MEL Manager II Jobs in Uganda

Responsibilities



MEL Lead for Replication Programming (40%)

  • Build and maintain relationships with Extend and partner staff
  • Lead design of monitoring, evaluation, and research frameworks for replication
    partnerships
  • Oversee implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and research frameworks for
    replication partnerships
  • Identify tools, resources, and best practices to help improve MEL programming
  • Support refinement and development of data collection instruments, including survey
    development in TaroWorks or on other platforms as appropriate for partnership
  • Work to increase effectiveness and quality of partner data collection policies and
    processes
  • Design and implement systems for data management
  • Data quality review, data cleaning, analysis, and reporting
  • Contribute to ongoing MEL-related professional development for Village and partner staff
  • Create or maintain high quality MEL training materials (Manuals, PowerPoint
    presentations, practice TaroWorks forms, etc)

    MEL Lead for Innovations Programming (40%)

  • Build and maintain relationships with Innovations staff; coordinate closely with the
    Innovations team, ensuring smooth integration of iteration testing and impact measurement across MEL and Innovations workflows
  • Supervise and support Innovations staff as appropriate for iterations testing and
    impact measurement
  • Support lean testing efforts of Innovations Team
  • Design and lead iteration testing and/or impact measurement in relation to initiatives
    developed by the Innovations team as appropriate for the purposes of making
    evaluative conclusions regarding the value of adopting and/or scaling initiatives
  • Oversee implementation of monitoring, evaluation, and research frameworks for
    Innovations projects making it to the Implementation Stage
  • Support refinement and development of data collection instruments, including survey
    development in TaroWorks or on other platforms as appropriate
  • Record ‘methods of exploration’ and ‘results’ for integration into Innovations
    team documentation of larger workflows
  • Work to increase effectiveness and quality of data collection policies and processes
  • Identify tools, resources, and best practices to help improve lean learning
  • Contribute to ongoing MEL-related professional development for Innovations staff
  • Create or maintain high quality MEL training materials (Manuals, PowerPoint
    presentations, practice TaroWorks forms, etc.)
  • Facilitate staff trainings and provide support for adoption of lean learning methods
  • Data quality review, data cleaning, analysis, and reporting
  • Database management and information management
  • Cross-functional collaboration with at all levels of the organization

    MEL Support for General Programming (15%)

  • Support planning and implementation for Core and Partnerships MEL programming as
    needed
  • Contribute to ongoing MEL-related professional development for MEL staff
  • Support Database management and information management for Core and Partnerships MEL programming as needed
  • Additional MEL-related work as assigned
    by MEL Director

    Operations Role (5%)

  • Provide management oversight and leadership, as requested by, and in collaboration with, the East Africa Field Management Team
  • Participate in and contribute to mid-management meetings when applicable
  • Support general operations as needed

    The MEL Manager Will

  • Hold a degree in Monitoring and Evaluation, Economics, Statistics or a related field;
    preference will be given to candidates with a relevant Master’s degree (completed
    or enrolled)
  • Possess the technical knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the role,
    including
  • Strong quantitative skills and experience with data analysis; good command
    of STATA
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint
  • Proficiency with Google Documents, Gmail, and Android applications
  • Understand the elements of data quality: consistent, complete, accurate, timely, verifiable, valid
  • Proven ability to design monitoring and evaluation plans, including
    developing theories of change and logical frameworks
  • Ability to develop SMART indicators
  • Literacy with the basic methods for data collection: surveys, interviews,
    performance tests, site visits/observation, focus group discussions, participatory methods, pre-existing data
  • Experience designing and implementing surveys
  • Experience conducting data quality reviews and with cleaning data
  • Understand principles of Human Centered Design
  • Possess Training and Communication Skills
  • Demonstrate ability to communicate key concepts to multitude of stakeholders across the organization
  • Ability to orally communicate issues, problems, and key information
  • Ability to write clear, concise memos highlighting issues, problems, and key
    information
  • Experience working as part of a diverse team with the ability to work via email, phone, Skype, and other virtual communications
  • Flexible, self-motivating, able to manage multiple tasks efficiently, and a team player
  • Must be a very strong critical thinker able to identify potential solutions to
    challenges in new environments
  • Experience with Salesforce and/or TaroWorks is a plus


    How to Apply:


    Interested candidate may submit applications by emailing their resume and cover letter to
    Celeste Brubaker (celeste@villageenterprise.org). Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position as filled.




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