Evaluation Officers
Moroto, Uganda
support From the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Irish
Aid is implementing the Expanding Social Protection (ESP) programme in Uganda.
The ESP programme is a 5 year programme within MGLSD which was launched in 2010
and is coordinated by the Social Protection Secretariat. It includes a pilot
cash transfer scheme (SAGE) providing regular cash transfers to older persons
and vulnerable families living in chronic poverty in 14 pilot districts,
reaching 15% of households in target districts. Our client Maxwell Stamp PLC
has been providing technical support to MGLSD to implement the ESP Programme
Maxwell Stamp PLC is now seeking to till key positions in the Social Protection
Secretariat on a full time basis up until February 2015.
Responsibilities:
- Monitoring progress at district,
sub-county and parish level on a regular basis on the basis of monitoring reports
from different stakeholders and field visits, carried out
in collaboration with the district SAGE team - Ensuring that the different stakeholders
involved in regular monitoring activities carry out their activities and
provide timely and good-quality reports. - Providing detailed feedback on monitoring
reports from (A) COO and parish chiefs and making suggestions
tor improvements. - Ensuring that any relevant data for
M&E is extracted from the MIS and used for analysis, planning and
decision-making. - Preparing monthly reports on the process
monitoring indicators, progress made according to the work plan,
challenges experienced and solutions found. - Feeding any relevant information to
district monitoring tools such as LOGICS - Providing inputs to quarterly review
meetings at district level where lessons learned are discussed,
improvements for the design and operations are made and it is strategized
how lessons learned can be applicable for other programs at
district and village level. - Ensuring that SAGE monitoring instruments
are harmonized with other government programs and ease monitoring
activities in other areas.
Experience:
- An M&E Officer with an appropriate
degree-level qualification in social sciences (i.e. economics, sociology,
political sciences) and at least 5 years of experience in managing M&E
systems and/or carrying out M&E related activities. - Strong data analysis skills and ability to
work with data management software - Ability to use standard computing packages
(MS Office programmes including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and suitable
project planning tools). - Experience building capacity of government
counterparts, mentoring and training. - Strong written and spoken English
- Ability to quickly analyse, understand,
interpret and convey complex scenarios and to strategize suitable and
effective solutions. - Ability to demonstrate integrity, which is
particularly relevant to prevention of and in response to corruption. - Excellent interpersonal skills such as the
ability to collaborate with and manage other team members, GoU, service
providers and other external collaborators
send their applications to:
Uganda
of academic certificates and two letters of reference. Only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us by the end of end
of June 2013. please consider your application unsuccessful.
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