Senior Manager, Design Monitoring & Evaluation

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.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children s life stories!

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Purpose
To provide strategic leadership and oversight of Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (DMEAL) functions to ensure the quality, effectiveness, and impact of World Vision s programs. The role facilitates the implementation of the organization s strategy by integrating data, evidence, and learning into all stages of the project life cycle design, implementation, evaluation, and reporting. It leads the establishment of strong data governance, knowledge management, and accountability systems that enable evidence-based decision-making and organizational learning. The position also ensures the generation and reporting of strategic and impact data to management and the Board to inform planning, performance reviews, and strategic positioning in alignment with Our Promise , national priorities, and global frameworks.

Key Deliverables:

• Collaborate with cross functional team to track and report on country strategy implementation plan.
• Support and monitor M&E systems for projects
• Coordinate project teams to generate reliable data and quality M&E products.
• Ensure timely, evidence-based reporting for semi-annual, annual, and donor requirements.
• Mentor and provide handholding support to M&E staff across project.
• Develop mechanisms for data quality, accessibility, and effective use.
• Produce high-quality project documents, including proposals, design docs, Theory of Change, and budgets.
• Implement M&E frameworks with baselines and evaluations for Sponsorship, PNSF, Corporate, Grant, and Government-funded projects.
• Maintain data systems, dashboards, and provide evidence for reflection and learning.

Program quality assurance

• Collaborate: Collaborate with stakeholders and sectoral specialists to conduct DM&E processes for Programs and Projects as needed.
• Quality DME Products: Finalize the development of quality products for the DM&E Programs/Projects funded by various sources ensure the documents are aligned as per Transformational Development principles and Standards.
• PQ Assurance Tools: Align all Projects with organizational standards concerning DME/PQ.
• PQSR: Ensure the PQSR, PQF is facilitated with the relevant projects and actions are being tracked.
• Data Quality: Conduct periodic data verification and data quality checks / improvement efforts including in databases such as Horizon, FMT, etc
• PQ Risk Review: Support in conducting M&E/PQ Risk Review to ensure functional M&E system and quality programs where required
• Program Accountability: Ensure projects and programs are standardized with program accountability framework.

Provide relevant DME services to Projects and stakeholders

• Indicator Management: Identify and contextualize methodologies for appropriately measuring indicators using participatory methods where possible
• Functional M&E System: Establish a functional M&E system (including processes, methodologies, guidelines and tools for appropriately measuring indicators based on approved M&E plan for Projects with participatory methods/approach with stakeholders
• Facilitate M&E Process: Support/facilitate Assessment, design, baseline, target setting, monitoring and evaluation processes in Projects as required including logistics, training of data collectors, data collection, etc
• Monitoring System: Ensure monitoring system is functioning we'll with smooth data flow from the community level and continually improving monitoring practices
• Outcome Monitoring: Provide support to Project teams for outcome monitoring (LQAS), as we'll as output, activity and finance
• Participatory M&E Process: Ensure Projects are collaborating with local partners through community engagement, integrating GEDSI principles.
• DME Process: Facilitate processes such as annual planning, budgeting, micro planning, and Annual PQ Self-Review for Projects where applicable.
• Management and Donor Reporting: Support timely submission of quality reports such as Semi/Annual Reports, donor reports, etc
• Impact Reporting: Ensure the impact reporting for board and society, for global and regional dash

Data Management and analysis

• Data Acquisition: Streamline data collection and data compilation within Operations.
• Functional Data Management System: Ensure the management of functional data management systems, including FMT, Horizon, Impact Reporting, for all Projects.
• Database Management: Manage databases at Operations level (Dash boards, Annual Business Plan, WV Kendra, etc)
• Data Inventory Management: Ensure data inventory is managed, tagged appropriately and use it for reporting.
• Data Analysis: Conduct data analysis (quantitative and qualitative) and support data interpretation for various purposes such as decision making, publications, etc
• Longitudinal Data: Ensure data availability - longitudinal data for tracking program performance and impact, for departments/teams when needed
• Data Availability: Ensure availability of relevant data/information that can be used for decision making to improve advocacy and accountability to stakeholders
• Tools Development: Develop tools, mechanisms to continuously improve data collection, data analytics, etc
• Access Management: Facilitate system and database access to the staff with level 1 support.
• Collaboration with IT: Collaborate with IT in troubleshooting, database planning to ensure projects are able to use systems smoothly.

Support Project teams to ensure quality implementation, reflection and learning

• DME Capacity Building: Regular coaching of M&E staff in Projects and ensure Project teams have necessary knowledge to conduct all DME related processes
• Program Quality Visits: Visit Projects periodically to provide handholding support, build capacity, provide closer supervision and strategic direction to team members and also understand the needs and challenges related to their work
• Program Reflection: Facilitate reflections to capture learning systematically
• Knowledge Management: Facilitate sharing of knowledge and information gained through projects, research, etc across teams, Community of Practices and peer networks appropriately

Knowledge

• A post graduate qualification in a relevant discipline
• Contextual knowledge of local issues, community priorities and social and cultural constraints and realities
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of LEAP/DME/PQ standards and related DME processes
• Expert knowledge of information presentation techniques (graph, chart, table, etc) and interpreting them
• Knowledge of key development sectoral and cross-cutting themes

Skills

• Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning: Logical Framework Approach (LFA), Theory of Change (ToC), Indicator Development, Evaluation Design, and Learning Agenda Development.
• Knowledge & Resource Management: DME resource mapping, knowledge capture systems (SharePoint, KoboToolbox), and organizational learning documentation.
• Data Analysis & Management: Data cleaning, classification, tabulation, validation, and visualization; quantitative and qualitative analysis using SPSS, Epi Info, Excel
• Facilitation & Training: Adult learning principles, instructional design, participatory facilitation tools
• Stakeholder & Communication Skills: Advocacy and policy engagement, strategic communication, change facilitation, and stakeholder influence and negotiation.
• Digital & Office Applications: Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook), Google Workspace, and data collection platforms (ODK, KoboCollect).

Experience

• Should have atleast 5 years of experience in M&E related environment
• Building successful collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders