Monitoring & Evaluation Officer Job Vacancy in Uganda at GOAL Uganda

GOAL is an International Humanitarian Organisation wording in Uganda. Our mandate is to work to ensure that the poor and vulnerable are able to exercise their fundamental rights and meet their basic needs. GOAL Is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against HIV positive people Of people with disabilities. GOAL is committed to the safely and protection of children in our care from intentional and unintentional harm. Candidates will therefore be expected to comply with GOAL Uganda’s child protection policy. GOAL is also committed to gender equality throughout the organisation and to addressing the basic rights and needs of vulnerable populations throughout the developing world by focusing on gender issues across the full range of sectors within existing policies, development strategies and priorities. GOAL reserves the right to reject any application from a candidate who is currently employed by a local partner organization.
GOAL seeks to recruit competent persons for the position of:

Monitoring & Evaluation officer Pader/Agago
(With possible return to Kampala after 2011)

General Description of the Role
Reporting to the Programme Manager, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will have a prime responsibility for tracking the program’s indicators and targets, through developing and up dating a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation systems for GOAL and partners and partner CBOs. Working closely with the project team and the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team, she/he will support development of systems for knowledge management, documenting and sharing emerging lessons from the project as well as implementing the country M&E work plan by providing M&E support to all Northern Uganda projects i e. HIV, Protection. Education. WASH and Livelihoods. The incumbent will also functionally report to the GOAL Uganda Organisational Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator based in Kampala

Job requirement
Requirements (Essential)
• Degree in Social sciences. Development studies or related, relevant discipline
• 5 years work experience in humanitarian and recovery context programming
• At least 3 years experience working in s busy M&E department with a reputable NGQ.
• She/he should have demonstrated ability to design and implement M&E systems with HIV/AIDS or public health projects.
• She/he should have demonstrated ability to work with and provide technical support to CBOs with little capacity to grasp complicated concepts
• She/he should have strong organizational and computer skills Including MS Word, Excel.
• Good, demonstrable writing and communication skills in English
• Experience and ability of working in Northern Uganda

Desirable:
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to travel up to 40% from base
• Knowledge and experience working for a USAID funded programs.
• Experience with statistical packages used for data analysis like SPSS or EP, info

How to apply
Applicants who meet the requirements should submit their applications which must include at least 4 reference contacts (2 professional, 2 character references, including current or
recent employer) & daytime contact number by 16th May 2011

Only Short listed applicants will be contacted

Applications should be hand delivered or sent to
The Human Resource .and Administration Coordinator,
GOAL Uganda
P.O. Box 33140, Kampala, Lubbobo Close, Muyenga, next to DED
or email vacancies@goaluganda.com

Female candidates are encouraged to apply.