Internship – Monitoring, Kigali at WFP – World Food Programme: (Deadline 28 December 2022)
WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
ABOUT WFP
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGMENT:
Rwanda is a low-income, least-developed country with a population of 11.2 million people, of whom 52 percent are women and girls and 48 percent men and boys. Since the 1994 genocide, the Government of Rwanda has consistently and rather successfully pursued development objectives, but many challenges persist including in food and nutrition.
WFP Rwanda helps the government enhance the national capacity to manage and innovate, but also to tackle more immediate humanitarian needs and provide a path to self-reliance, ensuring no one is left behind while facilitating national ownership. WFP is increasingly transitioning from humanitarian action into development and humanitarian nexus efforts to create links and make greater impact.
The primary mission of the Monitoring & Evaluation unit is to continuously enhance operational information management and monitoring for WFP Office, not only to meet corporate requirements but to promote evidence-based decision making. The successful candidate will contribute to the current field monitoring activities through generating data for evaluative purposes and corporate reporting, as well as for further evidence-building at all organizational levels.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
Under the guidance of the Head of VAM/M&E Unit, the primary duties of the intern shall include the following:
- Provide monthly process monitoring updates (planned vs actual visits) and reports.
- Provide input into the Monthly Country Brief.
- Support in calculating performance indicators for different programs.
- Capturing and reconciliation of monthly distribution data in the COMET system (Country Office Tool for Managing Effectively).
- Participate and supervise data collection surveys.
- Perform other duties as required.
DELIVERABLES AT THE END OF THE CONTRACT:
At the end of the internship, the candidate is expected to have accomplished the following:
- Collate assistance programme(s) data in accordance with clear direction, in order to support programme reviews and informative decision-making
- Ensured data quality and data timeliness for the corporate monitoring systems, regular monitoring and data reconciliation exercise from M&E unit’s side are met.
- Participated and supervised monitoring surveys and assessments to ensure corporate outcome indicators and donor specific reports.
STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Currently in the final year of a bachelor’s degree; or currently enrolled in a master’s degree OR graduated no longer than 1 year ago from a bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent.
- Fields of study: monitoring, social sciences, development studies, international affairs, business administration, or a field relevant to international development assistance.
Experience:
Not a mandatory requirement, but internship or student work in similar capacities would be an added value.
Knowledge &Skills:
- Good understanding of quantitative and qualitative survey methods, data collection, treatment, and analysis is required.
- Proficiency in Windows, MS Office, and other Statistical Programs (such as SPSS and STATA)
- Familiarity with monitoring frameworks such as the results-based Log frames is desirable.
- Proficiency in online data collection tools and data visualization (like Tableau) is desirable.
Languages:
Fluency in English. Knowledge of Kinyarwanda is an asset.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
28th December, 2022.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
WFP is an equal opportunity employer. Female candidates meeting the above qualifications are encouraged to apply on-line through WFP recruitment website.
This VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT is open ONLY to Rwandan Nationals.
Please note that WFP does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
Only Women are Eligible to Apply
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
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