Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist - Job Opportunity at World Vision Uganda in Kampala,Uganda

Post:Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist - World Vision Uganda
Organizaton: World Vision 
Location:KAmpala 
Position: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist Reports to: Chief of Party Project: Advocacy for Better
Health Duty station: Kampala
Purpose of the position: To provide coordination and leadership for strategic information, dissemination, and monitoring and evaluation of the project.

Key Responsibilities Setting up the system: Develop the overall framework for project M&E in accordance to the project and document M&E plan. • Conduct readiness assessment regarding M&E.
 • Identify the requirement for collecting baseline data, prepare terms-of-reference for and arrange the conduct of a baseline survey, as required.
 • Clarify M&E responsibilities of different project personnel.
• Contribute to the development of the annual work plan, ensuring alignment with project strategy, agreement on annual targets and inclusion of M&E activates in the work plan.
 • Clarify process for monitoring and evaluations on sub-grantees.
 • Prepare detailed M&E budget.
• Prepare calendar of M&E activities.
 • Identify other M&E staff that the project needs to contract. Guide recruitment.

Implementation of M&E: Oversee and execute M&E activities included in the Annual Work Plan, with particular focus on results and impacts as well as in lesson learning.
• Based on the annual work plan and in particular the programs budgets, design the framework for the physical and process monitoring of project activities.
 • Promote a results-based approach to monitoring and evaluation, emphasizing results and impacts.
 • Assist in the development of project reports. Guide staff and executing partners in preparing their progress reports in accordance with approved reporting formats and ensure their timely submission. This includes quarterly progress reports, annual project reports, inception reports, and ad-hoc technical reports.
 • Prepare consolidation progress reports for project management including identification of problems, causes of potential bottlenecks in the project implementation, and providing specific recommendations.
 • Check that monitoring data are discussed in the appropriate forum and in a timely fashion in terms of implications of future action. If necessary create such discussion forums to fill any gaps.
 • Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of M&E and to identify where adaptations might be needed.
 • Foster participatory planning and monitoring by training and involving primary stakeholder groups in the M&E of activities.
 • Facilitate, act as resource person, and join if required any external supervision and evaluation missions.
 • Monitor the follow up of evaluation recommendations
 • Identify the need and draw up the ToRs for specific project studies. Recruit, guide and supervise consultants or organizations that are contracted to implement special surveys and studies required for evaluating project effects and impacts.
 • Organize (and provide) refresher training in M&E for project and implementing partner staff, local organizations and primary stakeholders with view of developing local M&E capacity.

Lessons learned: Design and implement a system to identify, analyze, document and disseminate lessons learned.
 • Consolidate a culture of lessons learning involving all project staff and allocate specific responsibilities.
 • Ensure that ToR for consultants recruited by the project also incorporate mechanisms to capture and share lessons learned through their inputs to the project, and to ensure that the results are reflected in the reporting system described above.
 • Document, package and disseminate lessons not less frequently than once every 12 months.
• Facilitate exchange of experiences by supporting and coordinating participation in any existing network projects sharing common characteristics • Identify and participate in additional networks, for example scientific or policy-based networks that may also yield lessons that can benefit project implementation.

Knowledge and skills
 • Bachelor’s Degree in Development Studies or any relevant discipline (public health, health sciences, or the social sciences, etc.). A masters degree is an added advantage.
 • A minimum of five years’ experience in the M&E of U.S government funded programs or other donors.
• Considerable experience and demonstrated practical skills in monitoring and evaluation of voice and accountability programs;
 • Demonstrated ability and skills in analysis and report writing – a written sample will need to be submitted.
 • Excellent knowledge of monitoring and evaluation principles and practices is essential;
 • Knowledge and significant experience in the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks and systems required for community development programs are essential.
 • Experience in design and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation systems in advocacy, community mobilization, or policy/accountability projects.
 • Demonstrated knowledge of management information systems.
 • Five years + field based work experience, conducting M&E on large, multi-regional public-health programs and working with management to integrate research findings into project direction.
 • In sympathy with christian values Special skills
• Research skills — surveys, focus groups, knowledge, practice and coverage studies — data analysis, and how to make effective presentations
. • Knowledge of LQAS, 30-cluster sampling survey methodology preferred.
 • Statistical software such as SPSS, EPI INFO, and other statistical tools preferred.
Closing date: 09 Aug 2013
How to apply: 
http://reliefweb.int/job/593379/monitoring-evaluation-specialist-world-vision-uganda