DMEAL Adviser - Pacific

About the role

World Vision is looking for a DMEAL Adviser to support its four Pacific Field Offices in the SAPO region. The role provides strategic and technical DMEAL support, capacity strengthening and advisory services, promotes quality DMEAL practice and evidence use, and gives technical leadership for grant DMEAL through the DMEAL for Grants Community of Practice. It reports to the Regional Evidence and Impact Senior Adviser and is open to applicants registered with World Vision, preferably based in Asia or nearby countries.

Key responsibilities

• Help Pacific national offices apply DMEAL and program quality standards, including reviewing program designs, baselines, evaluations, annual impact monitoring (AIM) and reporting
• Support grants-funded programs and help national offices communicate program impact for income and influence goals
• Advise on using iMPAQ for planning, monitoring, data management, analysis and reporting, and strengthen monitoring and MEAL systems
• Evaluate DMEAL staff and team competencies, design capacity-building interventions and lead regional capacity strengthening and training initiatives
• Facilitate workshops, peer learning and virtual 1:1 sessions, and lead the regional M&E community of practice
• Support country strategy development, partnership and program quality rollouts, and lead AIM and Integrated Programme Frameworks (IPFs)
• Build networks with universities, donors and non-profits, coordinate with the Regional Grant Acquisition team, and contribute to organizational M&E guidelines

Required profile

• 5-7 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation at national or large program level
• Bachelor's degree and post-graduate certification or master's degree in social sciences, statistics or a related field
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation requirements of institutional donors such as USAID, DFAT or DevCo
• Demonstrated ability to report, present and communicate results in modern standard English
• Experience working in Pacific countries; local applicants only

Required skills

• Qualitative and/or quantitative research and evaluation skills, including study design, survey instruments, sampling, data analysis and statistical analysis
• Ability to facilitate working groups, communities of practice and M&E capacity building (workshops, coaching)
• Business process improvement (Lean Six Sigma)