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 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Contract Duration: 6 – 12 months

Location: Home-based. To be determined by the home country of the successful candidate where World Vision International is registered to operate within Asia and Africa region.

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Specialist is responsible for ensuring high quality project/ programme designs with Theory of Change, Log frames, and Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Systems. The MEAL specialist will ensure implementation of standard MEAL processes for Grants and other Non-Sponsorship projects within his/ her portfolio. S/he plays an advisory role to advocate best practice adoption across project teams. S/he will proactively develop and execute grant/ donor specific MEAL design, methodologies and tools as per donor requirements. This role requires a highly analytical mind-set with experience in evidence-based impact analysis that will also lead the quality reviews of MEAL processes and products and provide timely feedback to key stakeholders. Moreover, s/he will be responsible for capacity building of project MEAL coordinators.

Major Responsibilities

• Lead/ facilitate the log frame development process including problem analysis, Theory of Change frameworks for new proposals and projects designs.

• Develop the M&E framework aligning to World Vision International (WVI) partnership guidelines and donor specific standards.

• Lead the planning and implementation of all MEAL activities of Non-Sponsorship projects and programme portfolios.

• Conduct frequent field visits to assess the effectiveness of projects.

• Responsible for developing and maintaining of monitoring dashboards for management decision making.

• Prepare Terms of References and facilitate agreement process for outsourcing consultants for Baselines, Evaluation and other research and assessments.

• Ensure all the cross learning are documented and shared with appropriate group/ stakeholders.

• Write regular M&E reports on progress of the planned activities.

• Plan and host donor visits in relation project monitoring and evaluation.

Required qualifications, experience & competencies

• Five (5) years of experience in MEAL, Research, Statistical Analysis.

• Three (3) years of experience in Community Development.

• Experience in handling baseline, impact evaluation, and other social researches are preferred.

• Master’s Degree in Social Sciences/ Development/ Management/ Science/ International Development/ Statistics or relevant field.

• Data handling skills (classification, categorizing, tabulation etc.) using statistical and Business Intelligent applications.

• Knowledge with statistical analysis using SPSS, SAS, Minitab, EViews or equivalent statistical package.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and knowledge of Sinhala / Tamil.

• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA’s) Accepted