Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – Bulawayo

Purpose of the Position:

The Accountability, Monitoring and Evaluation officer is responsible for setting up and managing operations of the HEA Humanitarian Accountability and M&E system to support programme management and accountability functions. He/she contributes toward the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of World Vision programming. coordinating M & E activities in country with the aim of measuring program performance, improving quality, and reporting program activities.

Knowledge and Skills:

1. A degree in social sciences, statistics, development studies and other relevant disciplines.
2. Minimum 2 years direct experience in design and implementation of A,M&E systems; including qualitative and quantitative approaches to assessment and monitoring
3. Clean valid class four drivers licence an added advantage.
4. Experience in participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation, training and facilitation, data processing and analysis
5. Commitment to understanding international humanitarian standards, especially the Red Cross and Red Crescent Code of Conduct, Sphere, and the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) Standard;?
6. Ability to communicate and work with beneficiary communities and stakeholders with professionalism, compassion and as a representative of the organization
7. In-depth working knowledge of computer based statistical packages including SPSS, CsPro, Epinfo and Excel; and information dissemination software
8. Excellent report writing and information dissemination skills
9. Good knowledge of and experience with humanitarian guidelines and principles
10. Good contextual knowledge of local community and social/cultural constraints, realities and organisational relationships for effective project design and implementation
11. Communicates with integrity to different stakeholders- good interpersonal skills with people across a wide social range including project beneficiaries/community members, other WV staff/managers, government officials etc
12. Ability to organise and facilitate capacity building/ enhancement for staff
13. Builds coalitions to support change initiatives for sustainable community development.
14. Ability to verify data quality
15. Ability to speak Shona, Ndebele and other local languages.
16. Detail oriented
17. Inspires trust within/outside of the organization
18. Develops high levels of credibility and accountability
19. Stays open to internal and external feedback
20. Understands the application of policy and the impact of decisions
21. Agrees with World Vision’s mission, vision and core values,
22. Finds fulfilment in work through creativity, risk management initiative, and innovation, and encourages the same in colleagues.