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Job Title:  Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant (Fresher NGO Jobs)

Organisation: Spark Microgrants

Duty Station: Bulambuli, Uganda

About the Company:

Spark MicroGrants believes in a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. For nearly ten years, Spark MicroGrants has been pioneering a new approach to international aid. We believe in local solutions and catalyzing rural villages facing poverty into action.

Job Summary:   This role is crucial as we adopt and scale our model for families facing poverty to engage and lead in local planning and action. We need you to make sure we have 100% confidence in our data and can use them to make smart decisions as an organization as well as help our partners do the same.

Under the supervision of the Community of Practice (partnerships) Senior M&E Officer, the M&E Assistant will play an integral role in the collection, analysis and reporting of impact data at our District office at Bulambuli. You will be responsible for ensuring that high quality data are collected and utilized by the program team in decision making.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contributing to the development and design of logical measurement frameworks, monitoring systems and evaluation strategies, including participatory monitoring and feedback mechanisms for communities.
• Supporting the development of data collection tools especially for case studies and pilot monitoring and assessment.
• Ensure timely collection of continuous monitoring, research and learning data from all communities of operation in Bulambuli District including; Community monitoring data, Facilitator monitoring data, Project Monitoring data, Community evaluation data and bespoke research data by CBFs, Partner trainers and enumerators.
• Training, coordinating & overseeing Community Based Facilitators (CBFs) on the use of the spark monitoring system to collect high quality routine monitoring data
• Training CoP staff attached to Bulambuli, Bulambuli Local government officials, Partner trainers and CBFs on how to use dashboards to develop actions based on the reports in the dashboards
• Conducting monitoring field visits frequently with the program staff to monitor progress of community projects, supporting community members to record project monitoring data to ensure that the collected data are of the right quality
• Conducting data quality audits through field visits, spot checks and working with the Quality Assurance officer to do data verification quarterly
• Analyzing Bulambuli monitoring data, and presenting findings in CoP meetings on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
• Being a liaison between product and communities by collecting any feedback/queries/issues on our monitoring system (commcare & dashboards) and working with the product team to resolve/act on them.
• Following up with CBFs and Partner trainers to ensure that data related action points from CoP meetings are implemented
• Preparing quarterly reports to Local Government offices and representing Spark at the implementing partners’ meetings at District offices.
• Working with the Program team to document lessons learnt and community success stories on a quarterly basis about the FCAP and any running pilots.
• Contributing to any other assignments as identified by your supervisor.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree from a recognized university in a relevant field.
• Basic skills in data analysis with a good understanding of quantitative methods.
• At least 1-2 years of experience in program/project monitoring and evaluation, research, or data management.
• Proficiency in Excel, with added advantage for knowledge of R or Stata.
• Experience in preparing monitoring and evaluation reports.
• Strong communication skills in English (both written and spoken).
• Proficiency in spoken Lugisu/Lumasaba is highly desirable.
• Ability to interact professionally with diverse audiences.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in work.
• Flexible and adaptable to dynamic work environments.

Desirable:

• A Bachelor’s degree in any of the following fields: Statistics, Quantitative Economics, Mathematics, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Sciences, or a related discipline.
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection using Mobile technology
• Demonstrated passion for community led development projects/programs
• Understanding of analysis software: R or STATA (R Preferred)
• Experience in managing a team of enumerators/staff
• A person from the Elgon region has a greater advantage

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