Jobs in Uganda- New Job Opportunity at World Vision in

Job Title: National Design Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) Manager
Duty station: National Office
To provide leadership and coordination in the design, documentation, monitoring, and evaluation of World Vision Uganda activities and all supported programs.

Key Result Areas
Leadership:
• Provide proactive and clear functional leadership across WVU for development and full coordination of all DM and E events, practices, and learning and DME personnel.
• Develop full, effective cross-functional working relationships for DM and E events,practices and learning and DME personnel
•Participate Effectively with DM and E networks, practitioners and learning/research institutions to access, research, evaluate and promote the best available external practices and resources in DM and E

Assessment and Design
•Lead and supportand support assessments and operational research for contextual understanding, identifying opportunities, vulnerabili­ties, capacities and resources, deciding feasibility and setting priorities.
• Lead the program and technical teams in the development of design documents and logical frameworks that prioritize needs established during assessments and secondary data analysis.
• Develop a Monitoring and Evaluation (M and E) system consistent with the VW DME framework (LEAP) that includes standards developed by multilateral and bilateral agencies NGOs.

Implementation and monitoring:
• Support management and accountability through routine, ac­curate collection and reporting of information that confirms status of program activities based on log frames.
• Develop quality control systems and mechanisms needed to guarantee proper management of information and data.
• Lead strategic thinking and planning in relation to integration of the management information system (MIS) and application of M and E data

Transition:
• Provide support in the design of program phase out strategies, and monitoring of progress of transition through achievement of activities
• Support all programs to develop, implement and monitor prog­ress of transition plans in order to ensure sustainability of VW supported programs in Uganda.

Promote Organizational learning:
• Document and disseminate the key lessons and findings from project evaluations and operations audit for organizational learn­ing and decision making.
• Gather relevant information regarding best practices in program design, monitoring and evaluation from within and outside the WVI partnership and shares it with field staff to facilitate organizational learning and experience sharing.


Job requirement

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• A Master's degree in Economics, Statistics or Mathematics
• At least 5 years experience leading programming, monitoring and evaluation functions of an international NGO or donor organization.
• Good understanding and working experience of development, advocacy and emergency affairs approaches.
• Extensive experience and recognized expertise in the full range of evaluation theories, models and tools, and ability to adapt, contextualized and apply appropriately to ail Project scenarios
• Proven track record as a community trainer and capacity builder in DM and E using a wide variety of training methods, facilitation capacity building and organizational development strategies,
• High-level expertise in Results-Based management, Logical Framework Analysis, and Result-Based Performance Monitoring and Evaluation
• Good understanding and experience in Management information Systems


How to apply

How to apply:
Interested persons who meet the above criteria should submit their applications together with an updated CV and copies of academic transcripts (only) with at least three suitable referees with their telephone contacts to; wvujobs@wvi.org or hand deliver to the address below (Please indicate the position you are applying for)

Human Resource Manager,
World Vision Uganda,
Plot 15 B Nakasero Road,

Deadline for receiving the applications is: 24th February, 2011. NB: If you do not hear from us by 30th April 2011, please consider your application unsuccessful.