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Job Title:  Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Organisation: Pollicy

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

Pollicy is a feminist collective of technologists, data scientists, creatives and academics working at the intersection of data, design and technology to craft better life experiences by harnessing improved data.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:




Program Support

• Work with program teams on new project design, ensuring alignment with the new 5-year strategy.
• Develop and implement the impact measurement plan for the organization’s partnerships and projects.
• Conduct monitoring and evaluation and assessment in various locations to ensure that the implementation of the program activities go in line with the targets and deadlines.
• Prepare and submit monthly progress reports as requested.
• Guide the process for identifying the key performance questions and parameters for monitoring project performance and comparing it to targets. Design the format for such performance reports.
• With partners, local NGOs and stakeholders set out the framework and procedures for the evaluation of project activities.
• Guide staff and implementing partners in preparing their progress reports together analyze these reports in terms of problem and actions needed. Prepare consolidated progress reports for project management to submit to the relevant bodies, in accordance with approved reporting formats and timing.
• Review monitoring reports. Analyze them for impact evaluation and to identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in project implementation.
• Collaborate with staff and implementing partners in qualitative monitoring to provide relevant information for ongoing evaluation of project activities, impacts and outcomes of project implementation.

Develop and maintain a robust MEAL System

• Develop and manage the organization’s MEAL strategy & framework based on the Strategic Planning Document and share key learnings and best practices from implemented projects.
• Create and coordinate the review of project log-frames matrices
• Develop reporting mechanism for donor reports and others , as required while working closely with technical staff and other implementing partners
• Prepare consolidated progress reports for management including M&E finding
• Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to identify where adaptations might be needed.
• Handle updating organization automated MEAL system, and utilizing it to generate feedback to support making decisions with regards to corrective action, etc.
• Develop the overall framework for M&E. For example, annual project reviews. Participatory impact assessments, process monitoring, operation monitoring and lesson-learned workshops.
• Guide the process for identifying and designing the key indicators for each component, to record and report physical progress against the plan activities and also steer the process for designing the format of such progress reports.

Learning and capacity building (MEALK)

• Establish information-sharing mechanisms for project staff to document and share examples of good and bad practice and learning.
• Identify opportunities for research and learning questions in collaboration with the Programs team.
• Identify the capacity gaps and needs of the Programs and Research team, program quality and utilization of the MEAL system.
• Develop a learning/capacity building matrix to ensure teams capacity are built through continuous mentorship, coaching, training etc.
• Support with the implementation of the knowledge hub
• Lead and support with the consolidation of the organisational work plan and track implementation

Response and Feedback Mechanism

• Support Pollicy’s Programs team in the development of information sharing materials/briefs, posters and brochures, and dissemination of Project information materials to relevant stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The applicant should have relevant qualifications

How to Apply:




All suitably qualified and interested candidates are invited to submit a Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae to recruitment@pollicy.org . Please include MEAL Manager in the subject line.

Deadline: 18th July 2024 by 5:00 PM EAT.

NB: We work remotely and have a physical presence and office in Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya. This position is starting mid July 2024. Women are encouraged to apply.

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