Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor for Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation (PME) Jobs – GIZ Uganda

Job Title: Civil Peace Service (CPS) Advisor for Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation (PME)

Organisation: GIZ Uganda

Duty Station: Soroti, 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: The PME Advisor ensures methodological quality and strategic coherence across all CPS levels, promoting a context-sensitive, aligned, and impact-oriented multi-level approach.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Joint Country Strategy (TLS): Advise Program Coordination on preparing, reviewing, and monitoring the TLS, ensuring alignment with CPS objectives
• Program Planning & Monitoring: Support strategic and operational planning, implement impact-oriented monitoring, and integrate cross-cutting issues such as conflict sensitivity, human rights, diversity/intersectionality
• Program Proposals & Portfolios: Contribute to new program proposals and portfolio drafts, ensuring compliance with EG and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) standards
• Project-Level Support: Facilitate participatory planning, monitoring, and evaluation with partners; apply suitable tools, define roles, and support reporting
• Learning & Adaptation: Develop recommendations based on monitoring results to foster learning and adaptive management
• Knowledge   Management : Systematize PME findings, document good practices, and channel lessons learned into internal and external learning processes
• Networking & Exchange: Contribute to knowledge sharing within CPS partners, GIZ CPS structures, the consortium, and GIZ platforms

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• University degree in Social, Political, or Cultural Sciences, or a comparable professional qualification, preferably with a focus on Peace and Conflict Studies
• Several years of professional experience in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
• Several years of professional experience in civil conflict resolution and peacebuilding in crisis or conflict contexts, preferably as a CPS PME Advisor
• Proven experience in project/program management and coordination; Expertise in conflict-sensitive approaches and participatory methods and in training, facilitation, and adult learning
• Excellent communication, advisory, and interpersonal skills; strong self-organization, strategic thinking, and intercultural competence
• Driving license and willingness to undertake frequent business trips in the region; Work experience in Africa is desirable
• EU citizen
• Fluent in German and/or English

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

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Deadline: 13^th October 2026

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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Level of Education: bachelor degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60