Vacancy title:
Schools Monitor

Jobs at:
PEDN

Deadline of this Job:
15th October, 2017

Duty Station:
Jinja, Mukono and Wakiso, Uganda

Job details:
PEDN is a Ugandan Non-profit organization incorporated in the year 2004 to promote and integrate entrepreneurial programs, active teaching and learning in the formal and informal Education system in Uganda. It works through a multi-sectoral approach, public private partnership (PPP) frameworks to provide holistic programming, coordination and implementation of programs and activities

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• The jobholder will be visiting schools to assess implementation progress of project activities
• Carrying out spot checks in schools
• Pre-testing of data collection tools
•  Tasked with data collection (both quantitative and qualitative)
• Data coding, cleaning, validation and entry
• Responsible for data analysis
• Write and submit reports

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a BA Development Studies, Statistics, Social Sciences or any other related degree from a recognized university or institution of higher learning.
• Possession of a post graduate training in Monitoring and Evaluation will be an added advantage
• Previous experience in working with young people, parents, teachers and government structures.
• Ability to conduct qualitative and quantitative research
• Fluent in local languages spoken in the three districts (Jinja, Mukono and Wakiso) plus English
• Excellent communication skills - both oral and written
• Good mobilisation and negotiations skills, especially with rural people
• Computer literacy skills i.e. knowledge (Ms Access, Ms Word, Ms. Excel and PowerPoint)
•  Excellent analytical skills

 Job application procedure
All candidates should send their updated CVs and application letter to pcdn@pedn.org