Organizational Setting

The main aim of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Uganda office, which are headed by an FAO Representative, is to assist the Ugandan government to develop policies, programmes and projects to achieve food security and to reduce hunger and malnutrition, to help develop the agricultural, fisheries and forestry sectors, and to use their environmental and natural resources in a sustainable manner.

Technical Focus

The Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant will be part of the MEAL team within FAO Uganda to improve measurement of delivery and impact the Uganda country program.

Reporting Lines

Under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative and direct supervision of the MEAL Team Leader, the MEAL Assistant will provide data and programme support to all the FAO Uganda projects, performing the following tasks:

Tasks and Responsibilities

•    Support to ensure there is availability and the utilization of data collection tools for all activities of the project by collaborating with activity leaders.
•    Support updating the shared data centres of all MEAL related documents and other documents of the projects.
•    Work with the MEAL team to Prepare data summary analysis for all the implementation indicators.
•    Contribute to technical support to field teams and partner staff working on implementation in areas to MEAL systems functioning and content of the data.
•    Support in building the capacities of project staff in operationalizing MEAL reporting in timely manner through weekly follow up of progress and identifying areas of unclarity.
•    Support the use of online data collection and management platforms like Kobo Collect and Train short term data collectors/enumerators or partner staff in in its application during field data collection.
•    Coordinate with project partners and short-term consultants in the field-of data collection and verification in accordance with the project M&E framework.
•    Participate in the development of reports such as monthly as well as organizing information for quarterly and annual reports.
•    Coordinate with field teams in identifying success stories and documentation for regular community in various platforms.
•    Support the documentation during meetings, workshops etc.
•    Execute any other duties as may be required by the project.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements    

•    University degree in social sciences (sociology, anthropology, political sciences, international relations, research methods or alike) or data sciences (statistics, data management, evaluation) or other relevant fields.
•    3 years demonstrated qualified and relevant experience in monitoring and evaluation in the NGO and/or IO/UN context.
•    Working knowledge of English
•    National of Uganda

FAO Core Competencies

•    Results Focus
•    Teamwork
•    Communication
•    Building Effective Relationships
•    Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement
 

Selection Criteria

•    A Post Graduate Qualification in Monitoring and Evaluation is an added advantage
•    Extent of relevant experience in using data collection and management platforms like Kobo Collect or similar.
•    Demonstrated expertise in using one or more statistical software packages such as R, Stata, SPSS, or other similar tools

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION