About the job

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children's life stories!

Employee Contract Type

International Assignment - Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description

The Quality Assurance, Information Management and Strategy Associate Director (QAIMS-AD) will oversee monitoring and evaluation, information management, learning and strategy development and tracking, as well as support program development for World Vision Somalia. The incumbent will integrate project and consortium-level information and evidence to provide whole-of-country contextual analysis of the impact of World Vision's multi-sector approach. The position-holder will develop, implement and improve quality assurance, performance, and accountability systems to equip management and leadership with information for decision support in service of adaptive management and reporting to various stakeholders. The QAIMS-D will lead a team to M&E specialists to support the development of quality and competitive project designs. He/she will lead in engagement with the World Vision partnership, local and international learning institutions and government to generate project and program-level lessons learnt, undertake research, co-create learning products and present findings to position the organization as partner-of-choice. He/she will engage with World Vision partnership for the development, improvement and reporting of key initiatives, including the national office strategy, annual reports and child impact reports.

Major Responsibilities

Information management and monitoring & evaluation systems inform project design and management action (25%)

• Upgrade, digitize and integrate existing information management systems.
• Ensure accountability mechanisms are in-place/functional to enable two-way communication and scaled/integrated across entire program and locations.
• WV Somalia has information management and M&E systems in place to aggregate, analyse and present program impact for national office strategy, WV partnership requirements and other stakeholder needs, including donors, government, etc.
• Integrated Program Tracker in place and updated to support on-time, on-target and to-specification delivery and reporting of projects and support layer, sequencing and coordination.
• With programs team, provide leaderships in strategy formulation, ensuring alignment with local context and evidence from projects and programs.
• Develop and disseminate knowledge products, including, operational research case-studies, and lesson learnt at relevant local and international forums.
• Support the design and review of research products and development of summaries.
• Ensure the integration of quality assurance practices in all programmatic and functional areas.

Support project and program development processes (15%)

• Ensure PDQA team access timely technical support for Theory of Change, Log-frame and Target Book development to develop quality and winning proposals.
• Develop, implement and improve performance and measurement systems to aggregate 50+ projects' outputs and impacts to generate multi-factor impact analysis.
• Mobilize the program's different measurement mechanism to create cross-learning between projects and programs.
• Develop proxy indictors and map to new projects to understand and articulate different interventions impact on Child Well-Being

Support internal and external engagement to position WV as thought leader (15%)

• Lead engagement with MoPEID regarding assessments and project and project information-sharing
• Champion World Vision engagement with key technical working groups for measurement and impact (e.g., Durable Solutions and Resilience Working Group);
• Support the development of learning products to communicate WV's expertise to peers, donors and WV partnership.
• Support WV Somo Technical Advisor, Communication, and Program Development teams to develop information-sharing products for member state and federal government.
• Support SomReP and Global Fund to design, implement and present high-quality research to position consortiums as partners-of-choice.
• Develop a network of learning partners to tap in the support of proposal and research development processes.

Support Somali National Office Strategic initiatives: NO strategy development and reporting; annual report development, Child Impact alignment and reporting and internal learning forums (30%)

• Lead evidence and impact analysis and contextual analysis to inform NO strategy development process.
• Lead engagement with EARO and GC on strategy development, annual reporting and Child Impact development processes.
• Monitor how department strategies including the GAM Business Plan are align with and contribute to the organization strategy.
• Lead internal WV Somo learning processes, including mobilization of learning and presentation at Quarterly Review meetings.
• Present key data sets to SLT including (i) Complaints Response Mechanisms quarterly analysis; (iii) Grant Tracker ITT performance tracker, etc.
• Sector technical guidance developed and disseminated to field teams to promote alignment with WV strategy and donor and partnership standards and support quality and impactful programming.
• Ensure other department strategies including the GAM Business Plan are align with and contribute to the organization strategy.
• Link flagship programs (such as SomRep, Global Fund), vertical projects and emergency responses into larger strategic initiatives together with TA, Operation Director, CoP and HEA TA/Manager
• Ensure projects are connected and contributed to CWB objectives programmatically and technically.
• Ensure reporting of programs and projects are reported into the WV's strategic frameworks.

Provide line management supervision to direct reports area and project-level M&E teams and provide technical support and guidance to consortium M&E departments (5%)

• Develop and update performance management plans.
• Monitor staff performance and provide real-time feedback.
• Motivate staff members to learn new skills, take on new responsibilities and grow professionally with a special focus on Somali staff.

Knowledge/Qualifications For The Role

• Preferred Masters, but acceptable bachelor's degree in international development, business administration, social and agricultural development studies.
• Experience with resilience, public health, and WASH programming (a minimum of 3-years across all three sectors).
• Experience with the design of research and academic studies.
• Experience with the development of Power BI, Python and other data analysis platforms;
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in humanitarian and development practice, with at least 5 years in management positions.
• Strong leadership skills with demonstrated experience either (i) leading/coordinating decentralized, multi-sector teams in fragile context; (ii) leading and/or supporting procurement process and/or (iii) development/improvement of performance management systems; (iv) government engagement.
• Experience in external engagement with NGOs, donors, private sector, etc. with the ability to represent the organization to a variety of stakeholders in a range of forums.
• Excellent oral/written and interpersonal skills.
• Confident communication and documentation skills.
• A team player with leadership qualities, excellent flexible project management skills, organization and dependability.
• Capacity to prioritize and manage a diverse range of staff members, projects and activities.
• Able to work on a cross-cultural environment with a multi-national and multi-agency staff member.
• Ability to solve complex problems and to exercise independent judgment.
• Capable of working independently and with demonstrated experience engaging a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience working with or in fragile context settings.

Required Education, Training, License, Registration, And Certification

• Preferred Master but will consider bachelor's graduates (if other relevant experience is demonstrated)
• International relations/studies
• Agricultural and/or food security science
• MBA and/or market systems development.
• Public Health.
• Social science

Working Environment/Conditions

• Mogadishu-based with frequent travel to field-offices and Nairobi back offices.
• 10% international travel

Physical Requirements

• Ability to travel to field locations in 4x4 vehicles.

Applicant Types Accepted

Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted

How to apply

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