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• Develop capacity of staff to utilize
  existing M&E tools for proper tracking and reporting in line with
  World Vision Uganda M&E Framework (LEAP), including coaching and
  mentoring for staff, partners and other stakeholders on Design,
  monitoring, evaluation & research.
• Provide technical assistance, guidance,
  and direction—related to M&E plans and systems, performance management
  for grants and the Karamoja region in World Vision Uganda. Support DME
  staff in design of above named projects, monitoring of projects and
  preparing project progress reports.
• Guide staff in grants and Karamoja region
  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,
• Develop a capacity building and mentorship
  program for the grants DME team aimed at enhancing their capacity and
  skills to assume increased M&E and programming responsibilities in
  line with WVU M&E frame work and Donor guidelines

• Develop and lead the implementation of the
  overall grants M&E framework including annual project reviews,
  participatory impact assessments, process monitoring, operations
  monitoring and lessons-learned workshops
• Analyze program data and periodic reports
  from different grants and the Karamoja Region 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 grants in World Vision Uganda
  including Karamoja Region 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
• Promote utilization of data/information at
  program, sector and division level through regional meetings, at
  management meetings or conferences for grants and the Karamoja Region
• Coordinate the process of annual outcome
  monitoring for grants and the Karamoja Region to ensure that all
  participate in the national outcome monitoring process using LQAS
  methodology and the adoption of ODK and GIS technology
• Perform periodic data quality assessments
  to ensure validity, integrity, precision, reliability and timeliness of
  all performance data; identify any deficiencies and suggest corrective
  actions; and assist the technical team members to maintain electronic and
  hard copy files.
• Establishing and managing a performance
  monitoring framework for grants with clear goals, outcomes, outputs,
  inputs, processes, indicators, data needs and sources, and reporting
  formats and frequency, for effective monitoring, reporting and updating
  progress of the grants.
• Support strategic thinking and planning in
  relation to integration of the management information system (MIS) and
  application of M&E data.
• Support programs to generate Most
  Significant Change evidence in form text i.e. magazines, or digital
  videos.
• 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 grants and the Karamoja Region 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 from grants and the
  Karamoja Region that can be used to inform national level programming

• Coordinate planning and implementation of
  monitoring, evaluation & research initiatives and actively facilitate
  and support development of grants annual work-plans and budgets
• Participate in designing of
  grants/proposals and ensure alignment of grants to the national office
  strategy and LEAP frame works
• Coordinate annual review and planning
  process for grants and the Karamoja region in line with the national DME
  calendar
• Support resource acquisition through
  development of concepts, proposals and response to RFAs

• Provide technical guidance in conducting
  assessments, baselines and Evaluations 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 grants
  projects outcomes, assessments, evaluations or baseline surveys
• 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.
• Regularly monitor and follow up on
  utilization of recommendations from evaluation surveys across grants and
  Karamoja Region
• Conduct meta evaluation of all completed
  program evaluations to establish key learning and recommendations to inform
  future evaluations

• Assure quality of data by enforcing data
  quality for grants and the Karamoja Region through routine data and
  M&E system quality audits at project level, or grants, WV partners and
  sub grantees.
• Offer technical support to field staff in
  grants and Karamoja region 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
• Keenly track timely implementation and
  reporting of programs plans
• Support grants 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 grants summary reports on
  quality and develop summary reports key findings and learning

• Offer technical guidance to grants M&E
  teams in the utilization of national MIS systems (Horizon, GIS, OVC
  databases, WASH MIS, Automated Database) and build
• Roll out partnership initiatives from the
  EARO and Global Centre such as Horizon, GIS for grants 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
• Support application of software for
  results based monitoring and evaluation such as SPSS, EPIDATA, EPIINFO,
  STATA, GIS

• The applicant for the World Vision Grants
  Design Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Specialist career placement
  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 experience in proposal writing
  and development, grants management
• Prior exposure and experience 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/software’s
  (quantitative & qualitative) e.g., SPSS, Nvivo/Nudist, EPIINFO, STATA
  etc
• Significant 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.
• Excellent report writing and communication
  skills

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