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Job Title:  Design, Monitoring and
Evaluation Specialist

Organisation: World
Vision International

Duty Station: 
Uganda

Reports to: Area
Coordinator

About US:

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 41 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.”

Job Summary:  The Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
Specialist will provide technical guidance and field support to the Child
friendly spaces research team working in various locations in Arua District in
terms of field coordination, logistical planning, capacity building, assessment
sampling designs, routine monitoring of all field implementation of research activities,
serve as the focal point for the data collection, collation and safe storage of
data using mobile technology, and produce summary reports, technical briefs,
and peer-reviewed journal articles. The position will be required to establish
and build the capacity of the research team in close collaboration the child
protection team, partners and other relevant stakeholders.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

Management of
Research and Learning Logistics

• Liaise with NO to provide logistical arrangements for the research
  technical team
• Work closely with relevant DM&E and program staff to ensure
  collaborative reporting, monitoring, and evaluation of existing CFS
  programming
• Conduct selection, recruitment, training, and management of
  enumerators and translators when necessary
• Prepare financial documents for payment of enumerators and
  translators
• Work with the procurement team to ensure items and materials are
  purchased in a timely manner
• Coordinate quantitative and qualitative data collection activities
• Work with the Qualitative Research Manager to ensure all research
  assistants and enumerators are supervised, guided, mentored and supported
  to undertake research
• Together with the Qualitative Research Manager, provide management
  and supervision for ongoing monitoring activities to maintain fidelity to
  the research plan
• Ensure strong leadership in Child and Adult Safeguarding within the
  research
• Development and adaptation of research tools and methodologies
• Review quantitative tools, and under the guidance of the research
  director and/or research coordinator, adapt, pilot, and finalise them for
  cultural and contextual relevance.
• Assist in designing cluster level sampling framework for the
  different research waves
• Support regular translation of data and findings to research team

Collation and Safe
Storage of Data

• Undertake management of data collection technology backbone
• Ensure privacy requirements including but not limited to enumerator
  phones, computers, etc; securing informational privacy of data collected
• Collating programme records in a coherent system
• Liaise with local service providers to collect and collate programme
  referral records
• Track programme service and behavior incident referrals monthly and
  ensure appropriate reporting procedures are kept by programme staff
• Track programme attendance daily and collate in weekly reports to
  ensure accurate attendance reporting procedures are kept by programme
  staff
• Track all required process-related indicators and collate in weekly
  reports
• Ensuring safe, confidential storage of all data

Data Entry and
Reporting

• Ensuring prompt and reliable electronic data entry using Excel
• Together with the Qualitative Research Manager, ensure appropriate
  and timely translation of all research documents
• Conduct basic, preliminary analysis of data following baseline,
  endline and follow-up data collection
• Provide periodic summary reports to the research team in a timely
  manner (based in New York & Uganda)
• Provide weekly reports to the line supervisor in a timely manner
• Produce 1st draft of all technical reports
• Draft text to support peer-review journal article development
• Ensure key findings from the measurement processes in Wave one, two
  and three are shared with World Vision management and external entities as
  advised by the immediate supervisor

Learning and Other
Duties

• Ensure Learning events are conducted for direct & partner
  implemented projects before the closure of the project in order to
  document learnings and best practice for future programs.
• Ensure all data, reports, and records are clearly organized archived
  in a central location for future reference.
• Ensure WV is well represented at field level related working groups
  and forums Ensure information sharing, Consultation, Participation &
  Complaints and response of affected people is integrated as a mainstream
  element of the research
• Ensure the effective coordination with DME staff at the National
  Office for the progress of CFS project
• Where necessary, liaise with external agencies to ensure the project
  activities are correctly understood, and are able to receive necessary
  support (including community engagement activities)

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant for the World Vision Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
  Specialist job placement should preferably hold a Master’s degree
  preferably in the field of social sciences, public health, project
  planning and management, statistics or development studies
• At least five years of experience in the field of Operational
  research, monitoring and evaluation, assessments especially in emergency
  context
• Extensive knowledge of research quality assurance process including
  Institutional review approvals, translations, mobile data collection
  methodologies, etc.
• Thorough knowledge in writing technical reports especially in child
  protection, psychosocial support and mental health.
• Thorough knowledge of humanitarian operations coordination and
  cluster operations in a refugee context is essential.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Fully competent in MS Excel, and Word.
• Proven experience in managing competing research and assessment
  priorities, designing and developing rigorous assessment methodologies,
  monitoring and evaluation plans, and reports, preferably in humanitarian
  settings
• Proven experience in leading Surveys (mix methodologies) from
  designing to report writing.
• Proven experience in budgeting and field level facilitation of
  different stakeholders
• Experience in quantitative, qualitative, and community-based
  participatory methodologies and data collection including survey design,
  implementation and analysis
• Experience working on research with children and thorough
  understanding of ethical requirements of such work
• Ability to train, mentor, and manage teams of local enumerators
• Must be able to function effectively in a fluid and complex work
  environment and to set appropriate priorities and deal effectively with
  numerous simultaneous requirements with multiple partners and stakeholders

How to Apply:

All suitably
qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online by visiting World Vision
International’s e-recruitment jobs portal at the web link below.

Click
Here

Please follow
instructions on How to Create Account and Profile at World Vision’s
e-recruitment portal.  Qualified female candidates are particularly
encouraged to apply.

Deadline: 19^th May 2019

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