2 District Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant NGO Jobs – UWESO
Job Title: District Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant (2 Job Opportunities)
Organization: Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: M & E Manager
About US:
Uganda Women’s Effort to Save Orphans (UWESO) is an indigenous Non-Governmental Organization registered with the Uganda NGO Board and is committed to improving the quality of life of orphans and other vulnerable children.
About USAID ICYD Activity:
The USAID Integrated Child and Youth Development Activity (USAID ICYD Activity) aims to improve learning outcomes, advance HIV epidemic control in Uganda, and ensure that children and youth can lead resilient, healthy, and productive lives. The USAID ICYD Activity will deliver critical HIV/GBV/violence prevention and response services to children and youth and their families in communities, clinics, and schools. Within USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance Framework, USAID ICYD Activity will build the operational and technical capacity of four Ugandan Primary Local Partner (PLP) organizations to become direct recipients of USG funding within two years while strengthening government capacity to deliver core services to children within an integrated referral network and case management system.
Job Summary: The District M&E Assistant will be responsible for capturing data into the database and M&E system. Periodically do field visits to field structures for coaching in data capture and management for allocated Districts. The District M & E Assistant will Report to the M & E Manager.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Implement the project Performance Monitoring Plan and data collection tools.
- Support routine M&E of project activities & keep track of all the monitoring and evaluation schedules and work with the project’s technical staff, district personnel and other stake holders to design and implement M&E procedures.
- Establish processes and protocols for overseeing data collection, verification, and quality assurance at community and district levels.
- Participate in developing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual work plans and maintaining high standards of stewardship and accountability for all activity resources.
- Provide supervision to staff and partners to ensure proper implementation of planned activities following the set Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Mentor and support staff, partners, and community resource persons on effective documentation of project activities and report writing.
- Maintaining an up-to-date data base for all beneficiaries, households and ensure all relevant data collection documents are administered appropriately.
- Analyse data, review monthly and quarterly reports for onward submission to the M & E Manager.
- Provide updates from monitoring and data analysis to the program staff and management as required.
- Participate in any M&E trainings.
- Coordinate internal Routine Data Quality Assurance (RDQA) sessions at all levels and ensure that findings are shared with Program Team.
- Ensure that indicator data evidence is submitted by technical teams in a timely fashion, is reviewed for completion, and is filed as per standard operating procedures.
- Perform regular data backups.
- Maintain records of project data, lessons learned, success stories and best practices and share with all concerned.
- Ensure implementation and maintenance of project databases and maintain a functional physical document management system at the district level.
- Conduct support supervision visits to implementing partners to observe, monitor, and provide guidance and quality feedback on the use of data collection tools.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree, Social Sciences, Development studies, Health Informatics, or related fields.
- A post graduate qualification in Monitoring and Evaluation is an added advantage.
- Three (3) years of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation. Experience with USAID OVC projects is an added advantage.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft (Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint).
- Experience in working on databases (online beneficial) and Ministry databases (OVC MIS, HMIS).
- Experience cleaning, entering, aggregating, and generating reports from data using database platforms.
- Ability to do data visualization into info graphics and design clear and attractive presentations and other communication documents to communicate results are an added advantage.
- High level of accuracy, attention to detail and thoroughness.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision, be proactive, initiative and with sound judgment.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants should submit an application letter and curriculum vitae electronically to: jobs@uweso.org with the position you are applying for in the subject line. Only electronic applications will be considered. (All applications should be in a single PDF file of maximum size – 5MB)
Deadline: 13th November 2020 by 5 pm.
NB: We shall only respond to shortlisted candidates. All invitations for interviews will be done formally.
If you meet the above requirements, please submit an online application via the link. https://bit.ly/3elPQFE
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