job opportunity: Field monitors

Location: Bamenda and Buea, Cameroon

Company: Plan International

The Organisation

• Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
• We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
• Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
• We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
• We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

ROLE PROFILE

Title Field Monitor (10 Required)

Functional Area NWSW Emergency Response

Reports to Area Supervisor(s)

Location Bamenda & Buea

Travel required Yes

Effective Date January 2022 Grade

role PURPOSE

[To provide an understanding of the project progress through regular observation and recording of activities taking place in the project. This helps to give appropriate corrective action that can be taken when the performance of the project is taking a different direction from what was plan].

• To ensure that the collection and recording of information from cooperating partners and beneficiaries to inform the ODK software under the direct supervision of the Area Supervisors.

Dimensions of the Role

• The Field Monitor is responsible for the overall field data collection, monitoring and reporting of actions, processes and beneficiary impression of all WFP activities on the field. This is to ensure that all WFP project activities are realised as planned and objectives and milestones realized. He/she is responsible to submit timely field reports and quality reports, follow up to ensure compliance to donor requirements by Cooperating partners.

Accountabilities

Main duties and responsibilities;

• Conduct the site verification of the beneficiary communities through
• Food basket Monitoring
• Market price monitoring
• Distribution monitoring
• Post distribution monitoring

• Carryout out regular field visits to supervise the work of the Field Monitors
• Escalates security briefings tips to all working in the field.
• Ensure that the all project material on the field is well utilized
• Record all observations immediately and ensure proper dissemination.

Success metrics:

• Field Project implemented timely, with quality and achieving all the expected results.
• Monthly completion of data in ODK

Dealing with Problems:

• Complexity of problems handled & the degree of investigation, analysis, & creative thinking required to solve them.
• Ensuring beneficiaries are satisfied with the delivery of the projects financed by WFP
• Ensuring cooperating partners are able to apply in their work the lessons learned
• Ensure SOPs are respected
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

Key relationships

[This section refers to people inside and/or outside of the organisation that the post-holder needs to have contact with, and why. This should include virtual presence.]

Internal:

• Keeps and maintain high contact with children, their families and communities
• Maintains a high contact with other partners at the Divisional Delegation of Health, Basic Education, networks and other organizations.
• Maintains high contact with local partners.

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge

[This section details the skills, knowledge and expertise the postholder will be required to demonstrate in doing the job well.

• This should include clear levels of technical expertise and skills that support our work at national, international, and global level.]

Essential

• Knowledge, Skills, Behaviours, and Experience Required to Achieve Role’s Objectives:
• Gained through education, training, & experienc

Qualification and Experience

• GCE O/ Level or its equivalent
• Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology
• Minimum of one (1) years’ work experience in data collection, research and evaluation,
• Mastery in the use of ODK software.

Demonstrated behaviours needed by the post-holder to successfully perform the role:

• Have basic computer knowledge and skills with mastery standard software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint…);
• Ability to speak, read and write English in the North West regions and proven ability

Plan International’s Values in Practice

We are open and accountable

• Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
• Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
• Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
• Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
• Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people
• We strive for lasting impact
• Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
• Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
• Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
• Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.

We work well together

• Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
• Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
• Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
• Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.

We are inclusive and empowering

• Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
• Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
• Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
• Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.

Physical Environment

• Dealing with Problems:
• Maintain neutrality to the on-going crisis.
• The job requires intense interventions on the field, in areas often at risk. This requires prudence, vigilance and compliance with security instructions on the part of the animator.
• Excellent and creative leadership skills in implement the activities, in accordance with the standards, principles and with possible resistance from colleagues as is often the case in emergency response work
• S/he should work under pressure and accept travels and stays in areas often austere.

Level of contact with children

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Key relationships

• Keeps and maintain high contact with children, their families and communities
• Maintains a high contact with other partners at the Divisional Delegation of Health, Social Affairs, Ministry of Women Empowerment and the Family, Basic Education, networks and other organizations.
• Maintains high contact with local partners.

We strongly encourage female applicants.

Closing Date: January 11th, 2022

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

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