Senior Programme Associate (COMET) at World Food Programme (WFP)

This position is open to qualified Kenyan candidates. Female candidates in particular, are encouraged to apply.

What will you do?

• Manage the day-to-day oversight and support to Area Offices on COMET use and programme data quality.
• Manage the data entries and quality in COMET for all relevant data.
• Ensure all output and other output data is captured and updated in readiness for the Annual Country Reports and other corporate reports.
• Coordinate and facilitate the follow-up actions from joint Monitoring & Evaluation and programme data workstream Area Offices data reviews with the Country Office and Regional Bureau Nairobi (RBN) technical teams.
• Collaborate with regional stakeholders’ management, Headquarters COMET, and TEC teams in supporting the rollout of the digital Cooperating Partner Distribution Reports (CPDRs) to enhance the accuracy of data in the corporate systems.
• Liaise with the Headquarters COMET team to address identified data flow issues in the corporate systems and advise Area Offices accordingly.
• Coordinate meetings with Cooperating Partners and ensure timely follow-up on action points from meetings.
• Provide a weekly update on data management.
• Ensure COMET users are accorded the right Profile as per the new guidelines.
• Guide and supervise junior staff and act as a point of referral and support them with analysis and queries.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in Business Administration, Commerce, Statistics  Economics, social sciences, development studies.

Experience: Six years of progressively responsible professional experience in project management with experience in data management.

Languages: Proficiency in both oral and written communication in English is a requirement.

Knowledge & Skills: 

• Experience in data analysis and management.
• Time management and good communication skills.
• Experience in Programme implementations under humanitarian operations.
• Experience in Policy formulations/management.
• People Management skills.

Closing Date: 16th February  2022