MEL Officer job at Restless Development Uganda

Vacancy title:
MEL Officer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Business Management and Administration, Category: Admin & Office]

Jobs at:
Restless Development Uganda

Deadline of this Job:
Saturday, April 26 2025

Duty Station:
Moroto - Karamoja | Karamoja | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, April 23 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Key responsibilities:

Support the design and implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Systems (40%). Working closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit:  

• Support and develop an M&E Plan and strategy for the projects.


• Support program design, development and review of all monitoring and reporting functions, systems and tools for the projects.


• Support programme teams to utilise planning, monitoring and reporting tools to capture information across programme indicators.


• Support the development of performance frameworks and tools used by different stakeholders and ensure consistency with the definition and methodology of collection by keeping an M&E analysis plan for each indicator.


• Support the programme team to Manage (record/capture, analyse, report, disseminate and safely store) project data.


• Design and lead training and other capacity building initiatives on monitoring and reporting systems for staff and young leaders.


• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual M&E project reports as per organisational and donor requirements and guidelines such as Program Monthly Progress Reports (PMPRs), quarterly National Progress Reports(NPRs, Pre & Post Training Reports, and Evaluation surveys).


• Conduct Quarterly Data Quality Assurance (DQA) for the projects in collaboration with program staff and M&E Unit at Head Office.

Support the Packaging and dissemination of learning (20%):

• Oversee analysis of monitoring and reporting data and produce reports for timely dissemination to internal and external stakeholders.


• Contribute to multi-stakeholder review meetings and other internal and external fora to disseminate programme results and learning.


• Prepare internal and external project MEL reports as required.


• Document lessons learnt, best practices and impact from area projects for learning within, across and outside Restless Development.


• Ensure learning generated is shared and disseminated within Restless Development and to other development stakeholder’s different fora outside organisation.


• Document case studies (Monthly) and Most Significant Change Stories (MSCs) on a quarterly and bi-annual basis highlighting programme success and lead in the participatory review and selection of the MSCs.


• Develop Impact Briefs from Project studies conducted for internal and external sharing.


• Contribute to documenting evidence on the organisation’s learning questions and agenda throughout the project’s implementation process.


• Participate in learning spaces created by the organisation.  

Support programme evaluation activities and processes in liaison with the MEL unit (20%).:

• Support the design and implementation of evaluation studies and processes such as baseline and end line surveys.


• Recruit, train and deploy data collectors and entrants.


• Oversee the implementation programme evaluations and design and develop tools for the process.


• Design and lead training and other capacity building initiatives on monitoring, evaluation and learning for staff, partners and young leaders involved in programme implementation. 


• Perform and ensure quality assurance of programme systems and interventions.

Manage data storage systems (15%)

• Support design systems for data capture, management and maintenance.


• Ensure functionality of data systems developed.


• Support the programme teams in documentation and filing of all programme data using both on and offline systems.


• Establish and regularly update programme people reached databases clearly showing the programme reach across the target population and categories.


• Conduct data verification, validation and quality assurance in line with organisational and donor requirements on a monthly basis.


• Provide monthly status reports drawing on data captured as per organisational and donor requirements. 

Other duties as required.(5%)

• Occasionally working on weekends, late night in case of emerging incidents and holidays for which time off in lieu can be taken. 

Skills and experience

Essential

• A minimum of a degree in the field of Social Statistics, Population, Monitoring and Evaluation,


• Demography, Development Studies or any other relevant field.


• Post Graduate diploma in M&E .


• At least 3 years of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation.


• Knowledge and experience of youth-led development programs.


• Understanding of development issues, particularly in relation to youth, Education and Livelihood, Gender and Sexual Health, Climate Justice, Voice and Democracy.


• Excellent Data Management and Management Information Systems skills


• VALID RIDING PERMIT

Desirable

• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills:  


• Experience with software packages such as Kobo collect, Excel, SPSS, Power Bi, Epi info, Atlas-ti.


• Experience in the use of online tools such as google documents.


• Experience in managing both online and offline meetings.


• Experience in project cycle management.


• Good report writing skills.


• Excellent financial management skills: Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.


• Experience in Research using both qualitative and quantitative methods. 

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure:

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