Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL) is implementing an Urban Slum Empowerment Project called “Partnership for Empowerment of Vulnerable Girls and Women in Urban Slums of Kampala City.”

• Supporting vulnerable girls/young women aged 13-24years affected by sexual exploitation gain sustainable alternative Livelihoods;
• Increased access to HIV/ Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) information, services and support;
• Increasing access to integrated early childhood care and development among children of the vulnerable girls and women in the urban slums.
• Building the Capacity of 3 other CSOs and NGOs to advocate for the rights and equal opportunities of vulnerable women and girls and their children in the slums of Kampala City
• Building the capacity of Duty bearers (including local leaders, district/ division officials, police, parents, pimps/ traffickers, employers and judiciary among others) to prevent and protect children and young people from abuse and exploitation in Kampala City Slums

• Coordinates implementation of monitoring, evaluation & learning initiatives for the Project implemented in Kampala district including, development of Projects indicators, monitoring frameworks, tools and guidelines;
• Steer the development and design of all researches within the projects working closely with the Executive Director, Deputy Director/ Prog. Coordinator and technical specialists’ team from Plan Uganda.
• Assist Training and Development activities and provides coaching and mentoring for UYDEL and partner staff on monitoring, evaluation & research;\
• Actively facilitates organisational learning by developing, collecting and disseminating relevant internal and external project information on monitoring, evaluation & research;
• Prepares M&E quarterly progress reports on the Projects’ monitoring, evaluation & research initiatives for internal and external use;
• Works closely with partner staff at UYDEL and Plan Uganda to manage project data base;
• Perform any other relevant job tasks and duties as required by protocol.

• The applicant should possess a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Population and Demography, Statistics, Development, Social Sciences or any other relevant field;
• Possess an additional Post graduate training in M&E or project planning and management would be an added advantage
• At least three years’ experience in design and implementation of monitoring, evaluation and research initiatives for integrated HIV/SRHR and livelihood programs for vulnerable populations, especially the most-at-risk populations for HIV/AIDS such as Commercial Sex Workers and their children
• Extensive working knowledge of environment and current effective practice on monitoring, evaluation and research approaches;
• Monitoring and evaluation of rights-based programmes including use of participatory approaches, case studies and rights-based programming;
• Possess excellent computer literacy skills in Excel, Epi Info/ data, MS Access, SPSS and other statistical packages
• Excellent communication skills, both in written English and in face-to-face presentations
• Excellent communication skills in Luganda
• Excellent skills in report writing and project documentation; and
• Prior experience in using data management systems;

NB: Please consider your application unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by 13th June, 2014

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