Plan Cameroon is an international Child Centered Community Development Organization with no religious, political or governmental affiliation working in Cameroon since 1996. We promote equal opportunity employment and pay special consideration to female candidates.

Plan is a children's organization with primary concerns on children rights, safety and well being and has in its interest to create safe environments for children with more attention paid to child protection. All employees are therefore expected to comply with our Child protection policy.

Plan Cameroon is in the process of acquiring a grant from the World Food Program(WFP) for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities relating to  the management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition(MAM) in the East, North and Far-North regions. Within this framework we are looking for potential Cameroonian candidates for one year duration renewable contract to fulfill the positions below:

NB: Awarding employment contracts to selected candidates will depend on the final agreement on the grant with the donor.

Title: (03) Program Unit Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant, Supplementary Feeding Program(SFP).

Duty Station: Bertoua, Garoua and Maroua with a possibility to be transferred anywhere in Cameroon.

Main responsabilities and Responsibilities

Under the authority of the Program Unit Monitoring & Evaluation, the Program Unit Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant will among other tasks perform the following:

• Assist in the development of the project Monitoring and Evaluation plan and its effective and efficient implementation;
• Ensure the implementing partners at local level(Health Areas) understand and implement the newly updated National protocol for the management of acute malnutrition;
• Ensure that the log frame performance and impact indicators are well understood by the team;
• Identify data sources for capturing project performance and impact indicators, in conjunction with the project team;
• Ensure that the purpose of the M&E framework is being achieved and enabling decision-making on the project progression and development;
• Assist in the drafting of monthly reports;
• Assist in the development and maintenance of database for SFP;
• Draft regular M&E project reports and assist in the preparation of project monthly reports. 
• Ensure proper respect of administrative and finance operations procedures
• provide support to improve monitoring and reporting mechanism through revised monitoring and reporting framework, through collaboration with the National M&E Coordinator at the country office(CO) level;

Qualification and Experience

• University degree in Social Science, Statistics or related courses
• At least two(02) years of experience in working for a reputable international humanitarian and development organization.
• Participatory monitoring and evaluation, and developing community development projects

Skills and Behaviour

• Knowledge on the food assistance and nutrition
• Extensive knowledge of emergency nutrition work, design and implementation of feeding projects including monitoring and evaluation
• Knowledge and experience in a range of participatory and child/gender sensitive approaches.
• Extensive knowledge of nutrition issues in the East, North and Far-North regions.

Application Procedure

All applications should include:

• Cover letter;
• Comprehensive CV;

Interested applicants should submit their applications no later that March 5th, 2014 at 17 o'clock preferably in soft copies and by e-mail to the address: Plan-Cameroon.jobvacancies@plan-international.org with a subject title:" Application for Program Unit Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant, Supplemantary Feeding Program(SFP)".

Only shortlisted candidatures shall be contacted. The candidate finally selected should comply with the United Nations Convention on Child Rights applied in the Organization.

NB: No application shall be admitted after the closing hour mentioned below.