Job Title: Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator
Organisation: STIR Education
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: UGX 59,711,880 /=
About Organisation:
STIR Education is an International NGO currently working in Uganda and India, creating a movement of Teacher Changemakers and driving improvements in children’s learning. STIR see’s teachers as the solution; and is building a teacher-led movement to improve children’s learning from within the system itself; by creating local collaborative networks of teachers who develop professional practices and skills to improve learning. STIR is currently focused on India and Uganda where in just three years, it has reached over 14,000 teachers, who are impacting learning for 450,000 children.
Job Summary: As a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Coordinator, you will have a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in supporting the M&E function that supports evidence-based decision-making within our organization. Reporting directly to the M&E Senior Manager, you will gain hands-on experience in the design, implementation, and management of research activities across diverse program areas. This role provides a platform to build skills in data collection, analysis, and quality assurance while working closely with the program teams, enumerators, and stakeholders.
You’ll be integral in enhancing our organization’s data-driven culture by supporting data systems, conducting field visits, and helping to translate data insights into meaningful program improvements. This position is ideal for someone passionate about leveraging data to inform impactful programs and eager to develop their career within the field of M&E.
The M&E Coordinator role will be based in Kampala with regular travel to program implementation areas to ensure close collaboration with our various programme teams and evaluation partners, and to The post will report to the M&E Manager
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Data Collection and Management
- Conduct Data Collection: Conduct data collection and support program teams with implementing data collection processes, ensuring that data is gathered accurately and on schedule.
- Quality Control: Perform quality checks on data, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and adherence to data collection standards.
- Field Supervision: Oversee field activities and support enumerators during data collection, providing supervision and support as needed to maintain data integrity.
- Data System Management: Regularly update and maintain data in internal systems and dashboards, ensuring data is accessible for monitoring, reporting, and learning purposes.
Research and Evaluation Support
- Enumerator and Vendor Coordination: Support the M&E Manager with the recruitment, training, and management of enumerators and vendors.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with stakeholders to support field mobilization and effective coordination of research and evaluation activities.
- Suggest and provide support for potential research, assessments and evaluations
- Field Visits: Conduct regular visits to monitor data collection processes and provide feedback for improvement.
Data Analysis and Reporting
- Data Insights and Reporting: Work closely with the M&E Manager to contribute to analysis and reporting, assisting in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual data updates.
- Evidence Communication: Help create clear, concise reports and visualizations for stakeholders, ensuring data insights are user-friendly and actionable.
- Support Evidence-Based Decision-Making: Provide program teams with key findings from monitoring and evaluation activities to inform planning and decision-making.
- Contribute to extracting critical lessons learned, documenting good practices, as well as identifying and highlighting achievements of objectives and outcomes.
Training and capacity building
- Training Support: Support in developing and delivering training modules to strengthen data literacy and M&E capacity among program staff.
- Capacity Building Follow-Up: Conduct follow-ups with program staff to address challenges and encourage effective use of data for decision-making.
- System and Platform Training: Work together as the M&E team to introduce and train program staff on data systems and platforms, addressing feedback for continual improvement.
Collaboration and Team Support
- Work Across Teams: Maintain collaborative relationships with program, data, and technical teams to support M&E processes effectively.
- Process Improvement: Identify areas for improving data collection, management, and reporting processes, and work with the M&E Manager to implement enhancements.
- Values Alignment: Model organizational values, encouraging a growth mindset, efficiency, and cost-effective use of resources in all activities.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- At least 3 years’ work experience in a relevant position in the development or NGO sectors, preferably including some experience outside Uganda.
- Post-graduate or graduate degree preferably in Economics, Monitoring & Evaluation, Social Sciences or Statistics Development Studies or other relevant field
- Experience in designing or implementing M&E frameworks and systems.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of different qualitative and quantitative tools and methods.
- Proven capabilities in mentoring, training and facilitation, with a will to build and grow team members’ capacities.
- Advanced command of Google sheets, especially its analytical functions, and knowledge of data analysis Software preferably knowledge of R, STATA, NVIVO or MaxQDA is an asset.
- Ability to coordinate and communicate effectively with multiple programs, vendors and functions as per timelines.
- Autonomous and proactive, with a sense of initiative, adaptability and flexibility
- Detailed and results oriented, with an ability to analyse and think strategically
- Excellent command of written and spoken English.
- Ability to receive and incorporate feedback.
REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS
A salary of UGX 4,975,990 per month (59,711,880 per annum) will be paid for your service subject to relevant taxes at source) along with Medical Insurance for yourself, spouse and up to two children.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
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Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36