American Refugee Committee International (ARC) Job Vacancy for Monitoring and Evaluation Volunteer in Uganda

Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Volunteer
Organization: American Refugee Committee International (ARC)
ARC works with refugee communities in 7 countries around the world, helping people regain control of their lives.
Closing date: 04 Jan 2011
Location: Uganda - Gulu
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Volunteer
HIV and AIDS NUAPROACH Program
Timeframe: 5 months, starting January 2011
Background
The American Refugee Committee - International (ARC) is in the third year of implementing the Northern Uganda Access, Prevention, Referral and Organizational Assistance to Combat HIV/AIDS (NUAPROACH) project - with the goal to contribute to reduced incidence of HIV in northern Uganda. This is achieved through two mutually supportive strategic objectives that emphasize prevention, care and support services while concurrently developing capacity of Ugandan HIV-response actors.  The program is being implemented in 5 districts in the north: Agago, Amuru, Gulu, Nwoya and Pader districts.  This complex program has activities related to Behavior Change Communication including community activities through peer educators, condom distribution through fixed condom distribution sites, counselling and testing for HIV in 15 health outreach sites, PMTCT referrals and community activities with peer support leaders and male PMTCT advocates and capacity building among CBO partners conducting HBC activities.
Due to the complex and numerous needs for documentation, data collection, validation and analysis ARC is seeking an M&E intern to assist the M&E team, and HIV program staff to collect information, document lessons learned and ensure accuracy and validity of data.
The intern will be based in Gulu, Uganda and will be with the program for 5 months, from January - May 2011.
The intern will report to the HIV and AIDS Program Coordinator.Responsibilities

•  Review data collection tools that consultants and the M&E staff have put together
•  Work with HIV Program Coordinator to maintain data base of information for the HIV Program
•  Input or supervise data entry of HIV program data
•  Ensure data received from the field is accurate and of good quality
•  Review M & E action plan and refine as needed
•  Conduct support supervision field visits, as needed and feasible, to review data collection systems in the field
•  Work closely with M & E or program staff of ARC's CBO sub-grant partners to update their M & E systems and provide training for them on M & E theories and practices
•  Contribute to the external evaluation of the HIV program
•  Collate data, with multi-variant analysis reports, as feasible, for inclusion in the final, close-out project report
•  Ensure all M & E documents (tools, databases, reports, etc.) are compiled to be submitted to USAID as part of the final report submission
•  Document lessons learned
•  Collate information provided by HIV program managers and input in the data base
•  Other responsibilities as may be assigned by HIV Program Coordinator
•  Participate in a health facility endline research Qualifications and Requirements
•  Background in M&E tools and methodologies
•  Bachelors Degree in Social Studies, Development Studies, Epidemiology, Statistics or related field
•  Background in research methodologies
•  Familiarity with data bases, familiarity with often-used software programs
•  Experience and willingness to live and work in a multi-cultural setting and living in low resource settings
•   Willingness to travel to the field 25% of the timePreferredFamiliarity with LQAS methodologyExperience in one of the data analysis packages (EpiInfo, STATA, etc) helpful

How to apply
Please submit applications online through the ARC website: American Refugee Committee www.arcrelief.org
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