity constitute the foundation of all activities. With WFP’s ongoing shift toward capacity strengthening and technical assistance (CS/ TA) to the Government, robust monitoring systems, results tracking, and collaborative engagement with government and partners are becoming more important than ever.

The Programme Associate (Monitoring), SCL6 based in Western Nepal Region Field Office (Surkhet) is expected to demonstrate responsibility and initiative in planning, implementing, and ensuring quality of monitoring for WFP programmes, supporting accountability, evidence generation, risk identification, and performance management. The role provides effective specialized support and technical analyses to programme teams, oversight of partner monitoring systems, and proactive coordination with government stakeholders. The position reports directly to the Head of Western Nepal Region Office, with a technical reporting line to the monitoring lead of the Research, Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) Unit in the Kathmandu Office.

TERMS AND CONDITION

Position Title: Programme Associate (Monitoring)

Contract Type: Service Contract (SC)
Level: SC L6

Contract Duration: 12 months (extendable)

Duty Station: Surkhet, CYA Nepal

Date of Publication: 13.04.2026
Deadline of Application: 26.04.2026
WFP offers a competitive benefits package including salary plus CIGNA health insurance.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Monitoring of WFP Programmes/ Activities

• Under the technical guidance of the Country Office RAM Unit, support the planning, organization and implementation of monitoring activities for WFP programmes in Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces, in line with WFP’s monitoring strategies and guidelines.
• Provide support to the development and implementation of monitoring plans for capacity strengthening and technical assistance projects, including monitoring institutional performance, progress against TA plans, delivery of training, advisory services, and system improvements.
• Verify programme implementation progress across outcome and output indicators; identify deviations, risks or bottlenecks, and escalate issues requiring management attention.
• Review and validate data generated by government counterparts and cooperating partners, ensuring adherence to quality standards and consistency with WFP monitoring frameworks.
• Support the RAM and Programme units in ensuring efficient tracking of beneficiary targeting, transfer delivery, and service quality through systemic monitoring priorities.

Technical and Analytical Support

• Provide support in the development of monitoring plans, logic models, indicator reference sheets, field monitoring checklists, feedback mechanisms, and other M&E tools aligned with WFP’s programmes/ activities in the province.
• Within the specific area of responsibility, clean, manage, and analyse quantitative and qualitative monitoring data; produce analytical summaries, dashboards, briefs and other evidence products to support adaptive management and programme reviews, under the guidance of RAM unit.
• Provide support to outcome monitoring exercises, decentralized evaluations, after-action reviews, and learning events.

Coordination and Partnership Management

• Serve as key monitoring focal person for coordination with provincial and local governments, implementing partners, UN agencies, and civil society actors involved in WFP’s programmes/ activities.
• Facilitate joint field visits, review meetings, and capacity strengthening sessions with government and partner organizations.
• Provide technical backstopping to cooperating partners on monitoring standards, digital data collection, reporting requirements, and accountability practices.
• Document challenges, lessons learned and good practices emerging from WFP programmes in the province.

Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP)

• Support the implementation and monitoring of community feedback mechanisms, including WFP’s internal CFM system and supporting the establishment of helpdesks when required, ensuring that feedback is documented, analysed and acted upon.
• Within a specific technical area of responsibility, promote participatory monitoring approaches and ensure inclusion of women, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups in feedback and monitoring processes.

Capacity strengthening

• Provide on-the-job coaching to field enumerators, cooperating partner staff, and government monitoring counterparts on data collection, indicator measurement, and reporting quality.
• Support the rollout of digital data collection systems and tools (e.g., corporate platform MoDA, Kobo, SurveyCTO, among others, as applicable)

Reporting and documentation

• Support in preparing high-quality field monitoring reports or other RAM products as required.
• Maintain updated documentation on monitoring plans, datasets, risk logs, and follow-up actions.

