Field Monitor (Open to local residents of Turkana County only)

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Beneficiary Registration and verification
• Mobilize the community and guide the process of relief committee’s selection (Food Advisory committee setup).
• Facilitate the development of a community-based targeting/selection criteria by the relief committees and approval by community members.
• Facilitate beneficiary selection and validation process by the relief committees.
• Assist community to solve problems related to the food distribution process.
• Enroll validated beneficiaries into the Last Mile Mobile Solution (LMMS) system.
• Ensure updating of LMMS beneficiary records Project Monitoring, Documentation and reporting
• Monitor project implementation and ensure beneficiaries collect their food ration on monthly basis.
• Facilitate community awareness of project ownership and sustainability.
• Prepare documentation on commodity movements and distributions properly using LMMS.
• Plan tracking for key CWB indicators of strategic relevance from secondary and primary data, with partners and communities.
• Collect monitoring data with community members in a collaborative and systematic fashion.
• Support in the supervision of community-based monitoring activities, as necessary in the programme context.
• Provide proper documentation of loses and reconstituted commodities.
• Report on any incidences touching on security at the distribution Center
Commodity, cash and NFI’s management:
• Ensure that all commodities delivered at the FDP are properly accounted for based on the approved distribution plan, inform the FAC on the quantities of food expected and ratio scales.
• Monitor commodity movements, including delivery of commodities and NFI;s at the FDP. Supervise receipt /offloading by the FAC’s to ensure correctness of quantity, content and quality as per the waybill. Ascertaining signatures on the waybills documents as well as losses and
damages, and excesses. Incase of damage arrange for reconstitution.
• Oversee the distribution process using LMMS in collaboration with the distribution clerks and the FACs and ensure proper rations are distributed. Ensure no damage commodities are distributed to the beneficiaries.
• Schedule NFI’s commodity/cash distribution dates with the FAC’s and communicate to the beneficiaries
Stakeholder engagement
• Liaise with Community, Government authorities, WFP and other stakeholders; provide information regarding beneficiary registration,
commodity/cash distribution, distribution plans, and project progress.
• Identify and report on other needs such as health care, additional food needs, development activities, or any other rehabilitation and/or development activity
• Maintain Good relationship with Donors 10% Capacity Building
• Train communities and RCs/incentive on CBTD principles and implementation of food distribution projects
• Support Project Officer – Food Assistance in roll out of new initiatives in GFD project implementation

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION, SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
1. Diploma in community development, Logistics or related field
2, 1 years’ experience in commodity/cash programming and logistics
3. Ability to engage with local communities, partners and government authorities
4. Speaks and understands local language and geography
5. Able to stand above denominational diversities.
6. Good communication and mobilization skills
7. Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible world view emotional maturity and physical stamina

I f you meet above requirement please submit your CV, certificates, ID (both sides) and chief reference letter in one PDF document

Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only