Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator NGO Jobs – Village Enterprise
Job Title: Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator
Organisation: Village Enterprise
Duty Station: Uganda
About US:
Village Enterprise is an International non-governmental organization whose mission is to equip people living in extreme poverty with the resources to create sustainable businesses. Village Enterprise has made a strategic decision to direct its poverty alleviation efforts on people living in extreme poverty in rural, sub-Saharan Africa. 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 years. Since its inception in 1987, Village Enterprise has started over 33,000 micro enterprises.
Job Summary: The Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator will support Village Enterprise in the dynamic field-level Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team and activities. Program areas of involvement include: oversight for implementation of participant tracking systems; data cleaning and analysis; database management; information management; report writing; field visits; staff trainings; innovations in monitoring and evaluation tools and methodologies; design and oversight of M&E for special projects; participation in organizational research initiatives. A minimum time commitment of two years is required.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- 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 MEL Senior Enumerator(s), 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.
- 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 MEL Senior Enumerator(s) 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 MEL Senior Enumerator(s). In addition to responsibilities outlined above:
- Recruit and train new Senior Enumerators as appropriate and under the direction of MEL Manager
- Support Senior Enumerators in recruitment and training of Enumerators as needed under the direction of MEL Manager
- Review MEL Senior Enumerator(s) enumerator planned expenses
- Review MEL Senior Enumerator(s) field activity plans
- Review MEL Senior Enumerator(s) field activity reports; on a monthly basis, aggregate relevant details from reports for sharing with staff (e.g., ACDs, CDs, F&A, etc)
- Host weekly meetings with MEL Senior Enumerator(s)
- Provide M&E support for Innovations and Learning initiatives as assigned by supervisor
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 Village
- Database management
- Participate in special project evaluations, and review of M&E tools
- Develop and maintain templates to be used by MEL Senior Enumerators for planning and reporting
- Develop, document in MEL Manual, and maintain policies and procedures to be followed by MEL Senior Enumerators
- Maintenance of MEL Manual
- Other monitoring and evaluation tasks as assigned.
Operations Role
- Assist in the adaptation, implementation, monitoring, and expansion of the Village Enterprise core program
- Provide support to field management team when needed
- Submit reports immediately to the Human Resource Coordinator on any identified safeguarding matters.
- Other operations tasks as assigned.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a university degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Economics, Statistics or a related field; preference will be given to candidates with a relevant Master’s degree (completed or enrolled).
- Three years of experience in conducting monitoring and evaluation for social impact programming
- Strong quantitative skills and experience with data analysis; good command of STATA
- 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
- Possess Training and Communication Skills
- 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 TaroWorks is a plus
How to Apply:
All candidates should send their cover letters and updated CVs (Maximum 3 pages) including 3 referees, salary history and expectation in one file to: ugandajobs@villageenterprise.org addressed to: The Human Resource Coordinator Subject Line: ‘MEL Coordinator Uganda’
Deadline: 18th December 2019
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