DMEAL Officer – Faith and Development at World Vision Kenya

Key Responsibilities:

Program/Project Planning

• Together with the F&D and field staff team and partners, organize and facilitate Strategic/multiyear Plans/designs and budgets for the overall Project
• Support the development of annual project plans and budgets.
• Support local and national partner engagement forums including project beneficiaries to ensure that these partnerships and agreements contribute to CWBOs and meet WV Vision, mission and core values.
• Support review and update F&D components in WVK Strategy and LCC project logframes, M&E Plans, project indicators and periodic targets and detailed implementation plans.
• Support the development of clear and implementable work break down structure for respective Project activities as needed
• Support the F&D team and finance team to ensure realistic scheduling of project activities and budgets

Implementation, Technical Support and Quality Assurance

• Coordinate the successful roll out and implementation of all MEAL related initiatives of the F&D sector including in the LCC project sites and APs.
• Lead the Rolling Baseline 10 step processes annually - across the remaining life of the LCC grant – Including Kobo collect operationalization and application
• Disseminate clear business processes for respective MEAL components to ensure consistent application and adherence to standards including Program Quality and Project Models Fidelity and tracking
• Develop and support implementation of F&D programmes and project MEAL annual calendars
• Ensure that realistic project targets are set a and tracked.
• Organize and conduct project level data quality audits and validation forums.
• Lead the process of capacity assessments and capacity building for staff and for potential local partners.
• Ensure that respective staff and WVK implementing partners are provided with requisite MEAL technical support to perform.
• Coordinate effective implementation of project Activities in collaboration with key partners and the MEAL Coordinator at the secretariat.
• Coordinate and facilitate timely review and sharing of all project documents; plans/designs and reports.

Monitoring, Reporting and Accountability

• Support the implementation of a digital data collection and beneficiary tracking system and database
• support the design of a monitoring framework to track delivery against project targets/objectives.  
• Support the development and dissemination of data collection tools.
• Ensure that the national Project data is entered in Salesforce IMPAQ: Project Profile creation & data entries of ITT, Workplan, Indicators, Risks, other project specific data entered into Salesforce IMPAQ in liaison with the Support office.
• Coordinate field level monitoring of WVK activities and its implementing partners to ensure project indicators that are aligned to sector learning agenda are tracked on quarterly basis or as prescribed
• Coordinate, participate and report on technical field monitoring visits.
• Ensure timely data collection, collating, & analysing, synthesizing information, updating the monitoring matrix and other monitoring systems are in place.
• Ensure timely dissemination of monitoring data to key stakeholders for management decision making.
• Monitor chapel and Transteam devotional activities to ensure prompt data on staff participation in these spiritual formation forums is shared regularly with Leadership and staff for requisite decisions.
• Support the appropriate use of information management systems in compliance with WV Kenya, GoK, and donor and in line with partnership agreements.
• Coordinate the compilation and submission of project management reports as per WV standards and donor requirements.
• Support establishment of accountability mechanisms for the project to enhance information sharing, complaints management and timely feedback flow.

Research, Learning and Knowledge Management

• Support periodic reviews/evaluations of the project interventions using appropriate methodologies (such as LQAs) to determine achievements
• Collaborate with Program Effectiveness and Impact (PEI) team to ensure effective Reflection and Learning sessions - Research and evidence related to LCC and other F&D work.
• Ensure that the project assessments, feasibility studies and or characterization processes are conducted in a timely manner and quality reports are produced as per standard.
• Coordinate inter-county and inter AP exchange meetings on MEAL for lessons learnt and upscale to regional and secretariat level intervention
• Facilitate effective project level knowledge management (KM) mechanisms including documentation and sharing of innovative/promising/best practices or lessons learned and impacts.
• Organize and conduct learning forums/events at regular points to facilitate learning by the partners
• Facilitate ongoing and collaborative learning within WVK and partners based on key data from the performance management system.
• Keep a data base of F&D resource persons and facilitators in an accessible online and off line system

Other

• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor or designee from time to time;
• Participate and contribute in committees and task forces as appropriate

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• The holder of this position must have a bachelor’s degree in social sciences, Sociology, Economics/ statistics, or equivalent degree in a relevant field.
• At least 3 years professional experience in Project/ Program design implementation, M&E and learning cycles
• Results orientated person able to  manage and satisfy multiple and at times conflicting organizational, donor and other stakeholder demands;
• Working knowledge and experience in F&D models and faith based programing.
• Experience in the execution of development of cooperation projects and consortiums

  List additional work experience required as a minimum qualification for this position.

• Must be a born again Christian with demonstrable Christian maturity and clear commitment to Christian faith and practical expression of that faith in line with WV vision, mission and core values.
• Post graduate training in Project Planning and Management, M&E or Statistics, Information Science, Climate Change/ Natural Resource Management or related studies is an added advantage
• Must also have ample experience in public relations and be a strong team player