Project Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation), Freetown Sierra Leone The Rep

## Project Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation), Freetown - Organization:WFP - World Food Programme - Office:WFP in Freetown, Sierra Leone DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability. The World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. 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JOB TITLE:Project Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation) TYPE OF CONTRACT:Service contract (SC-8) UNIT/DIVISION:Programme Unit (attached to Ministry of Education) DUTY STATION (City, Country):Freetown, Sierra Leone BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT: Sierra Leone is a food-deficit country, ranked 185 out of 193 in the 2025 Human Development Index. Recurrent crises in recent decades, including 11 years of civil war and an Ebola outbreak, have created structural vulnerabilities, reinforced by gender disparities and environmental degradation. These crises have left the country's population of 8 million impoverished, despite Sierra Leone's natural resource wealth. In February 2025, some 1, 3million people were reported being food insecure (IPC +3). The Government of Sierra Leone is committed to providing hot meals to primary and pre-primary school-age children in collaboration with the implementing partners. School Feeding is the biggest social safety net programme in Sierra Leone. This intervention is becoming more important than ever to protect the most vulnerable children and ensure that no one is left behind. European Union support towards strengthening the NSFS Monitoring and Evaluation system WFP is one of the key partners supporting implementation of the National School Feeding Programme in Sierra Leone, under the leadership of the National School Feeding Secretariat (NSFS) within the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE). The NSFS is mandated to coordinate and oversee implementation of the programme, which currently operates across 15 districts through a range of partners, including local and international non-governmental organisations. Although the NSFS has established structures at national and subnational levels, it continues to face gaps in human resources, technical capacity, operational systems, and monitoring and evaluation. These constraints affect the Secretariat's overall efficiency and may hinder progress towards the Government's target of achieving universal school feeding by 2030. With funding support from the European Union, WFP will provide technical assistance to strengthen the NSFS monitoring and evaluation system. This support will enhance monitoring, data collection, data management, analysis, evidence generation, and informed decision-making. This Action responds to the urgent need to strengthen the monitoring, evaluation and accountability architecture of Sierra Leone's National School Feeding Programme. While the programme is a major government priority and an important investment in education, nutrition, social protection and local food systems, its expansion has not been matched by a sufficiently robust system for generating and using reliable data. Current monitoring remains fragmented, largely paper based and dependent on multiple partner tools, limiting the ability of the MBSSE and the National School Feeding Secretariat to track performance, verify delivery, identify gaps and take timely corrective action. The purpose of the Action is to establish a nationally owned, digitised and sustainable M&E system that enables regular field monitoring, improved data quality, stronger reporting and evidence-based decision-making. It will support the restructuring of the NSFS by embedding clear monitoring roles, strengthening staff capacity, introducing practical digital tools such as ODK and School Connect, and creating dashboards, standard reports and community feedback mechanisms linked to government reporting structures. By the end of the Action, the NSFS is expected to have an operational monitoring plan, indicator framework, secure data repository, trained national and district personnel, functional dashboards, routine data review processes and clearer mechanisms for community accountability. These achievements will improve transparency, programme oversight and resource allocation, while enabling government and partners to respond faster to school-level issues. Ultimately, the Action is expected to contribute to more effective school feeding delivery, better informed policy dialogue, stronger national ownership and improved outcomes for about one million children targeted by the National School Feeding Programme. To this end, applications are invited from qualified individuals for the position of Project Officer (Monitoring and Evaluation, SC-8). ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Support the development, review and refinement of the M&E framework, monitoring plan, indicator framework, data collection matrix, reporting templates and data quality assurance protocols for the project. 2. Lead the technical development and digitisation of M&E tools, including ODK forms, school monitoring checklists, supervisory tools, community feedback forms, data verification tools and reporting formats. 3. Support configuration, testing, piloting and rollout of digital data collection systems, including ODK Collect, ODK server workflows, School Connect and related mobile data collection applications. 4. Provide technical support to ensure that monitoring tools capture relevant school feeding indicators, including feeding days, food delivery, stock status, meal quality, attendance, community feedback, field monitoring coverage, follow-up actions and other agreed performance indicators. 5. Supervise and provide technical oversight for routine data collection by NSFS, MBSSE district staff, field monitors, community monitors and school-level users, ensuring adherence to agreed tools, reporting timelines and data quality standards. 6. Conduct data quality checks, including review of completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, geolocation, duplicate submissions, outliers and other anomalies, and follow up wit