Food Monitoring Officer 136 views

Contract Type: Definite Period

Duty Station: South Omo Woredas

Major Responsibilities:

• Conduct regular live food distribution observations to monitor compliance of food distribution process to JEOP consortium and donor 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 JEOP food beneficiaries
• Undertake regular warehouse inspection in its designated JEOP 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 JEOP 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 JEOP Focal person and communicate all food monitoring process’ to JEOP compliance officer at HO
• Actively engage in team work at SEP hub and HO level by closely working with JEOP Regional Coordinator, JEOP reporting coordinator and JEOP 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

• 2 – 3 years’ experiences on food assistance projects

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

• Office-based with frequent travel to the field