Country: Uganda
Closing date: 13 Sep 2018
About us
For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children's lives in more than 120 countries. We are the world's largest independent child rights organisation, underpinned by a vision of a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. We are an equal opportunity organisation dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children both in their private and professional lives.
In Uganda, we implement programmes in five thematic programme areas of Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Education, Child Poverty, Health and Nutrition in Development and Emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers programs in over 36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern, West Nile and Central regions of Uganda. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential.
Role Purpose:
The job holder is responsible for providing support to the Education Consortium's MEAL function and will work with the MEAL Department, Technical Specialists, Consortium Management Unit and Education Consortium Partners' programme teams to design and lead a strong Education MEAL system.
The MEAL Coordinator ensures that the Consortium undertakes routine Continuous Quality Improvement & data quality assessment, has information briefs, regular sharing of Programme updates with stakeholders, a mechanism for collecting, tracking and responding to feedback and complaints from Programme stakeholders.
In addition, the job holder ensures that Quality Benchmarks are used during implementation of Consortium activities and puts in place a tailor made documentation strategy for impact stories, reports, and best practices. The MEAL Coordinator will cultivate a culture of learning within the Education Consortium and ensure that lessons learnt from pilots, programme interventions and working in consortia are documented, shared between partners and with key stakeholders and contribute to national and global level learning and research.
Contract Duration: Open
Contractual Status: National
Location: West Nile
Qualification and Experience;Essential
Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in either Statistics or Development Studies with Post Graduate training in M&E or Project planning and Management.
Minimum of 3 years working experience in monitoring and evaluation working experience
Knowledge and use of various survey methods for monitoring of different programs and training and mentorship of Community based volunteers, Sub-county
Additional training and experience in biostatistics or monitoring and evaluation and MIS of an added advantage.
Desirable
- Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.
- Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills are a must.
How to apply:
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