Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Job Vacancy at ActionAid Uganda

Job Title:     Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Job Location:     Kampala, Uganda
Employer:     ActionAid Uganda
Reports to:    IASL Manager with Matrix reporting to Program Focus Area Coordinator - Sustainable Livelihoods
Department:     Programmes

About Us:
ActionAid is an International Development Agency working in over 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. ActionAid’s mission is to work with the poor and the excluded people in the world to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustices and the inequity that cause it.
ActionAid Uganda (AAU), a national development organization registered under the laws of Uganda and with a local Board seeks to recruit suitably qualified, self-driven, result-oriented candidates for the following positions: Projects Manager, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer, Program Coordinator Sustainable Livelihoods, Project Coordinator Public Financing and Agriculture, Graduate Trainee and Driver. The successful candidates will be based at ActionAid Head Office in Kampala with frequent travels to our field offices.

Job Overview:
To implement systems for monitoring and evaluation of all AAIU activities under the Food for Thought Project; document and share information and knowledge in line with Accountability Learning and Planning Systems (ALPS), National and LRP M&E frameworks and strategies.

Job Requirements:
• An Honours Bachelor’s Degree in either Project; Monitoring and Evaluation, Demography, Statistics,Development Studies, Social Sciences or related discipline.
• A Post-graduate qualification in Project Planning and Management or M&E is desirable.
• At least 2-3 years relevant experience from a reputable organization
Knowledge of:
- Human Rights Based Approach to Development
- Participatory methodologies and approaches
- Sustainable development

Skills and Abilities:
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Project Planning and Management
• Documentation, information management and reporting
• Data entry, analysis and reporting using varied data packages
• Institutional capacity assessment and development
• Budgeting and budgetary control
• Resource mobilization and Contract management
• Training and development of training methodologies
• Gender and power analysis
Language/s:
He/She MUST be fluent in English, Luo and any other Local Language/s

Job Duties:
• Support the development and roll out of participatory baselines for local and national rights programmes in line with AAU M&E strategy
• Support the LRPs to compile and update rights and entitlement registers.
• Support national and LRPs to review and update performance indicators
• Train staff, partners and community intermediaries (community change makers) in participatory rights based M&E
• Contribute to monitoring and implementation of the national and LRP M&E frameworks
• Collect, validate and enter local and national data into the MIS/DHMIS and share aggregated informationwith different units
• Support the IASL unit to update and regularly review the ALPS tracker records for compliance to ALPS and Hive requirements
• Facilitate participatory review and reflection processes for LRPs and partners and document learnings, good practices and reports
• Compile monthly and quarterly M&E reports for AAU aligned to the key change promises, country change promises and strategic objectives
• Conduct routine field monitoring for projects at national and local rights programmes.

Deadline Date: 16/05/2014

How to Apply:
Please deliver your application letters, CVs and copies of Academic documents withdetails of at least three (3) referees one of which shall be from your most recent employer.
Applications should be hand delivered or sent to:
Email:  Vacancies.Uganda@actionaid.org,  addressed to:

The
HR OE Director, Actionaid Uganda
Plot no.2514/2515 Ggaba Road,
Opposite Kampala International University

OR

Sent to
P.O Box 676 Kampala.
N.B: Those who had applied for the Position of Projects Manager should not apply again.
ActionAid Uganda will respond only to short listed candidates. If you do not hear from us within one (1) month after the deadline of submission, consider yourself unsuccessful. Whilst all applicants will be assessed strictly on their individual merits, qualified women candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.
ActionAid Uganda is an equal opportunities employer.