Current Jobs at Plan International- Uganda

Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (MER) Coordinator

Purpose: To act as a resource in the country office MER team and coordinate monitoring, evaluation and research initiatives at national and district levels and to provide technical assistance and training of programme staff in planning, design and implementation of MER activities to support organizational learning. Main

Responsibilities/key result areas
1. Coordinates the implementation of monitoring, evaluation and research initiatives at national and district levels.
2. Leads development of indicators, monitoring frameworks, tools and guidelines for all country programmes and projects at national and district levels.
3. Leads development and design of all research projects in Plan Uganda working closely with the technical specialists' team.
4. Supports design and delivery of major evaluation and baselines and evaluation of the country strategic plan.
5. As a member of the MER team, advises management and programme staff on monitoring, evaluation and research.
6. Facilitates Training and Development activities and provides evaluation and research for Plan and partner staff.
7. Facilitates organizational learning in the country by developing, collecting and disseminating relevant internal and external
8. Prepares reports on Plan Uganda's monitoring, evaluation and research initiatives for internal and external use.
Essential Competencies and Experience
• Bachelor degree in Development studies, Social Sciences or its equivalent
• Significant training/background and professional training in MER o
• At least 3 years in design and implementation of MER initiatives
• Knowledge of environment and current effective practice on MER approaches
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people from diverse cultures, ability to lead and motivate people to work in teams
• Willingness to undertake extensive travel and missions throughout Uganda (at least 30% of time)

Specific skills
Monitoring and evaluation of rights-based programmes
• Design and coordination of research projects
• Strong strategic and analytical thinking
• Excellent interpersonal, and communication (verbal and written) skills
• Advanced computers skills in Excel, MS Access, SPSS and other statistical packages

Personal Attributes:
• Promotes high performance among programme staff and provides direction and vision.
• Open to feedback and willing to try new approaches on MER
• Coaches MER staff and leads others
Apply for this job

Suitably qualified candidates should submit a handwritten letter of application (indicating the position ;applied for on the envelope) together with a CV, contact telephone numbers, copies of additional relevant certificates, names and contact details (including email addresses) of three references, plus salary history, to the undersigned not later than 1¬st December 2010.

People and Culture Manager,
Plan Uganda
P.O. Box 12075, Kampala

Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply. Only Short-I listed candidates will be contacted. Please consider your application unsuccessful in case you do not here from us by 14th January, 2011.

As a child centered development organization. Plan strives to ensure that children are kept safe in all the areas we operate. The organization further has child protection policy that every staff is required to sign. Potential candidates are required to undergo an extensive child protection background check including a police check.