Head, Impact Monitoring and Reporting, Africa at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Kenya

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Understanding and increasing impacts

• Work with country offices and the regional team to set strategic priorities and identify synergies.
• Establish a robust impact monitoring framework (linking project, landscape, office, regional and global levels) and practical tools for the region.
• Support project development teams at the country and regional levels to integrate impact monitoring, based on rigorous Theories of Change (ToC), into the project design and budgets.
• Support the measurement (i.e., baseline, KPI), verification, management and reporting of country and regional offices’ 2025 targets, outcomes and impacts using the integrated performance dashboard and other tools.
• Develop capacity, promote consistency and provide technical assistance across the region (i.e., country, landscape, and regional teams) to use data and information to develop evidence-based conservation solutions that measurably advance WWF’s contribution to the achievement of relevant 2025 targets (and SDGs) through monitoring and evaluation, research and innovation, data analytics and policy and advocacy.
• Promote investment (including more consistent cost recovery) and the culture of evidence based decision making in Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning at all levels.
• In collaboration with M&E teams across the region, and the Performance unit, support the co-design and delivery of a system of conceptual and results-based frameworks, together with performance metrics and indicators.
• Support the Director, Conservation Impact – Africa, the regional Conservation Directors forum, Landscape and Regional Programmes fora, etc, to strengthen monitoring, reporting, and the use of evidence for strategic programme design and implementation.

Communicating Impact

• Facilitate and support the collaborative development of knowledge management, evidence-based decision making and data sharing within the region and other regions in line with global approaches of common systems including facilitate the creation of a culture of data;
• Monitor external trends around biodiversity, conservation and social development metrics and support their use in programme design and development, thought leadership, and impact monitoring.
• Work with Communications colleagues to develop a systematic approach to compelling communication of WWF impact using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, such as impact stories and other innovative approaches.

Building Partnerships

• Proactively seek out feedback from country teams to understand challenges to more effective impact monitoring and support teams to implement robust impact monitoring approaches throughout the project cycle.
• Contribute to thought leadership on planning for, measuring and reporting on environmental and societal impacts.
• Strengthen the PMEL in the region and actively engage with other regions and globally to share lessons and cultivate collective capacity
• Proactively engage with other organizations to share lessons and knowledge and enhance collaboration

Identifying Innovative Solutions

• Contribute to the strategic and operational development of country programmes by identifying and promoting the use of data and information to catalyze innovative new high impact conservation solutions/opportunities and evidence-based approaches to impact monitoring.
• Support the effective use of data and information within and beyond WWF for adaptive management and enhanced conservation impact across scales and thematic areas/sectors.

Profile:

Required Qualifications

• Post-graduate qualification in Environmental/Conservation science or Development or equivalent experience.
• Further qualifications in relevant disciplines (e.g. data analysis and management, impact monitoring, research, etc.) would be an advantage.

Required Skills and Competencies

• At least 10 years of experience in conservation and development, including designing, developing and implementing impact monitoring systems, data collection, analysis and visualization.
• Critical and strategic thinking with a results focus.
• Knowledge and experience with best-practice conservation design, monitoring and evaluation approaches and tools for impact monitoring and reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal English language skills (working knowledge of French an advantage for the Africa role).
• Good facilitation and influencing skills;
• Ability to communicate complex data and information to a variety of audiences from diverse professional backgrounds.
• Change management skills to support culture change;
• Excellent data analysis and visualisation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse, geographically dispersed teams in complex organisational environments.
• Knowledge of databases and systems is preferable
• Good knowledge of Africa trends and conservation and development challenges.
• Strong initiative and genuine commitment to continual learning and improvement.
• Proven track record of managing internal and external multi-cultural stakeholder processes.
• Identifies and aligns with the core values of the WWF organization: Courage, Collaboration, Respect & Integrity;