USAID Futures Group Project Careers - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Director - Youth and OVC Program ~ Ugandan Jobline Jobs

Organization: Futures Group

Funding Source: U.S. Agency for International Development

(USAID)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Director

Futures Group is a trusted international development firm known for our

evidence-based, integrated approach to improving the health and well-being of

people worldwide. It works in close partnership with global and local leaders

and communities to protect and promote people’s health and well-being so they

can transform their own lives and their futures. Working in close partnership

with global and local leaders and communities, we are driven to protect and

promote people’s health and well-being so they can transform their own lives

and their futures.

We are able to predict the trends that will affect a country’s

stability and growth. And we see connections between disparate data points that

others miss – allowing us to uncover the real barriers to well-being and to

discover innovative solutions for a better world.

Job Summary:  The

Futures Group MEL Director will oversee the lead monitoring, evaluation and

learning of a new USAID- funded OVC and youth child protection and systemic

strengthening program in Western and Central Uganda, Securing Positive Outcomes

for Children and Caregivers. The MEL Director will be responsible for managing

multiple project staff, as well as leading high-level monitoring and evaluation

activities, and collaborating with national and subnational stakeholders.

Activities will include: developing and rolling out the project performance

monitoring plan and management information system, building the capacity of

program partners and grantees to collect, manage and report high quality

information, adhering to new PEPFAR reporting guidelines, and supporting

program evaluation. The MEL Director will also be responsible for building the

capacity of Local Government to interpret and use information on social and

health services and client outcomes to better plan and coordinate care. The

technical area of expertise is advanced M&E of child protection,

community-based HIV/AIDS programs, programs that support orphans and vulnerable

children, and/or other social service programs.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:   Working

in collaboration with the program senior management team, the MEL Director

will:

·        
Liaise

with and provide technical leadership directly to key national and subnational

stakeholders in areas related to M&E of OVC / child protection, including

strengthening M&E systems of CSOs and district offices and advocating for

data use for evidence based programming at the district level;

·        
Develop

the project performance monitoring plan building, ensuring adherence to new

PEPFAR M&E guidelines throughout the project, including supporting the

design and pilot-testing of data collection and monitoring tools;

·        
Technically

support the design and implementation of a project baseline and other research

in partnership with Futures HQ, program staff and USAID Uganda;

·        
Actively

participate actively in national technical working group around OVC and

M&E;

·        
Keenly

analyze available country- and program-level data to support evidence-informed

policy and programming; build the capacity of program partners and sub-grantees

to analyze data and develop country level briefs;

·        
Offer

technical support to stakeholders at all levels in the use of community and OVC

• M&E data and information;

·        
Manage

data quality work and related M&E strengthening within the program

including RDQAs and community trace and verify (CTV);

·        
Oversee

a team of three M&E specialists in three project office locations;

·        
Develop/adapt

and apply tools and curricula to build M&E capacity of key program

stakeholders such as district government and local CSOs to collect and report

quality community-level data up to district and national levels.

·        
Write

technical reports and present technical activities both internally and

externally to high-level stakeholders;

·        
Where

required by the prime, represent the program in technical, policy and planning

forums with USAID, the Government of Uganda and other key stakeholders.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

·        
The

ideal candidate for the USAID Project vacancy should hold a Master’s Degree or

higher in monitoring and evaluation, public health, demography, health

management, social science, biostatistics, statistics, or a related field is

required;

·        
A minimum

of eight or more years’ experience supervising monitoring, evaluation and

research efforts, preferably with respect to child welfare and protection

Systems strengthening, capacity building, economic strengthening, and service

delivery;

·        
The

candidate must have strong quantitative or mixed- method and analytical skills

and ability to articulate technical information clearly and effectively to both

technical and nontechnical audiences;

·        
Computer

literacy skills i.e. proficiency in the use of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and

Access, and at least one data management software program (SAS, SPSS) and

experience training others in its use is highly desirable;

·        
S/he

must have demonstrated leadership qualities, depth and breadth of technical and

management expertise and experience, and strong interpersonal, writing, and

oral presentation skills;

·        
Ugandan

national preferred.

All applicants who so wish to join the USAID project should send a

cover letter, updated CV and three work references (names and contact

information only) to: dhahn@futuresgroup.com

NB: Only selected candidates that meet the

requirements will be contacted.