DMEAL Adviser - Pacific

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!

Here’s where you come in:

As DMEAL Adviser - Pacific, you will provide strategic and technical DMEAL support, capacity strengthening, and advisory services to World Vision’s four Pacific Field Offices within the SAPO region, promoting quality DMEAL practices, evidence use, and learning. You will provide technical leadership for grant DMEAL across SAPO, including non-Pacific Field Offices, through the DMEAL for Grants Community of Practice (CoP), strengthening grant DMEAL quality, capacity, and cross-country learning while developing evidence and impact briefs. You will also provide matrix supervision and technical guidance to the DMEAL leads in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, as agreed with the respective Field Offices, and report to the Regional Evidence and Impact Senior Adviser.

Technical Assistance

You will support Pacific National Offices in applying DMEAL and programme quality standards, guidelines, tools, and methodologies, including reviewing programme designs, baselines, evaluations, Annual Impact Measurement (AIM), and programme reports. You will provide technical guidance on iMPAQ, monitoring and MEAL systems, data quality, analysis, reporting, and evidence-based decision-making. You will also help communicate programme impact for income and influence goals and promote knowledge sharing and lessons learned to improve programme and organizational performance.

Capacity Building

You will assess DMEAL staff competencies, processes, structures, and approaches, identify gaps, and develop capacity-building interventions for National Offices and partners. You will facilitate workshops, peer learning, and individual support, lead regional MEAL capacity-strengthening initiatives, support the regional M&E Community of Practice, and strengthen Field Office teams’ use of monitoring data and evidence for programme quality, adaptive management, learning, and reporting.

Strategic Management Support

You will support the development and refresh of Pacific Field Office strategies, ensuring DMEAL and programme quality priorities are integrated. You will support Partnership and DMEAL initiatives, strengthen collaboration with donors and Support Offices, contribute to organizational programme quality strategies and standards, lead the regional AIM process and support quality Annual Child Results Reports. You will also provide technical support to relevant Pacific Field Offices in developing and implementing Integrated Programme Frameworks (IPFs), including in Solomon Islands.

M&E Leadership

You will develop professional networks and partnerships with universities, private-sector organizations, donors, and non-profit entities, contribute to organizational M&E discussions and guideline development, and coordinate with Support Offices and major donors to align monitoring and evaluation requirements. You will also collaborate with the Regional Grant Acquisition team to provide DMEAL and programme quality inputs and support, including participation in grant Go/No-Go decision-making.

Requirements include:

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation at a national level (or large program level).
• Proven ability to facilitate working groups, communities of practice or other similar learning mechanisms
• Proven ability to collaborate with all levels of staff and to motivate and mobilize individuals outside their reporting line to achieve agreed strategic plans.
• Knowledge of the monitoring and evaluation requirements of one or more institutional donors (USAID, DFAT, DevCo, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree and post-graduate certification or master’s degree in the social, statistic or related field.
• Qualitative and/or quantitative research and evaluation skills, including but not limited to study design, survey instrument design and use, establishing and measuring outcome and process indicators, sampling, data analysis plans, data cleaning, and statistical analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to report, present and communicate results, written and verbal in modern standard English.
• Master’s degree in social sciences, statistics or related field.
• Evidence of the ability to facilitate M&E capacity building approaches (workshop facilitation, 1:1 coaching, etc.)
• Business process improvement (Lean Six Sigma)
• Experience in working in pacific countries