Vacancy title:
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Jobs at:
Action for Rural Women’s Empowerment ( ARUWE )

Deadline of this Job:
16thOctober 2017

Duty Station:
Kampala with frequent travels to the field

Job details:
About the organization
Action for Rural Women’s Empowerment ( ARUWE ) is a non-profit, Non-Government Organization working with marginalized groups of people, especially rural women and children in Uganda. ARUWE registered as an NGO in 2008.

Our vision is a world in which women and children realize their full social, economic and civic potential, Our mission is to empower women to initiate and manage their socio-economic development processes through strengthening community participation, advocacy and service delivery

ARUWE has received financing from Comic Relief through Emerge Poverty Free EPFI toward the cost of Transform and empower the lives of 900 subsistence farming families in rural Uganda project. The project aims at increasing farmers’ productivity, improving farmers’ household income, assets, and land resources, improving farmer households’ food security and improving rural women farmers’ experience, financial empowerment and decision making.

Job Summary:
The M & E Manager officer will provide technical support and oversight to ensure monitoring and evaluation excellence of the organisation and the project. He/ She will ensure that the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities is in line with the project's implementation plan and meets the donor and project’s M&E needs. Provide technical support to farmers groups in ensuring that programmatic data,/indicators are accurately captured, and reported according to set guidelines.

Work with Project Managers and Project Director to ensure that monitoring and evaluation activities are conducted appropriately to meet the donor and projects M &E needs.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate must hold a University degree in any of the following related field: Community Development, development studies, sociology, and Social sciences, Statistics, Demography and related fields.
• Post graduate training in M&E is an added advantage.
•  At least three years’ experience in Monitoring and Evaluation in livelihood, WASH and health related fields and programs in developing countries.
•  Previous experience with international donor funded programs is desirable.
•  Excellent organization and time management skills and strong attention to detail, excellent writing and communications skills in English language are required.
• Computer literacy with demonstrated use of word processing, database and presentation software (Word, Excel, Power Point).
• Previous experience with database development and management and statistical analysis software (SPSS, EPI- INFO, STATA, SAS or similar) is highly desirable.

Job application procedure
All candidates are encouraged to send an updated CV including three professional referees and cover letter addressed to the Human Resources Manager, Action for Rural Women’s Empowerment (ARUWE), Plot 800 B Block 16, Rubaga Road P.O. BOX 28554 Kampala, Uganda