Impact Monitoring and Reporting Manager (re-advertisement)
World Wide Fund For Nature
- Yaoundé, Centre
- CDI
- Temps-plein
Supervises: Interns, consultants, as and when neededLocation: Yaounde, CameroonDuration: one (01) year renewableMission of the Department:The WWF International Regional teams are responsible for supporting and providing oversight to WWF International Managed Country Offices to ensure that the offices have the required capability and resources to deliver high conservation impact and outcomes while meeting required high standards for operations and project delivery, monitoring and evaluation.Major Functions:The Manager, Impact Monitoring and Reporting for the Congo Basin region will significantly contribute to the ability of Country Offices (COs) in the region to track and report progress and achievements against the strategic plans and project delivery, in line with the Country Office Management (COM) impact team’s commitments to strengthen approaches to conservation design, performance, and impact monitoring.Specifically, they will provide technical leadership in strengthening Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning within the Congo Basin Country Offices. This position will be responsible for supporting the Country Offices with the monitoring of the life cycle of the Strategic Plans, from strategic planning and implementation to monitoring and adaptive management.The role will also support and ensure COs have well designed PMEL framework for strategic plans, programs/projects and grants, and their alignment with the office strategic plan, in line with WWF’s Network's Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management (PPMS) and ensuring compliance with the WWF International Country Office Strategy and Impact Monitoring policy.The role will play a pivotal role in leveraging data insights from monitoring and evaluation to advise Regional and CO Senior Management in areas such as evidence-based management, adaptive management, cost-effectiveness design and management, accountability, knowledge management and learning initiatives.Finally, the role will champion professional excellence and provide thought leadership, to ensure the proficiency of the PMEL team and will conduct routine monitoring of the PMEL capacity development in COs, to ensure staff are highly skilled and able to uphold network level or WWF International COM level PMEL standards and systems.Major Duties and Responsibilities: * Planning:
- Lead the development and oversight of Country Offices strategic plans in the Congo Basin region and ensure the related monitoring data are collected in a timely and rigorous manner.
- Support the COs' overall process of developing and updating the Office Strategic Plans, PMEL frameworks and annual work plans in line with WWF’s Network’s Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management (PPMS).
- Support the COs with the costing of the strategy monitoring and evaluation plan, ensuring the inclusion of the budget for all monitoring activities in the office, including Conservation activities, ESSF, Risk, QA and others.
- Provide technical guidance to COs in developing strategic and programs/project levels Theory of Change, logical frameworks and PMEL frameworks according to PPMS standards and ensure that these are well documented.
- Provide technical advice to COs and facilitate the process of developing clear and measurable goals, outcomes and indicators for the Office strategy, project and grants, while ensuring alignment to the Country, regional and secretariat strategy.
- Supports the development of a structured PMEL framework for all CO Strategic Plans and all associated projects, inside the WWF International PMEL solution.
- Facilitates utilisation of the WWF International PMEL solution for programme/project design, in compliance with WWF International standards and policies.
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
- Master's degree in natural resource management, environment, conservation management, bioregional planning, social sciences, development studies, Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation or relevant fields.
- 5-7 years of practical experience in PMEL methodologies, project cycle management, Quality Assurance, Financial Management, Data analysis and report writing.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate PMLE staff and foster cross-country collaboration, and manage consultants.
- Further qualifications in Monitoring and Evaluation and experience with Result-based management. Familiarity with PPMS or Open Standards would be an advantage.
- Advanced and proven experience with data analytics and utilising monitoring and evaluation data for impact reporting.
- Experience in working with people at multiple levels and diverse backgrounds, and demonstrated ability to translate concepts into tangible and actionable plans
- Knowledge of using Microsoft suite tools (word, excel etc.) is a must. Experience using advanced tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, R, Python, etc., is an advantage.
- Experience in applying Knowledge Management and learning principles.
- Professional Level command of written and spoken English and French is a must for this position.
- Flexibility to travel within Africa as required.
- Embraces the WWF mission and values of the organisation: Courage, Integrity, Respect & Collaboration.
- Demonstrating behaviors: Strive for impact, listen deeply, collaborate openly and innovate fearlessly
- Acts with highest integrity, accountability, and transparency.
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