Program Quality and Strategy Manager

Job Description

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, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Program Quality and Strategy Manager, you will provide overall technical leadership to the strategy and projects monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) functions for the World Vision South Sudan (WVSS) program. You will lead a robust knowledge management, evidence and learning processes and will oversee the realization of global and national office strategy with evidence presented through Child well-being milestones, Strategic partnerships for evidence with agencies, international and national NGOs, third party monitors, academic and research institutions. The position will also oversee implementation of the WVSS digital transformation strategy and related initiatives such as Compliance and Risk Management.

Requirements include:

• Master’s degree in Relevant postgraduate qualifications in monitoring and evaluation, development studies, public health, rural development, economics, statistics or demography.
• A minimum of 10 years of MEAL experience with international NGOs or development programmes in food security and livelihoods, food assistance, health and nutrition, education and cash transfers. Five years of this experience should have been at national or headquarter level in both development and fragile contexts, and donors such as USAID, BHA, FCDO, WFP, FAO, UNICEF, ADH, GAC.
• Experience leading internally and externally collaborated joint interagency assessments, baselines, evaluation and research using different approaches/methodologies i.e., SMART, Market monitoring approaches, JAM tools etc.
• Experience working with government, partners/ consortiums supporting MEAL related functions.
• Excellent technical and summary written and verbal communication skills in English, including report reviews, writing skills.
• Field-Based (National office). The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and stay in different locations including camping if accommodations are not available. This travel will require up to 30% of the time.

Is this the job for you?

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online. We will be accepting applications until the right candidate is found.

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.

About the Organization

The World Vision Partnership is a global community of people passionately committed to improving the lives and futures of the world’s most vulnerable children.

We believe that every child is a precious gift to the entire world and that their well-being concerns us all. We will not rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed. We are looking for people who share our beliefs and our passion.

www.wvi.org

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.