Serving the Programme Policy Officer (M&E – Information Management) at WFP Pakistan country office, contributing to the overall monitoring and evaluation functions for WFP programme in the country office as an information management focal person.
 
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
·       Provide project information management support relating to regular programmes as well as the recent flood response activities, ensuring a timely collection of WFP’s assistance information in coordinated approach and present in standard formats.
·       Follow data quality assurance principles to make sure collected information is complete and up to date at various levels and used in consistent manners.
·       Liaise with different units to compile plan vs actual food assistance information disaggregated by activity and different geographical units.
·       Present the consolidated food assistance information, including assisted population disaggregated by gender, age and food assistance by type etc., in good reporting formats.
·       Provide technical support in establishing linkages with different systems and develop an interactive dashboard showing progress on different parameters.
·       Cross verifies information received from sub-offices with the information in the WFP systems and make sure they are consistent and reconciled.
·       Analyze information of different outcomes assessments and made available for different bilateral reporting to donors and for WFP internal reports.
·       Contribute to the preparation of accurate and timely reporting on programmes and activities to enable informed decision making and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.
·       Support in sharing WFP’s assistance information with different counterpart departments and UN agencies, particularly with RC office.
·       Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners and national government in establishing effective information management system and reporting.
·       Support in the development of different narrative reports.
·       Provide guidance to support staff, acting as a point of reference and assisting them with data analysis and queries.
·       Other tasks as required.
 
SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS:
·       Done advance level data analysis of biggest WFP Nutrition program in the country (Benazir Nashunuma Program) and presented it to senior management.
·       Did sampling and developed data collection tools for PDM, Baseline and HH registration assessments.
·       Developed data entry tools for various M&E surveys and checklists data collection in the field.
·       Did regular data check, data cleanings, apply checks to avoid data entry mistakes and to ensure its compete.
·       Completed data analysis of PDM for 2022-23 flood response.
·       Developed dashboard for community feedback mechanism in Tableau.
·       Developed Nashunuma program(a nutrition program) quality benchmark dashboard in Tableau.
·       Developed SPSS syntax for key indicators calculation.
·       Worked on Food and cash assistance beneficiary data.
·       Worked on monthly, quarterly and annual beneficiary reporting.
·       Worked ACR.
·       Data cleaning and reporting of food and cash assistance programs to CO and to RBB.
·       Trained staff on various data entry tools and on MODA platform to create the forms.
·       Worked on various assessment report writing.
·       Completed training on ECHO IM system.

Worked as IT solution developer at UN WFP, Pakistan. Contributed to the development of efficient and effective IT solutions, creating sound, innovative solutions that enable staff to deliver food assistance to beneficiaries, in line with WFP’s strategy.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
 
·       Support the development and implementation of modern integrated IT solutions supporting WFP business needs.
·       Prepare clear technical systems documentation for developed IT solutions in order to facilitate IT systems development and maintenance.
·       Perform unit and integrated testing of new, enhanced or fixed code in order to ensure complete coverage of code and adherence to technical specifications.
·       Participate in the installation, configuration and customization of IT systems, as well as integration and migration of data between systems to ensure compliance with WFP’s IT standards, guidelines and procedures. 
·       Participate in the release of IT systems and provide early life support in order to prepare for and enable proper use of the IT solution.
·       Contribute to the analysis, maintenance and upgrade of IT systems and troubleshoot, fix problems and make recommendations for system improvements.
·       Contribute to the preparation of trainings on existing and new functionalities for capacity building.
·       Collate data and contribute to the preparation of accurate reports on IT investments and costs, providing information to inform decision-making by stakeholders.
SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS:
·       Developed dashboard for Benazir Nashunuma Program
·       Lead and worked with team on development of application for emergency blanket SFP distribution
·       Capacity building of BNP IT team
·       Lead the process and also worked with team to improve the existing BNP application
·       Improving BNP MIS.
·       Reporting on BNP achievements.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
 
·       Support in development of  MEAL and  IM strategy in line with programme strategy
·       Provide technical backstopping to all MEAL and IM field teams
·       Capacity building of the MEAL and IM teams at field level
·       Support in smooth implementation of MEAL Action plan for the mission
·       Support in strengthening and implementation the Feedback and Complaint Mechanism (FCM)
·       Line manage MEAL, and IM specialists at the field level
·       Support in development and smooth implementation of information systems/database for MEAL and IM
·       Lead the process of MEAL and IM document archiving
·       Oversee engagement with external counterparts including consultants and partners for MEAL and IM at field level
SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS:
·       Planned and Managed Successful implementation Emergency Need Assessment.
·       Launch of PINSER2(Nutrition based project in 8 district of Sindh) Dashboard.
·       Managing more than 10 MEAL and IM staff at mission level.
·       Participating country strategy development process.
·       Planning and supervising MEAL&IM activities at mission level
·       Lead MEAL surveys for different projects at mission level
·       Developed mission Feedback and Complain Mechanism Strategy .
·       Capacity building of more than twenty people in MEAL&IM.

 Adapt existing in-country IM approaches for collecting, analyzing and reporting Cluster/Sub- Cluster activities and resources, and identifying information gaps.
Maintain monthly reporting from Cluster/Sub-Cluster participants, including 5Ws (‘Who does What, Where, When and for Whom?’ databases):
Support the estimation of spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of Cluster/Sub- Cluster activities and projects:
Work with Cluster/Sub-Cluster participants to identify information gaps at national and sub-national levels and propose ways to bridge those gaps.
Work with the OCHA IM Specialist to develop appropriate supportive strategies:
Adopt and promote the use of global standards for IM for inter-operability.
Where there is both a national and a sub-national cluster, the post holder will ensure that there is effective communication, reporting, engagement and coordination between the two levels:

Developed Nutrition Information Management System (NIMS) and implemented in the field.
With strong coordination and advocacy skills managed to convince government of Sindh to adopt NIMS as standard tool for nutrition specific interventions.
Developed mission level information management strategy.
Developed archiving mechanism for program data.
Supported MEAL in various surveys planning and analysis
SMART survey data management.
Supervise more than 15 projects data management activities in a year and half.

• Successfully provided complete data for Annual as well as project reports
• Designed and developed more than 20 databases for respective projects
• Designed and developed more than 12 databased for respective assessments
• Introduced MOBILE data collection in the organization.
• Successfully orient more than 20 data entry persons on tools
• Established automated multi-server DBS-Backup system
• Maintained and updated a proper computerized information system of campaign data/ project/ assessment data

• Successfully provided complete data for Annual as well as project reports
• Developed more than 20 databases for respective projects
• Supervised more than 5 DEOs for respective assessments data entry