World
Vision is an international Christian Relief and Development organization, whose
goal is to achieve long-lasting benefits in the quality of life for vulnerable
children and their families, displaced persons and communities.
The
Somalia program wishes to invite applications from highly competent dynamic,
self driven and results oriented candidate to fill the following vacancy in the
organization.
Intern -
SomRep
To
learn and grow in World Vision Somalia’s internship program by providing
multi-disciplinary support for the Somalia Resilience Program (SomReP)
Technical Unit team in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
Major
Responsibilities
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Assisting the GIS officer in development of databases and data
collection tools for a variety of purposes.
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Assist in collection, evaluation and dissemination of
programmatic information on a regular basis for analysis and reporting
purposes.
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Assist in planning, organizing and servicing conferences,
seminars and training workshops- preparing presentations and facilitating ICT
needs as required.
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Assist in the planning, organizing and servicing conferences,
seminars and training workshops.
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Provide research assistance in identifying suitable research
institutions for Som ReP to partner with.
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Conduct donor research via the Internet and other means to
assist SomReP team in identifying and targeting donors and funding opportunities.
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Update SomReP donor map and fundraising strategy documents as
key milestones are met.
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Create diagrams, charts and simple visuals for donor
presentations, proposals and other communications.
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Help schedule and organize quarterly SomReP donor coffees and
other key presentations.
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Assist in maintain register of equipment and other assets
financed from each SomReP donor.
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Assist the administrative Assistant on office administrative
issues, particularly pertaining to records, payments and other key issues.
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Take notes at SomReP technical and steering committee meetings.
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Help confirm and arrange future meeting times.
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Assist Consortium member agencies in retrieving and confirming
key information for the smooth running of SomReP programs.
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Assist M&E team in ensuring partners submit timely internal
monitoring reports
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Help maintain reporting schedules for SomReP grants, staying in
contact with SOs and implementing partners to ensure deadlines are clear and
met by all.
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Format and proofread sub-recipient quarterly and bi-annual
narrative reports and consolidated SomReP reports to donors.
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Assisting in preparing monthly and quarterly M&E reports in
time for team reflection meetings
Qualifications:
Education / Knowledge / Technical Skills and Experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences / Communications /
Accounting / Commerce / Finance / Economics / Statistics / Administration or
other areas of study.
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Recent graduate with at least one year of professional
experience
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Should be Computer Literate, work well with MS Word and MS Excel
and Internet research methods
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Highly motivated to learn and work in a high-performance
environment.
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Willingness to tackle challenges and seek creative solutions in
everyday assignments.
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Demonstrates well-developed interpersonal skills, excellent
communication skills, both verbal and written.
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Must be able to meet urgent and last-minute deadlines, work with
grace under pressure, and function well in a high-performance team.
Design,
Monitoring & Evaluation Manager - Nairobi
The
DM&E Manager will develop and implement an organization-wide strategy in
design, monitoring and evaluation, including quality program development and
reporting.
The
DM&E Manager will also provide capacity building and coaching to program
staff within the 7 consortium member NGOs to help them move through the donor
program/project cycle.
The
DM&E will supervise SomReps DM&E Officer.
Major
Responsibilities:
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Effective, Innovative, Strategic Leadership in DM&E
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Provide proactive leadership across SomRep projects for
development and full coordination of all DM&E functions
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Develop, implement and promote SomRep’s shared M&E framework
and implementation strategy
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Lead and train partner NGO teams in coordinating and
implementing DM&E plans for all projects.
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Provide support and capacity building to DM&E field based
staff of SomRep members
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Design, coordinate and implement staff training programs to
build knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviors around DM&E standards.
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Support Chief of Party and SomRep technical advisors for
fundraising and new proposals/designs
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Contribute to the development of a Learning Organization in
DM&E
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Work with QA and Knowledge Manager to implement a DM&E
learning system to document, assess, share and replicate; Lessons Learned,
Promising Practices, and Best practices in DM&E
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Lead and strengthen SomRep and WVS’s Quality Assurance Culture
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Identify and establish guidelines and standards for Design,
Monitoring (including program implementation and reporting) and evaluation in
all SomRep programming
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Ensure adherence to and integration of SomRep DM&E standards
and practices with grants from both relief and development funding mechanisms
(e.g., USAID, CIDA, DEID, AusAlD, EC, etc.)
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Ensure adherence to Humanitarian Standards (HAP, SPHERE etc.)
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Set standards for measurement of project impact and program
quality.
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Collaborate with SomRep steering committee and SomRep Technical
Unit in standard setting, material development and learning activities.
Develop
and Implement training, documentation, monitoring tools and protocols for all
aspects of:
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Concept Papers and Proposals (including log frames)
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Community Ownership of DM&E
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Data Collection, Baselines, FGD’s, Interviews etc.
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Monitoring Systems
Evaluations
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Champion staff and Community capacity Building in DM&E
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Develop, design and lead staff capacity building strategies for
targeted assessment, training, follow-up and impact monitoring of training in
all areas of DM&E
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Mentor, support and build the DM&E capacity of field based
DME staff
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Design, organize and implement training of key WVS staff in
design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects.
Qualifications:
Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
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A Master’s Degree related to the science and practice of
community development, program design, statistics and evaluation.
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Minimum three (3) years’ experience in managing people and
programs in an international NGO context.
