World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our 34,000+ staff members in nearly 100 countries are united in helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life.

Through our work, every 60 seconds… a family gets water… a hungry child is fed… a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Here’s where you come in:

As the Strategy Evidence and Learning Director for the West Africa Region, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight of regional support to National Offices (NOs) with a primary focus on National Office (NO) strategy implementation, evidence of impact and institutional learning to contribute to improved well-being of children and their communities in the West Africa Region.

You will provide functional leadership to the Sponsorship Advisor, Faith & Development Advisor and the Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor to deliver their strategic objectives.

You will coordinate with the World Vision (WV) Global Centre and Collaboration office to ensure alignment, execution/performance and reporting are in line with WVI’s Global Strategy – Our Promise and the SDGs. You will also coordinate with the WV Global Strategy Centre, Global Field Operations (GFO) team to oversee implementation of key regional and global initiatives, support NOs metrics, Strategic Support Teams (SST), Global National Office Dashboard, Partnership Strategic Scorecard and Annual Strategy Review; Global Ministry Strategy and Evidence (MSE) , Global Technical Service Operations (TSO) to ensure support for quality and effective programming and reporting.

Requirements include:

• A Master’s degree in international development, evaluation, management or a social science field required.
• At least 10 years’ experience in fragile contexts, emergency humanitarian responses and development work, out of which at least 5 years must be in a senior leadership position at national or regional level preferably in Western Africa or similar contexts.
• Very good experience in designing technical programmes such as child protection, food security, primary health care, micro enterprises development and disaster management.
• Very good experience in impact measurement and Programme Design, Monitoring and Evaluation practices.
• Must be grounded in biblical knowledge, particularly as it relates to the holistic Mission and calling of World Vision.

• Understanding of various Western Africa contexts through experience working in the region.

• Travel: Ability to travel up to 35% domestic and International travel.