Job Description
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 34,000+
staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming
vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key
Responsibilities:
JOB PURPOSE:
Under the
supervision of the Chief of Party, the MEL Director will provide leadership and
coordination in designing, Monitoring, and Evaluation of World Vision Tanzania
project to ensure realization of Our Promise 2030. MEL Director also will be
responsible to ensure the project is aligned with WV DM&E Management policy
(LEAP/IPM) guidelines & standards, and donor requirements to achieve the
intended program results and impact in a cost- effective manner, while
maintaining a high level of excellence and accountability. This includes
leading the collaborative learning and adaptation activities. The MEL Director
will also oversee other MEL support staff. The position is contingent upon
contract award to World Vision Tanzania.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
10%
Leadership:
- Provide proactive and clear functional
leadership of the DME direct reports and those in specific projects and
programs.
- Build DME capacity of World Vision
Tanzania office.
- Develop full, effective cross-functional
working relationships for DM&E and other functions/sectors.
- Participate effectively with DM&E
networks, practitioners and learning/research institutions to access,
research, evaluate and promote the best available external practices and
resources in DM&E.
- Ensure programs are monitored, reported
and evaluated in a timely manner as per LEAP requirements.
- Provide technical leadership in the
development and implementation of overall monitoring and evaluation
framework for activity implementation in selected intervention areas.
DME team functions well
responding to the various and complex demands coming from all parts of the
organization
10%
Designing:
- Coordinate all assessments and designs
of new programs and projects work.
- Liaise with Operations Director to
determine closure of APs and replacement where possible.
- Update vulnerability mapping which will
guide location of future programs and targeting.
- Develop a surveillance agenda for the
activity and ensure methodological rigor of surveillance undertaken.
- Regularly review and update the
activity’s MEL plan.
- Work closely with government
counterparts and local CSOs to strengthen capacity in data collection,
reporting and use of data for decision making.
Design of all new
APs and projects are informed by assessments and data from ongoing operations
and formative assessments are conducted and data utilized
10%
Monitoring:
- Review, develop, disseminate project and
program monitoring tools to all key stakeholders in National Office
- Ensure all projects and programs have
monitoring framework and completed ITTs.
- Coordinate the implementation of the
Outcome monitoring.
- Develop and disseminate key messages
coming from the monitoring data.
- Support activity monitoring, evaluation,
learning, and reporting, including the management of appropriate systems
to track progress against targets, document lessons learned, and produce
timely, accurate, and complete reports in compliance with donor
requirements.
- Develop monitoring, evaluation, and
reporting systems that include appropriate indicators, baseline data,
targets, and a plan to evaluate performance.
Monitoring events are conducted efficiently and results
are effectively disseminated
10%
Evaluation:
- Ensure all programs are evaluated
according to schedule
- Ensure every evaluation is discussed at
SLT level
- Develop, capture, and produce evaluation
synthesis of all evaluations conducted in a year and share with SLT.
- Establish close coordination with senior
management of the activity to harmonize and streamline collection and use
of data for program activities, surveillance, and learning
- Liaise with Donor, government partners,
policy makers, and other key stakeholders to coordinate dissemination and
application of results.
- Support the development and implementation
of an activity wide learning agenda in line with Donor Collaborating,
Learning and Adapting framework and approaches.
Evaluations are
conducted efficiently with external partners. Results are synthesized and
presented to relevant stakeholders including SLT.
10%
Support strategy tracking processes
- Track the strategy using the national
level M&E system that provides information on progress being made on
each of the indicators as per Strategy including Our Promise 2030.
- Information arising from monitoring,
used in the performance section in the WVT Strategy
- Engagement of specialists in the
national office, EAR and support office and ensure all indicators in the
strategy are benchmarked
- Ensure presence of tools for tracking AP
progress including development of database
Status and impact of
the NO strategy is clear and disseminated to relevant audiences and
stakeholders
10%
Coordinate Tanzania SST
- Work with RD&PQ Director and
Operations director to ensure key meetings (virtual and F2F) with support
offices are held and key actions that require SLT actions are escalated.
