Monitoring Assistant, SC4 Abuja

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• 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).

Background

Food insecurity in Nigeria is driven by a combination of conflict climate events and economic challenges. violence in the BAY states (Borno Adamawa and Yobe) and northwestern states like Sokoto Katsina and Zamfara coupled with high inflation has worsened household vulnerability. Global supply chain disruptions the depreciation of the naira and rising costs of essential goods such as food fertilizers and fuel further exacerbate the crisis. Record-high flooding in 2022 and 2024 has displaced communities hindered humanitarian efforts and forced many to adopt negative coping strategies. These challenges including government directives to close IDP camps and relocate residents have intensified protection concerns for vulnerable groups leaving Nigeria among the high-risk countries in the region.

In response WFP Nigeria operates in this complex environment striving to address food security needs and upholding accountability to beneficiaries and donors. Consequently in alignment with the 2024 ED circular on monitoring and the global reassurance project WFP Nigeria is committed to implementing a multi-layered monitoring approach integrating remote and third-party monitoring with in-person site visits.

Objectives

Against this background in May 2025 WFP Nigeria set-up a remote programme monitoring system to:

1) strengthen existing monitoring capacities through a multi-layered approach complementing in-person data collection; and

2) increase cost-efficiencies in monitoring a larger number of sites in both targeted rural and urban areas helping NGCO meet the new Minimum Monitoring Requirements (MMRs).

3) Improve oversight of TPMs by conducting remote interviews with beneficiaries in TPM-assigned locations to verify the accuracy of their reports.

Programme Coverage

To achieve the minimum monitoring requirement and ensure third-party monitoring oversight WFP Nigeria contracted the service provider Diadem to carry out monthly computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) through MODA to collect monthly process and outcome monitoring data among WFP beneficiaries. Since the inception of the system in May nearly 4500 surveys have been completed covering Yobe Katsina and Borno states.

Job Purpose

To strengthen remote monitoring systems across country offices at the regional level through CCI funding WACARO has committed resources to support the engagement of a dedicated staff member at the Country Office for a period of three months. This staff member at the Assistant level will play a key role in ensuring the effective implementation of the remote monitoring system in Nigeria. The position will help generate timely and accurate data to inform decision-making enhance learning and ensure accountability to beneficiaries donors and other stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities Data collection and analysis:

• Assist in analysing and sharing daily quota updates with the call center.
• Support the preparation of periodic reports highlighting key findings (e.g. food assistance needs resource utilization programme status and performance) and recommendations for program improvement.

Quality assurance and reporting:

• Within the specific area of responsibility prepare monthly quality assurance reports on data received from the call centre.
• Provide quality assurance for M&E components in donor reports ensuring that data is accurate relevant and aligned with reporting standards.
• Develop a common reporting platform that ensures that all distribution sites are effectively monitored as prescribed by the MMRs.

Knowledge management and learning:

• Contribute to the development of the dashboard using an automated pipeline which will then push the data into an interactive Tableau dashboard for visualization.

• Contribute to the project learning report that will be drafted in December.

• Support the retraining of the call center enumerators to maintain data quality.

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