Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Organisation: GIZ Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
GIZ Uganda is the country office of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, a German federal development agency that manages international cooperation initiatives on behalf of the German Government. The agency has been active in Uganda since 1975, collaborating closely with the Ugandan government, private sector, and civil society to implement sustainable development projects.
Job Summary: GIZ Uganda is recruiting a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist to support the results-based monitoring of the programme, with a focus on intervention area 2.
The Monitoring and Evaluation specialist will be responsible for:
Supporting the effective and good quality implementation of partner projects
Developing partner organizations’ capacities when it comes to monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL)
Advising partner organisations regarding MEL-related aspects in the design and implementation of partner projects
Supporting the preparation and implementation of potential additional Call for Proposals for Sudanese CSOs
Contributing to reporting and knowledge-management and -sharing
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Monitoring and Evaluation specialist performs the following tasks:
Specific Tasks
Support with monitoring and evaluation of partner projects:
- Provide feedback, advice, and hands-on support to partner organizations with various aspects such as logframes, data collection tools and methods, and gender-and conflict-sensitivity of M&E processes
- Support in the collection, consolidation, and quality assurance of M&E data submitted by partner organizations
- Advise the project partners on using the programme’s M&E digital platform to submit data
- Support data validation efforts and oversight of third-party monitoring
Contribute to the programme-wide MEL system:
- Contribute to the design and coordination of qualitative and quantitative assessments informing the programme design
- Contribute to reporting to the commissioning party including narrative progress reports and requests for information
- Support in developing further data collection tools for the programme
- Contribute to programme dashboards
- Contribute to learning activities e.g., learning agendas, reflection sessions and lessons learned briefs
Support communications activities:
- Draft programme fact sheets for internal and external use
- Contribute to impact communication efforts e.g., success or impact stories as needed
- Contribute to GIZ Sudan’s external communications activities e.g., on social media
Other Duties/Additional Tasks
- Perform other duties and tasks at the request of management.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Social Science, Development Studies or related fields.
- Master’s is an added advantage
- Details of experience
- 5 years of professional experience in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems
- 5 years of professional experience in donor or donor-funded development programmes
- 2 years of experience of M&E-related capacity building targeting civil society organizations
- 4 years of relevant work experience in Sudan.
- Knowledge, skills and competences
- Familiarity with participatory methods such as outcome harvesting, most significant change
- Proficiency in English; excellent command of Arabic
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications, especially Excel and real-time collaboration and messaging.
- Familiarity with digital data collection or dashboard tools including PowerBI, Kobo or other similar programs
- Meticulous attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Experience in working in multicultural and decentral teams.
- Proven knowledge of Sudan and its civil society.
How to Apply:
Applications and CVs should be in one document and a maximum of 5 pages only and sent electronically, quoting the position and reference number.
Please include name and contact of three references. One official reference from your current workplace is a MUST.
Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply to the Head of Human Resources by email to vacancy@futureoptions.org until 11:59pm on Sunday 14th June 2026.
Please note: This is a national position. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Disclaimer: GIZ DOES NOT charge any kind of FEE(s) at whichever stage of the recruitment process.
Deadline: 14th June 2026
Deadline: 14th June 2026
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60