Job Opening at Womankind Kenya - WOKIKE

Reporting To: Programs Manager

Work Station: Nairobi (with field visits)

Start Date: Immediate

Positions Key role

To be responsible for supporting and managing Womankind Kenya's evidence generation of outputs and impact of our work in projects and aggregately at organization level.

The Role will ensure each project has a robust results frameworks and action plan to operationalize them. The role will provide quality assurance of routine data collection, data analysis, oversight over external evaluations and value for money studies to ensure they deliver the intended quality and excellence in evidencing our work. This will be done in collaboration with Programme leads and advisors. The role holder will use experience from doing this to contribute to the development of Womankind Kenya’s policy and strategy related to evidencing the results and impact of our work.

Representation: This role will use evidence-based reporting and communication products for strategic representation of WOKIKE’s internally and externally and supporting the Executive Director and programme team in engagement with donors, governments and other stakeholder.

Personal development to ensure up to date knowledge and practices around good practice in monitoring, evaluation and learning through reading, online courses, mentorship and coaching, conference attendance and presentations, publications

Key outcomes

• High robust evidence of WOKIKE’s outputs and impact from interventions based on sound methodologies.
• Compliance with financial policies and procedures including reporting requirements and contribution made to other team members in the development and implementation of MEAL frameworks
• Strong MER&L planning and evaluation procedures
• Positive relationships developed with partners through effective communication.
• Decisions on programme work informed by data and WOKIKE’s strategic focus areas.
• Strong linkages between organization work and advocacy, communications and fundraising roles within the organization.

 Person Specifications and Qualifications:

• Holds a Bachelor Degree in areas of Development Studies, Communications, Law, Public Policy, Sociology and other related specialization with advanced training in research and quantitative and qualitative research methods, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Good knowledge of operational research methods with evidence of leading on impact evaluation of development projects.
• Knowledge of official donors such as European Union, DFID, USAID etc policies on evidencing results.
• Understanding of issues of governance, power, gender and rights
• Familiarity with programme cycle management approaches and tools – including participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation
• Familiarity with Emergency relief, preparedness and humanitarian aid and their link to development work
• Experience of facilitation, training and network building