No Experience MEAL Volunteer NGO Jobs – Teach For Uganda (TFU)

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Job Title:    MEAL Volunteer (No Experience Job Opportunities)

Organisation: Teach For Uganda (TFU)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda.

 

About US:

Teach For Uganda (TFU) is a locally-rooted and globally-informed leadership development organization that leverages the power and knowledge of promising future leaders to ensure that one day, all children in Uganda will attain an equitable quality education, enabling them to thrive in constantly changing economies. We nurture leaders who are committed to advancing equitable access to quality education in low-income communities through our flagship 2-year fellowship program that attracts graduates from varied academic backgrounds to serve as full-time teachers in underserved primary schools to improve foundational literacy and numeracy skills for kids while developing their leadership skills. Post fellowship our alumni become lifelong advocates of quality education as community leaders, social entrepreneurs, and policy influencers collectively addressing the systemic challenges that hinder children from fulfilling their potential. We currently operate in 4 districts i.e., Luweero, Mayuge, Namutumba and Kayunga with 83 partner schools, 198 fellows and 32 Alumni.

 

Job Summary:  The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Volunteer will be responsible for undertaking routine monitoring through both quantitative and qualitative data collection activities, monitor progress against program/project performance indicators for reporting, learning, and program improvement and establish a mechanism for collecting, tracking, and responding to feedback and complaints from the stakeholders.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Program Support:

  • Work in close collaboration with the MEAL team, coaches, and head of programs, the job holder will participate in the design and development of monitoring tools and aligned indicator definitions across the TFU projects to ensure consistent and timely tracking of all project indicators.
  • Conduct routine monitoring, checking data completeness and identifying data quality queries, coordinating data collection activities for surveys, providing updates, and reporting to the MEAL officer/coordinator
  • In close support from the MEAL officer, ensure Quality Benchmark monitoring and ensure actions plans agreed on after QB monitoring are implemented in a timely manner.
  • Provide feedback on the monthly action plan tracker to the MEAL officer and MEAL coordinator.
  • Work closely with the TFU project team to ensure that performance indicators are regularly tracked and that activities implemented are well aligned with the indicators.

Complaints Response and Feedback Mechanism (CRM):

  • Collect complaints and feedback in close coordination with the Project and MEAL team. Track the timeliness of response to complaints and maintain an updated Project complaints tracker (Action tracker).

Partnerships:

  • Participate in joint field monitoring and provide regular guidance and support to ensure the partner’s effective implementation of MEAL according to expected standards and donor requirements.

Learning:

  • Foster and develop a culture of learning within the TFU projects based on learning priorities for the donor, staff, and partners.

Planning, Budgeting, and Reporting:

  • Should implement with the MEAL budget, and ensure timely implementation of MEAL activities.

Communication and Networking:

  • Create and sustain positive working relationships internally with other technical staff; externally with the district local government and civil society organizations (CSO) partners, and other stakeholders, and also maintain an up-to-date understanding of key development trends in the Project areas.


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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in either Statistics, Economics, IT, Humanities, or any other related field
  • Additional training and experience in monitoring and evaluation and MIS is an added advantage
  • At least one year of working experience in monitoring and evaluation of education / digital learning / financial–related projects with both local and international Organizations.
  • Experience in data collection and data cleaning.
  • Proven experience in managing stores
  • Knowledge and practical experience developing a MEAL System to generate data.
  • Computer proficiency, especially related to professional office software packages (Microsoft Office), particularly MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word and at least one analysis software (SPSS, STATA, Power Bi etc.);
  • Knowledge and use of various survey methods for monitoring of different programs;
  • Prior experience establishing and running coordination mechanisms;

 

How to Apply:

All candidates should Email their updated resumes with 3 professional referees and a one-page cover letter to jobs@teachforuganda.org Please indicate the position applied for in the subject line of your email. Your cover letter should include why you are interested in Teach For Uganda and in this position.

 

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 

Deadline: 25th June 2023

 

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