About US:
Educate!’ develops young leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa. Educate! provides a proven mix of a leadership and entrepreneurship course, long-term mentoring, and practical experience starting an enterprise for secondary school students. Educate! is working with over 20,000 diverse youth across Uganda, growing to a staff of 53 in just five years, and has already incorporated its curriculum into Uganda’s national education system to reach 25,000 students annually. The organization has received the Ashoka Fellowship and several international awards and grants, proving out a program model that can be replicated across Africa.
Job Summary: The Monitoring & Evaluation Technology Coordinator will support the M&E Manager to ensure the coordination of the use of innovative M&E technologies (Survey CTO, telerivte among others), maintenance and further development of the M&E dashboard. The coordinator will, take lead in coordination of the M&E training needs as well as effective Monitoring of Regional performance of program implementation. This position offers the unique opportunity to simultaneously gain insights on scalable and innovative monitoring techniques as part of a sophisticated M&E System.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Monitoring & Evaluation Technology – 40%
Oversee the design, development and maintenance of identified M&E technology applications and their alignment with the specific monitoring activities
Take lead in the design and development of internal information management solutions, such as an organization-wide dashboard, to help improve information access within Educate!
Design and deploy data table structures, forms, reports, and queries in survey CTO and telerivte
Tasked with the creation and maintenance of technical documentation of the Educate! Technologists
Responsible for the development and maintenance of the database stored procedures, views and functions for the internal and public dashboard.
Identify Educate!’s needs for M&E technology applications strengthening an innovations oriented
Monitoring Implementation – 30%
Regionally coordinate effective management and timely implementation of monitoring activities to track program performance in line with the Theory of Change and the M&E Plan
Provide technical support to Educate! field staff in the implementation of their Regional monitoring responsibilities to ensure real-time correct and timely collection of monitoring data as well as communication on M&E aspect.
Support efforts regionally to track and conduct analysis of quantitative data as well as qualitative data on all program inputs, outputs and outcomes
Support preparation of compiling monitoring data and analysis for decision making in an accurate and timely manner
Upload all monitoring data into the internal dashboard according to their timeliness and produce the Mid and End of term Regional report produced.
Training & Capacity Building – 15%
Lead efforts in designs of structured & practical trainings as well as coordinate the implementation of the trainings to field staff.
Lead efforts in ensuring refresher trainings of Regional officers on M&E aspects on a monthly basis as well as ensure RO, PO, YL and mentors have all the materials required timely for the trainings
Take lead in scheduling of training with the Design &Training department as well as provide oversight support to the regional Officers during induction, and pre-term training on M&E aspects.
Oversee field staff orientation training by collaborating with Human resources department as related to M&E.
Identify RO, PO and mentor training gaps and design trainings to improve their training capacity in collaboration with the program team as well as monitor and reflect on all trainings with a focus to give feedback to the trainers.
Monitoring & Evaluation System – 15%
Support the M&E Manager in developing the M&E System towards an effective Performance
Management Monitoring as well as sustainable Impact Evaluation
Participate in development, pilot, and validate quantitative and qualitative monitoring tools as well as design the corresponding data collection procedures
Lead efforts in reviewing existing information management systems to identify and initiate M&E technology innovations
Support and engage in the design and management of constructive information feedback loops to inform program design.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with advanced knowledge in Systems development, with a High level of proficiency in Ms. Excel and Programming using JavaScript;
Extensive knowledge of Statistical Software (SPSS, STATA) is an added advantage. Knowledge in Information Technology is also an added advantage.
At least two years of professional experience in the field of systems development and IT professional experience in a high paced fast – moving organization.
Previous experience in design & development of software applications and/or website development; knowledge & experience in mobile technologies (SMS & Smartphone based applications) with a background in basic data analysis and graphic data visualization.
Broad experience in designing and implementation of training and capacity building activities.
Educate!’ 5 Cultural Tenets:
We Put Youth First – The youth we serve come first. Always. In everything. That means we wake up thinking of ways we can serve youth even better and get the highest impact out of every dollar that we spend. It means Educate! doesn’t own a single vehicle, because we’d rather take the bus if it means one more student can participate. It means making every decision like the future depends on it — because if we get our way, it does.
We Are Always Learning – When you work at Educate!, educating yourself is part of your job too. We encourage every employee to find the best book on management; share the latest article on graphic design; bring in your favorite college mentor; or meet the researcher pushing the edge of the field. We are always thirsty for knowledge and love to share.
We Only Solve a Problem Once – We are allergic to band-aids so we love the person who brings the new system to solve the problem for good, even problems we haven’t recognized yet.
We Are Flexible – We thrive on change — we’re driving it. We are growing every day, so we have to adapt quickly to meet new challenges, and our team keeps up.
We Exceed Expectations – We assume we can achieve the impossible because we already have, year after year. We want our staff to create your own challenges, ask the toughest questions, and dream scary big!
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to send and updated resume, a cover letter describing yourself, and a list of references to ugandajobs@experienceeducate.org. Please include “Position Title – theugandanjobline.com – Your Name” in the subject line.
Deadline: Friday 28th July 2017