- Ensure SST add value to WV Tanzania
programming through continuous engagement in key processes e.g. reporting,
monitoring, evaluation and reflection
- Ensure there is continuous dialogue with
SOs SST engagement through discussions with SOs via mail on key strategic
priorities e.g., alignment of programs to the strategy through the already
agreed technical programs, clarification and explanation of national TPs
and implications to programming and seeking for their agreement before the
next step.
- Ensure discussion on approval of key
processes and products is done e.g. annual plans and other M&E products.
- Oversee the development and submission
of timely, accurate, and complete reporting and the use of innovative
technology for documentation.
SST is engaged and
issues are effectively presented for SST decisions
10%
Guide leadership in assessing program performance
- Raise awareness and understanding among
SLT/TMT and Cluster reflection forums on the role of GNOD and Program
Quality Self Reflections in assessing national level capability in
delivering program quality
- Track and validate the achievement of
Program Quality Standards in WV Tanzania, to ensure good accountability
and appropriate support where needed
Based on PCPR
ratings identify needs and opportunities to strengthen National Office capacity
and guide leadership on addressing performance concerns.
- Collect information on the GNOD
performance assessment for WVU.
- Coordinate GNOD peer review with SOs and
EARO on each of the indicators and provide information and justification
among the reviewers on each of the scores
- Conduct and analyse performance on key
processes in sponsorship, finance, program quality and other OE indicators
and advise SLT on key actions required to turn around performance
- Results of program performance are
synthesized, shared and effectively used to influence the development of
new programs.
10%
Support roll out of program effectiveness GC initiatives
- Ensure increased understanding of LEAP 3
across all programs including national based grants
- Provided clarity and awareness to staff
in the APs, clusters, national offices and support offices on LEAP 3
uptake and its implication on the current strategy.
- Generate learning emerging from LEAP 3
adoption for engagement at different fora in the national office, regional
office, support office and global centre
- Analyse data coming from different
programs on strategy indicators for writing CWB report and work with
specialists and managers in the development of CWB report.
Roll out of global
strategies is actively followed by TZ NO
10%
Promote Organizational evidence documentation and
organizational learning:
- Assure and support NO capacity to report
on their contribution to Child Well Being with adequate rigor and
standards of quality, and to ensure appropriate management response to recommendations
for further enhancing that contribution
- Provide leadership, catalyse and
disseminate learning on best practices for program quality, participating
in conducting research, sharing and replicating promising practices aimed
at ministry improvement
- Document the major key lessons and
findings from project evaluations and operations audit and disseminate for
organizational learning and decision making.
- Gather relevant information regarding
best practices to program design, monitoring and evaluation from within
and outside the WVI partnership and shares it with field staff to
facilitate organizational learning and experience sharing.
Results of programs
are synthesized and disseminated to influence the development of programs and
all new business
10%
Work with the GAM Director and Manager in ensuring the
following:
- Provide Technical inputs in Grant
Acquisition or Resource Development processes
- Facilitate Evidence generation and
documentation for GRANT/PNS proposal development
- Coordinate Development of Results based
Framework, Log frames, ITT and DIP to meet LEAP 3 requirements during
project/grants proposal development
New business is
supported with high quality M&E components including log frames. Indictors
for new business are aligned to WVI and NO indicators.
KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
Required Professional Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Design,
Monitoring and Evaluation of a relief and development work.
- Experience in the development of Design
Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) related technical resources
- Understand Programme and Research Design
and Implementation
Required Education, training, license, registration, and
certification
Advanced degree
(e.g. Master’s degree in social science, development studies or other
professional degree) or other relevant degree or experience.
Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience designing and
implementing MEL systems in complex donor-funded development projects.
Experience implementing MEL activities on health system strengthening
projects and/or projects that integrate health care for vulnerable
populations desirable
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, and other MS
Office software; data analysis software, e.g. SPSS or Stata
- Experience conducting monitoring,
evaluation and research tasks related to Feed the Future activities and
technical areas.
- Experience in conducting qualitative and
quantitative research, with demonstrated experience managing data
collection teams.
- Excellent organizational and planning
skills with demonstrated attention to detail.
- Strong oral and written English skills
for writing MEL reports and deliverables for DONOR and project
stakeholders.
- Strong management skills to manage MEL
support staff and activities.