World Vision is an international
Christian Relief and Development organization, whose goal is to achieve
long-lasting benefits in the quality of life for vulnerable children and their
families, displaced persons and communities.
Intern - SomRep
To learn and grow in World Vision
Somalia’s internship program by providing multi-disciplinary support for the
Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP) Technical Unit team in a fast-paced,
team-oriented environment.
Major Responsibilities
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Assisting the GIS officer in
development of databases and data collection tools for a variety of purposes.
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Assist in collection, evaluation and
dissemination of programmatic information on a regular basis for analysis and
reporting purposes.
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Assist in planning, organizing and
servicing conferences, seminars and training workshops- preparing presentations
and facilitating ICT needs as required.
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Assist in the planning, organizing
and servicing conferences, seminars and training workshops.
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Provide research assistance in
identifying suitable research institutions for Som ReP to partner with.
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Conduct donor research via the
Internet and other means to assist SomReP team in identifying and targeting
donors and funding opportunities.
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Update SomReP donor map and
fundraising strategy documents as key milestones are met.
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Create diagrams, charts and simple
visuals for donor presentations, proposals and other communications.
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Help schedule and organize quarterly
SomReP donor coffees and other key presentations.
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Assist in maintain register of
equipment and other assets financed from each SomReP donor.
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Assist the administrative Assistant
on office administrative issues, particularly pertaining to records, payments
and other key issues.
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Take notes at SomReP technical and
steering committee meetings.
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Help confirm and arrange future
meeting times.
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Assist Consortium member agencies in
retrieving and confirming key information for the smooth running of SomReP
programs.
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Assist M&E team in ensuring
partners submit timely internal monitoring reports
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Help maintain reporting schedules for
SomReP grants, staying in contact with SOs and implementing partners to ensure
deadlines are clear and met by all.
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Format and proofread sub-recipient
quarterly and bi-annual narrative reports and consolidated SomReP reports to
donors.
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Assisting in preparing monthly and
quarterly M&E reports in time for team reflection meetings
Qualifications: Education / Knowledge
/ Technical Skills and Experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences
/ Communications / Accounting / Commerce / Finance / Economics / Statistics /
Administration or other areas of study.
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Recent graduate with at least one
year of professional experience
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Should be Computer Literate, work
well with MS Word and MS Excel and Internet research methods
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Highly motivated to learn and work in
a high-performance environment.
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Willingness to tackle challenges and
seek creative solutions in everyday assignments.
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Demonstrates well-developed
interpersonal skills, excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
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Must be able to meet urgent and
last-minute deadlines, work with grace under pressure, and function well in a high-performance
team.
Design, Monitoring & Evaluation
Manager - Nairobi
The DM&E Manager will develop and
implement an organization-wide strategy in design, monitoring and evaluation,
including quality program development and reporting.
The DM&E Manager will also
provide capacity building and coaching to program staff within the 7 consortium
member NGOs to help them move through the donor program/project cycle.
The DM&E will supervise SomReps
DM&E Officer.
Major Responsibilities:
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Effective, Innovative, Strategic
Leadership in DM&E
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Provide proactive leadership across
SomRep projects for development and full coordination of all DM&E functions
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Develop, implement and promote
SomRep’s shared M&E framework and implementation strategy
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Lead and train partner NGO teams in
coordinating and implementing DM&E plans for all projects.
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Provide support and capacity building
to DM&E field based staff of SomRep members
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Design, coordinate and implement
staff training programs to build knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviors
around DM&E standards.
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Support Chief of Party and SomRep
technical advisors for fundraising and new proposals/designs
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Contribute to the development of a
Learning Organization in DM&E
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Work with QA and Knowledge Manager to
implement a DM&E learning system to document, assess, share and replicate;
Lessons Learned, Promising Practices, and Best practices in DM&E
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Lead and strengthen SomRep and WVS’s
Quality Assurance Culture
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Identify and establish guidelines and
standards for Design, Monitoring (including program implementation and
reporting) and evaluation in all SomRep programming
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Ensure adherence to and integration
of SomRep DM&E standards and practices with grants from both relief and
development funding mechanisms (e.g., USAID, CIDA, DEID, AusAlD, EC, etc.)
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Ensure adherence to Humanitarian
Standards (HAP, SPHERE etc.)
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Set standards for measurement of
project impact and program quality.
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Collaborate with SomRep steering
committee and SomRep Technical Unit in standard setting, material development
and learning activities.
Develop and Implement training,
documentation, monitoring tools and protocols for all aspects of:
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Concept Papers and Proposals
(including log frames)
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Community Ownership of DM&E
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Data Collection, Baselines, FGD’s,
Interviews etc.
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Monitoring Systems
Evaluations
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Champion staff and Community capacity
Building in DM&E
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Develop, design and lead staff
capacity building strategies for targeted assessment, training, follow-up and
impact monitoring of training in all areas of DM&E
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Mentor, support and build the
DM&E capacity of field based DME staff
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Design, organize and implement
training of key WVS staff in design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
of projects.
Qualifications:
Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
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A Master’s Degree related to the
science and practice of community development, program design, statistics and
evaluation.
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Minimum three (3) years’ experience
in managing people and programs in an international NGO context.
