DME Officer

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!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:

The purpose of this position is to implement the overall Monitoring and Evaluation strategy and related activities within the GEP, working closely with the Sectoral DME Coordinator for Gender Protection and the DME Team Lead, the Sector Portfolio Manager, and its project staff; subject to change depending on funding. In addition, this position is responsible for knowledge management of the Gender Protection sector. The Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) officer reports to the Project Manager/ or assigned Coordinator. The DME officer is expected to work closely with the other Portfolio DME Coordinators for an integrated and aligned approach to DME across the organisation. The DME Officer will document, assist through facilitation, and guide planning in design, monitoring and evaluating of projects and area programs. This will mean assisting staff to plan their project implementation based on findings from assessments, baselines, evaluations, monitoring data, lessons learned and project/program reviews that can result in improved impact. The DME Officer will study the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks in the community and facilitate the community and area program staff, in collaboration with technical staff and project managers, in planning programs that lead to improved child well-being.

The DME Officer will apply the logical framework approach and other strategic planning approaches, monitoring and evaluation methods and tools (including quantitative, qualitative and participatory) to the projects in their area. They will be required to facilitate training, lead assessments, evaluations and monitoring planning and problem solve both conceptually and practically to assist staff and communities achieve program and project outcomes. Timely complete MIS data gathering and providing into the system for analysis and reporting. Provide achievement data and segregation to the project staff and Manager who can lead the team based on the real time findings to improve program quality.

This position also plays a key role to assist projects collect data from area program target communities, assist projects analyse the collected data, do a meaningful interpretation and assist the project staff and Sector Portfolio Managers to make informed decisions. This role also plays a part in knowledge management for the organisation as a whole, and the Gender/Protection and Education portfolio specifically. In collaboration with the Project Manager and the Portfolio Managers and other DME Coordinators, s/he ensures program data is up to date, accurate, reliable, authentic with the source document and stored properly in the organization’s knowledge management systems, including Smartsheet's, the Common Drive, and WVI’s Horizon platform.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• DME technical support: The quality of program and project Assessment, Design and Evaluation is consistently improved through active involvement in key DME event in the annual calendar.
• DME Capacity Building: Project/AP teams are supported to build DME capacity for project staff, local partners, including orienting relevant staff onto knowledge management systems to keep data up to date and accurate.
• Monitoring Quality Assurance, including knowledge management of portfolio data and evidence
• Evidence building: National level evidence of change is generated by data consolidation and meta-analysis of all available data across portfolio

EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

• 2 – 3 yrs of experience in developmental sector and having exposed to research, analysis and documentation
• SPSS/ EPI Info/Kobocollect/ODK data management or any other similar software
• DME experience in the fields of Livelihood, Child Protection, Gender, Education/ youth development and/or other related experiences
• A degree in a field related to Statistics/Mathematics, project management, Research, Social or Political Science, Development Studies, International relation, public administration, Communication, Public Health, Economics, Home economics/science, Gender, Child Protection or similar fields of education related to development.
• Data collection methodology
• Data base management – (Kobocollect/ODK others)
• Working knowledge in Microsoft office and basic data analysis
• Report writing ability and understand donor compliances
• Good documentation and communication skills
• Good Analytical and logical thinking
• Training & presentation skills
• Networking skills
• Team planning
• Coordination skills
• Sound knowledge on developmental concepts
• Knowledge in proposal writing and monitoring tools
• Good spoken and written English
• Willingness to work in partner communities and stay in communities for prolong periods of time

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