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Job Title:  Impact Assessment Officer
(Monitoring & Evaluation)

Organisation: IMPACT
Initiatives

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

Reports to:
IMPACT Assessment Manager

About US:

IMPACT Initiatives
is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation manages
several initiatives, including the REACH Initiative. The IMPACT team comprises
specialists in data collection, management and analysis and GIS. IMPACT was
launched at the initiative of ACTED, an international NGO whose headquarter is
based in Paris and is present in thirty countries. The two organizations have a
strong complementarity formalized in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to
benefit from ACTED’s operational support on its fields of intervention.

Job Summary:  The IMPACT M&E Assessment Officer is
responsible for the management of all ULearn independent verification research
cycles, including implementation, partnership framework, dissemination and
evaluation. He/she directly supervises junior assessment and field staff and
plays a key role in the development and implementation of IMPACT strategy in
Uganda. The position will be based in Kampala, with 30% travel to the refugee
settlements.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

Management of all
Research Cycles

Assessment
Preparation and Planning:

• Ensuring that all of the consortium’s Independent Verification
  activities are planned in line with relevant project and program
  objectives and with IMPACT’s research cycle and other relevant guidelines;
• Provide technical support to the Assessment team on research design,
  sampling, methodology and analysis plans
• Review and validate Independent Verification ToRs and ensure they
  are used by assessment staff and stakeholders, and updated as required;
  Review and validate in close coordination with Consortium Coordination,
  qualitative and quantitative data collection tools;
• Direct line management of IMPACT assessment officers on requirements
  of research cycle/ monitoring activities;
• Keep track of progress and delays of all assigned assessment
  throughout the research cycle. Ensure that delays or identified challenges
  for specific assessments are reported in writing and orally in a timely
  manner;
• Ensure relevant stakeholders and partners are engaged in assessment
  design and planning.

Data collection
and management

• Monitor data collection, ensuring its correct implementation in line
  with agreed TORs;
• Ensure that the Consortium Committee, IMPACT Country Focal Point and
  IMPACT HQ are alerted to any issues that prevents full implementation of
  the methodology in line with the agreed TORs; ensure that all changes to
  the methodology are documented throughout implementation;
• Ensure logistics, financial, administration, security (for IMPACT
  staff only) and HR processes directly related to data collection
  activities have been appropriately implemented and coordinated with the
  relevant ACTED departments;
• Ensure regular situation updates on data collection have been
  produced and circulated to the Consortium Committee, IMPACT, ACTED and
  external counterparts. Provide support and follow up on identified
  challenges during the data collection process.

Product drafting

• Manage assessment staff toward timely and accurate assessment
  outputs (i.e. reports, factsheets, flash reports, etc.), which comply with
  IMPACT’S guidelines and quality standards;
• Review and validate all products before they are sent to IMPACT CFP
  and IMPACT HQ for validation.

Product
dissemination and evaluation

• Under the direction of the IMPACT Country Focal Point and in close
  coordination with the U-Learn Consortium, engage in the dissemination of
  monitoring products, targeted e-mails, presentations, meetings, etc, with
  DfID and their partners as appropriate, and in line with IMPACT
  Dissemination and External Communication Guidelines and Research ToRs;
• Ensure that lessons learned are gathered and documented throughout
  the life of the research cycles.

Grants Management
and Reporting

• Liaise with Consortium finance and reporting units, with oversight
  from the IMPACT CFP and HQ for timely and accurate submission of reporting
  documents to DFID
• Support the IMPACT Country Focal Point and ACTED support team in
  drafting of relevant project narrative and financial reports;
• Maintain an oversight, in close coordination with the IMPACT Country
  Focal Point and the Consortium Finance Manager, of budget availability and
  burn-rates for all data collection activities

External relations

• In coordination with the Consortium Committee, meet with DFIDs BRAER
  implementing partners to ensure they are consulted and involved at all
  stages of research cycle: the preparation of the assessment; data
  collection; data analysis; review of research products; product
  dissemination; and lessons learnt; ensure that partner engagement is
  documented;
• In coordination with the Consortium Committee, present research
  findings to DfiD and partners to enhance their use and impact;
• Ensure that external communications with partners and key
  stakeholders, including DfID and its partners, is conducted and documented
  as appropriate;

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• Excellent academic qualifications, including a Masters degree in
  relevant discipline;
• Four years of relevant working experience in humanitarian,
  development or related settings such as research, evaluation, assessments
  and programmes;
• Experience managing budgets exceeding GBP 1 million;
• Experience coordinating interagency assessments or monitoring activities;
• Excellent analytical skills;
• Excellent communication and drafting skills for effective reporting;
• Excellent team management skills;
• Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring
  flexibility;
• Past experience in the region is desirable;
• Fluency in English required;
• Ability to operate with Microsoft Word, Excel and Project Management
  Software;
• Ability to work independently and manage `people remotely.

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