Global Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor Jobs in Uganda at GOAL

 Job Title: Global Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor

Employer: GOAL
Duty Station: Kampala,Uganda
Application Deadline: 15th Aug 2013

Job Description
GOAL is an International NGO established in 1977, currently operational in 13 countries world-wide with an annual budget of €65m. GOAL is currently in its second year 2 of a 5 year strategic plan covering the period 2012-16, with an integrated programme model in complex operating environments. GOAL works in the following sectors: Health (including WASH, Nutrition and HIV), Livelihoods and Children’s Empowerment and Protection Programming.
GOAL’s work is a mixture of Development programming and Humanitarian response, we consider one of our keys strengths to be our adaptive and responsive approach to local contexts.
Specific tasks would include:
• Review of all evaluation terms of reference from country programmes and in coordination with the head of Programme Quality, provide HQ technical feedback and approval
• Leading procurement of consultants services to conduct external evaluations
• Establishing new and maintaining existing mechanisms to enable country programme technical recommendations to be tracked through to implementation
• Coordinate multi country thematic/sector specific evaluations
Dissemination/ Sharing of learning:
• Sharing internal best practices found through evaluations with other country programmes, senior management, technical team members and within the M&E team in GOAL.
• Sharing relevant journal/publication articles with technical team members on best practice or innovations that relate to M&E in their sector (Health, WASH, HIV, Nutrition, Livelihoods)
Networking/Representation with Donors:
• Attending and presenting at conferences and creating networking opportunities for GOAL in the M&E sphere with a view to learning and also demonstrating GOAL’s work
• Preparing and presenting evidence based presentations for donors, governments or other stakeholders to demonstrate GOAL’s work
Research:
• Identifying research needs/ opportunities in conjunction with country programmes, coordinating a very focused set of research priority topics per year
• Linking to or maintaining relationships with research institutes/ universities
Requirements:
• A primary degree in Development or related field with Masters level degree indicating experience in operational research, action research or associated field.
• Minimum 3 (three) years practical field experience in emergency and development humanitarian programmes, with a particular focus on planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• Knowledge and experience in qualitative and quantitative evaluation methodologies
• Knowledge and experience of participatory approaches to rural development
• Experience in report writing and proposal generation and familiarity with key donor monitoring and evaluation guidelines.
• Experience and skills in staff training and management.
• Appreciation of the aims and objectives of GOAL.
• Adept in use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SMART and/or Epi Info, STATA, SPSS
• Fluent in spoken and written English with strong analytical skills
• Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application
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