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Opportunity Type: Job
Village Enterprise
Uganda
About the Organization:
Village Enterprise is a microenterprise development organization working in East Africa. Its mission is to equip people living in extreme poverty with resources to create sustainable businesses. It provides business
training, seed capital/start-up funds, and on-going mentoring to new entrepreneurs to start businesses.
About the Job:
Village Enterprise is seeking a Monitoring Fellow to lead its field-level monitoring and evaluation activities, design and manage innovative pilot projects as well as current special projects in a highly dynamic team. S/he will also support East African staff to implement and improve the organization'€™s core program, supervise interns and regional managers, and monitor program implementation.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
M and E role:
- Manage and assess organization's business owner targeting (an ultra-poor targeting process);
- Design and lead special project evaluations, write reports for funders;
- Oversee and increase the quality and efficiency of core and special project monitoring;
- Supervise the training of staff and enumerators on data collection/interviewing, data entry, analysis, and other tasks as required;
- Provide oversight for smarter market analysis and risk tool data collection and analysis.
- Operations role:
- Assist in the implementation, monitoring, and expansion of organization's core program;
- Provide management oversight and leadership, in cooperation with the senior director of programs and operations, country directors, and field staff, in Kakamega, Kenya; Soroti, and Hoima, Uganda;
- Promote a strong work ethic among the field coordinators and business mentors;
- Train trainers, mentor other employees, and build capacity in country offices;
- Act as a liaison between the field operations team and development team in the US.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree is preferred with concentrations in Development or Agricultural Economics, International Development, Public Policy, Statistics or other applied social research strongly preferred;
- Previous experience in both quantitative and qualitative evaluation preferred;
- Ability to design and implement research based on randomized control trials, regression discontinuity, propensity score matching, and other methods preferred;
- More than 2 years of work experience:
- Experience in a management/leadership role is preferred;
- Experience in project design, business planning, product innovation or other entrepreneurial activities.
- Must be able to use Excel to analyze data, budgets, and financial reports;
- Strong writing and oral communication skills required, as this role will involve report writing and training at times
- Strong evaluation design, survey design, and data analysis;
- Fluency in English is required. Fluency in Swahili is not required;
- Strong IT skills preferred, including database management, network setup, and troubleshooting.
