Position: Evidence and Learning Manager
Job ID: 13638-17G19060
Location: Tanzania Arusha
Knowledge Management
Type: Fixed term, Full-time
Deadline: 06-Jun-19
International Role – No – Only National applicants will be considered.
Purpose of the position:
To provide leadership and coordination in Design, Monitoring, and
Evaluation of World Vision Tanzania projects and programs to ensure
realization of Our Promise 2030.
Observe mission and core values of World Vision and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.
Major Responsibilities:
Leadership:
Leadership:
• Provide proactive and clear functional leadership of the DME direct reports and those in specific projects and programs.
• Build DME capacity of World Vision Tanzania office.
• Develop full, effective cross-functional working relationships for DM&E and other functions/sectors.
• Participate effectively with DM&E networks, practitioners and
learning/research institutions to access, research, evaluate and promote
the best available external practices and resources in DM&E.
• Ensure programs are monitored, reported and evaluated in a timely manner as per LEAP requirements.
Designing:
• Coordinate all assessments and designs of new programs and projects work.
• Liase with Operations Director to determine closure of APs and replacement where possible.
• Update vulnerability mapping which will guide location of future programs and targeting.
Monitoring:
• Review, develop, disseminate project and program monitoring tools to all key stakeholders in National Office
• Ensure all projects and programs have monitoring framework and completed ITTs.
• Coordinate the implementation of the Outcome monitoring.
• Develop and disseminate key messages coming from the monitoring data.
• Ensure that all programs and projects conduct effective learning events.
Evaluation:
• Ensure all programs are evaluated according to schedule
• Ensure every evaluation is discussed at SLT level
• Develop, capture, and produce evaluation synthesis of all evaluations conducted in a year and share with SLT.
Support strategy tracking processes
• Track the strategy using the national level M&E system that
provides information on progress being made on each of the indicators as
per Strategy including Our Promise 2030.
• Information arising from monitoring, used in the performance section in the WVT strategy.
• Engagement of specialists in the national office, EAR and support
office and ensure all indicators in the strategy are benchmarked
• Ensure presence of tools for tracking AP progress including development of database
Coordinate Tanzania PST
• Work with Quality Assurance Director and Operations director to
ensure key meetings (virtual and F2F) with support offices are held and
key actions that require SLT actions are escalated.
• Ensure PST add
value to WV Tanzania programming through continuous engagement in key
processes e.g. reporting, monitoring, evaluation and reflection
•
Ensure there is continuous dialogue with SOs PST engagement through
discussions with SOs via mail on key strategic priorities e.g. alignment
of programs to the strategy through the already agreed technical
programs, clarification and explanation of national TPs and implications
to programming and seeking for their agreement before the next steps
• Ensure discussion on approval of key processes and products is done e.g. annual plans and other M&E products
Guide leadership in assessing program performance
• Raise awareness and understanding among SLT/TMT and Cluster
reflection forums on the role of GNOD and Program Quality Self
Reflections in assessing national level capability in delivering program
quality
• Track and validate the achievement of Program Quality
Standards in WV Tanzania, to ensure good accountability and appropriate
support where needed
• Based on PCPR ratings identify needs and
opportunities to strengthen National Office capacity and guide
leadership on addressing performance concerns.
• Collect information on the GNOD performance assessment for WVU.
• Coordinate GNOD peer review with SOs and EARO on each of the
indicators and provide information and justification among the reviewers
on each of the scores
• Conduct and analyse performance on key
processes in sponsorship, finance, program quality and other OE
indicators and advise SLT on key actions required to turn around
performance
Support roll out of program effectiveness GC initiatives
• Ensure increased understanding of LEAP 3 across all programs including national based grants
• Provided clarity and awareness to staff in the APs, clusters,
national offices and support offices on LEAP 3 uptake and its
implication on the current strategy.
• Guide all programs in
development of annual plans, multiyear logframes and budgets in light of
the standard technical programs.
• Generate learning emerging from
LEAP 3 adoption for engagement at different fora in the national office,
regional office, support office and global center
• Analyse data
coming from different programs on strategy indicators for writing CWB
report and work with specialists and managers in the development of CWB
report.
