WVI
JOB OPPORTUNITY
World Vision Zambia (WVZ) Limited is a faith-based organization dealing with relief aid, development, and advocacy dedicated to working with children, families, and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. WVZ is part of World Vision International and serves all people regardless of religion, race, tribe, or gender. We are currently working on 38 large-scale programs in over 30 districts in Zambia.
Position: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist – Learning through Play (LtP) Project
Reporting to: Project Manager – Learning through Play (LtP) Project
Location: Lusaka, Zambia
Purpose of the position: To provide leadership in project Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning of the Learning through Play (LtP) Project. The jobholder will be is responsible for the development of the overall M&E Framework and implementation of related activities within the project and via partners, plus providing timely and relevant information to project stakeholders. The M&E Specialist will lead, manage, and guide project staff in data collection, management, and reporting.
Major Responsibilities:
Monitoring &Evaluation System Implementation
- In liaison with the LtP Manager and DM&E Advisor, oversee all planning and implementation of project-related monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Develop a have functional M&E systems that can inform programming
- Ensure that quality control systems and mechanisms needed to guarantee proper management of information are in place.
- Lead all data quality assurance, analysis, data dissemination, and data use. Including identify areas of risk that might affect the project.
- Providing expert technical advice to the LtP project staff, education partners, and stakeholders to improve the implementation and performance of education activities in project sites.
- Develop data collection tools and procedures for the project.
- Provide leadership in the management of project information management system; framework in collaboration with DM&E Specialists.
Capacity Building
- Identify training needs of the project team, as well as District and community-based level partners in monitoring and evaluation and other competencies.
- Support staff orientation and participate in building the capacity of project staff through coaching and mentoring for increased/enhanced competency.
Ensure Program, Project Effectiveness, Documenting, and Reporting
- Lead in periodic Monitoring of Indicators and evaluation of the Project.
- Lead in quarterly review meetings for the Project.
- Lead all data audits for the Projects.
- Facilitate ongoing learning on monitoring and evaluation with project staff and stakeholders.
- Reporting and Communicating – to demonstrate progress against key project indicators.
- Provide Technical leadership in Annual, semiannual, quarterly, monthly reports for the whole Project
- Provide Technical support for the Project on Research, learning, documentation, and communication of best practices.
- Provide leadership on Knowledge management for the Project.
- Support the integration of gender and disability in monitoring progress in project implementation of M&E activities, thereby ensuring that they align with field standards, are consistently and systematically tracked and reported by the project
- Facilitate M&E-related learning events for the project team and other stakeholders.
- Initiate and lead the development of terms of reference for case studies and surveys.
Other:
- Show spiritual maturity, integrity and energetic personality, through attendance of daily devotions and other spiritual nurture programmes.
- Other duties as designated by the Line Manager or his/her delegate.
Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Education, Social Science, statistics, demography, evaluation, or information systems or its equivalent
- At least 3 years experience in program design Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Good level of proficiency in qualitative and quantitative analysis using statistical packages including EXCEL, SPSS, and STATA.
- Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills and detail orientation
- Ability to design M&E tools, surveys, surveillance systems, and evaluations.
- Demonstrated ability to build the capacity of WV staff and local partners.
- Builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues and external partners.
- Strong written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills.
- Computer literate in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Capacity to function well in a team and contribute effectively to team efforts.
- Ability to adapt in different work environments: office-based and fieldwork (rural and peri-urban)
- Ability to work in a cross-cultural environment, and must be a mature Christian.
NOTE:
“World Vision Zambia is committed to the protection of children and adult beneficiaries from all forms of abuse and sexual exploitation. All employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks”.
Women are strongly encouraged to apply; ONLY shortlisted candidates will be contacted.