Community Monitoring Technician

About the role

The World Food Programme (WFP) is hiring a Community Monitoring Technician in San Salvador, El Salvador, within the Research, Evaluation and Monitoring (RAM) unit of the Country Office. This is a six-month service contract (level SC4) with possible extension depending on operational needs and resource availability, based in San Salvador with frequent field trips. The post supports temporary field follow-up to evaluations, studies, data collection, community targeting and quality control, working with partners and local actors.

Key responsibilities

• Carry out field visits to follow up evaluations, studies, community targeting exercises and data collection activities.
• Monitor the application of methods, procedures and tools for collecting and managing information.
• Support data quality control by identifying inconsistencies, incomplete information and instrument errors.
• Give technical guidance to partners and support their capacity building, including training and materials.
• Help prepare, test and review forms, questionnaires and checklists.
• Collect primary information through interviews, observation and other defined methods.
• Organize, digitize, clean, validate and process basic data, and document results in field reports.
• Record partner feedback and support community targeting follow-up, keeping activity records updated.
• Support rapid information collection and field follow-up in emergencies when needed.

Required profile

• Ongoing university studies, preferably in social sciences, statistics, economics, geography, development, information management, monitoring and evaluation or related fields.
• At least 2 years of proven field experience in data collection, project follow-up, evaluations, surveys, community work or supervision of third-party activities.
• Experience with partners, community organizations or local actors is valued.

Required skills

• Desirable: experience collecting data with mobile devices and digital forms.
• Desirable: complementary technical training in data collection, information management, digital tools or field work.

WFP offers an attractive compensation package and a diverse, multicultural workplace with training, coaching and internal mobility opportunities.