PEAL officer, Planning job at Raising The Village

JOB DETAILS:

Department: Planning Learning and Evaluation
Reporting to: SPEAL Officer, Design
Location: Mbarara Office
Travel Required: 80%
Immediate supervisor: Assistant PEAL Manager

Job Summary
The PEAL officer, Planning will be responsible for the design, coordination and implementation of the monitoring and evaluation, research framework of the different projects. He/she will develop a systematic monitoring framework to improve the qualitative and quantitative evidence gathered by the Project. He/she will also provide technical assistance to the implementing team, particularly in relation to monitoring, reporting and governance issues and also take lead in conducting surveys focusing on baselines.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Conduct mappings & profiling (Baselines and explorations)
• Carry out data collection, cleaning, coding, validation, sorting & entry (focusing on baselines)

• Lead programmatic designs (Projections/Budgeting/Documentation/Sign offs)

• Map-out District programmatic rollouts (Internal), expansions and replication
• Lead entry to new Districts and Regions prioritizing last mile people in Uganda

• Take lead on Programmatic Scaling, Replication & Expansion
• Spearhead PEAL Strategic Planning (Quarterly/Annual) and Tracking

• Participate in project monitoring and provide follow up support.
• Undertaking Research and Innovation programs/Initiatives
• Develop field based tracking tools to be used by the planning and evaluation team and reporting templates for project officer use.

• May represent the organization to governmental agencies, funding agencies, national organizations, and/or the general public.
• Assist in the revision of the project log frame matrix, particularly in the areas of performance indicators and their measurement.
• Other duties as required by your Supervisor/Team Leader and/or Management

Qualifications and Experience
• University degree in Statistics, Social Sciences, Economics or related field
• Proven experience in planning and designing for projects.
• Post graduate qualification in Monitoring & Evaluation and Project Planning would be an added advantage
• In-depth knowledge of Management Information Systems, Monitoring and Evaluation and Development issues
• Good understanding of capacity assessment and community development methodologies
• Experience in project designs at a community development level
• Experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports
• Proficient in Microsoft suite, especially Excel, word and PPT.
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills. Fluency in a local language where Raising The Village works would be considered an added advantage
• Organizes workload effectively while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines
• Accurately completes multiple tasks while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, changing priorities and competing deadlines
• Establishes, builds and maintain effective working relationships with staff and clients to provide support
• Strong training & facilitation skills.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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