Meal Director – Career Opportunity

Key Responsibilities

With 75 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!

MEAL Director Responsibilities

The MEAL Director will oversee:

• Monitoring and evaluation
• Information management
• Accountability and learning
• Reporting and resource development

The incumbent will integrate information and evidence from all projects and grants to provide a whole-of-country contextual analysis of the impact of World Vision’s multi-sector approach. The position-holder will develop, implement, and oversee programming standards processes and accountability systems to equip management and leadership with information for decision support in service of adaptive management and reporting to various stakeholders. The MEAL Director will lead a team of MEAL specialists to support the development of quality and competitive project designs. He/she will engage with the World Vision partnership, local and international learning institutions, and government to generate project and program-level lessons learned, undertake research, co-create learning products, and present findings to position the organization as a partner-of-choice.

Strategic Leadership

• Build and regularly update a strong MEAL framework and standard operating procedures in line with WV partnership MEAL standards.
• Ensure a strong and appropriate accountability system is in place and maintained adequately.
• Lead in determining and undertaking research to deliver WVE evidence and learning agenda.
• Accountable for maintaining WVE Information Management Systems.
• Lead in analyzing data and providing input to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) country.
• Support internal and external engagement to position WVE as a thought leader.

People Management

• Provide leadership to the MEAL team, including strategic vision and direction.
• Provide supportive technical supervision of the field-based MEAL staff.
• Undertake performance management, including setting of annual goals and quarterly deliverables.
• Adapt the MEAL structure in light of contextual changes.

MEAL Operations

• Ensure effectiveness of the monitoring systems in maintaining and improving service quality.
• Strengthen efforts to create greater efficiency in MEAL systems.
• Ensure that WVE delivers on all internal and external MEAL requirements.
• Strengthen MEAL systems and processes to assure systematic tracking of achievements.
• Review and advise on consistency and expected results/indicators.
• Ensure standardized data collection methodologies.
• Spearhead the rollout of Our Impact Our Story change process.
• Guide field-based MEAL staff to address gaps in program quality assurance.
• Track National Office achievements against CSP targets.
• Ensure monitoring data is triangulated and analyzed.
• Present MEAL outcomes for discussion at leadership level.

Learning and Knowledge Management

• Maintain regular dialogue with technical program and grants leads.
• Foster a culture of learning in the National Office.
• Undertake meta-analysis and systemic reviews of WVE program evaluations.
• Lead in the design, delivery, and review of the WVE research agenda.
• Participate in designing and implementing studies and assessments.
• Apply leading-edge thinking and best practices in research processes.
• Engage and maintain partnerships with INGOs, UN, and academic institutions.
• Support the MEAL team in developing evidence and learning dissemination strategies.

Accountability

• Contribute to setting up a strong accountability system for WVE.
• Ensure all staff understand and promote accountability.
• Contribute to improvements in existing policies and procedures.
• Ensure all staff and partners are trained on accountability standards.
• Develop and report against accountability-related indicators.
• Ensure project activities promote feedback and response mechanisms.

Qualification

• Master's in international development, business administration, development, or relevant studies.
• A minimum of 10 years experience in humanitarian and development practice
• At least five (5) years designing and managing/implementing evaluations, and analyzing qualitative and/or quantitative data
• Experience with the development of Power BI, Python, and other data analysis platforms
• Knowledge of systems for accountability to children and communities, including information sharing, participation of adults and children, and feedback and reporting mechanisms
• Proven success in developing staff capacity through training, supervising, coaching, and mentoring
• Experience in participating in/leading organizational improvement processes
• External engagement with NGOs, donors, private sector, etc., with the ability to represent the organization to a variety of stakeholders in a range of forums
• Excellent oral/written and interpersonal skills
• Capacity to prioritize and manage a diverse range of staff members, projects, and activities
• Able to work in a cross-cultural environment with a multi-national and multi-agency staff
• Ability to solve complex problems and to exercise independent judgment
• Capable of working independently and with demonstrated experience engaging a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience working with or in fragile context settings

Skills Required:

• Sales / Marketing / Business / Management
• Social / Science / Project / Management / Development