DME Officer

World Vision International

Assessment, Design & Planning

Lead project design, planning processes including mainstreaming of the implementation of programme and projects Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation plans at community in alignment with the World Vision Design Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) Learning through Evaluation with Accountability and Planning (LEAP) framework, Humanitarian accountability standards

Plan, design and carry out assessments and research exercises as appropriate.

Provide technical support and information requirements for on-going projects design of new projects

Support project start up workshop to ensure partners and project staff have good understanding of the project monitoring and evaluation and reporting requirements

Develop and manage an updated database and information management system for project plan, indicators and monitoring activities for projects

Review the overall quality and consistency of plans for logic, coherence, clarity and provide feedback and assistance to improve, paying attention to such concerns as;

Ensuring programming is informed by assessment findings and recommendations

Employing a sound and clear logical framework

Employing sound and practical indicators to provide evidence.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning

• Support the project staff to setup and maintain appropriate and robust M&E systems

• Support monitoring and evaluation processes using WV Somalia developed tools and provide guidance to project staff in their use

• Routinely perform quality control checks of monitoring and evaluation work, overseeing that planned monitoring and evaluation activities are taking place across projects

• Design, carry out and/or supervise consultants conducting baselines and evaluations and any other assessments

• Track planned evaluations and ensure that evaluation reports are obtained and timely shared to facilitate learning internally and across the partners

• Coordinate and facilitate lessons learned events among partners and communities to promote sharing of knowledge generated from project level community reflections, project monitoring and evaluations to improve future program selection, design and implementation as well improvements in existing frameworks

Coordinate field monitoring and evaluation activities, stay abreast on best monitoring and evaluation practice and to support quality programming and accountability standards.

• Provide regular feedback to project staff to improve quality of documents at their source.

• Enhance learning, capacity building and codification of knowledge through regular contributions on the project monitoring, evaluation and reporting communities of practice.

Provide documentation on case studies and success stories.

Humanitarian & Programme Accountability

Ensure that an appropriate humanitarian and programme accountability mechanism is established and functional for all projects assigned

Ensure a Do No Harm (DNH) assessments are conducted to inform the project implementation process

Ensure appropriate tools for Humanitarian Accountability (Complaints and response mechanisms) and mechanism of reporting are established and functional across all the project locations.

An appropriate complaints response mechanism (including community help desks, suggestion boxes, etc) and methodology of feedback is established in all project communities

Child protection incident reporting is mainstreamed into the humanitarian & programme accountability reporting system and incident reports incorporated in monthly reporting.

DME Capacity Strengthening 

Ensure DME capacity strengthening and awareness among staff and key stakeholders is enhanced. Key areas of focus will be:

Coordinate training and mentoring support to build the capacity of project officers and assistants

Ensure tailor made trainings for project staff, other sectors, beneficiaries, communities and local authorities on complaints and response system, documentation of best practices, lessons learned and how to capture Most Significant Change (MSC) stories and report writing.

Roll-out the monitoring and evaluation tools and methods with respect to monitoring and evaluation framework.