Regional MEAL and Impact Senior Manager, Southern Africa

*Preferred Location: South Africa. Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate within the Southern Africa Region where WVI is registered to operate.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our almost 37,500 staff members working in nearly 100 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.

Here’s where you come in:

As Regional MEAL and Impact Senior Manager, Southern Africa, you will provide leadership, management and coordination of the Southern Africa region in measuring and communicating impact at scale. This will be achieved through leadership in the programme design, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning (DMEAL) and impact functions. You will also provide technical advice, guidance, and support in design, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning and impact reporting. This will support a wide range of program design and implementation issues in line with World Vision’s program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to regional and field office teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable communities in Southern Africa.

Requirements include:

• The incumbent will bring to this role a combination of MEAL experience, Impact reporting as well as expertise in design and capability development that help build/enhance the required DME and impact competencies.
• Advanced/graduate degree with an additional post-graduate in a relevant field, potentially including public health, development, M&E, statistics, or a related discipline.
• Experience and competencies data analysis using appropriate software tools (e.g. SPSS, SAS,ABTAB).
• Good technical/ impact report writing skills.
• 10+ years of experience in monitoring and evaluation at a senior level (large program, national or regional level.
• Demonstrated ability to report, present and communicate results, written and verbal in modern standard, grammatically correct English.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 40% of the time.