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Extensive experience and recognized expertise in the full range
of evaluation theories, models and tools, ability to adapt, contextualized and
apply appropriately all project scenarios
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Proven track record as a staff and community trainer and
capacity building strategies and organizational development.
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Thorough understanding and experience in quantitative and
qualitative data collection methods including comparative random sampling,
questionnaire and survey design, data entry and analysis and the application of
these methods to DM&E standards in key technical sectors.
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Experience working with a consortium programme and/or highly
complex programmes with multiple stakeholders preferred
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High level expertise in Results-Based management, Logical
Framework Analysis and Result-Based Performance Monitoring and Evaluation.
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Ability to link professional, academic and community based
learning models.
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Experience in adhering to/working with HAP, SPHERE Standards and
International Humanitarian and Development Standards.
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Full ability to communicate cross-culturally and be
cross-culturally sensitive.
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Full computer and internet skills including MS Office for word
processing and graphic presentation.
Humanitarian
Emergency Affairs (HEA) - Program Officer - Nairobi
The HEA
Program Officer will be expected to develop and deliver a wide range of
organizational development and technical assistance including: capacity
building, project and program planning, mentoring and compliance to WVS staff
and LNGO/INGO partners in South Central, Puntland and Somaliland
Major
Responsibilities:
Programming
Support
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Support the HEA Manager with HEA project design and in the
production of well-designed HEA and Food programming proposals that are LEAP
compliant.
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Represent WV Somalia in various donor and coordination forums at
national and field level and updating and providing programmatic information as
required
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Participate in ensuring continuous learning through progress
reviews, applied research, documentation of lessons learned and best practice
for program design and frameworks related to food assistance project
implementation
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Facilitate good understanding of the impact of WV policies on
project-service delivery and operations
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Work closely with Program Development Unit (PDU) team to ensure
WV and LNGO - partnering process for food programming is in close alignment
with existing best practice partnering, especially with regards to vetting of
LNGO’s, capacity/institution building, monitoring etc.
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Actively identify credible potential local Somali NGOs that have
the potential to implement food assistance and non-food assistance programming
through the sub-granting process.
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Regularly asses the capacity of existing and potential partners
to ensure transparent and accountable program implementation, reporting and
financial management of WVS funded programmes
Reporting
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Provide support in the preparation of consolidated progress reports:
monthly, quarterly narrative progress reports and other periodic reports with
analysis and recommendations to response management on LEAP alignment
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Regularly update information-sharing tools to facilitate
internal and external information sharing tools (4Ws, Grant Matrix etc.)
Capacity
Building
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Conduct organizational capacity assessments and training needs
for local implementing partners and develop training and institutional
strengthening plans to guide the capacity building process
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Actively identify capacity building opportunities for field
teams and LNGOs
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Provide on-site organizational capacity building support,
training and mentoring to address gaps in organizational systems and process
for partners (local CBOs, NGOs and key stakeholders)
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Support the HEA manager in coordinating emergency responses and
in logistical arrangements for deployments for local National Disaster
Management (NDMT) staff.
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Technical backstopping for HEA manager in developing capacity
for NDMT, Regional Rapid response Teams
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Support with updating for RDPP for Sornaliland, Puntland and
South Central Somalia.
Compliance
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Participate in progress monitoring food of assistance projects
ensuring goals and objectives are achieved and that financial and non-financial
grant requirements are adhered.
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Monitor program implementation progress to ensure that the
program is meeting humanitarian accountability standards, goals and objectives.
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Conducting compliance reviews for USAID; UN WFP and other donor
funded aid programs ensuring compliance with other donor regulations and WV
Food Assistance standards
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Work with the senior Commodity Accounting and Reporting Officer
(CARO) in reviewing CTS, CSR and other field based reports.
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Responsible to the Food Assistance Manager (FAM) for follow up
on the in the implementation of audit recommendations from internal and
external auditors (or internal and external reviews)
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Responsible to the FAM for execution of audit assignments or
Compliance Review Team reports as and when necessary.
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Discussing and presenting audit reports of our findings to Food
Resources Team leader.
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Ensure compliance and adherence by INGO/LNGO partners to WVS
sub-guarantee process and monitoring mechanisms which allow transparent and
accountable implementation of projects
Qualifications:
Education / Knowledge / Technical Skills and Experience
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Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (Development, Accounting,
Social sciences, international development/International Relations)
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Professional technical training in humanitarian Standards
(SPHERE) and specific trainings on donor requirements e.g. WFP, 62G training,
GoG training etc. is desired
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Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Developmental
Issues/Compliance Management/Auditing, Humanitarian Emergency Affairs
preferably with experience in developing countries
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Experience in program reviews and provision of support to WFP or
any UN Partners (or direct undertaking of implementation through partners) is
an added advantage.
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Self-guided, strong organizational and planning skills
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Good written, oral communication in English. Somali language is
an added advantage
Able to
work in a cross-cultural environment with a multi-national staff.
This
position will be Nairobi based with frequent travel to South Central,
Somaliland and Puntland.
Interested
and qualified candidates should submit their detailed CV’S together with names
and addresses of three referees to the email address below clearly indicating
‘HEA - Program Officer’ on the e-mail subject.
All
applications should be received by June 18, 2014.
Only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
People
and Culture Manager
World
Vision International - Somalia Program