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WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
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).
JOB TITLE: Monitoring Assistant (Community Engagement and Feedback-Mechanism and Remote Monitoring Operators)
TYPE OF CONTRACT: Service Contract
UNIT/DIVISION: Programme โ Research, Assessment and Monitoring
DUTY STATION: Kampala (6)
DURATION: 12 Months
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
WFPโs Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022 has six strategic outcomes and is fully aligned with national policy objectives, including Ugandaโs Vision 2040 and the Third National Development Plan (NDP III). Through the CSP, WFP addresses the root causes of food insecurity and malnutrition, supports the refugee response and strengthens social protection systems. WFP assistance is provided through direct implementation, evidence generation, knowledge sharing and capacity strengthening, while building strategic partnerships including through South-South and Triangular Co-operation.
In support of WFP Country Office in line with the Country strategic plan (CSP), the Research, Assessment and Monitoring unit undertakes regular large-scale surveys, monitoring activities, rapid assessments, and mapping services to inform with updated food security information including economic and price data. These helps programmatic, policy decisions and advocacy efforts.
The Research Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) portfolio includes activities to address national and local-level capacities with the potential to support the management of disasters and climate change risks, through the automatization of processes, and systems, promoting innovations and analysis of existing data, data collected using mobile technology, modelling, forecasting, and geospatial analysis. Under RAM, WFP Uganda ensures to reflect the concerns and needs of our beneficiaries, and the availability of high-quality data from the Community Feedback Mechanism (CFM), and Community engagement.
RAM is a core area for WFP and forms the basis for our operations' design and support. Prior to any intervention for Disaster Risk Management and Response, WFP in coordination with government and partners, undertakes an analysis of the food security situation and answers some critical questions: who is food insecure or vulnerable and why?; how many are they and where do they live?; what should be done to save their lives and livelihoods?; how is the situation likely to evolve and, what are the risks threatening them?
Related to changing lives activities, RAM provides geospatial and economic analysis, food security monitoring and assessments, and thematic analysis (related to climate change, resilience, markets and food systems). This contributes to effective targeting and defines the most appropriate type and scale of intervention (such as food distribution, school feeding, and cash-based transfer programmes).
Since 2023, WFP Uganda CO enrolled on the Gender Equality certification programme, which includes strengthening of analysis and accountability to affected Peoples; in addition, it was classified as a high-risk country due to evaluation and audit recommendations, triggering an assurance plan, with one of the key areas related to Community Engagement and Feedback Mechanisms (CEFM). The Country Office has prioritized the actions, considering the refinement of the prioritization model for General Food Assistance, the launch of the self-reliance model, the expansion of Cash Based Transfers, the strengthening of retailers monitoring, the strengthening of social protection systems, climate-sensitive approaches, the nutrition strategy and the continuous work to harmonize feedback channels with UNHCR and key stakeholders implementing in the areas of intervention.
Therefore, in this role, you will contribute to enhancing community engagement, feedback mechanisms, assessments, monitoring and any tool to ensure accountability to affected Peoples in Uganda CO.
KEY ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Monitoring assistant (Community Engagement and Feedback Mechanism and Remote Monitoring Operators) work is carried out under minimum supervision. Job holders are expected to produce organized and accurate technical work and reports. They may provide guidance on standard practices to other staff and counterparts in their area of work. The job holders will be involved in RAM activities and programmes. The Monitoring assistants will work under the coordination of the Monitoring assistant (Community Engagement and Feedback Mechanism and Remote Monitoring Operators) Team lead, and will report to the RAM Officer (CEFM), will work closely with the VAM, M&E, VAM (Climate, GIS and RAM Ecosystems)