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Organisation: AMREF Health Africa
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About AMREF:
AMREF
Health Africa is an international African organization founded in Kenya in
1957. Our Headquarters are in Nairobi with major programmes in Ethiopia, Kenya,
South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and two regional nubs in Southern and Western
Africa based in South Africa and Senegal Respectively. Working with and through
African communities, health systems and governments, Amref Health Africa aims
to close the gap that prevents people from accessing their basic right to
health. Amref Health Africa is committed to improving the health of people in
Africa by partnering with and empowering communities. Our Vision is Lasting
Health Change in Africa.
Job Summary: The Programme Officer, M&E will be responsible
for coordinating and leading the development and implementation of all M&E
activities of Amref Uganda programme. The programme M&E Officer has the primary
responsibility for identifying M&E needs, designing and maintaining data
collection systems and for ensuring that all necessary information, from both
routine reporting as well as from ad hoc data collection efforts and special
studies, is collected, analyzed and used in guiding internal project planning
and informing external partners about project activities and accomplishments.
The M&E Officer carries out all appropriate analyses, including the use of
complimentary data sets and secondary analysis, and fully documents activities
and accomplishments in the form of reports, publications, and presentations. The
incumbent will develop reporting systems and indicators to ensure quality,
timely, and accurate data collection, including baseline values as is
appropriate to track progress in meeting program objectives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • The jobholder initiates the
    development/review of key M&E documents that include the M&E Plan,
    PMP and Implementation schedules among others.
  • Offers support and review the projects plans,
    agree on performance indicators, methods of information collection and
    storage, monitoring time frames and roles/responsibilities for Country
    programs.
  • Document and disseminate projects M&E
    frame works to all project Managers and stake holders.
  • Assesses projects staff, local government
    staff, community Health Workers and VHTs capacity needs to appropriately
    use the activity report tools/forms and other performance related monitors
    for projects in Uganda country programs.
  • The incumbent takes lead in database
    development and maintaining the projects information management system for
    the projects area and update the Amref Program Data for all Country
    projects.
  • Work closely with relevant stakeholders and
    partners to ensure that the M&E system produces quality data required
    internally and externally as well as conduct data quality assessments.
  • Serve as the point focal person for all
    M&E demands, queries and procedures and analyze projects quarterly,
    monthly work plans to assess for compliancy to donor requirements and
    realization of goals.
  • Provides technical guidance to projects on
    integration of M&E into their TOR, work plans and Capacity building of
    projects in practices and processes for documentation.
  • Actively participate in all concept note and
    proposal developments for the enhancements of the Uganda portfolio.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The applicant should have a minimum of five
    years’ experience working in development programs for public health with
    at least three years in WASH /SRH.
  • Extensive knowledge of monitoring and
    evaluation methodologies i.e. both quantitative and qualitative data
    collection, processing and analysis;
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of routine
    health information systems, and literacy in management information
    systems;
  • Demonstrated practical skills in data
    analysis and report writing.
  • Computer skills especially statistical
    analysis using SPSS, Ms Access, STATA, Excel, among others
  • Good knowledge of Programme cycle Management
    and Development
  • Significant experience in monitoring and
    evaluation of development programs
How to Apply:
All
candidates are encouraged to send an updated CV including three professional
referees and cover letter addressed to the Human Resources Manager, Amref
Health Africa in Uganda via E-mail to: jobs.amrefuganda@amref.org. Emails
should not exceed 2MB.
Deadline: 25th April, 2016 by 5:00 pm

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