Vacancy title:
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager

Jobs at:
People Performance Group

Deadline of this Job:
14th July 2017

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
Fields of Life is committed to sharing the Christian faith by collaborating with local communities and churches in East Africa to bring about positive change through the provision of quality education, clean water, health promotion and other community based projects.

Role Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager
Department: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Role Location: KAMPALA 0FFlCE
Reporting to: Executive Director

Role Purpose & Context:
To provide leadership in the development and implementation of Fields of Lite Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning strategy and system, ensure strong reporting on progress and impact to donors, including thorough data gathering and processing, analysis and authoring of reports, and lead on MEL capacity support to Fields of Life staff and partners.

Key Responsibilities: (bullet points)
Monitoring, evaluation and learning

• Develop quality assurance mechanisms and monitoring checks enabling improved capturing and narration of programmatic results as opposed to activity accounts.
• Share consolidated and analysed information from programmes with Senior Leadership Team on a regular basis to show progress towards the strategic plan
• Support the Head of Programmes with inputs to programme and proposal development, results and achievements products.
•  Lead the designing, coordinating and conducting project evaluations (mid-term and end—line) for all projects, sub projects and project components within FOL portfolio
• Collaborate with management team to set program milestones and Key Performance indicators.
• Develop project Monitoring Plans, Logframes, Theories of Change (ToC) of existing and new projects in line with projects goals and objectives in consultation with the programme team and partners.
• Support stall and partners III designing and disseminating evaluative research studies by providing relevant input
• Designing and conducting Post Implementation Monitoring Surveys (PiMS)

MEL system and knowledge management

• Coordinate development of, oversee and ensure maintenance of Fields of Life MEL system for effective reporting and monitoring.
• Prepare integrated lessons learnt from regular reviews and reflection of the different programme monitoring data, to be shared with programming and MEL staff.
•  Support the team to identify gaps or challenges, and give guidance on proposing remedial solutions, both in terms of the technical components of the M&E system, and with regards to the capacity of its users.
• Create and maintain a databank of government of international policies, guidelines, frameworks, reports, etc to support Fields of Life programmes.
• Oversee and support the team with data entry and storing of data to Fields of Life monitoring database, maintain this as an accessible source of information on Fields of Life programme activities, results and impact, and ensure ethical data safety and protection.

Capacity building

• Assess MEL capacity needs among staff and partners, providing feedback and support and identify capacity building initiatives.
• Manage capacity building initiatives relating to MEL, through for example MEL technical orientation, the creation of monitoring toolkits, etc.
• Manage MEL training with Fields of Life staff and partners.

Reporting

• Ensure reliability of Fields of Life reports by collecting documentation to validate reports, and carrying out regular spot and random checks:
• Aid data capturing, analysis and quality assurance processes through guidance and capacity support.
•  Maintain responsibility for authoring of high quality quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports to donors in a timely manner, which focuses on progress, impact and learning with particular support from Head of Programmes.

Key Results Areas:

• Robust MEL system established
• Results framework for each technical programme
• Data collection, analysis and reporting tools and templates in place
• Timely and quality reports
• Capacity development plans in place
• Database of relevant

Key Competency Levels:
Competency
Expert understanding of Logical Framework Matrix, Theory of Change, indicators, Performance Monitoring Framework, Results Framework, M&E Plans, Performance indicator Tracking Tables.
Conversant in qualitative and quantitative data collection protocols including, sampling

Experience of delivering capacity support initiatives for monitoring and evaluation.

Excellent understanding of international development issues

Analytical/problem-solving skills and attention to detail in development of written documents. Excellent computer knowledge with command on MS Excel among other packages of MS Office

Qualifications, Experience & Personal Attributes needed to meet the demands of the role (required/desired):

Terms of Appointment: (Fixed permanent, outsource, etc.) Qualifications: Post-graduate qualifications in Monitoring and Evaluation, Statistics, Social Science, Development studies applied science or any other relevant discipline

Experience:
Minimum 5 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation with at least 3 years in managerial position with an international humanitarian and development organisation

•  Experience in monitoring and evaluating education and WASH related projects
• Experience of report writing
• Experience of conducting research
• Experience of organising sense making, lesson- learning sessions

Personal attributes: interpersonal skills, effective verbal and written communication, high level integrity and honesty.

Job application procedure
Please send your CV and cover letter with it work related referees to the address or e-mail below. Application should be marked as "MEL Manager FOL." Applications may not exceed 2MBs.

Email: application@ppg.co.ug 
Closing date 14th July 2017
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While we thank all applicants for your interest, only those selected for interviews will be contacted. Any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification.