Job Title:  Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Specialist (UN Jobs)

Organisation: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Assistant FAO Representative Programmes

About Organisation:

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has a global mandate to improve nutrition, increase agricultural productivity, raise the standard of living in rural populations and contribute to global economic’ growth. Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO’s efforts – to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.

Job Summary:  The MEAL Specialist will be responsible for generating quality evidence on results achieved through FAO projects and programmes implemented in Uganda, in various areas of FAO’s mandate to inform adaptive programming and organizational learning. This will entail the: (i) development and operationalization of frameworks, tools and processes needed to systematically collect and analyses performance-related data; (ii) capacity development on MEAL of internal and external actors; (iii) monitoring of the quality of programme implementation; (iv) implementation of the country-level learning agenda and learning roadmaps.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and implement country-level MEAL systems at project and programme levels (including results frameworks, theories of changes, etc.) in alignment with corporate, regional, sub-regional and country MEAL and information priorities.
• Support mainstreaming of MEAL in project/programme formulation stage, including theory of change development, log frame design, budgeting for MEAL, MEAL plans development
• Support the formulation and monitoring of the CPF indicators including baseline and target setting.
• Support management and project managers to identify priority Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and realistic targets at project, programme and CPF levels to promote a programmatic approach to monitoring and evaluation, and to ensure their alignment with national, sub-regional and regional priorities/frameworks and/or relevant KPIs.
• Conduct periodic data collections and analyses, in line with the established data needs, learning priorities and/or KPIs.
• Compile, manage and curate relevant country-level results-based datasets.
• Contribute data for internal and external reporting.
• Facilitate the dissemination and use of monitoring data to inform programme development, adjustment, or review.
• Contribute to organizational learning by developing subject-matter analytics, lessons learned compilation and briefs/reports.
• Develop capacity of FAO staff and implementing partners in M&E methodologies and practices.
• Lead and manages the MEAL team of the FAO Representation in Uganda
• Perform any other duties, as requested.

Candidates Will Be Assessed Against The Following

Minimum Requirements   

• Advanced university degree in economics, statistics, data science, mathematics, or other relevant fields
• 10 years of relevant experience in advanced information data management, processing and statistical techniques, quantitative survey specialist or MEAL position
• 5 years’ experience in a leadership position
• Working knowledge of English
• National of Uganda

FAO Core Competencies

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