Vacancy title:
Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer

Jobs at:
Friends of Christ Revival Ministries Uganda (FOC-REV)

Deadline of this Job:
not later than 5.00pm Friday, 25th/03/ 2017.

Duty Station:
Luwero District

Job details:

ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND
Friends of Christ Revival Ministries Uganda (FOC-REV) is a non-governmental, nonprofit making, non —political, inter-denominational charitable organization that was established in 1999 by a group of volunteers as a response to a crisis caused by HIV &AlDS and poverty in rural communities in Uganda. FOCREV Uganda exists to work with the poor and marginalized rural people to improve their livelihood and increase self—reliance through education support, health services advocacy, food security and networking.

FOCREV has entered into partnership with Catholic Relief Services to implement Sustainable Out Come for Children and Youth interventions in Hoima and Luwero Districts Over a period of two Years and would like to recruit competent and qualified people to till the following vacant positions.

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
Reporting: MEL Manager
Duty Station: Luwero District

Job purpose.
Coordinate the design, monitoring and evaluation systems In close collaboration with the Program Manager, coordinate the implementation of strategies to ensure monitoring and evaluation of the programs and the timely dissemination of lessons learnt.

Key Duties! Responsibilities:
Program Support:
In close collaboration with the MEL Manager develop a plan to monitor and evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness and performance of all FOCREV programs in the area of operation.

Specifically;

• Provide technical guidance and lead capacity building of program team in monitoring and evaluation
  
• Oversee project/program monitoring and provide Technical Assistance in the implementation of M&E plans to ensure information reporting systems fulfill needs of FOG-REV, communities, government, donors and other stakeholders, and are in line with Quality standards and integrating Women and Child Rights Monitoring and Evaluation principles to maximize quality programming and ongoing learning
  
• Work closely with Districts ME Unit to support the implementation of outcome indicator monitoring, including counting the number of beneficiaries reached Monthly ,quarterly, Annually.
  
• Develop systems and processes for the implementation of monitoring and evaluation policy and practice.
  
• Work closely with Project Managers to ensure that indicators of performance align with those of donor.

Planning, Reporting and Budgeting:

• Provide technical guidance and advice to district and regional teams and ensure that
  
• planning is undertaken in a logical and participatory manner and presented as high quality documents
  
• Links are made between the program existing capacities and their plans for 2017.
  
• Support program team in identifying advocacy issues in their thematic work.
  
• Consolidate FOCREV thematic annual plans for timely submission to the Executive Director
  
• Scanning the environment of funding opportunities
  
• Management of M&E Systems:
  
• Provide administrative and capacity building support for the Management Information System (MIS) and ensure that it is accessible by staff all the time
  
• Ensuring that the information and reports generated from the management information system are utilized for program improvement and learning.

Occasional duties:
As and when delegated by the Line Manager. Judgment and Decision - Making As a member of the senior program development team, the iob holder makes collective decisions. As M&E officer, you recommend actions on project/program implementation issues. The line managers of projects/programs and regional managers shall use this advice as a basis to make decisions in project planning and implementation.

Qualifications, Experience and specification:

• A minimum of a Bachelors’ Degree in Social Sciences, Social work and Social administration, Development Studies, Education or the equivalent accrued working experience in a related position. Post Graduate training in Project Planning & Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Community Development & Research or any relevant field with M&E as a course is desirable.
  
• At least 4 years in social or operational research, research methods, development and management, M&E, in NGOs. Experience or research in food security, subsistence agriculture, health and nutrition, income generation, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, child protection and Education are desirable.
  
• Relevant experience supervising community based social development projects and with NGOs particularly those addressing Women and children’s rights.
  
• Competence and experience in participatory research methods and M&E.
  
• Experiences in setting up and managing M&E systems, preferably in NGO setting
  
• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative analysis and application of computer data management packages.
  
• Demonstrable financial, planning. Organizing and budget management skills a must.
  
• Experience of developing, maintaining and improving partnerships with local governments and other NGOs or CSO partners.
  
• Strategic management skills, people management skills — team building and delegation, experience in managing teams of consultants
  
• Thorough knowledge of the quality program development, SC Alliance policies and guidelines, the Child Protection Code of Conduct.
  
• Tact, diplomacy and confidentiality
  
• Strong Negotiation skills
  
• Computer literacy skills — MS Office applications, word, excel, PowerPoint, Spread sheets

Job application procedure
Send CV, covering letter and relevant documentation by email or hand delivery to the Executive Director FOCREV Emunnu Complex Plot 10 Busia Municipality or email it to the info@focrevministries.org, not later than 5.00pm Friday, 25th/03/ 2017.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted for the interviews. For detail Job information refer to website www.focrevministries.org.

N.B. FOCREV IS AN EOUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.