DMEAL Adviser - Pacific

With 75 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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

LOCATION: OPEN TO ALL COUNTRIES WITH WV Registration, preferably around ASIA or nearby countries.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

The purpose of this position is to provide strategic and technical DMEAL support, capacity strengthening and advisory services to World Vision’s four Pacific Field Offices within the SAPO region, promoting quality DMEAL practice, evidence use and learning. The Advisor will also provide technical leadership for grant DMEAL across SAPO, including non-Pacific Field Offices, through the DMEAL for Grants Community of Practice (CoP), strengthening grant DMEAL quality, capacity and cross-country learning and developing evidence and impact brief. The Advisor will provide matrix supervision and technical guidance to the DMEAL leads in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, as agreed with the respective Field Offices, and will report to the Regional Evidence and Impact Senior Adviser.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical Assistance

• Support pacific national offices in the application of DMEAL and program quality standards, guidelines, tools, and methodologies, including review of program designs, baselines, evaluations, annual impact monitoring (AIM) and program reporting on an as-needed basis.
• Support other grants-funded programs in SAPO National Offices in relevant areas of DMEAL, as required.
• Support pacific national offices to develop approaches to effectively communicate program impact for income and influence goals.
• Provide technical guidance and support to Pacific National Offices in the effective use of iMPAQ for program planning, monitoring, data management, analysis, and reporting, including strengthening data quality and the use of evidence for decision-making.
• Provide technical support to Pacific National Offices and Field Office teams to establish and strengthen effective program monitoring and MEAL systems, including appropriate monitoring approaches, tools, processes, and data-use practices that align with World Vision standards and donor requirements.
• Promote knowledge management and sharing of promising practices and lessons learned in the use of program data and evidence to improve program and organisational performance.

Capacity Building

• Evaluate pacific national office DMEAL staff/team competencies, business processes, organizational structure, and approaches through quantitative and qualitative methods to verify, document, communicate and improve program effectiveness and impact.
• Equip pacific national office partners to address DMEAL and program effectiveness gaps through designing capacity building interventions, advising on implementation challenges, and mobilizing appropriate human and financial resources.
• Facilitate workshops, peer learning approaches, and virtual 1:1 support session to address national office DMEAL capability gaps.
• Lead regional capacity strengthening initiatives in MEAL for staff through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculum.
• Provide appropriate leadership for regional-level M&E community of practice.
• Build the capacity of Field Office teams to effectively use monitoring data and evidence to strengthen program quality, adaptive management, learning, and reporting.

Strategic Management Support

• Support the development/refresh of country strategies of Pacific Field offices, ensuring DMEAL/Program Quality perspective and priorities are included.
• Support the rollout of Partnership, program quality, and DMEAL initiatives, ensuring Pacific FOs are aligned with Partnership priorities and well positioned for effective indicator adoption, data quality, and quality assurance.
• Drive new collaboration approaches and partnerships related to DMEAL /program quality to benefit Pacific field offices, particularly with major donors and support office partners. Contribute to the development and implementation of organization-wide strategies and standards in program quality (especially MEAL) that effectively engage partners, donors and governments.
• Lead the Annual Impact Measurement (AIM) process across the Pacific and ensure all Field Offices develop quality annual Child Results Reports that support evidence-based learning, decision-making and programme improvement.
• Lead and provide technical support to relevant Pacific Field Offices in the development and implementation of Integrated Programme Frameworks (IPFs), (Solomon Islands).

M&E Leadership

• Develop professional network and partnerships with relevant university, private sector, donor, and non-profit entities.
• Contribute to higher level organizational M&E discussions and guideline development.
• Coordinate with SOs and major donors and guide FOs in aligning their M&E requirements.
• Coordinate with the Regional Grant Acquisition team to provide DMEAL and program quality inputs and support, including engagement in grant Go/No-Go decision-making.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation at a national level (or large program level).
• Proven ability to facilitate working groups, communities of practice or other similar learning mechanisms
• Proven ability to collaborate with all levels of staff and to motivate and mobilize individuals outside their reporting line to achieve agreed strategic plans.
• Knowledge of the monitoring and evaluation requirements of one or more institutional donors (USAID, DFAT, DevCo, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree and post-graduate certification or master’s degree in the social, statistic or related field.
• Qualitative and/or quantitative research and evaluation skills, including but not limited to study design, survey instrument design and use, establishing and measuring outcome and process indicators, sampling, data analysis plans, data cleaning, and statistical analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to report, present and communicate results, written and verbal in modern standard English.
• Master’s degree in social sciences, statistics or related field.
• Evidence of the ability to facilitate M&E capacity building approaches (workshop facilitation, 1:1 coaching, etc.)
• Business process improvement (Lean Six Sigma)
• Experience in working in pacific countries

Applicant Types Accepted:

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organisation with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments.

Originally posted on Himalayas