Monitoring Assistant

About this role

The World Food Programme is recruiting a Monitoring Assistant at Service Contract Level 5 for its Dodoma office in Tanzania, within the RBJ/RAM unit. The 12-month full-time contract sits in the Risk-Based Monitoring function supporting WFP's food assistance and resilience programmes. The post-holder supports monthly monitoring plans for an assigned catchment area and updates Risk-Based Monitoring Framework parameters per Country Office guidance. Day to day, the assistant monitors programme activities and cooperating partner performance against minimum requirements, and coordinates process, output, and outcome monitoring including distribution and post-distribution monitoring, surveys, and focus group discussions.

The role involves routine data quality assurance during field missions, documenting findings, recording issues in the SugarCRM escalation system, tracking corrective actions, and escalating significant discrepancies. The assistant compiles and analyses monitoring data into reports, updates corporate platforms including COMET, maintains site coverage records, and trains cooperating partners on WFP monitoring tools and reporting requirements. Candidates must have completed secondary school education and hold at least four years of relevant monitoring or operational experience, covering questionnaire design and digitisation, quantitative and qualitative data collection, and reporting to management and partners. Fluency in English and Swahili is required, alongside analytical skills using Excel, SPSS, Tableau, and PowerPoint, and demonstrated problem-solving ability.

A post-secondary certificate in a related field is desirable, and a bachelor's degree in agriculture, agricultural economics, rural development, nutrition, food security, or statistics is an advantage. Experience with horticultural crops, sustainable farming systems, and environmental conservation practices is also preferred. WFP is the world's largest humanitarian organisation and 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. This role sits within its Tanzania office supporting food assistance, resilience building, livelihoods, and smallholder farmer support.

Typically reporting to a Monitoring Associate, the assistant works under minimum supervision with cooperating partners, government institutions, NGOs, and community leaders. Applications are submitted through WFP's online recruitment portal by 27 November 2026.