Programme/Monitoring Assistant G5

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

This post is open to Cambodian Nationality only

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.

WFP’s mission is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 as per the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2. It works to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

In the period 2019-2023, through the Country Strategic Plan (CSP), WFP Cambodia will contribute to achieving Zero Hunger by promoting access to nutritious diets through home grown school feeding and improving climate smart food production and transformation capacities of small holder farming communities. WFP will help set standards and guidelines for food transformation to satisfy the increasing demand for nutritious processed and convenient foods. WFP will leverage its subnational presence and existing implementation relationships to build scalable models for replication nationally, and enable subnational counterparts’ hands-on learning in intervention planning, management and implementation.

Further, WFP will support national and subnational disaster and climate change risk management and assist national strategic direction and coordination on food security, nutrition and social protection through enhanced information systems, knowledge management, and public-private and south-south partnerships.

The CSP aims to contribute to five Strategic Outcomes that are aligned to four Strategic Results of SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for Development). A total of 6 Activities are planned to be implemented to achieve the contributions to the five Strategic Outcomes. The five strategic outcomes are:

CSP Position Title:       Programme/Monitoring Assistant

Type of Contract:         Fixed Term Appointment

Grade:                           GS - 5

Duty Station:                Area Office, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Duration:                      One year (extendable)

Reporting Line:             Under the overall supervision of the Head of the Area Office, this position reports to the Senior Programme Associate (Siem Reap). 

While WFP is currently seeking 2 Programme/Monitoring Assistants to be located in its Area Office in Siem Reap, suitably qualified candidates residing in other parts of Cambodia are also encouraged to apply to potentially be added to a roster for future recruitments.

1. Perform specialized and/or standardised processes and activities within the specific technical area of work supporting alignment with wider programme policies and guidelines.
2. Provide project management and/or general office support following established targets and WFP’s policies and procedures.
3. Within the specific area of responsibility, compile data and support analysis and preparation of reports (e.g. food assistance needs, resource utilization, programme status, performance) in order to support operational decision-making.
4. Perform accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. food security and vulnerability assessments) following corporate standards and guidelines.
5. Work and exchange information with internal counterparts to support effective collaboration, implementation and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
6. Support communication and activities with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions.
7. Act as a point of contact for resolution of general operational queries requesting assistance where necessary.
8. Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy needed resources to affected areas at the onset of the crisis.

• Coordinate and provide technical support for programme implementation in the assigned geographical area(s) in line with programme guidelines, procedures and tools.
• Monitor programme activities in line with monitoring system and tools and provide timely trouble shooting and advice related to monitoring findings to stakeholders to improve operations.
• Provide on-the-job coaching and mentoring to cooperating partners and other programme stakeholders to enable them to effectively implement the programme.
• Prepare and review reports including field trip reports, monthly reports, quarterly progress reports and operational cost settlement and clearance from cooperating partners and submit them (with recommendation) in a timely manner to Area Office management for further review, consolidation and action.
• Collect and analyse key programme data and guidance to inform operational/delivery planning and decisions.

• Document issues, challenges and lesson learned of programme implementation at subnational level and share with the Area/Country Office to help inform programme learning and WFP national strategic direction.
• Engage in local planning process at sub-national level, particularly providing support to commune councils, communities and schools in programme implementation, resources mobilization and to promote food security and nutrition related priorities to be reflected in commune development programmes, commune investment plans, and school development plans,
• Raise awareness on food security and nutrition issues and on WFP programmes among cooperating partners, beneficiaries, communities and local government authorities through ongoing programme implementation and by providing consistent key messages and representing WFP at various meetings and key events.
• Liaise with key stakeholders within WFP Country Office/Area Office as well as other stakeholders at sub-national level to facilitate and enhance the contribution towards Gender Equality and Women Empowerment within WFP areas of operation.
• Perform other activities as required.

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
•  Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
•  Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
•  Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
   

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.
Language: Fluency in both oral and written communication in English.

• Has a minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience.
• Has experience collecting programme output and outcome data, conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses, and reporting communicating findings to relevant stakeholders for action.  
• Has experience utilizing computers, including word processing, spreadsheets and other standard software packages and systems.
• Has experience utilizing monitoring and evaluation systems and standards.
• Previous experience of working with communities and commune councils on livelihoods, food security, nutrition or other community development programmes. 

• Create an account on the WFP Career Website: http://www1.wfp.org/careers/job-openings
• Under Filter By “Country”, type “Cambodia” and select the position you want to apply to.
• The vacancy will be closed on Wednesday, 1st April 2020 at 17:00 GMT+ 

Qualified women and men are encouraged to apply.

WFP is committed to an inclusive working environment which values diversity

and has zero tolerance for discrimination, harassment and abuse of any kind.

• WFP is committed to gender equality and parity (50% women and 50% men) and to diversity more generally, among employees across all grades, functions and contract modalities. WFP supports the use of flexible working arrangements to assist women and men in balancing work and personal responsibilities, translating into effective, efficient and dedicated participation of women and men in the workforce.
• WFP offers an attractive salary and other benefits, including annual leave, parental leave and health insurance for staff and eligible dependents. Kindly see the following weblinks for more information: (http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/salaries/cambodia.htm)
• WFP Work Environment: WFP is committed to ensuring that all its workplaces are free from abuse, offensive behavior, harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. WFP does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status. WFP is also committed to promoting a work culture in which every employee understands, and is able to carry out, his/her personal responsibilities for maintaining the dignity of work colleagues. WFP seeks to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. We believe our mission of fighting global hunger worldwide can only be achieved if women, men, girls and boys are offered equal opportunities in terms of access to resources and services, and participation in decision making roles.