Vacancy title:
G15-Nat: Learning Officer

Jobs at:
Global Health Corps (GHC)

Deadline of this Job:
18th January, 2016 at 11:59pm EST

Duty Station:
Mbale, Uganda

Job details:
Eligible Citizenship: Ugandan
Salary: Monthly Stipend of 550 dollars per month

About GHC:
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.

About Spark MicroGrants:
Spark MicroGrants is a young, rapidly scaling organization pioneering a new approach to international aid. Spark proactively reaches out to rural poor villages and helps community members to design, implement, and manage their own social impact projects. Since July 2010, we have developed 140 community partnerships across Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi to spark community-driven impact projects which have included schools, community farms, electricity lines, and much more. Spark is building a replication kit and training team that will enable other institutions to use our novel facilitation model in new contexts and at a larger scale.

Job Summary: The Learning Officer will closely with the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team on developing and improving existing data collection tools, data analysis tasks, and report writing tasks; and 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 fellow will develop and support systems that strengthen our ability to evolve and adapt our approach based on this data. The fellow will also play a key role in surveying external landscapes (e.g. academia, international development, community-driven development, social media, conferences, etc.) to capture and integrate new learning and approaches as appropriate.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Monitoring and Evaluation:
• Render support to ensure the smooth implementation of M&E systems (including data collection, entry, checking, and analysis), providing insights and suggestions on areas for improvement or innovation
• Actively contribute to the development and improvement of Spark’s M&E tools, systems, and processes for data organization and accessibility to our internal team
• Work closely with the M&E team to prepare and analyze quantitative and qualitative impact data
• Identify and contribute to emerging opportunities to understand and measure Spark’s impact
• Significantly contribute to report-writing for both external and internal audiences, with particular emphasis on innovative data representation/visualization, alongside the communications team
• Provide capacity building and training organization-wide on M&E systems (including data collection, entry, checking, and analysis)
Research and Learning:
• 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
• Working with programs team, coordinate efforts to pilot and test new approaches, and support the systematic integration of new learning into Spark’s work
• Carry out literature reviews and develop annotated bibliographies and short topic papers, providing insights and recommendations that contribute to Spark’s learning and the evolution of our approach
• Work in liaison with the research and learning team to share learnings and data analysis internally
• Contribute to strategic planning by making contributions based on data/research findings

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• The ideal candidate for the Global Health Corps Learning Officer career
• placement should hold a Bachelor’s degree
• Previous experience with basic data analysis and/or statistics
• Previous exposure or interest in organizational learning and systems development
• Project management skills, including managing multiple priorities and timelines, and coordinating amongst distributed teams
• Broad knowledge and understanding of key issues in international development
• Excellent writing and analytical skills
• Strong research skills, including the ability to synthesize insights from a range of sources
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills

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. Fellows at Spark MicroGrants are provided with a private room in a shared house in the Spark MicroGrants compound. The living quarters are self-contained, meaning that the kitchen, bathroom, living, and sleeping areas are in one building. Housing is shared with other Spark staff; it is basic but comfortable, situated in Mbale, a peri-urban center in Uganda.

Note: The living stipend and completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by the placement organization.

Job application procedure
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.
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Deadline: 18th January, 2016 at 11:59pm EST
NB: Early applications are encouraged because they will be reviewed on a rolling basis.