VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT IN WIDOWS AND ORPHANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION (WEWE) – STRATEGIC INFORMATION, MONITORING AND EVALUATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING (MEAL) MANAGER

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT IN WIDOWS AND ORPHANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION (WEWE)

STRATEGIC INFORMATION, MONITORING AND EVALUATION, ACCOUNTABILITY AND LEARNING (MEAL)  MANAGER

Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organization (WEWE) is soliciting experienced and qualified professionals to join its management team.

Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organization (WEWE), is a strong, upcoming faith-based local NGO, that is expanding its operations and workforce in Nigeria in line with its new five-year strategic plan and to align with international donor localization initiatives such as the Foreign Commonwealth Development Organization (FCDO) working with Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs), USAID localization strategy, and the European Union’s interest in engaging more local organizations. 

WEWE is compiling a list of qualified and experienced professionals who will be on standby to be engaged if WEWE secures any grants this year 2024 and early next year 2025. If your application is successful, WEWE will reach out to you first when we win a new award.

Are you interested in joining a local organization, especially now that international donors are allocating more funds to local organizations?

Is your internationally donor-funded project ending, and as a result, will you be out of work in a few months?

Are you working in an insecure part of Nigeria and looking to relocate to the South-South or South West, where you are more familiar with the terrain?

Do you currently work far from your family and wish to move closer to them, perhaps to the South-South or Southwest? Then come and join the WEWE family.

Position:         Strategic Information, Monitoring and Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager

Key Duties and Responsibilities are as follows:

To implement robust, dynamic, and effective Strategic Information and procedures that capture relevant, high quality, timely, and evidence-based data that measure performance against target, and quality of services, and are used for program decision-making.

1. Performance Management:

• S/he will oversee all the activities of strategic information, monitoring evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) in the organization.
• S/he will provide leadership for the strategic information and MEAL team
• S/he will develop organizational and project performance
• S/he will ensure high-quality data reporting that is valid and reliable for accountability, management
• S/he will create an evidence-based and effective feedback mechanism
• S/he will conduct Data Collection, Collation, Analysis and Reporting
• S/he will be responsible for the review of data entered into Databases
• S/he will conduct routine monitoring of program CSO activities
• S/he will compile and submit monthly, quarterly, and Annual SI reports to the Director of SI
• S/he will lead and supervise period Quarterly Data Quality Assessment (DQA)
• S/he will lead and supervise Site Improvement Monitoring System (SIMS) exercises
• S/he will develop and manage the project database
• S/he will conduct routine mentoring and support supervision to the Strategic Information team in WEWE and CSOs
• S/he will mentor the CSO SI team on MER Custom Indicators and other data collection tools
• S/he will ensure the mentoring of the CSO SI team on DQA procedures
• S/he will supervise the collection, verification, collation, and submission of IR to the Ministry of Social Welfare and rehabilitation
• S/he will support the generation and sharing of data analysis of achievement to stakeholders during a Review meeting
• S/he will supervise the Joint Monitoring of CSO program activities with Ministry M&E to ensure quality services are being provided
• S/he will generate a Database of WEWE beneficiaries

1. Structures and Systems:

• S/he will assist in ensuring that WEWE standard operation procedures on strategic information and MEAL are up-to-date
• S/he will assist in ensuring that the Information Technology team has internal and external capacity for information management and regularly back up staff data in hard and electronic systems.

1. Organizational Management:

• S/he will assist in ensuring that the strategic plan is fully implemented in the area of the resulting framework.
• S/he will assist in ensuring that management meets, discusses, and reflects on strategic issues, proceedings are documented, and decisions taken are fully implemented.

1. Resource Mobilization:

• S/he will assist in resource mobilization strategies, develop the plan, and engage, and supervise the resource mobilization team, especially in the area of writing the narrative of the strategic information and MEAL sections.

 Qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, social work, monitoring & evaluation, demography, biostatistics, statistics, analytics or a related field is required. A Master’s degree will be added advantage.
• Five (5) years of experience in USG-funded programs designing, establishing, and managing M&E systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data intensive, performance-based programs or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Experience submitting reports on USAID and CDC databases e.g. Data Import and Exchange Resources (DATIM)
• Experience in using data collection tools especially electronic data collection tools e.g.
• Data entry software programs e.g phones and tablets
• Experience setting up and managing staff of a Strategic Information and MERL team
• Experience in analyzing data is required.
• Experience carrying out simple or operational research.
• Knowledge of quality improvement approaches is strongly desired.
• Ability to develop monthly, quarterly, and annual reports
• Excellent ability to prepare presentations on PowerPoint and PREZI presentation software
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
• Good analytical skills.
• A high proficiency in the use of computers, particularly in MS Excel, MS Word, and Excel

Method of Application

Interested and qualified individual should send their comprehensive curriculum and cover letter in ONLY one attachment (MS Word document) explaining their suitability for the job to: siandmealmanager2024@weweng.org  on or before Wednesday, July 31, 2024.

Kindly Note: WEWE reserves the right to conclude this recruitment process when a suitable individual is selected. While WEWE thanks all for showing interest, only shortlisted individuals will be contacted.

“WEWE is an equal opportunity employer, which promotes diversity and does not discriminate based on tribe, state of origin within Nigeria, religion, age, sex, race or on different physical ability”.

“WEWE’s organizational culture promotes the principles of safeguarding and high moral values. WEWE’s Safeguarding Policy 2022 promotes an environment where no staff, associates, volunteers, case workers, consultants, board members, and partners engage in a sexual relationship, harass, or exploit anyone under the age of 18 or vulnerable adult, especially our beneficiaries”.

“WEWE’s organizational culture also has zero tolerance for corrupt practices. Therefore, for any of our job vacancies, we advise that applicants do not offer or accept any request for money, favors, or gifts from anyone to facilitate an employment opportunity with WEWE. Applicants found engaging in such practices could jeopardize their chances of being selected. If anyone contacts, you with such an offer please report this immediately to WEWE management on this WhatsApp line 09037811024”.

“WEWE’s Vision, Mission and Ideologies ”

Organization Vision:  A society without vulnerable persons

Organization Mission: Empowering communities, vulnerable persons, and local  organizations to be resilient by faith

WEWE’s Organizational Ideologies

1. To beat global standards of excellence in all we do
2. To improve the lives of vulnerable people
3. To be statutorily and financially compliant at all times. We want to strengthen the capacity of other local NGOs to equally be statutorily and financially compliant and thereby contribute to increasing the number of compliant NGOs in Nigeria and Africa.
4. To consistently deliver superior and ever-improving programs and services than any other local and international organization.
5. To be better than the rest and be better than the best in all we do