Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator NGO Careers – Village Enterprise

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Job Title:  Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator

Organisation: Village Enterprise

Duty Station:   Uganda

 

About US:

Village Enterprise’s mission is to end extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation. Village Enterprise targets the poor, provides business training, seed capital/startup funds and on-going mentoring to over 10,000 new entrepreneurs to start 3,000 enterprises each year. Since its inception in 1987, Village Enterprise has started over 40,000 micro-enterprises.

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:  

Regional/Project Specific MEL Responsibilities: 60%

  • Lead implementation of MEL Team initiatives for region/project(s), including:**
  • Manage data collection budget and timeline
  • Measure and enforce adherence to data quality protocols, including:
    • Supervise Senior Enumerators, ensuring monitoring of data collection and ensuring audits are both carried out accurately and productively
    • Conduct timely data quality assessment of all incoming data and submit data quality reports to supervisor. Supervised DQA may be assigned to advanced Senior Enumerators.
  • Timely cleaning of all participant tracking and monitoring data
  • Analysis of participant tracking and monitoring data when needed
  • Maintenance of participant tracking and monitoring dashboards and custom reports; creation of
  • additional internal reports and memos as necessary
  • Creation of MEL Reports for funders/stakeholders in line with regional/project specific obligations
  • Train field teams of region/project(s) in data capture responsibilities as they relate to: targeting,
  • participant enrollment, participant tracking, grant applications, and business spot checks
  • Supervise Senior Enumerators to ensure high quality trainings are delivered to enumerators in
  • relation to all data capture responsibilities
  • Build and maintain relationships with field staff. Coordinate with staff from other teams as
  • necessary towards the following goals:
    • Procurement of enumerator protective gear and data collection equipment as needed
    • Open and clear communication channels are maintained for sharing of MEL findings;
  • Clear timelines are in place for when staff might expect formal reporting (ex., targeting
  • verification reports within 2 weeks of close of targeting; business owner registration stats available in real time but data fully cleaned within one week of final sync)
  • Additional findings are shared with relevant parties on an ongoing basis
    • Problems are brought forward, ‘lessons learned’ are openly discussed, and innovations/solutions are tested
    • Staff understand why information is needed from them and by when (for example, each cycle BM assignments are needed at least a week before the refresher training so that the database can be prepped and the new targeting forms can be assigned to the Business Mentors in advance of the training)
  • Supervise Senior Enumerators. In addition to responsibilities outlined above:
    • Recruit and train new Field Officers as appropriate and under the direction of MEL Manager
    • Support Field Officers in recruitment and training of Enumerators as needed under the direction of MEL Manager
    • Review Senior Enumerators’ planned expenses
    • Review Senior Enumerators field activity plans
    • Review Senior Enumerators field activity reports; on a monthly basis, aggregate relevant details from reports for sharing with staff (e.g., RMs, CDs, F&A, etc)
    • Host weekly meetings with Senior Enumerators
    • Other monitoring and evaluation tasks as assigned.

Cross-Region/Project MEL Responsibilities: 30%

In collaboration with other MEL Coordinators and under the guidance of the MEL Manager:

  • Create or maintain high quality training materials (Manuals, PowerPoint presentations, practice TaroWorks forms, etc)
  • Design (when necessary), create, and publish, data capture forms
  • For outcome data, assist with data cleaning, analysis and reporting
  • Database management
  • Participate in special project evaluations, and review of M&E tools
  • Develop and maintain templates to be used by Senior Enumerators for planning and reporting
  • Develop, document in MEL Manual, and maintain policies and procedures to be followed by Senior Enumerators
  • Maintenance of MEL Manual
  • Other monitoring and evaluation tasks as assigned.

Operations Role: 10%

  • Assist in the adaptation, implementation, monitoring, and expansion of the
  • Village Enterprise core program
  • Provide support to field management team when needed
  • Other operation tasks as assigned

Safeguarding:

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility at Village Enterprise. However, the MEL Coordinator is expected to escalate any safeguarding issues identified in the field to the HR Coordinator or the Director of Talent Management.





Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

  • Hold a degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Economics, Statistics or a related field
  • Have at least 3 years of experience conducting monitoring and evaluation for social impact programming.
  • Possess the technical knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the role, including
  • Strong quantitative skills and experience with data analysis; good command of STATA is desirable and will be tested.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint
  • Proficiency with Google Documents, Gmail, and Android applications
  • Understand the elements of data quality: consistent, complete, accurate, timely, verifiable, valid
  • Proven ability to design monitoring and evaluation plans, including developing theories of change and logical frameworks
  • Ability to develop SMART indicators
  • Literacy with the basic methods for data collection: surveys, interviews, performance tests, site visits/observation, focus group discussions, participatory methods, pre-existing data
  • Experience designing and implementing surveys
  • Experience conducting data quality assessments and with cleaning data
  • Experience supervising data collection and teams of field workers
  • Demonstrate ability to communicate key concepts to people with less than Level 5 education
  • Ability to orally communicate issues, problems, and key information
  • Ability to write clear, concise memos highlighting issues, problems, and key information
  • Experience working as part of a diverse team with the ability to work via email, phone, Skype, and other virtual communications
  • Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently, and a team player
  • Must be a very strong critical thinker able to identify potential solutions to challenges in new environments
  • Experience with Salesforce and/or Taro Works is a plus

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified candidates should send their Cover Letter and CV (Maximum 3 pages) including 3 referees, salary history and expectation. Submit your applications to ugandajobs@villageenterprise.org with subject Line MEL Coordinator.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis addressed to The Human Resource Coordinator.

As this position is based in Gulu, preference will be given to candidates living in Gulu or its environments.

 

Deadline: 1oth December 2021

 

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