Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 19, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview
Knowledge, Skills & Competences
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills and ability to work well under pressure
• Strong organizational and administrative competence
• Highly motivated to work in a multicultural and inter-disciplinary team
• Highly motivated to work with tight timelines, self-motivated and ability to work independently
• Willingness to travel to project sites across the country
• Excellent formulation, writing, communication, presentation and facilitation skills, both orally and written English.
• Computer literacy with excellent knowledge of MS Office (especially Word, PowerPoint) as well as online meeting and conference tools.

Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
The M&E Specialist will be in charge of:
• Coordinating the accurate and timely Monitoring and Evaluation of EnDev Uganda activities
• Supervising and supporting verification of results as well as baselines and other M&E related studies that are required for documentation, planning and implementation of the project
• Carrying out collection, aggregation and analysis of project data on renewable energy users as well as partners including private companies
• Support to the Programme Knowledge Management & M&E Specialists for joint monitoring and reporting
• Support to the Project Manager in M&E related tasks
• Coordination with the progammes HQ M&E specialists
The &E Specialist performs the following tasks:
Specific Tasks
Verification
• Develop guidelines on targeted verification of EnDev partner project reporting including sales of solar & cooking energy products and services
• Support in the preparation of relevant procurement documents for specific activities in line with GIZ Procurement Guidelines
• Support in guiding consultants on verification tasks including phone and field surveys
• Guide Heads of Components on technical questions relating to verification, coordinate with them on scheduling of verifications and training of project staff on the process.
Monitoring & Evaluation
• Develop monitoring & evaluation plans for co-funded activities in line with respective project documents
• Support the project teams with the development of M&E sections for new proposals and concepts to be implemented
• Coordinate the yearly monitoring process at country level in line with the guidance from the EnDev HQ M&E team including aggregation and entry of project data including the use of Excel and other respective data management tools
• Coordinate portfolio review M&E tasks in line with guidance from the EnDev Uganda Project Manager, EnDev HQ and requirements from the technical teams.
• Support consultants conducting project evaluations on project activities
• Prepare monitoring results for presentations and communication/visibility products including targeted data visualization
Data analysis
• Conduct analysis of historic project and sector data to provide key insights into expected future developments and potential risks/challenges to inform project planning and implementation
• Support the Cluster Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Communication Specialists as well as the political partner (Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development) on joint documents highlighting the EnDev Uganda results as part of the Cluster
• Provide support to project staff as well as project partners to make better use of existing data points and simple data analysis tools
Other Duties/Additional Tasks
• Support the documentation of lessons learned and other knowledge products
• Support joint team meetings, planning processes where needed
• Conduct onboarding sessions on M&E for new EnDev Uganda staff
• Represent the interest of the GIZ-assisted measure and always act on its behalf
• Performs other duties and tasks at the request of management.

Qualifications
• Master’s degree in statistics, project planning and management, monitoring and evaluation, social sciences, energy or related field
Details of experience
• At least 3 years of professional experience in monitoring, evaluation, or data analysis
• Demonstrated experience with the development of M&E plans incl. targets as well as the collection and processing of M&E evidence for reporting
• Experience with renewable energy including solar or cooking energy is an advantage.
• Practical experience in the development and implementation of surveys for data collection as well as the analysis of data
• Strong experience with Excel including data analysis through Pivot tables as well as optional experience with other data analysis tools


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
All interested and qualified persons are encouraged to apply to the Head of Human Resources by email at vacancy@futureoptions.org . Applications and CVs should be in one document and a maximum of 5 pages only and sent electronically, quoting the reference GIZ – PRUDEV/AS-MC/0822049. Please include the name and contact of three references in the CVs, one official reference from your current workplace is a MUST. Please quote the position and reference number in the subject line. Applications should be received by 5.00 pm on 4th September 2022. Please note: This is a national position. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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