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Extensive experience and recognized
expertise in the full range of evaluation theories, models and tools, ability
to adapt, contextualized and apply appropriately all project scenarios
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Proven track record as a staff and
community trainer and capacity building strategies and organizational
development.
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Thorough understanding and experience
in quantitative and qualitative data collection methods including comparative
random sampling, questionnaire and survey design, data entry and analysis and
the application of these methods to DM&E standards in key technical
sectors.
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Experience working with a consortium
programme and/or highly complex programmes with multiple stakeholders preferred
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High level expertise in Results-Based
management, Logical Framework Analysis and Result-Based Performance Monitoring
and Evaluation.
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Ability to link professional,
academic and community based learning models.
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Experience in adhering to/working
with HAP, SPHERE Standards and International Humanitarian and Development
Standards.
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Full ability to communicate
cross-culturally and be cross-culturally sensitive.
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Full computer and internet skills
including MS Office for word processing and graphic presentation.
Humanitarian Emergency Affairs (HEA) -
Program Officer - Nairobi
The HEA Program Officer will be
expected to develop and deliver a wide range of organizational development and
technical assistance including: capacity building, project and program
planning, mentoring and compliance to WVS staff and LNGO/INGO partners in South
Central, Puntland and Somaliland
Major Responsibilities:
Programming Support
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Support the HEA Manager with HEA
project design and in the production of well-designed HEA and Food programming
proposals that are LEAP compliant.
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Represent WV Somalia in various donor
and coordination forums at national and field level and updating and providing
programmatic information as required
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Participate in ensuring continuous
learning through progress reviews, applied research, documentation of lessons
learned and best practice for program design and frameworks related to food
assistance project implementation
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Facilitate good understanding of the
impact of WV policies on project-service delivery and operations
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Work closely with Program Development
Unit (PDU) team to ensure WV and LNGO - partnering process for food programming
is in close alignment with existing best practice partnering, especially with
regards to vetting of LNGO’s, capacity/institution building, monitoring etc.
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Actively identify credible potential
local Somali NGOs that have the potential to implement food assistance and
non-food assistance programming through the sub-granting process.
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Regularly asses the capacity of
existing and potential partners to ensure transparent and accountable program
implementation, reporting and financial management of WVS funded programmes
Reporting
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Provide support in the preparation of
consolidated progress reports: monthly, quarterly narrative progress reports
and other periodic reports with analysis and recommendations to response
management on LEAP alignment
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Regularly update information-sharing
tools to facilitate internal and external information sharing tools (4Ws, Grant
Matrix etc.)
Capacity Building
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Conduct organizational capacity
assessments and training needs for local implementing partners and develop
training and institutional strengthening plans to guide the capacity building
process
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Actively identify capacity building
opportunities for field teams and LNGOs
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Provide on-site organizational
capacity building support, training and mentoring to address gaps in
organizational systems and process for partners (local CBOs, NGOs and key
stakeholders)
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Support the HEA manager in
coordinating emergency responses and in logistical arrangements for deployments
for local National Disaster Management (NDMT) staff.
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Technical backstopping for HEA
manager in developing capacity for NDMT, Regional Rapid response Teams
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Support with updating for RDPP for
Sornaliland, Puntland and South Central Somalia.
Compliance
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Participate in progress monitoring
food of assistance projects ensuring goals and objectives are achieved and that
financial and non-financial grant requirements are adhered.
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Monitor program implementation
progress to ensure that the program is meeting humanitarian accountability
standards, goals and objectives.
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Conducting compliance reviews for
USAID; UN WFP and other donor funded aid programs ensuring compliance with
other donor regulations and WV Food Assistance standards
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Work with the senior Commodity
Accounting and Reporting Officer (CARO) in reviewing CTS, CSR and other field based
reports.
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Responsible to the Food Assistance
Manager (FAM) for follow up on the in the implementation of audit
recommendations from internal and external auditors (or internal and external
reviews)
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Responsible to the FAM for execution
of audit assignments or Compliance Review Team reports as and when necessary.
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Discussing and presenting audit
reports of our findings to Food Resources Team leader.
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Ensure compliance and adherence by
INGO/LNGO partners to WVS sub-guarantee process and monitoring mechanisms which
allow transparent and accountable implementation of projects
Qualifications: Education / Knowledge
/ Technical Skills and Experience
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Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
(Development, Accounting, Social sciences, international development/International
Relations)
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Professional technical training in
humanitarian Standards (SPHERE) and specific trainings on donor requirements
e.g. WFP, 62G training, GoG training etc. is desired
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Minimum three (3) years’ experience
in Developmental Issues/Compliance Management/Auditing, Humanitarian Emergency
Affairs preferably with experience in developing countries
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Experience in program reviews and
provision of support to WFP or any UN Partners (or direct undertaking of
implementation through partners) is an added advantage.
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Self-guided, strong organizational
and planning skills
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Good written, oral communication in
English. Somali language is an added advantage
Able to work in a cross-cultural
environment with a multi-national staff.
This position will be Nairobi based with
frequent travel to South Central, Somaliland and Puntland.
Interested and qualified candidates
should submit their detailed CV’S together with names and addresses of three
referees to the email address below clearly indicating ‘HEA - Program Officer’
on the e-mail subject.
All applications should be received
by June 18, 2014.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
People and Culture Manager
World Vision International - Somalia
Program
Email: recruitsomo@wvi.org