Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

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Mission and objectives

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty. For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict, WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020.

Context

WFP Kenya Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2018-2023 was approved in June 2018 and went live in July 2018. The CSP contains 4 outcomes and 7 activities. Each of the activities has several outputs. The CSP results frameworks provides details of the indicators that will be used to measure performance for each of the activities. The CSP results framework will be complemented by activity specific indicators that the M&E team in consultation with the activity and outcome managers will develop. In the CSP, WFP Kenya commits to developing baselines for each of the CSP outcomes, monitor and measure progress in achieving the set outcomes through process/activity monitoring, assess performance through outcome monitoring, reviews, and evaluations. The primary purpose of the position is to support M&E field processes for all the outcomes, reviewing all field monitoring reports to ensure all M&E related issues are followed up and addressed, reviewing M&E data and reports for timeliness, completeness and quality highlighting gaps and or areas that need strengthening, developing and updating frameworks for documenting progress in implementation of M&E recommendations, keeping an online updated system of all sites, samples, indicators, their progress and technical support to field offices in M&E data collection activities.

Task description

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive) • Work with the M&E programme officer and M&E senior associate to support process monitoring for all the CSP outcomes • Support review of all field monitoring reports for timeliness, completeness, and quality highlighting gaps and or areas that need strengthening • Lead remote monitoring, working closely with beneficiary services unit and the senior M&E associate • Review field monitoring narratives and data submitted by field office to ensure consistency • Develop and keep an updated system of results for all indicators monitored, tracking progress in achievement of the targets • Develop and keep an updated system for M&E monitoring requirements for field offices • Develop a system with all project sites, Update monitored sites for each activity against sampled sites working closely with the senior M&E associate to ensure sampling is representative and field offices are in progress of achieving their set monitoring targets, reporting, and implementation of recommendation. • Collate M&E-related issues raised through weekly field office reports, follow up, and or escalate as required • Support in developing and updating Kenya CSP M&E guidelines • Support in writing and disseminating monthly and quarterly M&E reports and developing action sheets with key findings • Support in updating COMET implementation • Support Outcome, reviews, and evaluation processes • Support other M&E activities including but not limited to field and outcome teams technical support, trainings, CP reviews, etc. • Perform other related duties as required core organizational competencies : 1. Purpose • Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives • Be a force for positive change • Make the mission inspiring to our team • Make our mission visible in everyday actions 2. People • Look for ways to strengthen people's skills • Create an inclusive culture • Be a coach & provide constructive feedback • Create an “I will”/” We will” spirit 3. Performance • Encourage innovation & creative solutions • Focus on getting results • Make commitments and make good on commitments • Be Decisive 4. Partnership • Connect and share across WFP units • Build strong external partnerships • Be politically agile & adaptable • Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to : • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day) ; • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country ; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities ; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc. ; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers ; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.