World Vision Design, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager Job in Nairobi, Kenya

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. 

The Somalia program wishes to invite applications from highly competent dynamic, self- driven and results oriented candidate to fill the following vacancy in the organization.

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:
 

Effective, Innovative, Strategic Leadership in DM&E

• Provide proactive leadership across SomRep projects for development and full coordination of all DM&E functions
• Develop, implement and promote SomRep’s shared M&E framework and implementation strategy
• Lead and train partner NGO teams in coordinating and implementing DM&E plans for all projects.
• Provide support and capacity building to DM&E field based staff of SomRep members
• Design, coordinate and implement staff training programs to build knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviors around DM&E standards.
• Support Chief of Party and SomRep technical advisors for fundraising and new proposals/designs

Contribute to the development of a Learning Organization in DM&E

• 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

Lead and strengthen SomRep and WVS’s Quality Assurance Culture

• Identify and establish guidelines and standards for Design, Monitoring (including program implementation and reporting) and evaluation in all SomRep programming
• 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.)
• Ensure adherence to Humanitarian Standards (HAP, SPHERE etc.)
• Set standards for measurement of project impact and program quality.
• 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:

1. Concept Papers and Proposals (including log frames)
2. Community Ownership of DM&E
3. Data Collection, Baselines, FGD’s, Interviews etc.
4. Monitoring Systems
5. Evaluations

Champion staff and Community capacity Building in DM&E

• 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
• Mentor, support and build the DM&E capacity of field based DME staff
• Design, organize and implement training of key WVS staff in design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

• A Master’s Degree related to the science and practice of community development, program design, statistics and evaluation.
• Minimum three (3) years’ experience in managing people and programs in an international NGO context.
• 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
• Proven track record as a staff and community trainer and capacity building strategies and organizational development.
• 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.
• Experience working with a consortium programme and/or highly complex programmes with multiple stakeholders preferred
• High level expertise in Results-Based management, Logical Framework Analysis and Result-Based Performance Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Ability to link professional, academic and community based learning models.
• Experience in adhering to/working with HAP, SPHERE Standards and International Humanitarian and Development Standards.
• Full ability to communicate cross-culturally and be cross-culturally sensitive.
• Full computer and internet skills including MS Office for word processing and graphic presentation.

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 ‘DM&E Manager’ 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