Global Health Corps (GHC) Fellowship Jobs – Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Uganda Village Project (UVP)

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Job Title:  UG02-Int: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Organisation: Global Health Corps (GHC)
Placement Organisation: Uganda Village Project (UVP)
Duty Station: Iganga, Uganda
Salary: Monthly Stipend of 550 dollars per month
About GHC:
Global Health
Corps pairs intelligent and passionate fellows with organizations that require
new thinking and innovative solutions. We provide these young leaders with the
tools to remain connected after their fellowship year finishes, deepening their
ability to enact change through heightened skills and strong partnerships. We
currently place fellows in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States,
and Zambia.
About UVP: 
Uganda Village Project (UVP) is a nonprofit organization working with the people
of Iganga to promote public health and sustainable development in the rural
communities of this marginalized district in southeast Uganda. UVP facilitates
community health and well-being in rural Uganda through improved access,
education, and prevention. The organization’s flagship effort is the “Healthy
Villages” program; an innovative, grassroots approach where Uganda Village
Project works at a village-by-village level to address the most pressing
healthcare concerns of each community, including malaria, HIV and STIs,
household sanitation and hygiene, and family planning access. UVP also works
with obstetric fistula awareness and repair and provision of clean water
through shallow wells. Uganda Village Project has been working in Iganga
District for 10 years, and is committing to a year of robust evaluation to
ensure all projects are having the intended impact. This evaluation will cover
the current priority areas of: Malaria, HIV/AIDS
and STIs, Family planning, Sanitation and hygiene, Obstetric fistula, and Community-constructed
shallow wells
Job Summary: The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will run the monitoring and
evaluation work of Uganda Village Project to determine the effectiveness of the
current programs. This includes re-running our baseline survey from 2009 to
monitor changes, validating and analyzing current data, and creating new data
collection methods to improve continued monitoring and evaluation. This
position would be based in the office approximately 70% of the time and in the
field approximately 30% of the time. Although the position will work very
closely with the co-fellow for all M&E activities, both fellows will have
an opportunity for involvement in separate projects of their own interest.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Develop
    operational plan and budget for M&E initiatives
  • Re-run
    baseline survey to measure impact
  • Analyze
    collected data from the past 10 years to identify gaps, project outcomes,
    and areas of improvement
  • Create a
    system for continually monitoring and analyzing data from summer intern
    program-focused baseline surveys
  • Apply for IRB
    status and ensure all activities are compliant with their regulations
  • Develop and
    pilot improved evaluation instruments to improve monitoring of specific
    programs
  • Work in
    partnership with board members on the M&E taskforce to further
    evaluation activities
  • Create
    templates for future data collection and analysis
  • Prepare
    M&E sessions for summer intern orientation
  • Participate
    in proposal development for the evaluation section of funding proposals
  • Periodically
    update social media platforms (Facebook, blog, monthly newsletter) about
    M&E activities
  • Collect
    malaria net follow-up data
  • Conduct focus
    groups with Village Health Teams to help plan program implementation
  • Perform any
    other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The Job applicant must hold prior
    experience in monitoring and evaluation, including data collection,
    validation, and analysis
  • Computer literacy skills i.e.
    Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Access and Excel,
  • Comfortable working in a team and/or
    partnership environment
  • Be a Self-starter and self-disciplined
  • Capacity to multi-task: flexible and
    capable of working under pressure and tight deadlines with demonstrated
    ability to prioritize across multiple projects and relationships
  • Good Research skills
  • Excellent program planning and design
    and project management experience
  • The applicant should be fluent in
    written and spoken English; fluency in Luganda or Lusoga (Lusoga
    preferred)
Age: Below
30 Years
Job Terms and Conditions: Fellows will be provided with housing,
health insurance and a living stipend of $550/month. Additionally, fellows will
receive an award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship
year. Flights to and from the placement site and all other costs associated
with GHC programming are included, including $600 in professional development
funds. Housing will be arranged near the placement site in Iganga, a rural
community in Eastern Uganda.
Note: The
living stipend and completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency,
as determined by the placement organization.
How to Apply:
All
applicants who desire to be placed by the Global Health Corps in the
aforementioned organization should express interest by clearly following the instructions
at the web page below.
Deadline: 26th January, 2014

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