Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
job requisition id
R5427

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Back ground
World Vision Uganda (WVU) is a Christian relief, development and advocacy non-government organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in 43 districts and have 48 Area Programmes implementing projects in health & nutrition, water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), livelihoods & resilience, education and child protection. World Vision (WV) is committed to the protection of children and adult beneficiaries from exploitation and abuse and will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with these beneficiaries. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.
Due to expansion in scope of our programmes, we are now seeking for a qualified and passionate individual willing to share in our vision and join the team in the following roles.
Position: Consortium MEAL Coordinator - ECHO Project
Report to: Consortium Manager Education
Location: Arua District
Advert Start Date: 16th May 2022
Advert End Date: 24th May 2022

Purpose of the position:
The MEAL Coordinator will be responsible for effective and high quality planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring, reporting of the 2-year Education Consortium award initially funded by ECHO, aimed at reaching beneficiaries in Terego, Madi Okollo and Lamwo. The Education programme increase access to relevant, quality and safe formal and non-formal learning opportunities for refugee and host communities. The programme will provide sustained support to and increased capacity at district government, school and community levels to address the barriers that prevent the most vulnerable out of school children from enrolling to formal and non-formal education programmes and support interventions that increases retention for older children, primary, secondary and Accelerated Education Programme (AEP) centers as well as those that support transition of children from AEPs to formal schools.

Key Outputs/Responsibilities.
Supports routine and periodic collection and analysis of data:
• Supports routine and periodic collection and analysis of data, providing both descriptive and inferential statistics that confirms status of project activities in the response based on log frames and M&E frameworks as well as qualitative analysis.
• Consolidates reports, or data at outcome and output level and shares with the respective response coordinators and managers on monthly, quarterly, mid-year and annually as per M&E Plan; including implementation of program monitoring evaluation recommendations.
Performance monitoring tools to track:
• Administer performance-monitoring tools to track project indicators in line with the project implementation plan.
• Provide technical support to the field staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders on program performance monitoring and evaluation according to program implementation plan, World Vision evaluation strategy and donor requirements. Including performance reports to the respective project coordinators for effective decision-making
Accountability to beneficiaries:
• Ensure programme accountability to beneficiaries and donors is implemented in line with World Vision Uganda Programme Accountability Framework (PAF).
• Establish robust accountability mechanisms within the project areas with a focus on age gender and disability.
Capacity Building:
• Build the capacity of field staff and support design processes including measurements, baselines, monitoring, and evaluations.
• Orient staff on the data collection tools.
Technical guidance and supervision:
• Provides overall technical guidance and supervision to project M&E officers and staff in the West Nile Response in coordinating the implementation of WV Partnership and WV Uganda strategic initiatives to improve quality of monitoring and evaluation and learning in HEA setting or context
Knowledge management:
• Develop or administer knowledge management databases, principles, procedures and standards to institute effective knowledge management systems. This includes effective use of ITTs, automated databases, GIS technology, ODK and utilization of WV partnership knowledge management systems e.g. HORIZON.
• Design and implementation of program assessments/evaluation, operation research or special studies to improve programming in a refugee setting line with program implementation plan of WV Uganda and donor regulations

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
• A University degree in a statistic, quantitative economics, development studies, public health, demography, biostatistics or a related field is required. A Master’s degree is an added advantage
• Minimum of 6 years M&E related work experience
• Minimum of five years of work experience managing data intensive programs in designing, monitoring, and evaluation methodologies is highly desirable. Knowledge of statistical data analysis packages e.g. SPSS, Epi-info, Nvivo, etc.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E data collection and analysis methods, including tracking outcome indicators, is desirable. Should have relevant field experience in development, monitoring and evaluation of community-based projects especially in a refugee context.
• Knowledge of M&E issues with respect to service delivery and support related to Education and protection, capacity development is desirable.
• Experience in designing M&E methodologies and tools, and the ability to coach and train others in their use is desirable.
• This position requires a person who is self-starter, who can accomplish the task with minimal or no supervision. He/she should be able to manage a team of staff as well as cooperate with other units. He/she must be keen on details and well organized individual.
• Report writing, research, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience of data collection, collation, analysis, and report writing
• Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive
• Strong leadership, organizational and analytical skills, and ability to work under pressure
• Excellent verbal and written skills in English.
• Excellent computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Excel, spreadsheets

Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 72

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Use the link below to apply.
https://worldvision.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WorldVisionInternational/job/Arua-Uganda/Consortium-MEAL-Coordinator---ECHO-Project_R5427

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