Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
Apply By: 31st January 2025 at 5:00 PM
About Restless Development
Restless Development is a global non profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) bound together by our vision for youth power. We run youth-led programmes to tackle the issues that young people care about the most. We also run the Youth Collective – a growing network of over 4000 local youth civil society groups and organisations in 185 countries. We are committed to creating an agency that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.
We know young people have the power to solve the challenges we face in our world, but they are being ignored and overlooked. We are the agency that works with young people so they can lead in solving those challenges. We have operated in Uganda since 1997. We have a track record of delivering programmes with impact. We work on the issues that young people care about the most – we react and respond to the world around us. Our work mostly falls into the following four impact priority areas; 1)Voice and Democracy, Education and Livelihood, Gender and Sexual Health, and Climate Justice: Our programmes are genuinely life-changing, but can’t do any of this without talented, creative individuals at every level of our organisation.For more information, please visit: www.restlessdevelopment.org.
Our Approach to Safeguarding.
Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognize that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, young leaders and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.
About the Role
Restless Development Uganda is seeking to recruit a talented individual who will play a crucial role in supporting the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Unit in their efforts to drive the organisation’s M&E agenda forward. The MEL Officer will provide valuable MEL support to the organisation’s active programmes, play a critical role in strategic MEL functions of the M&E Unit such as designing dashboards, indicator trackers, review of reports and indicators, support in designing theory of change and results frameworks and to support in various aspects of the MEL processes.
Job title: Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer
Location: Kampala, Uganda.
Salary: 3,822,082 Gross Per Month
Preferred start date: March 2025
Length of contract: 12 months initial contract
Visa requirements: Will have the right to work in Uganda.
Reports to: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator
Direct reports: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Intern
Expected travel: Fairly regular national travel
Key Responsibilities
Support the design and implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Systems (40%).
Working closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit:
- Support and develop an M&E Plan and strategy for the projects.
- Support program design, development and review of all monitoring and reporting functions, systems and tools for the projects.
- Support programme teams to utilise planning, monitoring and reporting tools to capture information across programme indicators.
- Support the development of performance frameworks and tools used by different stakeholders and ensure consistency with the definition and methodology of collection by keeping an M&E analysis plan for each indicator.
- Support the programme team to Manage (record/capture, analyse, report, disseminate and safely store) project data.
- Design and lead training and other capacity building initiatives on monitoring and reporting systems for staff and young leaders.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual M&E project reports as per organisational and donor requirements and guidelines such as Program Monthly Progress Reports (PMPRs), quarterly National Progress Reports(NPRs, Pre & Post Training Reports, and Evaluation surveys).
- Conduct Quarterly Data Quality Assurance (DQA) for the projects in collaboration with program staff and M&E Unit at Head Office.
Support the Packaging and dissemination of learning (20%):
- Oversee analysis of monitoring and reporting data and produce reports for timely dissemination to internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to multi-stakeholder review meetings and other internal and external fora to disseminate programme results and learning.
- Prepare internal and external project MEL reports as required.
- Document lessons learnt, best practices and impact from area projects for learning within, across and outside Restless Development.
- Ensure learning generated is shared and disseminated within Restless Development and to other development stakeholder’s different fora outside organisation.
- Document case studies (Monthly) and Most Significant Change Stories (MSCs) on a quarterly and bi-annual basis highlighting programme success and lead in the participatory review and selection of the MSCs.
- Develop Impact Briefs from Project studies conducted for internal and external sharing.
- Contribute to documenting evidence on the organisation’s learning questions and agenda throughout the project’s implementation process.
- Participate in learning spaces created by the organisation.
Support programme evaluation activities and processes in liaison with the MEL unit (20%).
- Support the design and implementation of evaluation studies and processes such as baseline and end line surveys.
- Recruit, train and deploy data collectors and entrants.
- Oversee the implementation programme evaluations and design and develop tools for the process.
- Design and lead training and other capacity building initiatives on monitoring, evaluation and learning for staff, partners and young leaders involved in programme implementation.
- Perform and ensure quality assurance of programme systems and interventions.
Manage data storage systems (15%)
- Support design systems for data capture, management and maintenance.
- Ensure functionality of data systems developed.
- Support the programme teams in documentation and filing of all programme data using both on and offline systems.
- Establish and regularly update programme people reached databases clearly showing the programme reach across the target population and categories.
