Job Title:       Data Officer

Organisation: Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum – Uganda (HRAPF)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About the Company:

Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum – Uganda (HRAPF) is a non-governmental organisation whose mission is to promote respect and observance of human rights of marginalised groups through legal and legislative advocacy, research and documentation, legal and human rights awareness, capacity building and partnerships.

Job Summary:   HRAPF currently seeks to recruit a qualified and dedicated Data Officer to join our team. The individual will be responsible for timely monitoring, data collection, and analysis of project performance metrics, ensuring that project performance and data quality assessments are conducted.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Monitoring

• Develop, revise and update result frameworks, log frames, or theory of change for HRAPF projects.
• Develop M&E plans and standard reporting templates for the organisations’ planned activities for all projects
• Develop and update monitoring plans for HRAPF projects
• Develop data collection tools and ensure their utilization by programme staff to collect projects monitoring data
• Collect and analyses data on a monthly basis to measure achievement against project target and develop project M&E project status reports with dashboards including recommendations to project staff and management.
• Conduct validation exercises on project implementation and all monitoring data collected by programme staff and give feedback to ensure data quality
• Conduct field monitoring visits for projects for quality control and compliance to HRAPF standards
• Maintain proper filing and keep safe custody of all project activity documents.
• Monitor data processes and work with the overall project team to maintain data integrity and reconcile data discrepancies.
• Prepare timely donor reports for projects being monitored
• Periodically maintain databases for HRAPF beneficiaries.

Evaluation

• Conduct periodic surveys.
• Develop and maintain a centralized M&E database for all projects and beneficiaries under the different project activities conducted.
• Document success stories, lessons learned and best practices on the impact of HRAPF projects and ensure that they are disseminated to the different stakeholders with full consent of the beneficiaries.
• Conduct client satisfaction surveys to gather feedback on HRAPF services.
• Support data audits and verification exercises to ensure quality information

Knowledge Sharing and Learning Processes

• Provide content and contributes to lessons learned exercises
• Support the capacity building of data, field, and assessment staff in terms of data processes and software’s
• Organize relevant trainings for team members on topics related to data handling and management.

Internal Coordination

• Coordinate project inception and closure meetings
• Actively participate in regular team meetings
• Serve as a liaison between different departments, providing guidance on data-related challenges or requirements, and aligning data strategies across the organisation
• Keep management informed about the health of the organisation’s data, including data quality, system integration, and governance performance metrics.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Degree in Economics, Development Economics, Quantitative Economics or Statistics;
• A Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management or Monitoring and Evaluation is an asset;
• At least three years of relevant working experience in a humanitarian setting, such as program management, evaluation and assessments;
• Excellent understanding of quantitative and qualitative research and analysis required;
• Demonstrated team management skills;
• Previous experience in monitoring and evaluating charitable projects targeting key populations
• Excellent communication and drafting skills for effective reporting and reviewing;
• Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility and work independently;
• Ability to operate Microsoft Word, Excel required;
• Ability to operate Adobe Suite preferred;
• Skills in SPSS, Kobocollect or related statistical software are considered an asset;

Applicants should submit their applications addressed to the Director, Human Resources to info@hrapf.org Applications should include a cover letter expressing interest in the job and why they are the best candidate for the position, current CV and copies of academic documents.