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• Build capacity of DMEO, Program Managers
  and Sector Specialists through on and off job-mentorship, identify
  learning opportunities for staff, and hold learning forums particularly in
  area of design, monitoring, reporting and evaluation. This shall be
  achieved through collaborating with different divisions, technical program
  leads, sector specialists, WV-EARO and Global center, partners, ministries
  and local governments to continuous build capacity of staff capacity in
  LEAP/DPA, design, monitoring and evaluation, research, technologies for
  M&E
• Mentor, train and build M&E capacity
  of program staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders according to World
  Vision Uganda Strategy, DME framework and Donor Guidelines.
• Spear head roll out of partnership
  initiatives from WV-EARO and Global center in relation to Design
  Monitoring and Evaluation

• Develop a capacity building and mentorship
  program for the national DME team aimed at enhancing their capacity and
  skills to assume increased M&E and programming responsibilities.
• Guide staff in preparing progress reports
  in accordance with approved LEAP reporting formats and ensure their timely
  submission. This includes monthly reports, quarterly progress reports,
  annual project reports, inception reports,

• Promote evidence based learning through
  undertaking operations research and documentation at National Office and
  program level through undertaking research, engaging programs in research,
  initiating topics or themes for research.
• Support programs to generate Most
  Significant Change evidence in form text i.e. magazines, or digital
  videos.
• Support the National Office to roll out
  research initiatives or products being piloted by the National Office,
  Support Offices, Global Center or National structures
• Support programs in documenting and
  disseminating innovations and new research findings related to DME
• Synthesize and summarize trends in AP
  monitoring data and data generated from evaluations that can be used to
  inform national level programming
• Promote and facilitate processes for
  identifying, documenting and disseminating good DME practices at a
  National Level
• Design and implement a system to identify,
  analyze, document and disseminate lessons learned.
• Assessments and evaluations
• Assure that baselines and evaluations are
  conducted in accordance to partnership/donor guidelines and standards,
  participate in development and review of Terms of References, provide
  technical backstopping to baselines, assessments and evaluations,
  collaborate with consultants, support offices or partners.
• Provide technical guidance in conducting
  assessments in line with established LEAP or donor related guidelines at a
  National level. In addition, identify the need and draw up the Terms of
  Reference for specific studies; Recruit, guide and supervise consultants
  to implement special surveys and studies required for evaluating programs
  effects and impacts.
• Support and strengthen adoption and use of
  Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) methodology using Open Data Kit
  (ODK) or any emerging recommended software for annual monitoring of
  program outcomes, assessments, evaluations or baseline surveys.
• Build and foster relationships with
  Government of Uganda counterparts, non-governmental organizations,
  academic and research institution, and work with them to advance M&E
  methodology, in close coordination with the DME Manager
• Contribute to all program development,
  research and needs assessments by monitoring the changing needs of target
  communities, identifying opportunities in line with WV Uganda mission
  & strategy and monitoring international best practices and development
  trends.
• Monitor and follow up on utilization of
  recommendations from evaluation surveys across programmes
• Conduct meta evaluation of all completed
  program evaluations to establish key learning and recommendations to
  inform future evaluations

• As part of the Quality assurance team at
  National level, hold periodic National level reviews to review reports,
  performance of programs and provide timely feedback to programs.
• Assure quality of data by enforcing data
  quality through routine data and M&E system quality audits at program
  level, in grants, WV partners and sub grantees.
• Provide technical support to national
  office and field program staff and partners on integration of the strategy
  standard indicators into ongoing or new programs/projects.
• Plan for and implement program planning
  and review meetings in line with the national strategy detailed
  implementation plan/National Annual Operating Plan
• Track timely implementation and reporting
  of programs plans
• Support the regional team in reviewing
  management reports as well as other M&E reports to ensure validated
  M&E data and M&E compliance with recommended guidelines, formats
  and standards.
• Compile graded summary reports on quality
  and develop summary reports key findings and learning

• Provide leadership to the national MIS
  systems (Horizon, GIS, OVC databases, WASH MIS, Automated Database) and
  build capacity of DME and Programme staff on the utilization and
  Management of MIS system management
• Develop/ rollout and manage WV Uganda’s
  integrated M&E database aligned to the National Strategy 2016-2020
  standard indicators and cascade the Database to programs, divisions,
  partners, grants/emergency projects to track statistics contributing to
  the National Office Strategy and Child Well-Being Targets.
• Roll out partnership initiatives from the
  EARO and Global Centre such as Horizon and any other databases and ensure
  that these are rolled out to all programmes at a national level
• Provide meaningful data summaries and
  visualization to demonstrate result to the NO and clusters on the
  contribution each of the program in regions is performing
• In addition, support application of
  software for results based monitoring and evaluation such as SPSS,
  EPIDATA, EPIINFO, STATA, GIS

• Analyze program data and periodic reports
  from different technical projects into periodic management reports usable
  for demonstrating evidence towards progress on National Office Strategy,
  for Technical Project Managers, senior management, Senior Leadership and
  other WV partnership offices.
• Support all programs/projects in World
  Vision Uganda including grants to undertake activity tracking and results
  based monitoring of outputs and outcomes using standardized reporting
  templates/ formats, protocols, guides, dashboards and databases ensuring
  contribution to the National Office Strategy
• Collaborate with Regional Specialists,
  Grants DME Specialists, Cluster DMEOs and division to ensure quality and
  timely submission of bi-annual and annual reports.
• Ensure timely availability of quality
  synthesized statistics at National Level for annual Child Well-Being
  reporting after a thorough/ rigorous validation process of data from
  technical projects and grants inclusive of emergency responses
• Promote utilization of data/information at
  program, sector and division level through regional meetings, at
  management meetings, at conferences, or partnership strengthened
• Develop/adapt and coordinate
  administration of monitoring tools to track program performance based on
  the strategy standard indicators and WVI partnership targets
• Compile progress reports for management
  purposes in line with the detail strategy implementation plan, DME
  framework and Donor Guidelines.
• Provide data to inform the development of
  concept papers, publication, and program reports in line with the WV
  Uganda Strategy, DME framework; for dissemination, internally to WVU and
  to external audiences including target communities, government
  bodies/agencies, Support Offices, Donors, professional communities as
  necessary.
• Consolidate all annual program reports and
  prepare the national office progress report on the WV International
  partnership targets
• 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.
• 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.

• The applicant for the World Vision Design
  Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist job opportunity should hold a
  Master’s degree in development studies, public health, demography, biostatistics,
  statistics, or a related field is required.
• At least five years’ experience managing
  data intensive programs in designing, monitoring, and evaluation
  methodologies is highly desirable.
• Previous exposure and experience with
  qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods,
  including tracking outcome indicators, is desirable.
• Working knowledge of designing and
  managing M&E systems at a national level for effective generation of
  monitoring data used in tracking Programme and improved service delivery
  and support related to development programming
• Previous xperience in designing M&E
  methodologies and tools, and the ability to coach and train others in
  their use is desirable.
• Excellent command of MS Excel, and working
  knowledge of at least two statistical data management packages/softwares
  (quantitative & qualitative) e.g., SPSS, Nvivo/Nudist, EPIINFO, STATA
  etc
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing,
  interpreting, and reporting on M&E results so that lessons can be
  learned and incorporated into programming is desirable.
• Report writing, research, monitoring and
  evaluation.
• Ability to work with inter-disciplinary
  teams and a wide range of program/project activities.
• Good report writing and communication
  skills

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