Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, February 06 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About YARID
Young African Refugees for Integral Development (YARID) is a registered NGO based in Kampala, founded in 2007 by young Congolese refugees living in Uganda.

The mission of YARID is to empower refugees, orphans and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) around Africa to overcome the burdens of deprivation and vulnerability to become healthy, educated, self-sustaining and contributing members of society.

YARID unites urban refugees through avenues like sports, English classes, and vocational skills training in order to address social issues like ethnic conflicts, unemployment, public health, and lack of access to education. Refugees that YARID serves mainly come from the
Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda Burundi, South Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Employee Category: Full-time (35-40 hours/week)
Location: Kampala
Reporting Line: Head of Programs
Deadline: 14th February 2024 at 5:00 PM

Job Overview/Summary
As the Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Lead, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of innovative Monitoring Evaluation and Learning initiatives for evidence-based reporting of all YARID activities measurements. The role provides overall leadership, management, and strategic direction to the MEAL function within YARID, and the job holder will be a thought leader in program design, management to collaboratively enhance project delivery and attainment of the intended results.

The MEAL Lead will supervise and mentor both the MEL team and YARID staff on activity delivery of effective M&E systems. He/she will work closely with the M&E officers to ensure that the program's outcomes and impact are accurately captured and reported.

Responsibilities
MEAL System Development
• Design and implement a comprehensive MEL framework, including indicators that are SMART, data collection tools, and reporting mechanisms, aligned with YARID interventions and outcomes.
• Develop clear guidelines and protocols for data collection, management, and analysis.
• Lead the collection of high-quality data across program components, ensuring accuracy, consistency, completeness and timeliness of project delivery.
• Conduct data analysis to track program progress, identify trends, Present the data finding in a clear and understandable format, develop success stories, case studies, impact of the project that is directly attributed to the Project implementation and generate actionable insights.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
• Lead the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities, including baseline and end line surveys, Pre and post test results, mid-term reviews, and impact assessments.
• Collaborate with MEL officers in field officers (Kampala, Nakivale, Palabeck and Kyaka 2 Refugee camp) evaluators, Field officers, Programs team, and stakeholders to ensure rigorouss evaluations.

Accountability and Feedback Mechanisms
• Support the establishment and management of the feedback and complaint mechanisms for program participants and stakeholders.
• Support the leadership team to ensure that feedback is captured, analysed, and addressed in a timely and effective manner.

Learning and Knowledge Management
• Facilitate regular learning and reflection sessions with YARID MEL team to capture lessons learned, best practices, and challenges that will guide the Programs team in Decision Making.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and adaptation within the Organization, Reporting and Communication within the organization Departments.
• Orientation of implementing team and managers on reporting requirements/tools, including review of program, reports for quality assurance before submission into the on-line platform.
• Prepare regular progress reports and contribute to donor reporting requirements, highlighting key achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Communicate MEAL findings internally and externally through various channels
• Build the staff capacity in all M&E systems to ensure a systematic data capruting and docuamnetation.
• Provide training and capacity-building support to staff on MEAL methodologies, data collection techniques, and reporting standards.

Key Competencies
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills and decisive decision maker with ability to prioritize and communicate to staff key objectives and tactics necessary to achieve goals.
• Excellent teamwork with demonstrated abilities to coordinate well with diverse individuals and teams and engages effectively with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve results and meet Donor Requirements.
• Able to develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders with passion for lesson learning and adaptation within and without.
• Dynamic and mature personality, able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritizing and delegating as required.
• Strong passion for youth voice elevation, gender and inclusion responsiveness, and transformative change at individual, household and communities with humility, integrity, and creativity.

Qualifications
• Hold a Master's degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Development Economics, Social
Sciences, Project management,Information Systems, Statistics, Economics, International Development or related fields.
• Must hold a post graduate diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation, or Development Evaluation.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience at the same level or higher, leading MEL functions at a national level and NGO setting designing and implementing MEL systems for development projects in refugee and host community settings, preferably in the education, youth empowerment, or livelihoods sector.
• Great knowledge and skills on the use of Microsoft Office package, SPSS, STATA, EXCEL, Epi-info, Power BI.
• Extensive Knowledge and experience in qualitative data analysis and quantitative data management techniques.
• Strong proficiency in quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, analysis, and reporting.
• Familiarity with designing and conducting surveys, evaluations, and assessments.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to generate insights from data.
• Strong leadership and management skills, gained in a complex environment, with Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with participatory approaches to MEAL and beneficiary feedback mechanisms. • Experience working in a consortium or multi-stakeholder environment is advantageous.
• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams and partners.
• Knowledge of languages spoken by refugees such as French, Swahili, etc. will be considered an added advantage.
• Excellent digital literacy competencies conversant with the ecommerce platforms.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to convey information effectively both in verbal and written formats
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of urban/community development
• Service oriented with good interpersonal and facilitation skills.
• Experience in skilling sectors and with refugees is considered an added advantage.
• Candidates with displacement experience are encouraged to apply.

Equality and Diversity
YARID Service is committed to the fair treatment of all people, regardless of their gender, race, colour, ethnicity, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion, disability, mental health needs, age, domestic circumstances, social class, sexuality, beliefs, political allegiance or trades union membership.

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults
In accordance with YARID Safeguarding policies. YARID Service is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children, Young People and Adults. All staff working with these groups are expected to share a commitment to this. You will be expected to promptly report any concerns relating to the safeguarding, sexual harassment of children, young people and / or adults in accordance with agreed policy and procedures. If your own conduct in relation to the safeguarding of children, young people or adults gives cause for concern the YARID agreed Public Protection Procedures will be followed, alongside implementation of the Disciplinary Procedure where appropriate.

A background check will be conducted to assess compliance with safeguarding policies.

All our services are free, DO NOT pay anybody and be coursed into abuse of safeguarding policies for a job placement.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure
If you meet the above qualifications and are interested in this opportunity, please submit your application before the 14th of February 2024. Please note that there will be a rolling review of applications, so we encourage early application. Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.

Send your CV, application letter, LC1 letter, ID, and academic documents to human.resource@yarid.net with “Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Lead” in the email subject line.


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