Monitoring and Evaluation Officer:  Water Partnerships for a Resilient Kwando Basin

Are you a dynamic, innovative and impact driven individual who would like to contribute to conservation? Then you are the candidate that WWF (The World Wide Fund for Nature) is looking for. WWF is an International Non-Governmental Organization that deals with conservation of nature. Our mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

Duty Post: Lusaka

Duration and nature of the appointment: The appointment will be for 2 years, with the possibility of extension based on availability of project funding.

The Role:

Under the overall responsibility and direct supervision of WWF Zambia’s Conservation Manager and with support from the Freshwater Program Team leader and Wildlife Program Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (M&E Officer) will divide their time equally between providing overall M&E functions for the USAID Water Partnership for a Resilient Kwando Project and for WWF Zambia’s Wildlife and Freshwater Programmes.  For the Kwando project, the incumbent will lead monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts for the program and will work closely with the Chief of Party and Technical Advisor to develop and implement the project’s monitoring and evaluation plan. This will be done in collaboration with WWF-Namibia and ACADIR to gather necessary data and support the Project’s Chief of Party in reporting outcomes to USAID.

For WWF Zambia’s Freshwater and Wildlife Programmes, the incumbent will be responsible for overall M&E and learning needs of projects and will come up with findings based on real data to show performance. The incumbent will also play a role in promotion of key learning for the improvement of project implementation.

Main Responsibilities: Water Partnerships for a Resilient Kwando Basin project (50%)

For this project, M&E will be an assessment as well as support function hence the implementing partners and Project team will get support through M&E findings in adaptive management of the project.

• Design a tailored and rigorous process documentation framework for M&E of the project, including refining Project M&E indicators in line with approved Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan;
• Collect information to establish project baseline, and support the development of the inception report, and midterm and final project evaluations;
• Ensure that implementation of project activities adhere to monitoring and evaluation system and can yield information on indicators.
• Supervise regular data collection on indicators throughout project implementation and ensure quality of the data by random verifications and validations;
• Record, manage and preserve monitoring and evaluation information in a safe and accessible way;
• Participate in research generation and disseminations of outputs.
• Analyse and discuss findings based on regular monitoring data;
• Provide technical support on M&E and evidence-based recommendations to the Project Coordinator, and Partners for adaptive management of the Project, and to inform quarterly and annual reporting and annual work plans;

Main Responsibilities: WWF Zambia Freshwater and Wildlife Programmes (50%)

The incumbent will help WWF Zambia strengthen M&E of the projects within the Freshwater and Wildlife Programmes .

• Support the Freshwater and Wildlife Programmes’ existing M&E plans in line with approved WWF Network M&E frameworks (PPMS), in consultation with the Conservation manager, Programme Managers and teams;
• Assist the Freshwater and Wildlife Program Managers during annual and multi-year planning and budgeting processes to strengthen the monitoring plans for individual projects;
• Update and follow the M&E information management system and coordinate with Programme Leads, their teams and project partners for collecting data against agreed Key Performance Indicators;
• Engage with Program teams to collect and manage essential data of their respective projects and ensure quality of data collected;
• Provide feedback to Programme Managers and their teams on projects’ performance based on monitoring data findings;
• Periodically visit field sites for projects in support of Program Managers.
• Assist program Managers in building capacity of teams on planning monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E);
• Assist Program Managers in designing, coordinating and conducting project evaluations (mid-term and end-line);
• Document best practices and lesson learnt; and support Program Managers in promoting a culture of two way learning within their teams, and,
• Support Program Managers in sharing learning from M&E process with the wider team;
• Assist WWF Zambia’s Conservation Manager in tracking, consolidating and uploading/forwarding of project technical progress reports to relevant WWF National Organizations, and WWF International and donors;

Required Qualifications, Skills and Competencies 

• University degree in an appropriate field of management or natural sciences (conservation, environment, natural resource management, forest, freshwater, terrestrial ecology, animal sciences). MSc will be an added advantage;
• Professional training in Monitoring and Evaluation, and some knowledge of project cycle management (i.e. situation/context analysis, conceptual models, theories of change, monitoring and evaluation and exit);
• At least 3 years professional experience in project/programme design implementation and M&E.
• Experience with practical development and implementation of natural resource management and related result-based management oriented monitoring system;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to network and to develop and maintain strong relationships with project staff;

Line Management:

The incumbent will report to WWF Zambia’s Conversation Manager and work closely with the Kwando Transboundary Project Coordinator. As well as being an integral part of WWF-Zambia Conservation Team, the post-holder will be expected to work closely with the Freshwater & Wildlife Program Managers and project teams.  He/she will also work in close partnership with colleagues across the WWF Network, especially WWF Namibia, the Freshwater officers in WWF US and WWF Netherlands and other relevant WWF offices such as the WWF Freshwater Practice.

How to apply?

Applications must include a cover letter and CV with full contact details of three referees sent as one file with subject line â€œ Monitoring and Evaluation Officer – Zambia”, to The People, Culture & Operations Manager – Zambia through wwfcareers@wwfzam.org to be received not later than the 27^th May 2019. We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

WWF is an equal opportunity employer and committed to having a diverse workforce.