Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at Aga Khan Foundation

About the Project
The AKDN East Africa COVID-19 Response Project will provide rapid response funds to various local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to enable them to reach their most vulnerable constituents with support based on their emerging needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will also provide a platform, comprising Human Centered Design workshops, flexible grants, and mentorship, to support young entrepreneurs to design innovative business solutions that will meet the medium to short term needs of the community emerging from the pandemic. The 2.5year project will be implemented in Central and West Nile (Arua) regions of Uganda.

Position Description
The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will lead the M&E activities under the AKDN East Africa COVID-19 Project to be implemented in Central and West Nile (Arua) regions of Uganda. The M&E Officer will be responsible for planning and implementation of baseline, midline and endline activities, planning of regular monitoring activities and supporting collection of success stories and capturing impact of the project as it progresses.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate with the regional and Country program MERL  teams to plan and implement the various activities such as base line, midline and end line activities on the program in country.
• Setup a project MIS system and provide timely and quality M&E data inputs to the regular (monthly, quarterly and annual) program reports.
• Ensure M&E data needs are integrated into programme quality tools and do not exist as separate M&E or data collection tools and processes and be responsible for all data management needs under the program
• Ensure documentation of success stories, and impact from the ground maintaining a rich data base of stories with pictures and case studies on lessons learnt and best practices.
• Work with the AKF MERL team to facilitate dissemination and program learning activities.
• Support subgrantees and recipients of the flexible response funds to strengthen their M&E systems; review and guide on their systems and processes, feedback on their reports and work closely with their M&E response persons to improve their M&E capacity
• Participate in updating of AKF online technologies in M&E including the Awards Information Management System (AIMS), and Global Reach System (GRS

The requirements

• Graduate degree in social development or other relevant field is required and post-graduate qualifications are desirable
• Minimum of three-years’ experience at senior project management level is required
• Experience managing programs with through partners with subgrants is required
• Experience working with/building capacity of local Civil Society Organisations is required
• Experience with the Human Centered Design methodology will be an added advantage
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work collaboratively with internal teams and project and non-project partners
• Strong communication skills, written and oral, and fluency in English
• Strong leadership skills with diverse competencies in organisation, multi-tasking, critical thinking, and M&E
• Working knowledge of ICT

Interested candidates are requested to submit a cover letter, CV including contacts of three references, by 19^th March 2021.

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