Monitoring & Evaluation Officer - Luuq

About the role

World Vision Somalia is hiring a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Officer for a fixed-term local position in Luuq, under the RISE project (Resilience through Inclusive Women's Leadership, Nutrition Security and Peacebuilding in Somalia) implemented with partner SWCCA. The officer tracks indicators for climate-resilient livelihoods, nutrition security, women's leadership and peacebuilding, and community protection, and provides evidence for adaptation, partner coordination and BMZ reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Support the RISE log frame, indicator tracking table, MEAL plan and reporting calendar, and develop monitoring tools, Kobo/ODK forms and sampling plans
• Run baseline, periodic, gender, resilience and peace/conflict-sensitive monitoring, and midterm and end-line evaluations
• Coordinate routine field monitoring and verification, supervise enumerators and partners, and track indicators with sex, age, disability, displacement and minority disaggregation
• Assess data quality, maintain secure data repositories, prepare indicator analyses, dashboards and donor reporting inputs
• Ensure accountability and safeguarding, mainstream Do No Harm and conflict sensitivity, and coach staff and enumerators on monitoring and data collection
• Coordinate non-sensitive validation with district authorities and line ministries, and comply with safeguarding and PSEA policies

Required profile

• University degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Public Health or a related field
• At least 3 years of M&E/MEAL experience in humanitarian or development programmes
• Experience in livelihoods, nutrition, peacebuilding, protection or gender equality
• Experience with BMZ/German-funded projects, results frameworks, resilience programming, gender-transformative approaches, protection-sensitive data and partner capacity strengthening preferred
• Strong written English and spoken Somali; training in digital data collection, safeguarding, accountability and conflict-sensitive monitoring desirable

Required skills

• Proficiency in Excel, Kobo/ODK and statistical analysis
• Qualitative and quantitative research, field monitoring, data quality assessment and reporting

The role is office-based in Luuq with occasional domestic travel. Candidates must pass reference and background checks, and only local applicants are accepted; applicants should submit a merged application letter and CV.