Monday, February 11, 2013

M&E officer Job at Institute for Social Transformation - Employment Opportunity in Uganda

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Institute for Social Transformation

Vacancy title:
M&E officer

Deadline of this Job:
28th February 2013
Job details:
Institute for Social Transformation (IST), Uganda

The Institute for Social Transformation (IST) is a non- profit organization

established in Uganda in 2006 to promote use of the Training for Transformation

(TfT) methodology in English speaking countries of Eastern Africa. To this effect it

is implementing projects aimed at building the capacity of partner organisations in

gender mainstreaming, transformative learning and collective action towards their

own progress.

The Institute seeks the expertise of a consultant to incorporate an M&E component

in its projects.

The M&E officer will be answerable to the Executive Director, with the majority of

tasks to be undertaken in collaboration with the IST programme staff and the

partner organisations.

Key Responsibilities:

Assessing the existing M&E needs and processes of IST

Work with IST staff on designing and developing the M&E system including

developing appropriate indicators and tools for data collection for the current

projects to enable IST use the information for decision making.

Ensure that performance questions, information needs, indicators and related

targets, methods, sampling procedure and reporting formats and procedures are

part of the M& E system. Ensure that these supplement and link to the existing

M&E processes of partner organisations.

Work closely with IST training teams to identify how they do their own M&E and

how this can be linked to project M&E in ways that are safe and appropriate.

Conduct monitoring and evaluation of programmes

Prepare reports on M&E findings, as required, working closely with IST staff.

In collaboration with the accountant, provide the Executive Director with

management information that she/he may require

Ensure that monitoring data are discussed with relevant IST staff and in a timely

fashion in terms of implications for future action.

Build the capacity of IST in M&E data collection, analysis, interpretation and

use for decision making.

Support IST staff in entering and analyzing project data, ensure quality

preparation.

Document good practices/ case studies

Requirement:

Minimum of Master’s degree by coursework & research, community

development or social studies from a recognized University.

Up to date on theory and research in radical approaches to learning, gender

equality and leadership

A minimum of four (4) years working experience in monitoring and evaluation

work using statistical and participatory approaches

Proven high level writing skills in report writing

Demonstrated ability to use computer assisted software for data collection and

analysis

Excellent presentation skills.

Unquestionable integrity, self-motivation, team player, highly versatile, high-level

interpersonal and good communications skills and capability to work under tight

deadlines in a competitive environment.

Experience: 4

Job application procedure

Applications should be submitted to: isocialtransformation32@gmail.com

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