Quality Assurance (QA) and Knowledge Manager
World Vision International
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our 45,000+ staff members working in more than 90 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.
Here’s where you come in:
As Quality Assurance (QA) and Knowledge Manager you will lead and manage the Design, Monitoring & Evaluation (DM&E), quality assurance and learning functions for Somalia Resilience Programme (SomReP) consortium. You will develop and implement an organization-wide strategy in design, monitoring and evaluation, including quality program development, resilience impact research and program knowledge management. You will provide capacity building to M&E staff within the 7 consortium member (ACF, CARE, OXFAM, DRC, ADRA, COOPI, WV SOMALIA) NGOs to help them move through the donor program/project cycle. You will also supervise SomRe GIS & Information Management Officer and Design, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer and lead research partnerships with academic institutions to create a best practice resilience design, M&E service that will demonstrate results through research and learning events.
Requirements include:
· A minimum of a Master’s Degree related to either social science, community development, food security & livelihoods, disaster risk reduction or monitoring & evaluation.
· At least 6 years’ experience managing people and programs in an international NGO context.
· Extensive expertise in the evaluation models and tools, and ability to adapt, contextualized and apply appropriately to all project contexts.
· Experience working with a consortium and/or highly complex program with multiple stakeholders.
· Experience in appraisal/Participatory Learning & Action, PEP, Appreciative Inquiry, etc.
· Work environment: Office-based with frequent travel to the field.
· Travel: Up to 30% travel in Somalia is required.
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World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position online and apply by the closing date 14 Aug 2016. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org. Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
