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.

Major Responsibility

• Conduct regular live food distribution observations to monitor compliance of cash and food distribution process to WFP-GFD 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 cash and commodity end use check in its designated woredas after the completion of each cash and food distributions round to check and verify beneficiaries have received their entitlements as per the determined sizes and verify other relevant information on WFP-GFD JEOP cash and food beneficiaries
• Undertake regular warehouse inspection in its designated WFP-GFD target woredas secondary warehouses to check and ensure higher level of Compliance to donor and Consortium level standards in warehouse management
• Review relevant cash and food transaction documents to check and provide feedback on   practice of standard recording and documentation and reconciliation between different cash and commodity transaction recording documents
• Check and ensure if control procedures are adequate at each stage of WFP-GFD JEOP cash and food handling and distribution process to prevent corruption and misappropriation
• Host and conduct  joint cash and food monitoring with WFP cash and Food Monitoring staff and take the prime responsibility to follow up and close findings at field level by actively working with WFP-GFD JEOP field office staff; particularly WFP-GFD Focal person and communicate all cash and food monitoring process’ to WFP-GFD compliance officer at HO
• Actively engage in team work at respective hub and HO level by closely working with J WFP-GFD  Regional Coordinator, WFP-GFD reporting coordinator and WFP-GFD  compliance Officer
• Supervise the WFP-GFD  commodity team at respective woreda level to insure best commodity management practice in warehousing and distribution to project participants on timely manner.

Requirements

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: At least 5 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 frequent travel to the field

Language Requirements

•   English and knowledge of local language is advantageous