World Vision Ethiopia began its first intervention in Ethiopia in 1971 with relief and opened the Ethiopia office in 1975. Relief, rehabilitation and small community development projects dominated the decade that followed. During the 1984/85 drought, World Vision Ethiopia participated in a massive relief operation that saved the lives of millions of people.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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 WFP Food Monitoring staff and take the prime responsibility to follow up and close findings at field level by actively working with WFP field office staff; particularly WFP Focal person and communicate all food monitoring process’ to WFP compliance officer at HO.
• Actively engage in teamwork at Hub and HO level by closely working with Regional FR Manager, Information & Reporting officers and WFP compliance Officer.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

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

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

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.