Village Enterprise Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Director Job Vacancy in Uganda | - 2015

Job description

Summary: Manage Field Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Program, including large-scale RCT carried out by IPA, management of M&E innovations and organizational learning, implementing new econometric and statistical analyses for understanding impact, MEL program staff capacity building, and cooperating with M&E partners throughout East Africa.

Employer: Village EnterpriseIndustry: Nonprofit/International Development/Social EntrepreneurshipFunction: Lead field-level Monitoring and Evaluation activities, overseeing all phases of Monitoring and Evaluation ProgramJob Title: Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningReports to: East Africa Regional DirectorJob Location: Uganda and KenyaWebsite:www.villageenterprise.org

Start Date: Rolling

Position Overview: Village Enterprise is seeking to hire a Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning who will report to the East Africa Regional Director. This position will be based in East Africa in one of the three Village Enterprise offices in Uganda or Kenya. The MEL Director will work directly with our African and US field staff on projects impacting the people and communities with whom Village Enterprise works in East Africa.

Job Description

MEL Role:

Manage relationship with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), external evaluator on impact evaluation;
Manage relations with external evaluation partners for disseminating results of ongoing impact evaluation;
Research new econometric and statistical tools and models for analyzing program impacts;
Identify conferences and journals for submission of research papers, white papers, or posters for presentation to advance organizational learning;
Manage and assess Village Enterprise Business Owner targeting (an ultra-poor targeting process);
Oversee and increase the quality and efficiency of core program and special project monitoring;
Provide performance monitoring data to management and provide recommendations for action based on results of studies and field experiments;
Design and lead special project evaluations, write reports for funders;
Build capacity of staff on data collection, interviewing, data entry, analysis and other tasks as required;
Design new survey tools; quantitative and qualitative

Operations Role:

Assist in the implementation, monitoring and expansion of the Village Enterprise core program;
Attend regular management meetings with in-country staff and US office;
Train trainers, mentor other employees and build capacity in country offices;
Act as a liaison between the Field Operations Team and Development Team in the US.

Qualifications

Qualified Applicants should possess:

Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Statistics, or other applied social science research degree; Master’s degree strongly preferred
3 to 5 years of experience in M&E for International Development, in some cases additional experience will be considered in lieu of advanced degree;
Experience in quantitative data management and data visualization
Qualitative and quantitative evaluation skills
Progressive experience managing teams
International work experience
Experience with quasi-experimental and experimental design for evaluations such as: RCTs, regression discontinuity, difference in difference models
Self-starter who is highly motivated and seeks to find solutions to challenges
Experience with STATA, SPSS, or another statistical analysis software package
Ability to self-manage, take ownership of goals, while still balancing working in a team
Ability to use digital solutions for communications and management across distances
Strong writing and analysis skills, particularly for report writing for funders and head office
A passion for innovative approaches to poverty alleviation
Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple high-priority tasks under tight deadlines

Language: Fluency in English required; Swahili is not required

About Village Enterprise: Village Enterprise is an innovative microenterprise development organization working in East Africa. Our mission is to equip people living in extreme poverty with resources to create sustainable businesses. Village Enterprise provides business skills and financial literacy training, seed capital, on-going mentoring, and the formation of business savings groups to new entrepreneurs. This year we have helped 9,000 East Africans start over 3,000 new businesses. Village Enterprise began in 1987 and, since then, has started over 30,000 microenterprises and impacted over 660,000 lives. During the next five years, we plan to significantly expand our program, evaluation and innovation efforts to increase the impact of microenterprise development in rural East Africa.

Organizational strengths:

• Innovation and continuous improvement at the core of our program delivery— Village Enterprise was recently nominated as one of Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Next Century Innovators (among 1000+ applicants).

• Exceptionally strong and rigorous monitoring & evaluation (M&E) processes in the field—Village Enterprise recently launched an extensive, three-year Randomized Control Trial (RCT), implemented by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

• Highly qualified and dedicated management and program delivery teams—Village Enterprise’s local leadership model was recently highlighted in the 10th anniversary issue of The Stanford Social Innovation Review.

How to apply

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested applicants please send CV/Resume and Cover Letter to ajd@VillageEnterprise.org with the subject line MEL Director. CV/Resume and cover letter only please, no additional diplomas or supporting documents.