This is your opportunity to use your special talents to help improve the lives and futures of some of the world's most vulnerable children in the most challenging humanitarian context today.
You can do this by joining World Vision (WV)–a global network of people committed to enhance the well-being and protection of children everywhere by empowering them, their families and communities to overcome the challenges of poverty and injustice.
The Monitoring & Evaluation Specialistwill provide Coordination and leadership in the monitoring and evaluation of the Project and ensuring that accountability mechanisms are established to allow World Vision remain accountable to the donor and the beneficiaries it serves. The Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Specialist position will support the project from design phase specifically in identifying key indicators, defining the M&E plan and other documentation needs and would also be responsible for the evaluation that will sum up the grant’s accomplishments in accurate and objective way.
We believe that every child is a precious gift to the entire world and that their well-being concerns us all. We will not rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed. We are looking for people who share our beliefs and our passion.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Planning:
- Develop the overall framework for grant M&E in accordance to the design document and donor requirements.
- Identify the core information needs of grant management, partners, and funding agencies; Participate in development of the annual work plan and budget, ensuring alignment with technical strategy.
- Foster participatory planning and monitoring by engaging primary stakeholder groups in the M&E of activities.
- Pre-Implementation.
- Conduct readiness assessment: the incentives at the system level, the beneficiaries and existing capacity.
Implementation/Execution:
- Oversee and execute M&E activities with particular focus on results and impacts as well as in lesson learnt.
- Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to identify where adaptations might be needed.
- Clarify and/or facilitate process for monitoring and evaluations of sub-grantees.
Reporting:
- Guide staff and executing partners in preparing their progress reports in accordance with approved reporting formats and ensure their timely submission. This includes quarterly progress reports, annual project reports, inception reports, and ad-hoc technical reports.
- Prepare consolidation progress reports for grant management including identification of problems, causes of potential bottlenecks in the project implementation, and providing specific recommendations.
Capacity Building/Continuous Learning:
- Design and implement a system to identify, analyse, document and disseminate lessons learned.
- Check that monitoring data are discussed in the appropriate forum and in a timely fashion in terms of implications of future action. If necessary create such discussion forums to fill any gaps.
- Monitor the follow up on evaluation recommendations.
- Support project/program staff on ways to properly document, organise and capture program progress.
REQUIRED SKILLS INCLUDE:
- Bachelor degree in relevant disciplines, such as social sciences or relevant field.
- Report writing, research, monitoring and evaluation skills.
- Familiarity with and a supportive attitude towards processes of strengthening local organizations and building local capacities for self-management.
- Willingness to undertake regular field visits and interact with different stakeholders, especially primary stakeholders.
- Strong leadership and management skills.
- Strong mediation and conflict resolution skills.
- English and French language skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Minimum 3 years experience working for an international agency at a Specialist level in monitoring and evaluation: designing, preparing and conducting surveys, collecting and analysing baseline data, and reporting.
- Facilitation skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability in the use of quantitative and qualitative methods including questionnaire design, survey techniques, and participatory approaches.
- Familiarity with the Logical Framework model for program planning.
HOW TO APPLY:
If you believe you have the skills and experience to fulfil this vital and challenging role that will enhance the lives of vulnerable children in Chad, we'd love to hear from you.
Find the full description and apply onlineby the closing date 05 Jan 2015. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website:www.wvi.org.