- Conduct data verification, validation and quality assurance in line with organisational and donor requirements on a monthly basis.
- Provide monthly status reports drawing on data captured as per organisational and donor requirements.
Others (5%)
Other duties as assigned by the line manager. You may occasionally be required to work on weekends and/or public holidays, for which time off in lieu will be granted.
About You
We are looking for a person with the right competencies and skills for the role, and who demonstrates the personal qualities consistent with our values.
Our value: HEART – We are who we serve. We are brave.
Behaviour: Inspires a Restless passion and professionalism in those they work with, both internally and externally.
Innovation : Works on own initiative and offers creative approaches to improving work
Our value: HEAD – Delivers Quality. We are 100% professional.
Behaviour: Manages their time effectively to deliver quality against individual goals. Ensures value for money when utilizing resources and efficiently processing finances.
Decision Making: Proposes solutions to challenges and consults with others when making operational decisions within their area of responsibility.
Our value: VOICE – We generate leaders. We are proud to carry the banner for youth-led development.
Behaviour: Capably manages their own workload and takes up opportunities to lead on areas of work, with support from colleagues. May supervise Interns and/or teams of young leaders.
People Development: Understands how individual goals contribute to team priorities. Uses feedback to identify personal growth areas willingly and provides constructive feedback to others.
Our value: HANDS – We are in it together. We listen and learn.
Behavior: Actively listens and learns from those around them. Uses effective two-way communication to build rapport and relationships in the community.
Collaboration: Is an integral team member, contributing to team excellence and maintaining strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
Restless Development is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. Restless Development will ensure that no applicant or staff member receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital status, social status, caste, race, ethnic origin, religious belief, age, HIV status, disability, or any other factor that cannot be shown to be relevant to performance.
Skills and experience
Essentials:
- A minimum of a degree in the field of Social Statistics, Population, Monitoring and Evaluation, Demography, Development Studies or any other relevant field.
- Relevant specific qualification in M&E .
- At least 3 years of experience in Monitoring and Evaluation.
- Knowledge and experience of youth-led development programs.
- Understanding of development issues, particularly in relation to youth, Education and Livelihood, Gender and Sexual Health, Climate Justice, Voice and Democracy.
- Excellent Data Management and Management Information Systems skills.
Desirable
- Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills:
- Experience with software packages such as Kobo collect, Excel, SPSS, Power Bi, Epi info, Atlas-ti.
- Experience in the use of online tools such as google documents.
- Experience in managing both online and offline meetings.
- Experience in project cycle management.
- Good report writing skills.
- Excellent financial management skills: Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in Research using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
What we do for you
For more information on Restless Development’s mission, values and work, please visit: www.restlessdevelopment.org
Remuneration
We are proud to commit to a transparent global salary scale, ensuring a fair and comparable system of pay across all global locations. In addition to salary, we offer pension contributions and other benefits in accordance with the Uganda hub.
Values and Culture.
At Restless Development, we’re proud that the strength and integrity of our Values has been recognized by staff, young people, donors and others who we work with. Beyond this, we have a culture of recognizing and celebrating both our Values and our global achievements with an annual Values Day.
Work-life Balance.
It goes without saying that we work hard at Restless Development. We also recognize the importance of helping staff to maintain a positive work-life balance by offering:
- 24 days annual leave (in addition to public holidays and with an extra day of annual leave given for each full year of service, up to a maximum of 28 days).
- Birthday Leave
- Access to flexible working.
- Generous study leave, maternity, paternity or adoption leave, and other leave allowances.
Professional Development
Restless Development is proud to be an employer who recognizes potential and invests in the development of its staff. We are committed to the professional development of our staff through:
- Empowering opportunities to work on significant projects which stretch and inspire staff – allowing them to develop on-the-job.
- Regular performance management.
- Training and development opportunities, including supporting our staff to identify mentors both within and outside of the agency.
- Quarterly Staff Workshops for all staff to give and receive agency updates, receive training, and socialize.
Travel and Medical Insurance
When traveling abroad for work, all staff will be covered by Restless Development’s travel and medical insurance.
To apply
Please submit your CV (2-3 Pages) and a cover letter (using no more than 750 words) that provides tangible examples of how your skills, knowledge and experience will support your ability to perform the key priorities outlined in the above job description