Promote Organizational evidence documentation and organizational learning:
• Assure and support NO capacity to report on their contribution to
Child Well Being with adequate rigour and standards of quality, and to
ensure appropriate management response to recommendations for further
enhancing that contribution
• Provide leadership, catalyze and
disseminate learning on best practices for program quality,
participating in conducting research, sharing and replicating promising
practices aimed at ministry improvement
• Document the major key
lessons and findings from project evaluations and operations audit and
disseminate for organizational learning and decision making.
•
Gather relevant information regarding best practices to program design,
monitoring and evaluation from within and outside the WVI partnership
and shares it with field staff to facilitate organizational learning and
experience sharing.
Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
• Advanced degree (e.g. Master’s degree in social science, development
studies or other professional degree) or other relevant degree or
experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of a relief and development work.
• Experience in the development of Design Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) related technical resources
• Understand Programme and Research Design and Implementation.
• Competent in the use of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of various technical sectors of development such as food
security, primary health care, micro enterprises development, etc.
• Knowledge of statistical packages for analyzing socio-economic data like SPSS, LEAP Tools, general DM&E framework.
• Demonstrated ability in monitoring and supervision
• Experience in working with donor funds
• Working knowledge of proposal writing and negotiation skills
• Good communication skills and people relational skills.
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff and donors
Other Competencies/Attributes:
• Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities and mentor others.
• Perform other duties as required
Working Environment / Conditions:
• Work environment: Office-based with frequent travels to the field
• Travel: 30% Domestic/international travel is required.
• On call: 10%
Job Title: Project Officer- SUSTAIN Kasulu
Job ID: 13624-17N17137
Location: Tanzania Kigoma
Sector: Health
Type: Fixed term, Full-time
Deadline: 13-Jun-19
International Role – No – Only National applicants will be considered.
Contract: 1-2 Years
Purpose of the position:
To facilitate effective implementation of SUSTAIN Kigoma project in
order to improve maternal and newborn care services in the 8 councils of
Kigoma region (Kasulu DC, Kasulu Town, Buhigwe and Kigoma rural, Kigoma
Municipal council, Kibondo, Kakonko, Uvinza).
Observe mission and core values of World Vision and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others
Major Responsibilities:
• Support capacity building of health staff and other stakeholders in
the community, to design and implement Maternal and Newborn care
interventions in their areas.
• Networking with Government leaders
in villages, wards, divisions and District Offices for smooth activities
implementation, monitoring and reporting in Buhigwe Districts MNCH
Project catchment areas
• Assist in the identification and
documentation of the best practices, acceptable and workable strategies
in addressing maternal and child mortality, malnutrition and food
security as well as to facilitate communities to integrate best
practices and workable strategies in Districts.
• Coordinate and
supervise maternal and newborn care trainings in consistent with the
national guidelines on safe motherhood and newborn care
• Working
closely in collaboration with district RCH Coordinator, resource
persons, Divisions and wards RCH focal persons, reproductive and child
health staffs, health education officers to ensure integration of
maternal newborn and child health/ nutrition at the community level
•
Collecting, analyzing and interpreting health data for maternal,
newborn, child health in the project area and facilitate health
information system at community
• Facilitate training on Sexual and reproductive health, EmONC and social accountability at all levels in the district.
• Promote and involve male parents to meet the MNCH needs of Pregnant women, lactating mothers, newborns and young children
• Mobilization and sensitization of community on MNCH interventions
• Provide monitoring of the Project to ensure compliance to set goals/targets and standards
• Prepare and submit accurately and timely Monthly Progressive Report.
• Update monitoring tools as per Project M&E plan and ensure use of
appropriate tools in collection, compilation, analysis and utilization
within the project
• Facilitate Project reflection/learning,
documentation of best practices and most significant success stories are
included in the reports and shared among the partners
• Perform other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor
Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
Minimum Qualification: A nurse midwife with Diploma in nursing and
registered with the Nurses Council of Tanzania or AMO/clinical officer
with Diploma in clinical medicine with working experience not less than 2
years in Health related fields.
Technical skills and abilities:
• Skills in Programming.
• Computer skills and statistical package.
• Skills in report writing
• Skills in community mobilization and facilitation
• Analytical skills
MODE OF APPLICATION
Working Environment / Conditions:
• Work environment: Office-based and communities.Working Environment / Conditions:
• Travel: 5% Domestic travel is required.
• On call: 3%
