Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Action Aid

ActionAid is an International Development Agency working in over 50 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. ActionAid’s mission is to work with the poor and the excluded people in the world to eradicate poverty by overcoming the injustices and the inequity that cause it.

ActionAid International Uganda seeks to recruit competent persons to fill the position of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer. The position will be located at the head office-Kampala with frequent travels to the field.

Role Definition:

To implement systems for monitoring and evaluation of all AAIU’s projects; document and share information and knowledge in line with Accountability Learning and Planning Systems, national and local rights programme strategies and monitoring framework.

Key Responsibility Areas:

1. Support the development of rolling participatory baselines for local and national rights programmes in line with ActionAid M&E strategy;

2. Support the local rights programmes to compile and update rights and entitlement registers

3. Support the national and the local rights programmes to develop performance indicators to include empowerment indicators, advocacy indicators, partnership indicators and other performance indicators;

4. Train staff, partners and community intermediar­ies (community change makers) in participatory right based M&E;

5. Contribute to development and implementation of the National Monitoring Framework in line with CSPIV;

6. Collect, validate and enter local and national rights programme data into the Management Information System (MIS) and share aggregated information from it with different departments/units; programmes to ensure their Alps Tracker records are up to-date;

8. Facilitate participatory review and reflection processes for the local rights programme and partners;

9. Take lead in documentation of learnings, good practices and compiling reports for all projects.

10. Compile periodic M&E reports for ActionAid Uganda including the six monthly key performance indicators (KPIs).
Requirement:

Key Competences:

* Monitoring & evaluation
* Programme Development
* Planning and Budgeting
* Knowledge management
* Documentation, information management, and Reporting
* Institutional capacity assessment & development
* Training and development
* Women rights and poverty sector analysis

person Specifications:


A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in either Development Studies, appropriate Social Science discipline or any other related field with at least 2-3
years relevant experience from a reputable organization.

A post graduate qualification in Monitoring & Evaluation will be an added advantage.
Salary: - USD/month
Experience: 3
How to apply:

Applications should be sent with a CV, cover letter, copies of certified academic documents and contact names and details of at least three (3) referees (one of which must be from the current employer) to:-

The HROD Director,

ActionAid International

Uganda, P.O. Box 676, Kampala

Not later than 5th December 2011. We will respond only to short listed candidates