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Job Title:  Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Organisation: Uganda Network on Law Ethics and HIV/AIDS (UGANET)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Uganda Network on Law Ethics and HIV/AIDS (UGANET) is a registered, non-for profit, social Justice and law organization that champions human rights, and gender equality work in the context of HIV/AIDS and Health.

Job Summary:  This position therefore aims at recruiting a leader who will emphasize the importance of monitoring – the continuous and routine data collection that takes place across all activities on the project during this strategic period to show whether the project activities are driving towards meeting the set objectives.

Monitoring and Evaluation will be a cross cutting responsibility of all program areas – however to be proper oversight, coordination – monitoring and evaluation portfolio will be overseen and managed under the Head, Partnerships and Training, which office has been charged with additional role of championing knowledge and results management over the course of the strategic period. The M&E Officer will work in a department of 4 including a partnership Officer, 2 M&E Officer and headed by the partnership and training Officer. As such, a close collaboration and team work will be expected between these roles.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop/adopt a plan for project-related support supervision in M&E for staff and partners. Organize and undertake visits/meetings with collaborating partners on M&E as required. Check data quality with partners & staff.
• Collect data on a regular basis to measure achievement against the performance indicators. The Officer will subsequently update activity dashboards to truck indicators.
• Maintain and administer the M&E database; analyze and aggregate findings. Ensure continuous updating of the UGANET database and tools.
• Support project progress reporting for monthly, quarterly & project end reports and contribute to UGANET annual reports.
• Identify lessons learned and develop case studies to capture qualitative outputs of the project. Provide advice to the supervisor on improving project performance using M&E findings for knowledge management.
• Support project designing, programing, coordinating and implementation of activities. This will involve working in communities. Development of presentations, facilitating sessions and conducting trainings in the communities.
• Check that monitoring data are discussed in appropriate forum and in a timely fashion in terms of implications for future action. If necessary, create such discussions to fill any gap.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a first level university degree in statistics, demographics, public policy, international development, economics, Information Communication Technology/ICT or related field. Must have a post graduate diploma in M&E. Advanced certificate in M&E, statistics or economics preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in an M&E position responsible for implementing M&E activities and working in CSO setting.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
• Experience in designing and managing database systems.
• Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator tracking, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
• Experience in planning and managing activities like trainings, meetings and community dialogues for target project beneficiaries.
• Experience in developing and refining data collection tools.
• Experience with data quality assessments and oversight.
• Languages: Excellent written and spoken command of English and any national languages in Uganda.

Competencies:

• Good knowledge of programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation techniques and practices.
• Good knowledge and experience regarding gender mainstreaming and Human Rights for Gender, HIV, TB and malaria.
• Good moderation, coordination, communication, teamwork facilitation and training skills. Ability to work with and manage partners.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills.
• Good computer applications skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy. Non-discrimination for all partners and project beneficiaries.
• Ability to build on relevant knowledge within and outside UGANET as well as actively share her/his experience and expertise with colleagues and partners.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Ability to work under time pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work in diversified environments.

How to Apply:

All candidates with the necessary qualifications, competences, skills and experience should submit their application letter and a current CV in one Pdf or Word document and copies of their certified academic/professional certificates. Applications should specify the position applied for and the location, indicate their telephone contacts, email address and include three professional referees.

Applications should be addressed to; Executive Director, UGANET Plot 19, Valley Road Ministers’ Village, Ntinda-Kampala or Send your Application via email: applications@uganet.org

Note;

• That any Applicant who applies for MORE THAN ONE POSITION or sends an application letter and CV that are not merged into one Pdf or Word document will be automatically disqualified.
• That Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Deadline: 17th September 2023 at 5:00pm

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