Relevant Experience:

 Expertise: Extensive experience in relevant field
CV Sourcing Skills on various job portals

Job Description:

Other skills:
Team Work
Negotiation Skills
Time and Meeting Management
Excellent communication skills
Project Management Skills
MS Office

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Improving the quality of WV Pakistan integrated program through maintaining efficient and effective monitoring systems and local mechanisms to improve accountability, improving internal information flows, and providing field-based program support on M&E.  This position leads the assessments, evaluation, and documentation of evidence for WVP. 

Act as information focal point at the location (Islamabad) ensuring information flow between the different units, and between location and KPK/Punjab/Sindh/ Islamabad Offices and Office Staff.

Major Activities:

Lead Assessment, Evaluation, and Documentation of Program Impact & Approach Effectiveness:

Designing/supervising needs assessments, baselines and evaluations in light of LEAP framework.

Leading implementation when internally performed by WV.  Providing overall supervision when these studies outsourced to a third party.

Designing and leading research studies at national office level and working with leaning hubs to carry forward global/regional research agenda.

Learnings drawn through monitoring, evaluation, studies and related events to guide in operation, programmatic and strategic decision making. Leads lessons learned reflections and informs management with learnings from assessments and evaluations

Building capacities of PDQA team in research design and assessments including travel to the field up to 30%. 

Support new project & proposal design with detailed or rapid needs assessments as needed. 

DM&E technical guidance to all projects & NO

Assuring all projects utilize the WV Learning through Evaluation and Planning DME Framework (LEAP). Alignment of project designs and compliance to LEAP Standards in monitoring.

Support project designs with LFA & monitoring plans as needed.

Support and backstop Monitoring and Research Officer as needed.  Support in review and analysis of monitoring and reporting as needed.   

Other tasks as needed

Ensuring information related to projects is up to date in program information management system.

Other HR and staff tasks as needed.

Experience Knowledge and Skills:

Masters degree/University degree in any of the relevant field - rural development, Economics, and Statistics

At least 5-years of experience in management of monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian relief or development projects.

Multiple research projects completed.  Having work published is a significant plus.

Work experience in complex emergency/rehabilitation settings/development programs

Candidate has provided analysis and recommendations based on raw quantitative and qualitative statistical data.  Skilled in SPSS. 

Travel to urban and rural areas including underdeveloped areas. 

Significant experience in the design of social research studies.  Experience leading or designing large funded research projects. 

Fluent in English, preferred knowledge of Urdu/Hindko/Pashto

Strong statistical analysis capacity. 

Ability to travel to the field

Familiarity with data management software (MS Access, MS Excel, SPSS, etc) desirable

Knowledge of the geographical location and culture

Understands and values diversity and maximizes diversity to achieve organizational goals

Proven experience in establishing monitoring and reporting systems and quantitative/qualitative data collection techniques

OXFAM PURPOSE:

To work with Oxfam and Partners' staff to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering.

TEAM PURPOSE:

To work with the Pakistan Flood Response Program team for improved Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) in Sindh.

JOB PURPOSE:

To assist the WASH, EFSL and SHELTER team in Sindh in the design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning strategy and to monitor the extend the projects are meeting objectives. Moreover, to strengthening accountability both at partners and Oxfam levels and ensure that support is extended to the flood affected vunerable families i.e. women, female-headed households to benefit from the projects.

DIMENSIONS:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:

Please send applications to jobs.hrpak@gmail.com & clearly mention the Position Title in the subject line. The deadline for submission of application is 06 June, 2012.

At Oxfam we are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organization and strongly welcome applications from women, disabled people and under represented groups to apply for the above positions. Oxfam does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on HIV/AIDS status.

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