Monitoring and Evaluation Officers x4 at World Vision Lesotho

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With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Monitoring Activities (50%)

  • Manage the implementation of project specific M&E plans in alignment with donor and World Vision requirements
  • Support the development, amendment and implementation of the needed tools for M&E (distro observations, post distribution monitoring surveys, onsite monitoring, baseline/endline studies, etc.).
  • Ensure alignment with key guidance from relevant coordination clusters (e.g. working groups)
  • Review incoming data for completeness and consistency and advise the data collection team and project assistants on the tools for improving data logging and data entry.
  • Work with the wider M&E unit to implement digital data systems that can capture data electronically as close to the source as possible.
  • Conduct qualitative and quantitative data analysis
  • Ensure project specific M&E details on the proper information management software are uploaded in a timely manner
  • Ensure all M&E related data, reports, and records are clearly organized archived in a central location for future reference.

Humanitarian Accountability (HA) (20%)

  • Ensure the humanitarian accountability system upholds and mainstreams the four pillars of PAF:  i. information sharing, ii. Consultation, iii. Participation & iv. Complaints and response of affected people.
  • Always ensure World Vision and Core Humanitarian principles are upheld in all aspects of the M&E functions and general project management.
  • Ensure beneficiaries and partners have constant access to information about WV’s programs and the channels that can process complaints & feedback with confidentiality & respond appropriately within predefined standards.

Facilitate learning and better practices in monitoring (10%)

  • Ensure a learning culture is established within the office/team and among implementing partners in order to document learnings and best practice for ongoing and future programing.
  • Ensure all project and programme level & thematic researches are reviewed for the methodological thoroughness, and output quality.
  • Assist with program level evaluations on a periodic basis, as needed.
  • Ensure appropriate dissemination of project and program level evaluation findings as relevant.

Reporting and Knowledge management (20%)

  • Conduct ITT verifications of projects in coordination with project staff every month and ensure project level ITT are updated with accurate data monthly, and key findings are shared with management at the program review meetings
  • Conduct project site visits regularly and monitors partner & direct implementation for quality standards through scheduled visits, data quality audits, and spot checks.
  • Ensure that critical M&E findings and recommendations are discussed and addressed by management
  • Support timely and quality report writing monthly, quarterly and at any time when need for reporting suffices.
  • Apply basic programme management approaches(develop work plans, monitor, execute and report on work plans)
  • Facilitate learning from monitoring and evaluation processes
  • Facilitate proper management of knowledge through WV and donor systems.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities

  • Data analysis and Interpretation
  • Communication and Networking
  • Report writing
  • Critical thinking
  • Communication of technical input and child well-being issues clearly and simply
  • Strong facilitation skills 
  • Use of appreciative inquiry, listening and analytical skills
  • Research skills as applied to M&E
  • Statistical skills such as sampling, descriptive and inferential statistics, confidence levels(Software and computation skills)
  • Project management tools and their use
  • In depth knowledge of programme design processes and products 
  • Use of logic to identify key information from a body of information.

Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position:

The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:

  • Hold a degree in statistics, Management of Information Systems and / or related disciplines
  • 2 years of experience with data collection and monitoring for an NGO or grant funded project.
  • Direct DM&E experience with grant funded programming. 

Additional experience and expertise:

  • Have a very good knowledge of project monitoring and evaluation, in other words, good experience in writing monitoring and evaluation tools (Logical framework, monitoring plan, detailed implementation plan, etc.).
  • Have knowledge of Disaster Management and competence in disaster surveillance.
  • Have solid experience in M&E of disaster preparedness programs in which systematic input, output and process data has been collected and used to guide programming.
  • Have a very good experience with donor funded projects.
  • Direct M&E experience with EU programming is preferred.

Work Environment:

Work environment:  Office-based with travel to the field

Applicant Types Accepted:Local Applicants Only

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