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Food Assistance Information and Reporting Officer

Location: Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Deadline: 6 Mar 2024

Job Description

Employee Contract Type:

Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Major Responsibility

  • Conduct regular live food distribution observations to monitor compliance of food distribution process to donor/WFP/ agreed standards. Based on monitoring findings and observations, continuously work with field level staff to attain a higher and full level of compliance
  • Conduct regular commodity end use check in its designated woredas after the completion of each food distribution round to check and verify beneficiaries have received their entitlements as per the determined rations sizes and verify other relevant information on WFP food beneficiaries.
  • Undertake regular warehouse inspection in its designated WFP target woredas secondary warehouses to check and ensure higher level of Compliance to donor and Consortium level standards in warehouse management.
  • Review relevant food transaction documents to check and provide feedback on   practice of standard recording and documentation and reconciliation between different commodity transaction recording documents.
  • Check and ensure if control procedures are adequate at each stage of WFP food handling and distribution process to prevent corruption and misappropriation.
  • Host and conduct joint food monitoring with CRS Food Monitoring staff and take the prime responsibility to follow up and close findings at field level by actively working with JEOP field office staff; particularly WFP Focal person and communicate all food monitoring process’ to WFP compliance officer at HO.
  • Actively engage in teamwork at North hub and HO level by closely working with Regional FR Manager, Information & Reporting officers and WFP compliance Officer.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification,

  • BA/BSc Degree in social science fields such as Development studies, Agriculture, Economics, Accounting and other related fields.

Required Professional Experience.

  • Experience:  2 – 3 years’ experiences on food assistance projects.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

  • Ability to perform field assignments and willingness to travel for long period of time in difficult terrain, harsh and demanding conditions.
  • Computer literacy is an added advantage.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

  • Office-based with periodic travel to the field

Physical Requirements

  • Physically Fit

Language Requirements

  •  Good command of oral and written English

 

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