Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL) Officer Job Vacancy at WWF

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Position Title: Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL) Officer
Reports to: Head of PMEL
Location: Dar es Salaam

Mission of the Department
The mission of the Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL) unit is to provide strategic leadership to drive results and impact, via the development of a robust, resilient, and highly performing WWF Tanzania that delivers on its strategic priorities in an effective, efficient, and accountable manner.

Major Functions
The Officer for Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (PMEL) Officer under the guidance of the country office Head of PMEL and the Landscape program coordinator, will be responsible for designing, managing, and implementing PMEL activities for the Water Towers Landscape (WTL) Programme grants and projects/programmes. The role will carry out the design of PMEL frameworks for grants and projects/programmes, ensuring their alignment with the office strategy, 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.

Major Duties and Responsibilities
1.    Planning
●    Provide technical guidance in the development of project/programme levels Theory of Change, logical frameworks and PMEL frameworks according to PPMS standards and ensure that these are well documented.
●    Provide technical advice and facilitate the process of developing clear and measurable goals, outcomes and indicators for grants, projects and programmes, while ensuring alignment with the Programme, Country, regional and global WWF strategy.
●    Utilises the WWF International PMEL solution for project and programme design, in compliance with WWF International standards.
2.    Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
●    Handle the collection, review and analysis of quality data to inform progress and adaptive management.
●    Maintain the integrity of PMEL databases and documentation for the landscape programme.
●    Implement WWF International PMEL solution for data management and reporting at landscape programme level, in compliance with WWF International standards.
●    Works closely with programme and project managers to ensure project indicators are monitored and reported in accordance with the programme PMEL framework.
●    Ensure key Landscape PMEL activities are carried out in a timely manner e.g., baselines, mid-term review or evaluation, final evaluation, reporting, dissemination etc.
●    Guides the review of information and data collected to ensure it is of quality, accurate and timely to inform landscape programme and projects decisions.
●    Lead the internal reporting efforts in the in the landscape programme as well as their consolidation and or synthesis. e.g., technical reports, impact reports, donor reports, activity reports and other information from landscape projects and programmes.
●    Work in close collaboration with the ESSF Manager and Country office Head of PMEL to integrate the ESSF framework and monitoring needs inside the programme annual monitoring plan.