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• Serve
  as a member of the Organisation’s Management Committee, upholding
  organisational values and acting as a role model at all time
• Provide
  oversight and leadership ensuring that all elements of the Strategy are
  implemented to the expected standard.
• Develop
  a set of programme quality and performance tools to underpin the quality
  and performance of our new strategy and train staff in their use
• Working
  with the Programme team, ensure new mechanisms are in place for the
  monitoring, evaluation and reporting against our new strategy and
  programmes
• Ensure
  that all elements of our work are achieving impact on a bigger scale than
  we can achieve on our own
• Provide
  thought leadership through evidenced learning for the new strategy both
  programmatically and structurally

• Ensure
  that all UYONET programmes have appropriate monitoring and reporting
  indicators and tools in place, in line with internal and l donor grant
  management requirements.
• Build
  capacity of Programme team Unit in monthly monitoring, reporting and data
  (target) analysis as per requirements.
• Develop
  and support maintenance of relevant electronic database for programmes and
  build capacity of the programme team in use and management.
• Lead
  on the compilation of UYONET Donor Narrative and Technical Reports.
• Lead
  on the compilation of the UYONET Quarterly and Monthly Reports.
• Develop
  the Evidence Based Decision Making systems for all programmes and train
  the programme team on the technique.
• Ensure
  that monitoring and reporting systems, including fieldwork, collection of
  reports and data entry, are correctly implemented by staff and volunteers.
• Produce
  documents including case studies, study briefs, impact briefs for use by
  the team.
• Support
  fundraising through report and proposal writing, logistical framework

• Lead
  in the management of independent and external evaluations, such as
  baseline, endline surveys, including designing, budgeting, planning for
  data collection, analysis and report writing.
• Innovate
  in the measurement of the effectiveness of UYONET
• programmes,
  including utilising external data and external evaluators.
• Support
  the UYONET Management Committee to plan and implement evaluations of
  non-programme issues and system, including effectiveness of information,
  cost effectiveness, etc
• Together
  with the Management Committee & Programme Unit design annual research
  plans
• Lead
  research studies as and when required, including designing, budgeting,
  planning for data collection, analysis and report writing.

• Develop
  appropriate logistical frameworks and indicators for all programmes
• Plan
  and manage monthly Programme Quality workshops to ensure that evaluation
  and monitoring data informs programme implementation and development.
• Ensure
  that programmes contribute to national and international strategies –
  including National Implementation Framework III National Youth Policy, etc
• Support
  the programme team to appropriately format and disseminate programmes
  result and impact to programme stakeholders (including beneficiaries) at
  national, provincial, district and ward levels.
• Ensure
  programmes reflect the operational standard, strategy and practices of
  UYONET.

• Serve
  as active member of the UYONET Management Committee:
• Manage
  unit priorities through the development and regular review of unit
  operational plans and implementation calendars.
• Ensure
  timely documentation and dissemination of key findings from monitoring,
  evaluation and research, presenting Monthly and Quarterly progress reports
  to the Management Committee.
• Build
  and manage systems for sharing and learning within UYONET, including
  sharing external and internal information both within and outside the
  organisation.
• Lead
  the programme component of strategic planning and reviews in coordination
  with the programme team and immediate stakeholders.
• Develop
  annual budgets of Monitoring and Learning component activities, be the
  budget holder and monitor expenditure.

• Manage
  Monitoring & Learning staff through monthly meetings/updates,
  monitoring work, schedule workplans and review.
• Support
  staff through entire performance management cycle with regular objective
  setting and review.
• Build
  the capacity of the Management Committee in evidence based decision making
  and performance baseline management.
• Design
  and implement appropriate training programmes and support systems for
  volunteers and staff to ensure understanding and quality implementation of
  monitoring, and research systems.
• Serve
  as a role model-personally embodying UYONET mission and values, and
  strictly adhering to policies and procedures and ensuring other staff to
  do the same.
• Other
  (5%): Other duties as
  required, sometimes requiring working on weekends and holidays for which
  time off can be taken.

• The
  applicant must hold a Graduate degree (Masters preferable) in relevant
  field of study
• At
  least five years’ experience in development sector.
• Minimum
  of five years’ experience in programme design, monitoring and evaluation,
  including design of systems and tools, data analysis and report writing.
• Previous
  experience in designing and leading, on specific research projects
• Strong
  data analysis skills (quantitative and qualitative)
• Excellent
  report writing skills particularly donor reporting.
• Fluent
  in written and spoken English.
• Excellent
  IT skills, including relevant data management packages, including EpiInfo,
  SPSS, and others.
• Excellent
  interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Previous
  work experience in Uganda and national languages.
• Broad
  knowledge and understanding of contemporary development issues and trends
  in
• M&E
  in the field of international development
• Experience
  of performance managing people
• Experience
  of managing multi-site research works
• Experience
  in handling budgets and finances.
• The
  individual must be results oriented, highly self-motivated and have
  demonstrated analytical skills.
• She/He
  must be able to ‘see beyond the data’ with a vision for the strategic contribution
  of M&E/L data to all facets of the organisation
• The
  successful candidate will thrive in a multi-cultural environment as part
  of a rapidly growing and developing organisation and be personally
  committed to UYONET missions and values

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