Maria Jose Villalobos Portillo

Experience

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  Particular

  Jan 2014 - Jun 2017

  English Teacher (Private and Institutional)

  -Teaching English to children (from primary to high school level)-Planning weekly activities, learning and pedagogical strategies to give quality education.-Designing and applying test of individual performance for 330 students and more.

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  ACNUR, Agência da ONU para Refugiados

  May 2017 - Dec 2017

  -Context research and Country of origin information (COI) of the population located in the selected communities.-Interviews with families and persons in need of international protection (PNIP).-Loading data into the selected software.- Field missions. -Accompaniment of community activities with the presence of persons in need of international protection.-Preparation of administrative-programmatic documents.-Review of files and cases.-Research and development of country of origin information (COI).- Monitoring of regional news.-Accompaniment and participation in institutional activities.- Interviews with persons in need of international protection.

  • Interviewer on the Pre-Registration of NIP persons

    Oct 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Field Office Intern

    May 2017 - Oct 2017
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  RET International

  Apr 2018 - Dec 2018

  Intern for the National Office (Venezuela)

  Intern of the Program Office specifically in the Monitoring area (data collection, development of instruments, and support in the construction of reports) and in the legal area (organization of cases and development of content on International Refugee Law for community training processes)

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  RET International

  Apr 2019 - Aug 2021

  - Coordinate RET's M&E team in Venezuela, local and national. - Manage and supervise the operation of the reporting systems of all projects, ensuring the quality and timeliness of the reports issued to donors.- Manage and supervise the data collection systems of all the projects, to guarantee the effectiveness and transparency of the information management in the organization.- Guide and lead the national and local technical support through the entire M&E team, to comply with the key technical guidelines of the projects. - Ensure compliance and follow-up to the M&E Plans of the projects, as well as the progress of execution with the Operational Plans of the projects. - Coordinate the preparation of performance reports on the institutional criteria in the established times and terms. Show less

  • M&E National Coordinator (Monitoring and Evaluation)

    Oct 2020 - Aug 2021

  • Monitoring and Reporting National Officer

    Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
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  Save the Children International

  Nov 2022 - Nov 2024

  -Manage and supervise the functioning of the monitoring, accountability, evaluation, and learning systems within the framework of the organization's strategy, its projects, technical MEAL staff advice, and the MEAL Plans. Directly supervising between 2 and 3 staff specialized in MEAL and Accountability to Affected Populations. -Provide ongoing technical advice in the formulation of humanitarian and development project proposals for the organization and donors such as NMFA, BHA, GAC, IHA, UNHCR, ECHO, AECID, INTPA, UNICEF, and UN. -Participation in global technical working groups from SCI, the global assessor of COMPAQT MEAL Competency framework certification, Top MEAL Talent, and participation in the deployment system of SCI. -Technical advice, organization, and implementation of evaluations needs assessments, and studies. Learning agendas, methodologies development, and application and accountability systems advise, design, and supervision. Show less -Participate in the design of new opportunities programs, collaborating closely with regional technical advisors, proposal design teams, partners of international organizations, and donors for the configuration of a multi-country proposal in the region. -To lead, support, and guide the MEAL team of different country offices, regarding their data systems, monitoring, accountability, and learning. -To support the analysis and extraction of data for the regional strategy and the analysis of the progress of the strategy of each Country Office in the region. Show less -Lead, support, and mentor the national office MEAL team, the MEAL area managers/coordinators, and the accountability coordinator to ensure the quality of MEAL in each area and throughout the response. -Coordinate and technically supervise the ongoing evaluations of the program, the research works, baseline, endlines, and other evaluations. -Participating in the design of new opportunities programs, collaborating closely with the TA and MEAL area managers in the design and review of MEAL proposals and strategies -Hiring and strengthening the capacities of the team. Including an intense period of hiring qualified MEAL staff and constant technical training in such a difficult response context. Show less

  • Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager

    Sept 2021 - Nov 2024

  • Regional MEAL Adviser (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) (Secondment)

    Sept 2023 - Sept 2023

  • Head of MEAL (deployment)

    Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
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  UNICEF

  Nov 2024 - now

  Evaluation Officer

  -Ensure that the Country Office and national partners have a well-prioritized and realistic plan of evaluation and learning activities, needed to manage the Country Programme.-Ensure that UNICEF-supported evaluations are designed and implemented to UNICEF policies and guidance and established UN quality standards, and the evaluation findings, recommendations, and reports are used and disseminated in a timely fashion internally and to stakeholders to improve program performance and contribute to wider learning.-Ensure that the evaluation and learning capacities of Country Office staff and partners are strengthened enabling them to increasingly engage in and lead evaluation processes.-Ensure that effective communication and partnerships are achieved in planning evaluation activities within the Country Office, with the Regional Office, and with all other stakeholders. Show less