Organization: QED Group, LLC
Project: USAID/Uganda Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Project
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: USAID EYCD Office Director & QED M&E Director
About QED:
The QED Group, LLC is a full-service international development firm that provides practical solutions to social problems through sound analysis, proven management techniques, and creative implementation. We focus our efforts on two core practice areas: Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management. We work with U.S. agencies and overseas governments, international donors, private-sector clients, and PVOs/NGOs in more than 80 countries around the world. Key clients include USAID, the U.S. Department of State, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
About USAID Project:
The USAID/Uganda Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning project (Learning Contract) is the five-year organizational program support vehicle through which USAID/Uganda will pursue realizing its development objectives within the complicated and shifting Ugandan development context. The purpose of the Learning Contract is to provide monitoring, evaluation and learning support services and build capacity of USAID/Uganda to implement USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting methodology to strengthen the implementation of USAID/Uganda’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy and enhance USAID’s organizational effectiveness.
Job Summary: The Education, Youth and Child Development Office (EYCD) is responsible for development, implementation, and oversight of USAID administered PEPFAR-funded programs benefiting orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) throughout Uganda. The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Specialist will support the monitoring, evaluation, and impact analysis of the PEPFAR-funded OVC activities. More specifically, the M&E Specialist will strengthen USAID’s ability to ensure the quality of its M&E systems and their outputs and to use M&E systems to: (i) track and report on progress toward OVC objectives; (ii) inform Mission decision-making; (iii) ensure compliance with PEPFAR and Agency requirements; and (iv) ensure that USAID’s interventions are achieving intended outcomes. The M&E Specialist position is the equivalent of a USAID Foreign Service National (FSN) position at the FSN 10 to 11 grade level. It is expected that the Specialist will be a Ugandan national.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: The M&E Specialist will promote the quality, timeliness and relevance of EYCD’s OVC M&E efforts. S/he will:
Implement and update the OVC sections of the Performance Management Plan (PMP):
Ensure the integrity of OVC monitoring systems. Work with EYCD project managers and implementing partners to ensure that implementing partners are:
Facilitate the use of monitoring and evaluation information in USAID decision-making. Work with EYCD’s project managers and senior leadership to use data collected and analyzed to guide adaptive management decision-making and contribute to the achievement of high quality results:
Lead and/or provide technical inputs into the development of operational research, evaluations, assessments and surveys:
Support procurement processes:
Participate in reviewing and following-up on research, evaluations, assessments and surveys:
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested Candidates who meet the above criteria should send their CV, Cover letter and Bio Data Form, download here, expressing interest to thelearningcontract.recruit@gmail.com with the subject line as “ATTN: Education, Youth and Child Development Office Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist.”
Deadline: 30th July 2017 by 5:00pm
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