Education Quality & MEAL Advisor

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kenya.

📋 Description

• Provide technical guidance for quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation systems, and data utilization within the Education sector.

• Act as the custodian for the Child Results Area in Education.

• Assist in the design and operation of digital education quality systems, including the Measuring Education Quality Achieved platform.

• Enhance evidence generation, data quality, portfolio monitoring, annual reporting, and learning to inform decision-making.

• Produce analytical outputs that identify trends, data quality challenges, implementation gaps, and actionable insights.

• Support the development, execution, and review of global education indicators, tools, and reporting processes.

• Ensure that education data is comprehensive, accurate, timely, and in line with organizational standards.

• Serve as the main contact with external partners on M&E tools and systems, such as Tangerine.

• Oversee the operations, capacity building, and daily functioning of the MEQA platform.

• Create digital observation tools and Power BI dashboards for MEQA and future digital M&E solutions.

• Collaborate with Digital Solutions to integrate AI tools where suitable and feasible.

• Provide technical user support; contribute to system enhancements, troubleshooting, documentation, and user guidance.

• Strengthen evidence building and utilization with M&E, Education, and other colleagues.

• Generate and synthesize evidence for learning, performance assessments, and program enhancements.

• Document lessons learned, best practices, and outcomes monitoring.

• Lead the preparation of Education annual reports, case studies, and knowledge products.

• Conduct periodic reviews of indicator trends, data completeness, data quality, and dashboard insights.

• Facilitate the M&E Education community of practice.

• Develop learning tools in collaboration with the Knowledge Management and Capabilities Advisor.

• Enhance staff capacity in quality assurance, M&E systems, data interpretation, and dashboard utilization.

• Offer coaching and technical assistance to teams.

• Create and maintain dashboards, visualizations, summary products, analysis briefs, trend reviews, dashboard summaries, and data quality reports.

• Conduct routine education data analysis and convert findings into recommendations.

• Encourage data-driven decision-making at project, national, and regional levels.

• Improve the communication of findings for both technical and non-technical audiences.

⛳️ Requirements

• Please submit your CV in English.

• Master’s degree in Education, Social Sciences, Digital Monitoring Systems or another relevant discipline.

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in education Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), quality assurance, or data systems.

• Strong experience in developing and managing backend digital data systems, dashboards, and reporting tools in Power BI, Excel, KOBO, or similar analytics tools.

• Proven track record in producing analysis briefs, dashboard narratives, data quality reviews, and decision-support products for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Excellent analytical, communication, and facilitation abilities.

• Quick learner of new digital platforms.

• Demonstrated experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL).

• Experience in the education sector is preferred but not required if strong MEAL expertise is present.

• Ability to work collaboratively across technical teams.

• Experience in translating data into actionable program improvement strategies.

• Experienced facilitator with a strong understanding of adult learning methodologies.

• Knowledge of the global education landscape, trends, and emerging issues.

• Comfort in utilizing technology to enhance program quality.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Proficient in spoken and written English at a professional and technical level.

• Fluency in another language (French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese) is a plus.

• Willingness and ability to travel nationally and/or internationally up to 30% of the time.

• Local Applicants Only.

• The successful applicant must affirm World Vision’s core documents and adhere to conduct compatible with Christian principles, where legally permissible.

🏝️ Benefits

• Homeworking position.

• Willingness and ability to travel nationally and/or internationally up to 30% of the time.

• Work environment within a Christian humanitarian organization with team and office devotions, chapel, and prayer gatherings expected in accordance with policies.