Organisation: World Vision
Project: USAID funded HIV/AIDS / Health Project
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Chief of Party
About WVU:
World Vision Uganda is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy Non-Government Organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in over 40 districts in Uganda. World Vision is committed to the protection of children and we will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. “Our Vision for every child, Life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every Heart, the will to make it so.”
About USAID Project:
World Vision seeks to implement an anticipated USAID Funded Project titled Comprehensive HIV/AIDS and Health Services at the work place. The anticipated USAID project aims at reducing the incidents of HIV and other communicable diseases and improved the quality of care of those infected/affected through increased access to and use of comprehensive HIV/AIDs and other health services.
Job Summary: The Senior Advisor, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research will offer coordination and leadership for the monitoring, evaluation and research components of the cooperative agreement.
Key Duties and 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 M&E System:
- Develop the overall framework for project M&E in accordance to the project and document M&E plan.
- Carry out readiness assessment regarding M&E.
- Identify the requirement for collecting baseline data, prepare terms-of-reference for and arrange the conduct of a baseline survey, as required.
- Clarify M&E responsibilities of different project personnel.
- Significantly 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.
- Clarify process for monitoring and evaluations on sub-grantees.
- Compile and prepare detailed M&E budgets.
- Prepare calendar of M&E activities.
- Identify other M&E staff that the project needs to contract.
Implementation of M&E:
- Manage 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, emphasizing results and impacts.
- Assist in the development of project reports. Guide 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.
- Validate and check that monitoring data are discussed in the appropriate forum and in a timely fashion in terms of implications of future action. If necessary create such discussion forums to fill any gaps.
- Carry out regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to identify where adaptations might be needed.
- Build and grow participatory planning and monitoring by training and involving primary stakeholder groups in the M&E of activities.
- Actively 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.
- Organize (and provide) refresher training in M&E for project and implementing partner staff, local organizations and primary stakeholders with view of developing local M&E capacity.
Learning:
- Design and implement a system to identify, analyze, 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.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should possess a Master’s Degree or higher in Public Health, Social Sciences, or other relevant discipline
- At least eight (8) years’ experience working in monitoring, evaluation and research in the public health field, with progressively increasing level of responsibility.
- Prior experience working with multiple stakeholders and familiarity with PEPFAR indicators and reporting requirements will be an added advantage
- Proven expertise in rigorous quantitative and qualitative research and analytical methods including research/study design and implementation, design and data analysis, rapid appraisals, etc.
- Demonstrated hands-on practical experience setting up and managing MER systems for health programs in developing countries.
- Excellent report writing, analytical and communication skills, including oral presentation skills, knowledge management and dissemination of research findings.
- Demonstrated knowledge of management information systems.
How to Apply:
All candidates who desire to World Vision should send their applications and complete Curriculum Vitae, via email to [email protected]. Please address your application to the People and Culture Specialist (Recruitment) and do indicate the post title of the job you are applying for.
NB: Qualified female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply. However, only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Deadline: 31st July 2014
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