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Job Title:  Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Organisation: World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Duty Station:   Uganda

Reports to: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

About US:

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the largest independent conservation organizations in the world. We are an international NGO committed to environmental protection active in almost 100 countries. WWF has a growing conservation Programme in the Republic of Uganda. WWF Uganda Country Office (WWF UCO) works with central and local government agencies, private sector, civil society organizations (CSOs) and the local communities to implement its various conservation programmes on Energy and Climate, Forestry and Wildlife, and Freshwater in Uganda.

Job Summary:  The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will support the M&E Specialist to implement project specific MEAL activities, provide technical support to project partners and staff, monitor and report on all project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning activities for Forestry, Freshwater, and Wildlife projects. Your MEAL knowledge and support will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative WWF UCO’s programming is and your service-oriented approach will ensure that the project consistently applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of our conservation initiatives.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads the development and implementation of project specific monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Support the coordination and implementation of all assigned projects M&E activities as outlined in the project M&E frameworks, Detailed Implementation Plan in line with WWF Network standards, WWF UCO M&E strategy, and industry good practices.
• Follow-up on project activities and documents results, and best practices from the activity implementation and ensure exchange and dissemination of lessons learnt across the project staff and partners.
• Provides technical backstopping to implementing partners by collating, analyzing, consolidating monitoring data, and preparing reports of the projects’ activities and processes, using the monitoring tools in place;
• Support project staff to prepare project progress reports
• Support knowledge management processes, including documentation, sharing, learning and adaptive management, thereby building the monitoring and evaluation capacity amongst project staff ad partners.
• Conduct monitoring visits and consultations on the review of progress on a periodic basis and encourage stakeholders’ involvement at all stages;
• Track the implementation of recommendations from studies, management, stakeholders and donor visits.
• Keenly monitor and report any M&E-related challenges and gaps identified to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules.
• Lead the roll-out and implementation of the project’s Environmental Safeguards and Social Framework (ESSF) mitigation measures.
• Support field-level data management activities (including digital data collection) and assist partners in their efforts to collect and ensure timely analysis of project data per specified mechanisms and tools.
• Conduct periodic data quality assessment for the assigned conservation projects
• Collect information on project staff and partner M&E capacity needs and technical assistance needs of partner organizations and monitor M&E capacity building and technical support activities to ensure effective impact.
• Assist with identifying information for case studies and reports on promising Forestry, Wildlife, and Freshwater practices.
• Support project learning and decision making by posing thoughtful questions, engaging with project data, reflecting upon and sharing with project management the information gathered from community members and partners.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies or related subjects;
• Post Graduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation
• Advanced training in Geospatial Analysis
• At least five years working experience in monitoring and Evaluating environmental related projects.
• Good understanding of the Project Cycle Management
• Experience in practical field implementation of Natural Resources Management and related results-based management-oriented monitoring system.
• Good GIS knowledge and skills
• Strong knowledge of M&E practices and methodologies
• Experience in designing, planning, and implementation of project M&E systems.
• Knowledge of Participatory approaches, and application of the logical framework.
• High level of computer literacy (competent in MS Office), and experience with one or more types of data analysis and management software (e.g., Stata, SPSS) strongly preferred;
• Detail-oriented with good technical report writing skills;
• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English;
• Experience of working in an international and/or multicultural -cultural environment, with NGO experience an advantage;
• Fluency in written and spoken English

How to Apply:

All candidates should send their application letters, detailed Curriculum Vitae including names, email addresses and telephone contact details of three (3) referees, plus copies of academic qualifications (sent as one PDF document) addressed to the People Culture and Administration Manager should be emailed to: recruitment@wwfuganda.org

In your application please indicate in the subject line the job title. Please quote the position title in the email subject line and remember to fill the Google form for the respective role as no applications will be processed without the respective Google form filled. You can access the Google form via the following link:

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Deadline: 26th September 2022.

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