South Sudan: Design, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, Response, World Vision South Sudan

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 Design, Monitoring & Evaluation (DME)Officer willprovide strategic support and guidance to World Vision South Sudan’s Response strategies and programs/projects in all DME processes through leadership of DME assignments, to set common DME processes, principles, standards and tools to ensure quality programming, and to conduct formal and informal DME trainings and coaching at the organizational and community level.

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:

· Ensure quality and timeliness completion of programs’/projects’ assessments, designs (excluding non sponsorship designs), monitoring reports, baselines and evaluations according to LEAP and other donor requirements.

· Support Program Officers (POs) and programme staff in setting schedules and terms of references for all Quality Assurance (QA) processes.

· Support the QA team in ensuring ministry framework requirements and programme quality standards are reflected in programme/project DME processes. This includes ensuring alignment to national strategy, integration of Advocacy, Relief and Development in programming, contribution to Child Well Being Outcomes (CWB), inclusion of CWB standard indicators in design Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) plans, and integration of cross cutting themes.

· Support the DME team in the design of DME tools, data collection methodologies and data analysis.

· Review and provide feedback to drafted assessments, designs (excluding non sponsorship designs), monitoring, baselines and evaluation documents according to LEAP standards and other donor requirements.

· Ensure systematic monitoring of programs/projects

· Develop and establish monitoring systems and tools with DME and programme/project staff (including data collection methodology and tools, reporting forms, outlining responsibilities etc.)

· Ensure that WVSS monitoring system is being implemented according to the WVSS monitoring system guidelines.

· Liaise with and provide information to senior and operations management where monitoring and evaluation findings have implications for policy and program development and improvement.

· Assist the Grant Acquisition Manager (GAM) & QA and sector teams in developing national programmatic strategy. Support Sector Specialists in the development of well defined Monitoring and Evaluation plans for their national sectors strategic action plan with SMART key performance indicators. Assist the operations team in negotiating program development and support with World Vision partner offices

Capacity building

· Conduct assessment of DME capacities and set capacity building plans in relation to DME.

· Build capacities of programme/project level staff and DME officers on DME tools and processes. This can be done through formal trainings and ongoing/on-the-job training.

· Ensure and provide space and opportunities for the DME team to attend and have access to capacity building events and opportunities for ongoing learning and development.

· Knowledge Management
Participate in capturing and sharing knowledge, experience, lessons learned and best practices from DME processes with other relevant staff and community members

· Ensure systematic documentation of lessons learnt from the M&E processes, inform the management team of promising practices and challenges and monitor application of recommendations.

· Assist the DME team to capture and share programmatic documents by uploading them on the suggested Knowledge Management Systems.

· Liaise with the DME personnel in other parts of the partnership to collaborate and exchange lessons learned. Attend and participate in capacity building trainings locally and internationally.

REQUIRED SKILLS INCLUDE:

· Bachelor’s degree in a field related to community development work preferably in fields such as sociology, international or political studies, humanitarian law, public health, population studies and others.

· Excellent written English, with good command of spoken Arabic and English

· Critical thinking and analytical skills

· Research skills

· Interpersonal and communication

· Training, coaching and facilitation skills

· Ability to work effectively with teams and communities

· Ability to work effectively under pressure

· Computer literate with a high degree of proficiency and productivity. SPSS, Statistical Softwares

· Minimum 3 years experience in NGO with a focus on DME processes

· Minimum 1 year in academic research

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 South Sudan, we'd love to hear from you.

Find the full descriptionand apply online by the closing date. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.