Monitoring & evaluation officer (team leader, monitoring and Learning) – Mogadishu, Somalia

Vacancy Announcement No. 132/2023

Job Title: Monitoring & evaluation officer (team leader, monitoring and Learning)

Contract Type/Grade: Consultant, Level II (CST II)

Duty Station: Mogadishu, Somalia

Contract Duration: 11 Months

Date of Issue: 16th  January 2023

Closing Date: 22nd  January 2023

Background and Purpose of the Assignment

The Country Strategic Plan (CSP) for CO Somalia (2022-2025) embodies WFP’s strong and growing partnership with the Government at Federal, Federal Member State and local levels. It aligns with Somalia’s ninth National Development Plan, in particular the third and fourth pillars on economic and social development; and with the corresponding strategic priorities of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for Somalia. And it is integrated with the objectives of the Humanitarian Response Plan to reduce loss of life, sustain lives and uphold commitments to protection.

Through this alignment, the CSP ultimately paves the way for WFP to work with and for Government to realize many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Somalia – especially SDG 2, Zero Hunger, and SDG 17, Partnerships for the Goals.

The CSP has been built on the lessons learned and key achievements of the previous interim CSP (2019-2021) and will see WFP take forward, and expand on, its well-established portfolio of humanitarian and development interventions in Somalia.

Position Overview

As part of the Planning, Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (PMLE) Unit, the M&E Officer (Monitoring and Learning) will oversee and ensure quality implementation of the end-to-end field monitoring activities. They will also be responsible for promoting the use of data and evidence to inform WFP Somalia programming. The M&E officer will report to the Head of PMLE.

What will you do?

Monitoring

• Provide strategic inputs to the development/update of WFP Somalia monitoring strategy and related SOPs in line with WFP and UN strategies, policies and processes.
• Centralise the monitoring requests from technical units into the monitoring, review and evaluation of the high-level plan and its budget and translate it to the field-level planning.
• Coordinate planning and implementation of monitoring activities to measure the effectiveness and performance of all CSP activities and ensure well-informed decisions.
  • Lead the design of monitoring methodologies (both qualitative and quantitative) and tools in consultation with main internal and external stakeholders
  • Lead and coordinate data collection exercises (remote monitoring and physical)

• Provide guidance and support to area and field offices on efficient documentation, sharing, and use of monitoring findings
• Lead country-level reflection sessions on monitoring findings and their implications
• Align the field-level planning and budget with the monitoring, review, evaluation and ensure a monthly tracking of monitoring coverage, covering all monitoring activities through WFP, third party monitoring.
• In coordination with Planning and Capacity Building team, provide support, guidance, mentoring and capacity development to the M&E WFP staff and third-party monitors
• Define the needed resources to carry out the required monitoring activities and oversee the proper engagement of third-party monitors. Evaluate the work of third-party monitoring and identify ways to improve the quality of the on-site monitoring activities, ensuring the monitoring coverage is as required.
• Support the field to integrate best practices as appropriate for the local context.
• Contribute to the development/revisions of M&E related aspects of the CSP, Logframe and its budget, and the quality delivery of the CSP 2022 – 2025 and support driving the corporate and country priorities.
• Represent WFP (e.g., at inter-agency meetings with other NGOs and government agencies) to exchange knowledge and experience, promote the importance of monitoring and evaluation and build partnerships that enhance inter-agency monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Provide support to internal/external audits, regional, donors and other oversight monitoring missions when requested.
• Capture and monitor implementation of the regional oversight and evaluations’ recommendations in the corporate enterprise risk management system (R2) in close coordination with technical teams and the regional bureau in line with the corporate requirements.
• Work in close collaboration with internal counterparts and external partners to strengthen the data quality, accuracy, and consistency to build credible performance evidence.
• Travel to area offices and field offices across Somalia to support M&E processes and quality as needed.

Learning

• Continuously identify evidence needs in consultation with key internal stakeholders, set up a plan to address these needs, and oversee the implementation of this plan
• Promote learning events through workshops, meetings, learning sessions and other information dissemination fora to ensure understanding and use of findings for programme adaptation and learning.
• Lead regular meetings to disseminate monitoring and evaluation findings and recommendations to a series of audiences i.e. senior management, internal programme colleagues, field monitors/call center colleagues, and risk management colleagues to support the country office decision-making
• Lead the development of innovative, user-friendly, and useful information products for internal and external stakeholders from monitoring activities and other activities managed by the PMLE team
• Oversee the preparation of monitoring and evaluation reports in collaboration with other members of the PMLE team