Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor
The purpose of this position is to
provide leadership, management and coordination of East Africa region programme
design, monitoring and evaluation (DME) function. This position coordinates
with Global Evidence & Learning, all support offices and Regional strategy
and Technical Service Team (TSO) to ensure support for quality and effective
programme design and measurement to assess progress and impact on
child-wellbeing outcomes (CWBOs), reporting, wide dissemination of results
internally and external for regional influence and resource acquisition.
In collaboration with Support
Offices, through the PST mechanism, this position will lead regional capacity
building support for NOs in DME.
Responsibilities:
DME Leadership, towards Strategy
Alignment and Implementation:
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Contribute to regional and NOs
strategy alignment and provide expert leadership for DME strategic approaches.
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Collate and share with regional SMT
strategic, concise and timely results on all NO programme baselines, semi-annual
and annual programme outputs and inputs, evaluations and programme
implementation quality review.
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Provide DME technical support to
national offices during strategy monitoring and evaluation.
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Represent regional WV DME in
strategic internal and external knowledge sharing and decision-making forums.
Programme Design and Implementation
Quality:
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Roll-out guidance including
Development Programme Approach (DPA) and coordinate technical support and
learning for LEAP 3 Technical Approach (TA), Technical Programme (TP) and
Community Engagement and Sponsorship Programme (CESP) to ensure timely and
strengthened quality of NO programme designs and redesigns.
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Provide technical support for NOs to
set realistic programme monitoring and evaluation targets, report on performance
against targets and utilise results to improve programme implementation and
measurement.
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Provide leadership and technical
support to ensure NO TAs have good root cause analysis, theory of change; TP
designs have good logframes and M&E plans that use the core standard
outcome and output indicators.
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Provide leadership and technical
support to ensure NO utilise evidence-based project models in their TP designs,
TP designs have standards and process to enhance implementation quality and TP
implementation fidelity in NOs is assessed and results documented.
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Contribute to development, review and
improvement of Partnership design guidance, standards and tools.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact
Reporting:
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Provide leadership and technical
input to conduct NO ME capacity assessment and capacity enhancement action
plans.
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Provide leadership and coordinate
with GC Evidence & Learning to ensure development and execution of a
coordinated and systematic capacity building in DME to strengthen expertise
across all the NOs in the region.
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Provide coordination and support for
NOs to plan, execute and report on their TP and grant programme baselines,
mid-term review and evaluations ensuring collection of both quantitative and
qualitative data assessing CWBOs and sustainability drivers.
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Provide leadership, coordination and
capacity building to develop and enhance comprehensive and effective NO
programme monitoring systems.
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Provide Leadership and technical
support for NOs to effectively use Horizon to record their programme outcome,
output, activity and input results to enhance data access, retrieval, analysis,
and reporting efficiency.
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Provide leadership and technical
support for NOs to utilize technology such as mobile and GIS to capture
monitoring and evaluation data and present results.
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Provide leadership and technical
support for NOs to write good quality CWB outcome and output reports.
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Compile and disseminate widely
regional CWB outcome and output reports.
Learning and Innovation:
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Promote learning and innovation in
DME across the region.
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Levergae the E&L CoP to promote
learning on strategic DME priorities across the region.
DME Talent Management:
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Provide technical support to national
offices during recruitment, performance management and mentoring of DME
technical leaders.
Requirements
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Masters degree in humanitarian,
development or social science related field.
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Advanced academic training and
excellent technical expertise in qualitative and quantitative programme
measurement and analysis in any of the sectors implemented by World Vision.
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Minimum 10 years of experience in
relief and development work with 7 of these being in practical work in
designing and setting up programme measurement systems and processes and DME
capacity buiding.
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Strong written and verbal
communication skills in English.
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At least 7 years developing country
contexts experience in working with community-based development programs.
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Excellent facilitation, negotiation,
coordination and networking skills.
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Effective in written and verbal
communication in English.
How to Apply
If you meet the abve
qualifications, submit your applications online before
24th November 2017.
