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Job Title:  Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (Part-time Jobs)

Organisation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. Founded in 1975, IFPRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium, a global research partnership for a food secure future. The mandate of IFPRI is to identify and analyze alternative national and international strategies and policies for meeting world food needs in ways that conserve the natural resource base, with emphasis on low income and on the poorer groups in the countries.

About Project:

IFPRI – HarvestPlus Uganda with funding from Latter-Day Saints (LDS), seeks to scale biofortified crops in refugee settlements in Rwamwanja, Kyangwale, Kiryandongo and Lamwo as a food-based approach to address food and nutrition insecurity and micronutrient malnutrition. This will involve working with NGO partners in refugee settlements to increase the production, consumption, and marketing biofortified crops. To accomplish these activities, HarvestPlus is seeking consultants on a part time basis to support implementation of these project activities in the project area.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop data collection tools for the various indicators.
• Train partner staff and support partners to ensure collection of relevant and appropriate data.
• Collate the data collected by various partners and enter it in the HarvestPlus database.
• Participate in regular planning and review meetings to enable participatory monitoring evaluation and learning of partners to improve performance.
• Participate in report writing
• Participate actively in program planning process to ensure that MEL activities are incorporated in work plans for partners.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, Statistics, Social Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Business Administration, or Development Studies with 5 years’ experience.
• Experience in M&E methods and approaches (quantitative, qualitative, participatory field research methods) including practices in the agriculture or nutrition sectors.
• Proficient in Microsoft office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), knowledge of statistical software (STATA or SPS5).
• Skilled in data management and analysis.
• Very good oral and written English communication skills; fluency in some local languages.
• Collaborative, self-motivated, and able to work well within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Very good interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience working with NGO community and local governments,
• Knowledge of pro-poor strategies; gender-sensitive approaches.
• Solid understanding of rural development, with a focus on participatory processes, joint management, and gender issues.

How to Apply:

All qualified and interested candidates should send a one-page application letter and CV of not more than 3 pages including names, phone number and email contact of 3 professional referees. Applications should be emailed to;

IFPRI-KampalaRecruitment@cgiar.org and copied to M.Adrabo@cgiar.org c/o IFPRI PO Box 28565, Kampala

Deadline: 24th March 2024

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