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Position Title:
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director,
USAID Uganda Orphans and Vulnerable Children and Youth
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Application Deadline Date:
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03 Oct 2014
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Position Location:
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Kampala, Uganda
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Position Start Date
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03 Nov 2014
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Region:
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Africa\East Africa
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Position End Date:
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31 Oct 2018
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Requisition Category:
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International
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Recruitment Priority:
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Early Warning
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Country Name:
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Uganda
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Program/Office Name:
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USAID Uganda OVC
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City/Province:
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Kampala, Uganda
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Employee Type:
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Contract
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Job Grade Level:
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16
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Recruitment Status:
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Advertising in Progress
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Is this a family post?
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Non-family - Staff only
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Requisition Num:
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2014AFEGWKE-9NUKEJ
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*POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON FUNDING AND DONOR APPROVAL. EXPECTED START DATE NOV 2015*
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director will have responsibility for all monitoring, evaluation and Research activities associated with the project.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible
for the design and implementation of the Workplace activity Learning
Agenda.
- Develop
monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER) systems that include
appropriate indicators, baseline data, targets and a plan to evaluate
performance and produce timely accurate and complete reports.
Develop Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) System: - Develop
the overall framework for project M&E in accordance to the project and
document M&E plan.
- Conduct
readiness assessment regarding M&E.
- Identify
the requirement for collecting baseline data, prepare terms-of-reference
for and arrange the baseline survey, as required.
- Contribute
to the development of the annual work plan, ensuring alignment with
project strategy, agreement on annual targets and inclusion of M&E
activates in the work plan.
Implementation of M&E: - Oversee
and execute M&E activities included in the Annual Work Plan, with
particular focus on results and impacts as well as in lesson learning.
- Design
the framework for the physical and process monitoring of project
activities.
- Promote
a results-based approach to monitoring and evaluation, emphasising results
and impacts.
- Assist
in the development of project reports with staff and executing partners in
preparing their progress reports in accordance with approved reporting
formats and ensure their timely submission of ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly
and annual reports.
- Prepare
consolidation progress reports for project management including
identification of problems, causes of potential bottlenecks in the project
implementation, and providing specific recommendations.
- Undertake
regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to
identify where adaptations might be needed.
- Foster
participatory planning and monitoring by training and involving primary
stakeholder groups in the M&E of activities.
- Facilitate,
act as resource person, and join, if required, any external supervision
and evaluation missions.
- Monitor
the follow up of evaluation recommendations.
- Identify
the need and draw up the Terms of Reference (ToRs) for specific project
studies. Recruit, guide and supervise consultants or organizations that
are contracted to implement special surveys and studies required for
evaluating project effects and impacts.
Learning: - Design
and implement a system to identify, analyse, document and disseminate
lessons learned.
- Consolidate
a culture of lessons learning involving all project staff and allocate
specific responsibilities.
- Ensure
that ToR for consultants recruited by the project also incorporate
mechanisms to capture and share lessons learned through their inputs to
the project, and to ensure that the results are reflected in the reporting
system described above.
- Document,
package and disseminate lessons not less frequently than once every 12
months.
- Facilitate
exchange of experiences by supporting and coordinating participation in
any existing network projects sharing common characteristics.
- Identify
and participate in additional networks, for example scientific or
policy-based networks that may also yield lessons that can benefit project
implementation.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
Required:
- Master's
Degree or higher in Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health, Demography,
Health Management, Social Science, Biostatistics, Statistics, or a related
field is required.
- Minimum
of eight (8) years working in monitoring, evaluation and research in the
public health field, with progressively increasing level of
responsibility.
- Must
have at least three years of experience supervising, monitoring,
evaluation and research efforts, preferably with respect to child welfare
and protection systems strengthening, capacity building, economic
strengthening, and service delivery.
- The
candidate must have strong quantitative or mixed-method and analytical
skills and ability to articulate technical information clearly and
effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Must
have strong skills using MS Excel Word, PowerPoint and Access, and at
least one data management software program (SAS, SPSS), experience
training others in its use is highly desirable.
- Must
have demonstrated leadership qualities, depth and breadth of technical and
management expertise and experience, and strong interpersonal, writing,
and oral presentation skills.
- Two
years of experience living or working in a developing country is
desirable.
Preferred: - Experience
working in Uganda or developing country.
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