With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Back ground

World Vision Uganda (WVU) is a Christian relief, development and advocacy non-government organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in 43 districts and have 48 Area Programmes implementing projects in health & nutrition, water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), livelihoods & resilience, education and child protection. World Vision (WV) is committed to the protection of children and adult beneficiaries from exploitation and abuse and will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with these beneficiaries. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.

Due to expansion in scope of our programmes, we are now seeking for a qualified and passionate individual willing to share in our vision and join the team in the following role.

Position:       MEAL Assitant

Report to:     Project Coordinator

Location:      Soroti

Advert Start Date:     6th March 2023

Advert End Date:       13th March 2023

Purpose of the position:

The purpose of this position is to provide technical guidance to the Uganda Malaria Elimination Project -Soroti in project planning, design, monitoring, evaluation, operations research and documentation in line with World Vision policies, standards and strategy

Key Outputs/Responsibilities.

• Build capacity of project, Project staff and partners on key ICCM concepts and MEAL components.
• Undertake collection of primary and secondary data, and analysis to inform assessment for potential interventions in the target communities; special studies/operation research studies required to improve Grants programming.
• Develop and administer performance monitoring tools to track project indicators; in line with the program implementation and M&E plans.
• Establish and maintain program/indicator M&E databases; as well as the project level standardized M&E indicator database aligned to the National Office Strategy results framework
• Carryout out routine data quality assessment on project monitoring data collected including that collected by partners and staff used for reporting.
• Compile program data reports to inform evidence-based decision making at project levels; and for use in preparation of program quarterly reports, semi/annual management reports; and for dissemination to project team members, National Office, Support Office/Donors, District, and other partners as necessary.
• Work closely with the local government technical officers and partners to leverage use of the project information systems; and the district/local government information management systems e.g., HMIS, EMIS.
• Document best practices, lesson learned and success stories about the ICCM grant
• Lead the review, learning and reflection meetings in the on-project implementation, and evaluations.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience.

• Bachelor Degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Public health, Demography, Biostatistics, or a related field is required.
• Atleast 3 years work experience
• Work experience in health programming especially ICCM projects highly desired
• At least three years of work experience in Monitoring and Evaluation and research
• Knowledge of statistical tools such as SPSS, Excel STATA etc
• Knowledge in computer Literacy

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only