Empowerment and Development Initiative in Uganda. The program aims to address exploitative child labor among youth (15-18) by helping them to develop marketable skills to secure employment, and by supporting their engagement as leaders in their local communities.
This position is contingent on funding.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- Review indicators to develop monitoring activities that capture necessary data to report on results, ensure monitoring activities are conducted on schedule
- Communicate information obtained through M&E activities to various external stakeholders, notably donors and partners
- Be a primary M&E resource to the field office and field personnel
- Ensure data collection process is functioning in all activity locations to provide quality data within deadlines
- Regularly review data collection processes, perform data quality assessments, and make adjustments as needed
- Conduct regular visits to project sites to provide technical assistance and ensure proper monitoring of project activities
- Produce M&E monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports to Chief of Party and donors, as needed
- Develop annual performance plans
- Minimum of 5 years professional experience in a senior M&E position responsible for implementing M&E activities of international development projects.
- Bachelors or Master's degree in statistics, demographics, public policy, international development, economics, or related field. Master's degree or Bachelor plus an advanced certificate in M&E, statistics, or economics preferred.
- Proven success in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems from project initiation to closeout stages.
- Experience designing and managing beneficiary monitoring and database systems.
- Experience in strategic planning and performance measurement, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and performance monitoring plans.
- Knowledge of the major evaluation methodologies (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, mixed method, and impact) and data collection and analysis methodologies.
- Experience in planning and managing surveys.
- Experience developing and refining data collection tools.
- Experience with data quality assessments and oversight.
- Experience managing and providing ongoing training to M&E field officers.
- Ability to facilitate and serve as a project liaison for externally-managed evaluations.
- Outstanding English communication skills, both written and oral
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Application Deadline: 8/16/2013