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Job Title:  Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist  

Organisation: Opportunity International

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Head Refugee Finance

About US:

Opportunity International is a global nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for entrepreneurs to build their businesses, children to go to school, farmers to feed their communities, and families to end the cycle of generational poverty. For nearly 50 years, we have developed innovative programs that use financial services, training, and support to address some of the greatest challenges facing those living in poverty around the world.

Job Summary:   Opportunity Bank in collaboration with Opportunity International now seek to  recruit a creative, agile and result driven individual to fill the position of Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist.

Job purpose: The M&E Specialist will monitor Re-Fin activities against the program’s theory of change to improve the livelihoods of refugee and host communities through financial services, skills development and market linkages. They will run standard survey tools, ensure data quality control, and conduct project evaluations and data analysis.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Monitoring and evaluation strategy implementation

• Develop and oversee the implementation of the Re-Fin program ME& L strategy in Uganda, across multiple donor projects.
• Analyze data collected by Opportunity Community Support Agents (CSAs) and conduct baseline and annual surveys for new cohorts of CSAs.
• Execute the ME&L work plan promptly, refining tool protocols and reporting against progress on activities and timelines.
• Analyze data output from CSAs, external evaluators and project partners, and generate key insights for program reporting, operations and implementation of adaptive management strategies.
• Liaise with Re-Fin external learning partners contracted for specific third-party studies.

Data collection and presentation

• Work with Opportunity Ag Finance (Comcare) data management platform to develop and implement data collection tools to capture Re-Fin data needed to execute ME&L strategy.
• Incorporate existing data into Comcare platform.
• Build capacity of the local team in the use of M&E tools.
• Train and support CSAs in data collection and survey protocol when utilizing CSAs for research or studies.
• Conduct quality assurance on all data collected, ensuring it meets the criteria of timeliness, accuracy, validity, reliability, integrity, and completeness in coordination with the data management team.
• Use data to create effective reports, visuals and dashboards to show program impact.

Project activities

• Provide technical support, including developing logframe, identifying key indicators, and creating M&E plans for specific projects or grants awarded in Uganda.
• Organize and facilitate progress review meetings with program teams to assess the status of program activities, identify challenges, and recommend corrective actions.
• Develop and review documents or reports that capture learnings; integrate learnings into program activities.
• Document best practice: lessons learned and evidence base
• Present Quarterly impact /dashboards as part of the of SM calls
• Be part of the dissemination of the Programme wide impact
• Design surveys, lead focus group discussions, key informant interviews, or other monitoring tools specific to projects in Uganda.
• Draft reports, client stories, or other outputs around learnings on projects for donor reporting for wider dissemination.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The applicant should have relevant qualifications

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters, academic documents, together with their curriculum vitae in one PDF Folder clearly stating the job title in the subject line to recruitment@opportunitybank.co.ug

Deadline: 5th March 2025 by 5:00 Pm

Please include your current salary in your application.

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