Vacancy title:
Senior Programme Manager, M&E

Jobs at:
STIR Education

Deadline of this Job:
Open Until Filled

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

JOB DETAILS:
About STIR Education

Founded in 2012, STIR Education is a fast-growing international education NGO, headquartered in London and currently operating in India and Uganda. We are supported by 18 of the world’s leading foundations and development agencies, including DFID, USAID, Mastercard, MacArthur, Ikea Foundation, Dubai Cares and UBS Optimus. STIR sees teachers as the solution, not the problem, in addressing the global learning crisis that affects millions of children in across the globe.

STIR’s core mission is to partner with governments to ignite and sustain teacher intrinsic motivation. We do this in order to improve classroom practice and student learning, and in the process boost financial efficiency for education systems. We have grown into a vibrant team of over 100 people working across our offices in the UK, India and Uganda. This cross cultural team has a strong mix of education, business and social entrepreneurship experience including entrepreneurs and former employees of Teach First, Teach for India, Google, J-PAL, Gandhi Fellowship, Booz & Co, Citibank, Nomura and Tech Mahindra.

STIR has a unique set of values that guides its work:

• We don’t have all the answers upfront
  
• Instead, we empower people: with high expectations and support, we'll find the answers together
  
• We’ll continually listen, reflect, learn and improve and lead through whatever obstacles come our way
  
• We’re united by a shared belief, passion and vision – which we’ll build, achieve and grow together

The Opportunity: Senior Programme Manager, M&E – Uganda

STIR is looking to hire a Senior Programme Manager to lead our M&E work in Uganda. As Senior Programme Manager, you’ll report to the Global Head, M&E and lead a team of M&E professionals to thereby drive our overall learning agenda in Uganda in line with our strategy.

STIR’s overall M&E priorities are to:

• Develop a genuine internal and external evidence-based learning approach to enable our programme team and government partners to learn rapidly and widely across education systems
  
• Conduct high-quality, rigorous rapid learning cycles using a mixed methods approach, leading to improvements in programme design and delivery
  
• Collaborate with external partners on a longitudinal study of STIR’s impact, validating findings from our monitoring data and supplementing this with rigorous process evaluations

Starting Date: As soon as possible

Major Responsibilities

• Lead all M&E activities in-country in line with global strategy and ensure high-quality implementation of M&E activities through empowering and developing in-country teams
  

• Strategic oversight over M&E function in Uganda
  
• Empowering, supporting, and developing M&E team in Uganda to drive high-quality implementation of M&E priorities

• Collaborate closely with programme and design teams to ensure the realization of a rigorous learning approach among our internal team and among the system officials that we work with combined with high-quality rapid learning cycle evaluation
  

• Lead the design and implementation of a rigorous monitoring approach using technology and build evaluation capacity internally and externally
  
• Manage the design, implementation, and analysis of rapid learning cycle evaluations in Uganda
  
• Ensure learning from these studies are communicated effectively internally and externally

• Manage external evaluation partnerships to ensure optimization of learning through a rigorous longitudinal mixed-methods study
  

• Collaborate closely with external partners to assess STIR’s impact through a longitudinal evaluation
  
• Ensure learning from evaluation is shared effectively with a wide range of audiences

• Contribute to the development of an overall culture at STIR that is in line with our organisational values.
  

• Model professionalism and integrity at all times and take ownership of your own development
  
• Make sure that all training and support you provide and relationships you build are in the STIR spirit and in line with our values
  
• Manage all resources and funds with integrity and work to make sure you get value for money in your budget management and spend
  
• Model ‘Growth Mindset’ at all times- show that improvement is always possible and take responsibility for supporting the whole team to achieve its goals.

Required Skills & Experience

Competencies:

• Strong identification with STIR values
  
• Strong quantitative and qualitative evaluation skills
  
• Proficiency in using Stata/SPSS and other relevant education software
  
• Strategic, analytical and critical thinker
  
• Strong attention to detail and ability to see things through to a very high standard
  
• Dynamic self-started that demonstrates creativity and initiative
  
• Openness and creativity to explore bold new ways of learning
  
• Enjoys ambiguity and able to bring clarity where needed
  
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
  
• Excellent self, project and time management

Experience:

• At least 5 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation, at least 3 of which should be at management level
  
• Experience working in education strongly preferred, including field experience
  
• Post-graduate degree or higher (preferably with a focus on quantitative and qualitative evaluation)
  
• Proven experience striking the right balance between evaluation rigor and practical use of evidence to strengthen programme impact
  
• Experience managing impact evaluations in partnership with an external partner preferred
  
• Team management experience

Job application procedure
To apply for the position please click on the link below https://stireducation.wufoo.co.uk/forms/z1xf23o10piy2pt

The interview process will include a variety of tasks and assessments. For more information about STIR and our mission please visit www.stireducation.org