Associate Director, MEL and Strategy, WV South Sudan At World Vision

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 over 34,000 staff members working in nearly 100 countries are united in 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.

Through our work, every 60 seconds … a family gets water … a hungry child is fed … a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Here’s where you come in:

As Associate Director, MEL and Strategy, WV South Sudan, you will provide overall technical leadership to the strategy and projects monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) functions for the World Vision South Sudan program. You will lead a robust knowledge management, evidence and learning processes. You will oversee 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. You will also oversee implementation of the WVSS digital transformation strategy and related initiatives such as Compliance and Risk Management.

Requirements include:

• 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.
• Excellent technical and summary written and verbal communication skills in English, including report reviews, writing skills.
• Ability to engage with government, international and national NGOs, and senior leaders on issues of justice, child rights and development and maintain effective partnerships.
• 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.
• 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.