GOAL ,Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator Job Vacancy in Uganda

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator

Organization: GOAL

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

About GOAL:

Founded in 1977, GOAL w

orks to promote the realization
of the fundamental rights of the poor, the vulnerable, and those affected by
humanitarian crisis. GOAL currently works in 15 countries; Ethiopia, Haiti,
Honduras, India, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria,
Uganda, Iraq, Philippines and Zimbabwe. GOAL’s head office is in Dublin,
Ireland with support offices in London and New York.

About GOAL in Uganda:

Operational in Uganda since the late 70’s, the current
country programme focuses on two of GOAL’s three strategic sectors, namely:
Health (including WASH and Health Accountability programming); and a market
based approach to improving agricultural livelihoods and WASH. GOAL Uganda
mainstreams HIV, gender, child protection and the resilience strategies across
all programming. GOAL works on a district focused approach, and uses a mixture
of direct implementation and partnerships with national and international civil
society organizations, local government and private sector companies to give
effect to our mission.

GOAL Uganda has a skilled team of approximately 110
personnel and manages an annual operating budget of approximately €3.5 million.
GOAL is currently operational in the North, South, East and West of Uganda with
five offices in Kampala, Bugiri, Abim, Kaabong and Agago Districts. With a new
livelihood programming planned we will open a new office in Lira in 2015.

Job Summary: The centrally
based country MEL team provides research, design, and analysis, capacity
building and quality assurance for all GOAL’s Uganda’s programming; including
our 10 – 15 national and international partners. The MEL Coordinator has
overall responsibility for all components of the monitoring, evaluation and
learning systems with a specific focus on MEL systems design and relationship
management with our research partners. Additionally the MEL Coordinator and
team are centrally involved in new programme design and driving learning.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
Coordinator will be responsible for the following objectives:
MEL / accountability design and research
Design and technically back stop new market based
monitoring, evaluation and learning systems for both livelihoods and Water
and Sanitation programmes (Systemic systems)
Technical design and oversight for all research
required
Quality assurance to Randomised Control Trial
Steer the HAP accountability research and pilot
implementation in GOAL Uganda
Actively coordinate the overall country
monitoring systems
Design, develop, monitor and adapt the monitoring
systems for all country programmes
Offer quality assurance for the country programme
monitoring systems
Design and develop the routine feedback of data
summaries to project teams
Ensure all projects have M&E plans that are
reviewed regularly and updated
Offer technical support to project teams on the
implementation of the M&E plans
Actively coordinate the overall country
evaluation systems
Plan, design and implement the country evaluation
plans
Oversee and update the GOAL Results framework for
GOAL Uganda
Plan and implement other donor requirements for
baseline and follow up
Review and quality assurance of all country
programme evaluations
Keep the consultants data base relevant and up to
date
Facilitate the utilization of evaluation
information so that it allows project teams to make programme decisions
based on what is working well and what is not
Coordinate the overall country programme learning
systems
Design and implement learning case studies across
the country programme
As part of the learning function, seek to
identify learning points across the range of work carried out and identify
opportunities to share this learning through meetings, workshops, reports
etc
Where appropriate, share materials with GOAL’s
best practice website and externally
Actively promote strengthened understanding and
capacities within project and programme teams on MEL, and the use and /or
analysis of MEL systems at the project and partner levels
People management
Plan, manage and build capacity in the MEL team
to include Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and time management
Train and mentor both MEL managers in aspects of
the MEL Coordinators role

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The ideal candidate should preferably hold a
relevant degree
Five or more years’ specific MEL work experience
Detailed knowledge and experience in designing
high quality monitoring systems
Significant knowledge and experience in designing
credible evaluation methodology
Possess the ability to critically analyse data
(Descriptive and inferential analysis)
Past exposure and experience in qualitative data
analysis (Most significant change, Outcome Journals etc)
Demonstrable excellent writing skills in English
Excellent communication skills (written and
spoken)
Prior experience in presenting data in a way that
programme teams can understand and utilize
Good computer skills (MS Word and Excel, Analysis
software, mapping software)
Ability to travel up to 40% from base
Previous experience in design of systems for
systemic change
Past experience in HAP systems is desired
Previous experience / engagement with RCT’s (or
other experimental design) will be an advantage