Job Description
SENIOR CO-WORKER - PROGRAMMES (NATIONAL OFFICE - PILIYANDALA)
SOS Children's Villages Sri Lanka is seeking a dedicated and results-driven Senior Co-worker - Programmes to strengthen programme quality, monitoring and evaluation systems, and Family Strengthening interventions across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Undertakes action on operational procedures affecting Family Strengthening programmes.
- Leads needs assessments, feasibility studies, and impact evaluations with the support of the Programme Department.
- Undertakes field visits to facilitate case management.
- Conducts periodic FSP reviews with the Programme Director.
- Prepares periodic reports.
- Ensures that established administrative, accounting, and personnel practices and policies are followed.
- Supports the introduction of new interventions in the field of community development.
- Implements FSP programme activities, ensuring all work is done in a participatory and community-based approach.
- Supports carrying out assessments, review of the impact of DFE implemented and ensures consistent learning and improvement.
- Maintains and updating the databases and M&E systems.
- Overall responsibility to manage PDB2 and Pro Digi and the M&E systems.
- Conducts workshops to train co-workers on PDB and ProDigi.
- Regularly monitors programmes through M&E systems and regularly shares findings with all stakeholders.
- Develops tools and processes to ensure data quality in programme databases.
- Rolls out new changes in the programme database system.
- Provides training and capacity development for users in programme databases and M&E systems.
- Compiles, analyses, manages, and shares data with different stakeholders.
- Supports various programme research and evaluations.
- Ensures that the necessary systems are in place for maintaining data backups and data security.
- Participates in programme meetings to ensure the relevance/validity of data with ongoing programmes and programmes to be implemented.
Requirements
- Degree in Social Sciences, Sociology, Community Development, Statistics, Science, or a related field.
- Minimum 2-3 years' experience in a similar capacity, preferably in the development sector.
- Sound knowledge of Monitoring & Evaluation, data analysis, and programme quality assurance.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and other database management systems.
- Excellent communication skills in English and Sinhala/Tamil.
- Strong analytical, planning, and interpersonal skills.
Please submit your applications on or before 24th September 2026
HEAD OF HR & OD, SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGES SRI LANKA, P.O. BOX 05, PILIYANDALA
SOS Children's Villages Sri Lanka is committed to protecting its staff, programme participants and the communities we serve (both children and adults) from harm from child abuse, sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse and all other types of harm. Every individual who joins SOS Children's Villages Sri Lanka should understand his/her responsibility in ensuring a safeguarding environment. The highest standards of selection, recruitment and authentication procedures will be applied for all employment opportunities, including thorough cross-checking of references and submitting a current police clearance certificate.
