Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, January 08, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Facilitator

Company profile:
SoCha (a portmanteau of Social and Change) is an independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) firm that provides bespoke solutions to social challenges. We are a US-registered, veteran-owned small business and staff support offices in Nairobi, Bangkok and Mauritius. SoCha currently supports multiple foreign assistance interventions across Asia and Africa.

Background:
SoCha provides bespoke solutions to evaluative and analytical requests for the Uganda Learning Activity, a USAID/Uganda monitoring, evaluation, and learning mechanism. SoCha has been requested to examine studies of USAID/Uganda’s interventions that have been commissioned and executed under the current USAID/Uganda Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS).
Between 2016 and 2021, close to 150 studies of USAID’s interventions in Uganda were commissioned and executed. These studies include impact and performance evaluations, baseline assessments, studies of implementation approaches, and multi-country comparative assessments, covering all USAID/Uganda technical offices. Together, these studies form a comprehensive research program into the implementation of the current USAID/Uganda CDCS.
The findings from these studies will enable USAID/Uganda to identify recurring issues across studies, offices, and activities, as well as strengths and weaknesses in its capacity to learn and pivot. SoCha will be providing the Mission with recommendations that strengthen Mission-wide collaboration, learning, and adaptation (CLA) and support the successful implementation of the new CDCS.

Scope of the activity:
The SoCha team is expected to perform the following tasks throughout this activity:
• Assess the quality of evaluations/studies and identify conditions for evaluation/study use.
• Identify recurring issues in the design, implementation, and management of activities across studies, offices, and interventions.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in the Mission’s capacity to implement a successful development strategy and to learn and adapt, and;
• Provide recommendations on how to strengthen Mission-wide adaptive management.

Scope of work:
The Facilitator will:
• Review the study assessment analysis and the study use analysis.
• Co-design and execute workshops: sensemaking, problem centered, and best practices in utilization focused evaluation.
• Take primary technical responsibility to develop workshop agenda, session plans, workshop materials, slides, and facilitate or lead workshop discussion.

Minimum qualifications and experience:
• Experience designing, planning, organizing, and executing online workshops.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders to make sense of evaluations, assessments, or analyses preferred.
• Excellent written & spoken English.
• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality presentations.
• Experience working with stakeholders in Uganda preferred.
• Experience working with USAID or USAID projects preferred.
• Demonstrated experience working with asynchronous or remote teams preferred.
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree qualification.
Period of Performance:
April 2022 – June 2022
Location:
Remote and/or in Kampala, Uganda, if required.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Please apply via the link below:
https://jobs.socha.net/facilitator-remote-work-uganda-05-01-2022/ 
Applications close on 14 January 2022; application review will be on a rolling basis.

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