Country: Uganda
Closing date: 02 Feb 2016
About the Global Health Corps Fellowship:
Global Health Corps (GHC) is a leadership development organization focused on building the next generation of diverse, disruptive global health leaders. Founded in 2009, we competitively recruit talented professionals (ages 21-30) from a range of sectors and backgrounds and place them in high-impact roles within partner organizations -- including Clinton Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, Planned Parenthood Global, and Government Ministries in Zambia, Rwanda, and Uganda -- working on the front lines of health equity in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the US, and Zambia.
GHC is seeking fellows from a wide range of backgrounds, geographies, and expertise. Through a one-year paid fellowship program, fellows provide the expertise and leadership potential needed to fill capacity gaps in global health.
About Placement Organization
Since its start in 2009, S.O.U.L. Foundation has worked to foster sustainable and vibrant Ugandan communities with a focus on education, women's empowerment, food security, and health. The co-founder, Brooke Stern, is a licensed nurse (BSN) who lives among the targeted communities about 1.5 hours outside Kampala, Uganda. Believing in the dignity and potential of every human being, Brooke co-founded S.O.U.L. on the premise that authentic and effective change happens by giving a hand-up, not a hand-out; that partnerships are the path to sustainable development; and that the women of Uganda are the key to each community’s long-term success.
S.O.U.L. is working with residents from several developing communities to create and pursue opportunities that have enabled—literally— hundreds of families to break the cycle of extreme poverty. Our vision for relevant, scalable, and sustainable development programs emerged from our belief that empowered women are better situated to participate in effective change and can collectively identify problems, develop solutions, and mobilize and implement those solutions. To date, we work in 14 communities across two districts, impacting 9,000 Ugandans.
In 2014, we launched our innovative Maternal Health Network (MHN) to increase education of and access to quality healthcare for families in rural communities in order to reduce undue maternal and newborn deaths. This remains a top priority for us: the first stage, the Antenatal Education Center, started in Fall 2015, and we are working on subsequent stages to address the other delays our communities face in accessing basic maternal and newborn healthcare. In 2015, we also expanded our programs in food security and education, including mentoring, with a focus on sustainability and entrepreneurship. In addition, we are prioritizing improving our monitoring and evaluation (M&E) processes and procedures of our organization in order to better track and demonstrate our impact.
The organization is growing significantly and was highlighted on the front page of Voice of America by international journalist Ivan Broadhead in December 2011, and has received particular notice and praise from the World Bank, the Former U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Scott DeLisi, the French Embassy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. The organization has received grants from the Segal Family Foundation, the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York, the US Embassy, the Nathan Yip Foundation, and the Howard Buffet Foundation, among others.
Position Overview
S.O.U.L. is a growing, innovative organization, and we are constantly seeking to better measure and evaluate what we are doing. We yearn to learn from our successes and our failures, and to learn fast.
The Impact Management Officer will be based in Bujagali Falls and help design, develop, and implement the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of our program areas: education, women’s empowerment, food security, and health. He/she will work closely with our leadership team to better conceptualize and measure our impact across all program areas. In doing so, he/she will help establish our organization for sustained growth. The Impact Management Officer will work closely with staff, beneficiaries, and partners throughout Uganda to help create, streamline, and institutionalize these processes. As a part of such, the individual will be instrumental in training other staff members in M&E vision and implementation.
Responsibilities
- Develop and/or update, with staff, robust logical frameworks and associated M&E plans for each of S.O.U.L.’s program areas (education, women’s empowerment, food security, and maternal health)
- Design appropriate evaluation tools (surveys, focus group discussions, etc.) to implement S.O.U.L.’s M&E plans
- Utilize tools to gather, clean, and analyze routine program data
- Work with staff to synthesize and effectively communicate programmatic impact, successes and failures, and make recommendations for improvement where needed
- Institutionalize M&E collection, storage, and reporting with staff
- Conduct trainings with staff members to build individual M&E capacity
Required Skills and Experience
- Prior experience designing and implementing M&E plans for similar programs and/or organizations
- Prior experience working in a developing country, preferably in Africa
- Strong statistical and analytical skills with the ability to effectively deduce conclusions from data
- Excellent cross-cultural, interpersonal skills, and ability to work with people from a diverse set of backgrounds
- Excellent computer skills, especially in software for data analysis (e.g., STATA, SAS, Mathematic) and MS Office
- Ability to take initiative and work well under pressure to meet deadlines
- Reliable, self-motivated, and dynamic
- Ability to work in a team and form productive, supportive, and professional relationships with all staff
- Commitment to the S.O.U.L. Foundation’s mission and vision
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Master’s degree in a related field
- Experience training others in M&E techniques
- Experience running random control trials (RCTs)
- Experience in East Africa and familiarity with its development challenges
- Experience in a number of sectors (e.g., education, economic empowerment, and maternal health) that pertain to S.O.U.L. Foundation
Fellowship Logistics
During the fellowship year, all fellows are provided with:
- A living stipend of $550/month
- Housing and utilities
- Health insurance
- A professional development grant of $600
- An award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year
- Travel costs covered to and from placement site, training and retreats
*Note: The living stipend and the completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by the placement organization.
Living and Working in Uganda: Fellows are provided with housing and utilities during the fellowship year. Housing arrangements vary based on the placement organization and location within the country. Fellows will be provided with furnished housing in a private compound with a garden in rural Bujagali Falls, Jinja District. The house is a short walk to the S.O.U.L. office and near the Nile River.
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