Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant

About the Role

The Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Assistant (Associate) plays an essential role in the implementation of the Country Office M&E Strategy and M&E Action Plan at the field level. The staff coordinates all M&E activities at the field office level, including conducting and managing data collection, ensuring monitoring findings are discussed with the field office and partners, and ensuring issues are escalated for action.

This role involves frequent engagement with WFP's participants and partners, working under the direct supervision of the Head of Field Office and overall technical guidance of the Head of M&E.

Key Responsibilities

Implementation of Country Office M&E Strategy / M&E Action Plan

• Ensure the Field Office meets corporate M&E standards, including standard operating procedures (SOPs), the Corporate Results Framework (CRF), other corporate monitoring guidance, and data protection/privacy policies.
• Maintain close communication with the Country Office M&E team for the latest guidelines, updates, and support.
• Continuously identify evidence of needs in consultation with the Head of Field Office and technical units.
• Establish and maintain strong partnerships with WFP participants, communities, partners, and Third-Party or Outsourced Monitoring partners.
• Ensure gender, equity, disability, protection, human rights, and other inclusion issues are mainstreamed in all M&E work at the field office level.

Data Collection

• Prepare monthly monitoring plans with overall guidance from the Country Office to ensure minimum monitoring standards are met.
• Coordinate with partners to provide information about activity sites to inform sampling plans.
• Develop samples for the respective office using the corporate risk-based sampling framework.
• Lead data collection for process and outcome monitoring (including distribution, activity implementation, Post-Distribution Monitoring, retail performance, surveys, Key Informant Interviews, and Focus Group Discussions).
• Support remote monitoring arrangements and the design of questionnaires, question guides, and data analysis plans.
• Track monitoring visits and coverage, reporting actual visits to the Country Office monthly.
• Ensure ethical guidelines are followed and assist with CO M&E or evaluation team support missions.

Data Analysis, Reporting, and Use of Evidence

• Verify, clean, analyze, interpret, and visualize monitoring data according to information needs.
• Ensure datasets are submitted to centralized databases managed by the Country Office.
• Submit back-to-office reports from field missions, using an escalation system to report and track issues.
• Conduct meetings with WFP and partner staff to review findings and agree on actions.
• Deliver timely information to participants about actions taken based on monitoring findings.

Reviews, Evaluations, and Management

• Support data collection exercises related to reviews, research, and evaluations.
• Manage enumerators and Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) at the field office level.
• Support line managers in preparing and tracking budgets for field-level evidence generation.
• Supervise data collection and conduct regular data quality checks.
• Build monitoring capacity for enumerators, TPM, partners, and government actors.