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Job Title:
Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Base Station:
Kampala
Reporting to:
Senior Manager; Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Duration of Contract:
2 years.
Background
Information;
Marie Stopes Uganda (MSU) is a marketing-focused,
results-oriented social business that uses modern management and marketing
techniques to provide family planning and reproductive healthcare across every
district of Uganda. We aim to contribute 15 points to Uganda’s contraceptive
prevalence rate by 2015, saving and improving many thousands of Ugandan lives.
For over 15 years Marie Stopes Uganda (MSU) has prided itself on providing a
wide range of high quality, affordable and client centered services to men,
women and young people. Our 340 team members work in every district of Uganda
and provide approximately 35% of all modern contraception, the majority of
which is delivered in hard to reach and remote areas. In 2012, MSU generated over
1.1 million Couple Years of Protection and provided quality services to over
350,000 Ugandans.
We are seeking an ambitious, experienced and driven people
to fill the positions below. The core responsibility of these positions is to
use your: initiative, energy, persistence, results orientation, drive,
integrity, enthusiasm and commitment to personal development to further MSU’s
vision to become a sustainable nationwide provider of high quality, integrated
reproductive health/family planning services.
Key Responsibilities
1. Improve communication and coordination:
• Strengthen coordination across the function, ensuring that
research and M&E support to clients within MSU is aligned with
organisational priorities. Key clients include the Operations team and USAID
project managers, as well as the social marketing and social franchise teams.
• Ensure that quick, responsive and high quality support is
provided to key clients.
• Ensure that the work of the new MIS and Innovation
function is well integrated within the RM&E team.
• Ensure that there is clear functional separation within
the R.M&E team for both research and M&E, drawing up appropriate job
frameworks which delineate between the respective roles and duties of team
members.
• Liaise proactively with Marie Stopes International’s
Regional Research Manager to ensure that MSI best practice informs the MSU’s
work and that there is good information flow between MSI and MSU.
• Represent the team internally and externally at
stakeholder forums
2. Ensure the provision of high quality project M&E and
Research support
• Create an M&E plan for MSU drawing together indicators
across multiple projects to inform high level decision making and strategy
development
• Develop well budgeted and realistic M&E components for
MSU concept notes and proposals
• Develop log frames, performance monitoring plans and
M&E frameworks, with effective and clearly defined indicators aligned to
MSU’s strategic objectives and donor requirements, such as USAID.
• Create usable M&E tools for monitoring and evaluating
programme activities
• Proactively monitor performance vs. indicators in
conjunction with the relevant project managers
• Design and manage project baselines and evaluations
• Provide high quality and timely updates for project reporting
purposes
• Ensure compliance with M&E donor requirements, in
particular USAID.
• Nurture a close working relationship with UMEMS.
3. Provide and facilitate the provision of Research
technical support to MSU team members:
• In liaison with the Operations Director and Private sector
partnership Director, ensure that timely action research is undertaken which
serves MSU’s organizational objectives and improves MSU programming.
• Ensure that the R,M&E team is able to deliver high
quality research projects in accordance with well designed, realistically
budgeted protocols
• Ensure clear and user friendly dissemination of research
reports and findings to key internal and external stakeholders through verbal
presentations, publications and abstracts.
• Translate findings into practical lessons, actionable
insights and recommendations for MSU colleagues to rapidly improve their
programming
• Ensure that capacity development approaches are strategic
and build the long term sustainability of research teams]
• Ensure that stakeholder national and international
strategies are monitored and that connections with MSU’s programme results are
disseminated to SMT, to assist MSU’s external relations activities and inform
evolving strategy.
Education and
Experience
• University Degree in research, Public Health or related
discpline
• At least 6 years’ working in a fast paced NGO setting.
• Previous experience working in the health sector is an
added advantage.
• Experience Monitoring & Evaluating donor projects
• Experience in Reproductive Health
• Experience in USAID funded projects
Desired skills,
abilities
• Knowledge of Clinical Health, Family Planning, Community
Outreach and Social Marketing desirable
• Proven excellent technical oral, written, and editing abilities
• Quantitative and qualitative research skills
• Extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Ability to work well with others in team environments
• Able to work in deadline driven/results orientated
atmospheres
• Strong people management skills
• Able to multi-task and efficiently manage competing
priorities
• Posses leadership personality, and able to take on and
solve problems quickly and efficiently;
To apply: Please
send a CV and Cover letter by email to jobs@mariestopes.or.ug or
post to the Senior Manager, People and Development, Plot
1020, Kisugu-Muyenga, P.O Box 10431, Kampala-Uganda, quoting the position title
by 6.pm on Friday 26th July, 2013. Marie Stopes Uganda is an equal
opportunities employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce. Marie Stopes
Uganda is thankful to all applicants for their interest but only candidates who
meet all requisite criteria and are short listed will be contacted.
