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Job Title:    District Monitoring &
Evaluation Assistant (2 Job Opportunities)

Organization:  Uganda
Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO)

Duty Station:  Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to: M
& E Manager

 

About US:

Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) is an indigenous Non-Governmental
Organization registered with the Uganda NGO Board and is committed to improving
the quality of life of orphans and other vulnerable children.

 

About USAID ICYD Activity:

The USAID Integrated
Child and Youth Development Activity (USAID ICYD Activity) aims to improve
learning outcomes, advance HIV epidemic control in Uganda, and ensure that
children and youth can lead resilient, healthy, and productive lives. The USAID
ICYD Activity will deliver critical HIV/GBV/violence prevention and response
services to children and youth and their families in communities, clinics, and
schools. Within USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance Framework, USAID ICYD Activity
will build the operational and technical capacity of four Ugandan Primary Local
Partner (PLP) organizations to become direct recipients of USG funding within
two years while strengthening government capacity to deliver core services to
children within an integrated referral network and case management system.

 

Job Summary:  The District M&E Assistant will be
responsible for capturing data into the database and M&E system.
Periodically do field visits to field structures for coaching in data capture
and management for allocated Districts. The District M & E Assistant will
Report to the M & E Manager.

 

Key Duties and
Responsibilities:

·        
Implement
the project Performance Monitoring Plan and data collection tools.

·        
Support
routine M&E of project activities & keep track of all the monitoring
and evaluation schedules and work with the project’s technical staff, district
personnel and other stake holders to design and implement M&E procedures.

·        
Establish
processes and protocols for overseeing data collection, verification, and
quality assurance at community and district levels.

·        
Participate
in developing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual work plans and maintaining
high standards of stewardship and accountability for all activity resources.

·        
Provide
supervision to staff and partners to ensure proper implementation of planned
activities following the set Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

·        
Mentor
and support staff, partners, and community resource persons on effective
documentation of project activities and report writing.

·        
Maintaining
an up-to-date data base for all beneficiaries, households and ensure all
relevant data collection documents are administered appropriately.

·        
Analyse
data, review monthly and quarterly reports for onward submission to the M &
E Manager.

·        
Provide
updates from monitoring and data analysis to the program staff and management
as required.

·        
Participate
in any M&E trainings.

·        
Coordinate
internal Routine Data Quality Assurance (RDQA) sessions at all levels and
ensure that findings are shared with Program Team.

·        
Ensure
that indicator data evidence is submitted by technical teams in a timely
fashion, is reviewed for completion, and is filed as per standard operating
procedures.

·        
Perform
regular data backups.

·        
Maintain
records of project data, lessons learned, success stories and best practices
and share with all concerned.

·        
Ensure
implementation and maintenance of project databases and maintain a functional
physical document management system at the district level.

·        
Conduct
support supervision visits to implementing partners to observe, monitor, and
provide guidance and quality feedback on the use of data collection tools.

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·        
The
ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree, Social Sciences, Development
studies, Health Informatics, or related fields.

·        
A post
graduate qualification in Monitoring and Evaluation is an added advantage.

·        
Three
(3) years of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation. Experience with USAID OVC
projects is an added advantage.

·        
Advanced
skills in Microsoft (Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint).

·        
Experience
in working on databases (online beneficial) and Ministry databases (OVC MIS,
HMIS).

·        
Experience
cleaning, entering, aggregating, and generating reports from data using
database platforms.

·        
Ability
to do data visualization into info graphics and design clear and attractive
presentations and other communication documents to communicate results are an
added advantage.

·        
High
level of accuracy, attention to detail and thoroughness.

·        
Ability
to work under minimal supervision, be proactive, initiative and with sound
judgment.

 

How to Apply:

All suitably
qualified and interested applicants should submit an application letter and
curriculum vitae electronically to: jobs@uweso.org with the position you are
applying for in the subject line. Only electronic applications will be
considered. (All applications should be in a single PDF file of maximum size –
5MB)

 

Deadline: 13^th November 2020 by 5 pm.

 

NB: We
shall only respond to shortlisted candidates. All invitations for interviews
will be done formally.

 

If you meet the
above requirements, please submit an online application via the link.
https://bit.ly/3elPQFE

 

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