Programme Assistant – G5 – Beledweyne, Somalia

Vacancy Announcement No. 703316

Job Title: PROGRAMME ASSISTANT

Contract Type/Grade: G5

Duty Station: Beletweyne, Somalia

Contract Duration: 1 year (Initial)

Date of Issue: March 28, 2023

Closing Date: April 10, 2023

What will you do?

1. Be the focal person for Livelihood and Relief activities in Hirshabelle and will ensure the registration of beneficiaries in SCOPE and will capture all food distribution data in COMET on timely basis.
2. Ensure timely Data collection by the partners and submission of relevant reports.
3. Respond to queries to partners by providing available information and guidance related to Relief and Livelihood projects implementation.
4. Attends Food security Cluster meetings and other relevant coordination meetings at state level.
5. Ensure that Cooperating Partners (CPs) submit timely the distribution reports, Invoices, Stock balance reports on monthly basis for further endorsement to Field Office focal point.
6. Review project proposals and offer technical support to CPs on Implementation issues.
7. Support Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Unit in ensuring monthly monitoring plan is dutifully adhered by CTG & WFP monitors in Hirshabelle State.
8. Participate high- and low-profile monitoring missions and provide implementation progress on the programs.
9. Review evaluations of CPs performance and provide recommendations.
10. Liaise with CPs on regular and timely basis in ensuring the appropriate implementation of food distribution and voucher and/or cash redemptions based on monthly distribution plan.
11. Prepare and submit on time intervention creation requests ,process beneficiaries’ enrolment, beneficiaries’ suspensions, beneficiaries’ data correction, preparation and submission of cycle creation requests.
12. Provide support to the cooperating partners in terms of registration, Data Clean-up, follow up on top- up and redemption. Provide SCOPE orientation for new CPs.

• Follow- up on data transmission to WFP and CPs
• Follow-up CPs top-up and redemption of beneficiaries’ entitlements.
• Facilitate CP staff access to WFP compounds for all SCOPE related matters, and equipment management.
• Act as the SCOPE focal point and provide updates on SCOPE processes from registration to card distribution on a weekly basis.