Project Officer- Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation at World Vision Kenya

Key Responsibilities

Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (Learning and Documentation)

• Support Project assessments (Internal and external)
• Support in project designs and ensure that the log frame and M&E plan are realistic for food assistance programme.
• Liaise with National Office technical specialists for their contribution to the technical aspects of the project design.
• Ensure that M&E activities are adequately budgeted for, this includes monitoring and end of project evaluation for the specified project
• Ensure that all Monitoring activities are carried out and reported on time (PDMs, MBFSM, On site distribution monitoring)
• Ensure that Monitoring data is regularly reviewed for its appropriateness and usefulness in measuring progress toward the achievement of project objective.
• Coordinate with external stakeholders including, but not limited to, academia, NGOs, Government, Private Sector and WFP in order to advance the learning goal of the project
• Prepare quality monthly, Quarterly and end of project reports in time.
• Review Visit reports from Field Monitors and ensure they are in line with the design
• Prepare schedule for monitoring together with communities and partners
• Seek input from local level partners to adapt monitoring tools, where appropriate.
• Plan tracking for key CWB indicators of strategic relevance from secondary and primary data, with partners and communities.

Humanitarian Accountability

• Ensure that M&E system for the food programme is linked to Humanitarian accountability requirements.
• Work with communities and beneficiaries to establish Complaints Response Mechanism (CRM) in all project sites and ensure that they are functional
• Ensure that protection issues that comes from the PDM and CRM are addressed appropriate.
• Ensure implementation of a safe, efficient and effective system for receiving and processing of feedback, ensuring a two-way communication between communities, beneficiaries and World Vision.
• Ensure that community feedback is effectively used to inform project implementation, monitoring, learning and improvement.
• Prepare Monthly reports highlighting type(s) and number of community complaints / feedback by project sites. The report should include how these have been analyzed, followed up and used to improve community engagement and project implementation

Capacity Building

• Ensure that capacity building plan on monitoring is in place and utilized
• Ensure that Data collection teams are fully trained, and receive field practice; in applicable research methods prior to formal data collection processes are undertaken
• Build capacity of partners effectively to collect monitoring data on CWB outcomes of strategic relevance

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATION

• Two years’ experience in monitoring & evaluation positions including participatory research and impact measurement.
• A degree related to the science and practice of community development, program design, statistics and evaluation;
• Two years’ experience in monitoring & evaluation positions including participatory research and impact measurement;
• Proven technical ability around M&E (i.e. experience in managing data entry and conducting data analysis and interpretation)
• Experience with SPSS or EPI Info and other related statistical software packages.
• Demonstrated understanding of quality assurance systems, and continuous improvement, with particular emphasis on integration of accountability measures into all aspects of the project cycle;
• Empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice;
• Must be able to stand above denominational and cultural diversity challenges;
• Must have outstanding oral and written communications and relationship skills and;
• Good presentation skills
• Good team player, self- starter, has ability to work under minimum supervision and maintain good relationships;
• Strong commitment to WV Values, Mission and Vision