Plan International M&E Careers – Monitoring Evaluation & Learning Coordinator

Organisation: Plan
International
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Project Title:
Partnership for Empowerment of Vulnerable Girls and Women in Urban Slums of
Kampala City
Reports to: Monitoring
Evaluation & Research Manager
About Plan:
Founded 75 years ago, Plan
International is one of the oldest and largest child centered development
organizations in the world. We work in 50 developing countries across Africa,
Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out
of poverty. Plan’s vision is of a world in which all children realize their
full potential in societies that respect people’s rights and dignity. Plan is
independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations.
About Project:
Plan Uganda in partnership with
Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL) has received funding from Comic Relief to
implement a three-year project –Partnership for Empowerment of Vulnerable Women
& Girls in the Urban Slums of Kampala City. The project aims at
  • Supporting
    vulnerable girls/young women to gain employable vocational skills;
  • Increased
    access to integrated HIV/
  • Sexual
    Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) information, services and support;
    and
  • Increasing
    access to integrated early childhood care and development among children
    of the vulnerable girls and women in the urban slums.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Coordinates
    implementation of monitoring, evaluation & learning initiatives for
    the Project implemented in Kampala district including, development of
    Projects indicators, monitoring frameworks, tools and guidelines;
  • Take
    lead in the development and design of all researches within the projects
    working closely with the Project Coordinator, MER Manager, Program Unit
    Manager and technical specialists’ team.
  • Assist
    Training and Development activities and provides coaching and mentoring
    for Plan and partner staff on monitoring, evaluation & research;
  • Facilitates
    organisational learning by developing, collecting and disseminating
    relevant internal and external project information on monitoring,
    evaluation & research;
  • Prepares
    M&E quarterly progress reports on the Projects’ monitoring, evaluation
    & research initiatives for internal and external use;
  • Work
    collaboratively with partner staff to manage project data base; and
  • Offer
    technical support the utilization of the corporate M & E system within
    the project
  • Perform
    any other relevant job tasks and duties as required by protocol.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
  • The
    applicant should possess a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in
    Population and Demography, Statistics, Development, Social Sciences or any
    other relevant field;
  • Possess
    an additional Post graduate training in M&E or project planning and
    management would be an added advantage;
  • A
    minimum of three years’ experience in design and implementation of
    monitoring, evaluation and research initiatives for integrated HIV/SRHR
    and livelihood programs for vulnerable populations, especially the
    most-at-risk populations for HIV/AIDS such as Commercial Sex Workers and
    their children;
  • Working
    knowledge of environment and current effective practice on monitoring,
    evaluation and research approaches;
  • Monitoring
    and evaluation of rights-based programmes including use of participatory approaches,
    case studies and rights-based programming;
  • Possess
    excellent computer literacy skills in Excel, MS Access, SPSS and other
    statistical packages
  • Excellent
    communication skills, both in written English and in face-to-face
    presentations
  • Excellent
    skills in report writing and project documentation; and
  • Prior
    experience in using data management systems;
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified
candidates should send  their letters of application, together with
detailed and updated CVs, contact telephone numbers, copies of relevant
certificates, names and contact details of three references plus salary history
to: The Country Human Resources Manager, Plan Uganda.
Email:
uganda.recruitment@plan-international.org
Plan is an equal opportunity
employer and qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply.
NB: Only
soft copies of application will be considered and please indicate the position
in the Subject line. Only Short-listed candidates will be contacted.
As a child centered development
organization, Plan strives to ensure that children are kept safe in all the
areas we operate. The organization further has a child protection policy that
every staff is required to sign. Potential candidates will be required to
provide information confirming whether or not they have ever been convicted of
any child abuse crimes.
Deadline: 31st January, 2014.
NB:
Please consider your application unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by 28th
February, 2014

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