Jobs at The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development(MGLSD),Jobs in Uganda

Position: Monitoring and Evaluation Officers
Organisation:The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social DevelopmentDuty Stations: Kyejonjo and Moroto
The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development,n(MGLSD) with support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Irish Aid is implementing the Expanding Social Protection (ESP) programme in Uganda.
The ESP programme is a 5 year programme within MGLSD which was launched in 2010 and is coordinated by the Social Protection Secretariat. It includes a pilot cash transfer scheme, (SAGE) providing regular cash transfers to older persons and

vulnerable families living in chronic poverty in 14 pilot districts, reaching 15% of households in target districts. Our client Maxwell Stamp PLC has been providing technical support to MGLSD to implement the ESP Programme. Maxwell Stamp PLC is now seeking to fill key positions in the Social Protection Secretariat on a full time basis up until February 2015.

The M&E Officer is answerable to the District SAGE Technical Officer who coordinates all SAGE activities in a district.
 S/he

receives technical instructions from the National M&E Manager

in the SAGE Unit in the Social Protection Secretariat based in

Kampala.

Overall Responsibilities of the M&E Officer

• Monitoring progress at district, sub-county and parish level

on a regular basis on the basis of monitoring reports from

different stakeholders and field visits, carried out in collaboration

with the district SAGE team

• Ensuring that the different stakeholders involved in regular

monitoring activities carry out their activities and provide

timely and good-quality reports.

• Providing detailed feedback on monitoring reports from (A)

CDO and parish chiefs and making suggestions for improvements.

• Ensuring that any relevant data for M&E is extracted from the

MIS and used for analysis, planning and decision-making.

• Preparing monthly reports on the process monitoring indicators,

progress made according to the work plan, challenges

experienced and solutions found.

• Feeding any relevant information to district monitoring tools

such as LOGICS

• Providing inputs to quarterly review meetings at district level

where lessons learned are discussed, improvements for the

design and operations are made and it is strategized how lessons



sons

learned can be applicable for other programs at district

and village level.

• Ensuring that SAGE monitoring instruments are harmonized

with other government programs and ease monitoring

activities in other areas.

Education and Qualifications

The candidate for this role will be a national with the following

credentials:

• An M&E Officer with an appropriate degree-level

qualification in social sciences (i.e. economics, sociology,

political sciences) and at least 5 years of experience in

managing M&E systems and/or carrying out M&E related

activities.

• Strong data analysis skills and ability to work with data

management software

• Ability to use standard computing packages (MS Office programmes including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and suitable project planning tools).

• Experience building capacity of government counterparts, mentoring and training.

• Strong written and spoken English.

• Ability to quickly analyse, understand, interpret and convey complex scenarios and to strategise suitable and effective solutions.

• Ability to demonstrate integrity, which is particularly relevant to prevention of and in response to corruption.

• Excellent interpersonal skills such as the ability to collaborate with and manage other team members, GoU, service providers and other external collaborators.

All interested persons with relevant qualifications and experience should send their applications by 24th May 2013 to:

ACLAIM Africa Ltd

Plot M99 Nakasero Hill Lane

P. O. Box 7202, Kampala, Uganda

Email: recruitment@aclaimafrica.com

Applications should consist of a cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, copies of academic certificates and two letters of reference.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you have not heard from us by the end of end of June 2013, please consider your application unsuccessful.