Other duties

• Provide support to emergency preparedness and response monitoring when necessary, including on-site monitoring.
• Perform any other tasks required by the Field Office or RAM Unit.

The Programme Associate (Monitoring) will receive and apply the necessary training to conduct their work in a professional manner, in accordance with the UN’s three core principles of integrity, professionalism and respect for diversity, and in compliance with WFP’s code of conduct and confidentiality oath.

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITITES

Strategic Management - Demonstrates a strong understanding of WFP monitoring frameworks and how CS/TA activities contribute to strategic outcomes; supports adaptation of monitoring systems to the evolving CSP.

Performance Management - Applies advanced knowledge of performance monitoring to guide partners and government counterparts in collecting, analysing, and using data for programme improvement.

Quantitative/ Qualitative Methodology - Applies a broad range of monitoring methodologies suitable for institutional capacity strengthening and system level interventions.

Data Analytics and Visualization - Produces high quality analytical products; interprets trends and provides recommendations for programme teams and management.

Programme Monitoring and Review - Monitors quality and results of TA delivery, institutional performance, and partner engagement, in addition to tracking direct assistance where relevant.

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK: COMMON STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR

Leads by Example with Integrity:

Upholds WFP values, principles, and standards - Demonstrates the WFP values, principles and standards

Respects others and values diversity - Values diversity using respectful and inclusive language

Stays focused and calm under pressure - Stays focused and calm when under pressure

Demonstrates humility and a willingness to learn - Shows humility and a willingness to learn and share knowledge, seeking and acting on feedback, and taking up opportunities to develop

Drives Results and Delivers on Commitments:

Delivers results for maximum impact - Is accountable for the delivery of results

Delegates appropriately - Seeks guidance and support where needed

Adapts readily to change - Adapts readily to change adjusting work as needed

Fosters Inclusive and Collaborative Delivery:

Is inclusive and collaborative - Promotes teamwork by sharing ideas and openly raising issues

Gives timely and constructive feedback - Gives timely and constructive feedback to others

Builds and shares new perspectives - Listens attentively to others and shares views

Applies Strategic Thinking:

Communicates and fulfils WFP’s vision - Embraces WFP’s vision and how it impacts their role

Embraces curiosity and new ways of doing things - Shows curiosity and implements new ways of doing things when relevant

Analyses and evaluates data - Gathers data and shares knowledge to inform team activities

Considers the impact of decisions - Asks questions to understand the impact of decisions for their objectives

Builds and Maintains Sustainable Partnerships:

Builds partnerships -Acts professionally with external partners

Collaborates to deliver common objectives - Works together with partners to deliver common goals

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Education

• Completion of secondary school education with a post-secondary certificate in a related field is required. A first university degree (Bachelor’s) in social sciences, statistics, development studies, economics, public administration, monitoring and evaluation, or related fields is desirable for the position.

Experience

• Minimum 6 years of progressively responsible experience in monitoring and evaluation, preferably in development or humanitarian contexts.
• Experience in monitoring capacity strengthening or technical assistance projects is highly desirable.
• Experience coordinating with government institutions at municipal/ provincial levels is a strong asset.
• Experience with UN agencies or international organizations is preferred.

Desired Knowledge & Skills

• Proven experience designing and implementing monitoring tools and managing large datasets.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse quantitative and qualitative data and prepare evidence-based reports.
• Familiarity with monitoring institutional performance, training effectiveness, systems strengthening, or advisory services.
• Skills in MS Office applications, including advanced Excel functions for data analysis, visualization, and reporting;
• Experience with digital data collection platforms (Kobo, ODK, ONA, MoDA, Survey CTO, among others).
• Experience with statistical or qualitative software (SPSS, STATA, R, NVIVO, ATLAS.ti, among others) is an asset.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication skills, and ability to work collaboratively with government and partners.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities.

Languages

• Fluency (level C) in written and spoken English and Nepali Languages is required. Knowledge of other local languages is an asset.

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK

WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.

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REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

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