M & E
Specialist
The purpose of this position is to
ensure that the CRIFSUP/FMNR project develops a fully functional M&E system
that can facilitate constant review of progress on project implementation –both
within World Vision project management; partnerships and donors. The purpose of
this youth project is to support development and operationalization of DME in
the FMNR project across Elgeyo Marakwet, Nakuru and Baringo Counties.
Therefore, the M&E Specialist
will be instrumental in capacity building the staff, partners and community
resource persons in developing monitoring and evaluation systems. The job
holder will provide leadership in M&E at project level and will ensure that
accountability mechanisms are established.
This position will be responsible for
facilitating baseline processes, developing key indicators and benchmarks for
M&E in the project: – Design of tools, data collection and analysis and
periodical sharing of findings with all the stakeholders. T
he M&E officer will also be
responsible for establishing and facilitating a learning culture and
documentation of learning within the project and all stakeholders. The officer
will also be responsible for preparing progress reports as per the requirements
of WV and the donor.
The M&E Specialist will be
required to communicate WV Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of
spiritual life that is an example to others.
Responsibilities
Program Monitoring, Assessment and
Evaluation
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Provide technical leadership in
implementing/mainstreaming the project M&E system to the existing M&E
system in WVK.
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Provide technical leadership in
carrying out baseline assessments, mid-point and end of project review across
the three counties of the project sites
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Support development of ToR in
collaboration with other project teams and identify specific data requirements
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Develop
assessment/evaluation/baseline reports using the analysis and interpretation
ensuring the final project report fully addresses the objectives and scope of
the assessment
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Facilitate training for data
collectors and data entry clerks, in a way that supports effective learning
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Always ensure to store collected data
securely as per policies relating to data protection for the project
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Deal with and/or escalate technical
issues and problems proactively as they arise, and adapt plans as appropriate
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Coordinate project reflection and
learning sessions in conjunction with other grant staff and project partners.
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Work proactively with key staff and
stakeholders to develop detailed monitoring plan and monitor project
implementation across all the six counties and report progress, impact and best
practices
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Lead area project teams and partners
in data processing, consolidation and analysis across
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Manage data of all activities
pertaining to the project
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Disseminate all project information
related to M&E to staff and partners across the six counties
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Ensure Project alignment to the
donors and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools
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Take lead in development of key
performance indicators and benchmarks for M&E
Capacity Building
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Build the capacity of staff and
partners to enhance participatory monitoring according to WVK and donor
requirements.
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Ensure the implementation of project
community capacity building initiatives that ensure local participation and
project ownership in all the six project sites;
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Facilitate implementation of key
community capacity building promising practices and best practices to
contribute to mainstreaming Natural Resource Management integrated in
Livelihoods and Resilience in other sectoral efforts aimed at transformational
development at the county level
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Develop an M&E capacity building
plan of action for partners, CBOs and Community Owned Resource Persons
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Work with DME unit to develop
training materials for capacity building for community trainers of trainers
Reporting and Collaboration
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Support the development and
submission of project reports and core documents as per WVK guidelines and
donor standards
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Maintain links with other
organizations for collaboration, networking, resource sharing, materials
development, and learning activities in disability
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Facilitate sharing of key lessons
learnt and action points as required for the CBFs and SACCOs
Qualifications
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Must have a minimum of a Bachelor’s
degree in a relevant field from a recognized University preferably in
Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation or Program Management.
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They must have a minimum of three
years’ experience with regards to the designing, planning, implementation,
supervising and reporting on livelihoods and resilience projects with some
focus on natural resource management
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Skills in GIS will be an added
advantage
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They must have both an extensive
conceptual understanding of and demonstrated practical command for implementing
program design, monitoring and evaluation principles;
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Computer literate
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Skills in processing and analyzing
data using one or more a statistical software packages, including at least one
of the following SPSS, Epi-Info, STATA, SAS or similar. Also experience with
programming software.
How to Apply
If you meet the abve
qualifications, submit your applications online before 6th
November 2017.
