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Job Title:        Monitoring, Evaluation and
Learning Manager

Organization: Restless
Development

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Salary: UGX
77,223,549 gross annual and housing allowance

Reports to: Head
of Programmes and Partnerships

Preferred Start date: 15^th November 2019

About US:

Restless Development
(Uganda) is an International NGO established to address the challenges faced by
young people in Uganda by placing young people at the forefront of change and
development. Our vision is for all Ugandan youth to live healthy and productive
lives, fully supported by those around them. Our programming focuses on three
core areas: youth sexual and reproductive health and rights, youth civic
participation and youth employment and livelihoods.

Job Summary:  Restless Development Uganda is seeking to recruit a talented
individual to lead the organisation’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning
agenda. The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager will oversee a team of
four staff and, through the team, providing technical and capacity-building
support in M&E to all programme units and the Leadership team. They will
oversee all internal and external evaluations, and ensure that the evidence and
learning generated is used for designing and adapting our programmes to bring
transformative change in Uganda, and sharing our impact and learnings on our
Restless Development Model with partners and the sector to ensure scale and
sustainability

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

Delivering and disseminating Evaluation and Learning
products to internal and external audiences (40%)

• Package and disseminate learning and
  evidence from Restless Development Uganda’s programmes to drive improved
  practice in youth development across the youth sector in Uganda
• Ensure MEL plans for all the programmes
  are in line with the Programme Quality Framework and MEL framework as well
  as Donor requirements
• Ensure the MEL team, working with the
  Programmes teams, delivers the MEL plans
• Ensure evaluations and learning papers
  are high quality and can be used by multiple sources – Restless, donors
  and partners
• Ensure in-depth evaluations are
  accompanied by impact briefs to share the key highlights.
• Act as the focal point for coordination
  of all external evaluations, including managing consultants as appropriate
• Lead the monthly internal Programme
  Quality Group with a focus on ensuring learning is used to improve
  programme quality
• Act as the focal person on the design,
  development and roll out of programme quality guides, standards and
  tools/approaches
• Support the Fundraising and Partnerships
  Manager to report to existing donors and to develop new proposals,
  including design of monitoring and evaluation frameworks
• Represent Restless Development Uganda to
  donors, partners and other stakeholders as required

Oversight of monitoring and reporting systems (20%)

• Oversee development, support and
  maintenance of relevant programme databases
• Support programme teams through
  coordination of data collection and analysis processes.
• With support from the Leadership Team,
  lead bi-annual reviews of Restless Development Uganda’s programmes and
  performance against the national strategy.
• Design and oversee all project
  monitoring and reporting systems and tools in line with internal and
  external grant management requirements
• Lead compilation of the internal
  National Programme Reports for submission to the International Head Office
  in the UK
• Perform data quality checks for all
  internal and external reports in line with reporting guidelines and donor
  requirements.

Manage the MEL team (20%)

• Develop clear unit plans
• Work with the MEL team to develop clear
  roles, responsibilities and work plans for unit members.
• Line and performance manage the
  Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, serving as a role model at
  all  times
• Ensure organizational policy is adhered
  to by MEL Unit
• Design and lead regular
  capacity-building initiatives across the organization, ensuring that
  programme staff are able to use M&E systems to assess progress,
  identify challenges/opportunities and take action
• Provide M&E guidance and expertise
  to the senior management team as required
• Design and oversee data collection,
  analysis and report writing processes for internal
• Reviews evaluations of programme and
  organizational performance Leadership (10%)
• Mentor MEL team to deliver their areas
  of work to a high standard
• In collaboration with Head of Programmes
  and Partnerships, ensure learning across the Programmes are shared with
  the Leadership team to support decision making
• Be an effective member of the Leadership
  team working with other Managers, Head of Restless Development Uganda,
  Head of Programmes and Partnerships and Hub Director, including reparing
  unit papers for the Leadership team meetings

Other (10%)

• Other duties as required, sometimes
  requiring working on weekends and holidays for which time off in lieu can
  be taken.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The Restless Development Monitoring,
  Evaluation and Learning Manager should hold a graduate degree in a
  relevant field of study.
• At least three years’ experience in the
  development sector
• Minimum of three years’ experience
  in-design of monitoring systems and tools.
• Experience in training and providing
  capacity-building support on M&E.
• Excellent data analysis skills, both
  quantitative and qualitative
• Excellent report writing skills with
  experience preparing reports for donors and others
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Desirable

• Outstanding analytical and problem
  solving skills
• Excellent financial management skills,
  including experience of managing and reporting on budgets
• IT skills, including experience with packages
  such as Epilnfo and SPSS
• Outstanding interpersonal, written and
  verbal communication skills
• Experience of participatory research
  with young people
• Previous work experience in Uganda.
• Leads from the front and communicating
  in a straight forward, truthful and candid way
• Ensures people and teams are resourced
  for success, plans and acts transparently, creates awareness of
  substantive opportunities and risks, enables individual growth and
  responsibility holds staff accountable, recognizes and rewards success
  empowers the team to identify and solve problems; ewards individuals
  initiatives that goes beyond expectations Champions a culture of
  empowerment

NB: Restless
Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages people from
diverse backgrounds to apply.

How to Apply:

All suitably
qualified and interested candidates who wish to join Restless Development in
the aforementioned capacity should fill in this form, download
here, and send it to ugandajobs@restlessdevelopment.org. Please note
that we DO NOT accept CVs, resumes and cover letters.

Deadline: 22^nd September 2019

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