Organisation: Global Health Corps (GHC)
Placement Organisation: Spark MicroGrants
Duty Station: Mbale, Uganda
Salary: Monthly Stipend of 550 dollars per month
Global Health Corps pairs intelligent and
passionate fellows with organizations that require new thinking and innovative
solutions. We provide these young leaders with the tools to remain connected
after their fellowship year finishes, deepening their ability to enact change
through heightened skills and strong partnerships. We currently place fellows
in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia.
Spark MicroGrants launched in Rwanda in
2010 and in Uganda in late 2011 with a mission to catalyze rural, poor
communities into action. Spark has developed the first proactive, group based
micro-granting model. The model consists of a five month project planning
process, a $2,000-$10,000 micro-grant and two years of management support and
follow-up. Spark enrolls recent graduates from local universities in a two-year
fellowship in facilitation where the fellow scouts up to eight villages and
takes each one through the Spark process. Fellows assist villages in the
design, implementation and management of their own social impact projects.
Projects vary across all sectors from health, education, infrastructure, income
generation to women’s empowerment, depending on what the community chooses as
their project. Spark’s priority areas are promoting a ‘locally-led,
expert-supported’ model for development, where local communities are the
primary drivers of social change, but have the support and advice of global
development experts.
Job Summary: The Learning Officer will support Spark
MicroGrants by playing a lead role in harnessing a range of internal and
external data and research to inform Spark’s program development and
decision-making. The incumbent will work closely with the Monitoring and
Evaluation (M&E) Team on a variety of data analysis tasks, supporting the
team’s demonstration of impact at a range of scales – at the community level,
project/sector level, country level, and organizationally across the three
countries where Spark works. In addition, the individual will develop and
support systems that strengthen our ability to evolve and adapt our approach
based on this data. The job holder will also play a key role in surveying
external landscapes – academia, international development, community-driven
development, social media, conferences, etc. – to capture and integrate new
learning and approaches as appropriate.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
·
Work
with the M&E Team to prepare and analyze quantitative and qualitative
impact data
·
Support
smooth implementation of M&E systems (including data collection, entry,
checking and analysis, as well as data collection tools), providing insight on
areas for improvement or innovation
·
Identify
and contribute to emerging opportunities to understand and measure Spark’s
impact
·
Provide
capacity building and training organization-wide on M&E systems (including
data collection, entry, checking and analysis, as well as data collection
tools)
·
Actively
contribute to the development and improvement of Spark’s M&E systems and
processes for data organization and accessibility to our internal team
·
Play
a leading role in Spark’s internal learning by developing and improving systems
that harness data insights to inform decision making and program development
·
Carry
out literature reviews and develop annotated bibliographies, and short topic
papers, providing insight and recommendations that contribute to Spark’s
learning and the evolution of our approach
·
Work
closely with programs team, coordinate efforts to pilot and test new
approaches, and support the systematic integration of new learning into Spark’s
work
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
·
The
ideal candidate for the Global Health Corps Learning Officer job opportunity
should have experience or interest in organizational learning and systems
development
·
Excellent
writing and analytical skills
·
Excellent
research skills, including the ability to synthesize insights from a range of
sources
·
Computer
literacy i.e. Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
·
Prior
experience with basic data analysis and/or statistics
·
Good
project management skills, including managing multiple priorities and
timelines, and coordinating amongst distributed teams
·
Fluent
Acholi speaker
·
Strong
research skills, including the ability to synthesize insights from a range of
sources
·
Familiarity
with or interest in key issues in international development is desired
·
Familiarity
with or interest in East African context is also desired
Job Terms and Conditions: Fellows will be provided with housing,
health insurance and a living stipend of $550/month. Additionally, fellows will
receive an award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year.
Flights to and from the placement site and all other costs associated with GHC
programming are included, including $600 in professional development funds.
Housing arrangements vary based on the placement organization and location
within the country. Spark MicroGrants fellows will live in the Spark
MicroGrants house in Mbale, a peri-urban center, with frequent travel to Gulu.
Note:
The living stipend and completion award may be paid out in USD or local
currency, as determined by the placement organization.
All applicants who desire to be placed by
the Global Health Corps in the aforementioned organization should express
interest by clearly following the instructions at the web page below.
Deadline: 2nd February, 2016
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