MEAL Manager

World Vision International

Lead Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting:

• Provide strategic oversight and leadership for all programme and project assessments, baselines, and evaluations and results measurement activities across WVL.
• Lead the revision, standardization, and quality assurance of WVL s M&E guidance, frameworks, tools, and systems, in alignment with WV International and donor standards and guidelines.
• Ensure effective oversight of programme and project monitoring, including data quality, frequency, and compliance with WV and external donor requirements, through guidance, capacity strengthening, and review mechanisms.
• Oversee and maintain a national participant/beneficiary database across sectors, ensuring data integrity, appropriate use, and alignment with WVL and donor reporting requirements.
• Ensure the analysis, synthesis, and reporting of monitoring and evaluation data to inform management decision-making, programme adaptation, and reporting against strategic objectives.

Lead Research, Evidence & Learning:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to WVL research, learning, and evidence-generation initiatives, ensuring appropriate and rigorous research designs and methods.
• Institutionalize research, evidence, and learning processes within the MEAL system and guidelines to ensure the systematic capture, sharing, and use of lessons learned from Monitoring, Evaluation, and Accountability systems within WVL, and with partners and affected populations.

• Ensure that existing internal and external evidence is systematically reviewed and used to inform program design and adaptation.
• Lead and oversee the generation of high-quality, relevant evidence and learning on priority domains of change under the national strategy s pathways of change and sector-specific areas of interest, and support analysis, trend identification, and interpretation to inform management decision-making, strategic review, and WVL s external positioning.

Ensure Accountability to Affected Populations and Stakeholders:

• Ensure the strategic analysis and synthesis of programme data and the effective use of accountability information to support decision making and corrective action.
• Lead the communication of programme results and evidence, internally and externally, strengthening organizational accountability to stakeholders, partners, donors, and affected populations.
• Lead the standardization, strengthening, and oversight of accountability and safeguarding systems across WVL, in alignment with World Vision Participating with Communities (PAF) framework, safeguarding policies and the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS).
• Ensure the quality assurance, consistency, and compliance of national accountability and safeguarding reporting, in line with World Vision standards and requirements.

MEAL Staff Management and Capacity Development:

• Effectively manage the performance of direct reports, ensuring regular performance reviews are conducted and performance or behavioral issues are addressed in a timely and constructive manner.
• Lead the development of job descriptions and the recruitment of MEAL staff, as required, in coordination with People & Culture.
• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and capacity strengthening to the MEAL team, including technical review of deliverables, on the job feedback, troubleshooting, and facilitation of learning opportunities.
• Oversee practicum placements and internships within the MEAL team.
• Foster a collaborative, learning oriented, and accountable team culture across the MEAL function.

Contribute to the Strategy and Program Design:

• Contribute to the development and periodic review of the National Office strategy by supporting the definition and refinement of strategic Pathways of Change, priority outcomes, and performance indicators, in collaboration with cross functional and senior leadership teams.
• Lead the integration of evidence building approaches into new programme and project designs.
• Lead and/or contribute to organizational learning and evaluation processes, including learning events, evaluations, reflection meetings, and capacity building sessions, to inform programme adaptation and strategic decision making.
• Ensure timely and strategic MEAL input at the programme design stage, including the integration of evidence, results frameworks, and appropriate M&E approaches; provide technical review of logframes and MEAL plans, and contribute MEAL inputs to proposal narratives.

Perform other duties as required

• Attend and participate in WVL s spiritual nurture and other organizational events
• Responsible of own security and actively contribute to a positive security culture
• Report CP incidents as per the safeguarding policy guidelines.
• Abide by the security policies and procedures and report any incidents or breaches to line manager and / or security manager
• Perform other duties as assigned by Line Manager