Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer Design without Borders Africa

Design without Borders Africa (DwB) is looking for an organised, critical, and proactive individual with legal working status in Uganda, experience collecting, analysing, and reporting data and with a willingness to get immersed into the practice of human centred design.
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) officer will be responsible for creating, developing, and implementing strategies to measure the effectiveness of projects and/ or programs run by the DwB. He/she will work with the DwB team to create systems and provide training on the best practices for efficient data collection, analysis, and reporting. Participate in the design, planning, and implementation of projects; as well as conduct data quality audits on design projects. While working extensively with various project teams, the M/E officer will report directly to the head of operations.

Qualifications
• Proven experience (in the field) as an M&E consultant.
• Excellent understanding of data administration and management functions (collection, analysis, distribution etc.)
• Familiarity with modern database and information system technologies
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Access, Word etc.) and STATA or SPSS
• An analytical mindset with problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Additional Information
The role will include the following roles and responsibilities:
• Formulate techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy, and legitimacy of data;
• Support the development of data collection and data management standard operating procedures;
• Devise and implement efficient and secure procedures for data handling and analysis with attention to all technical aspects;
• Plan and provide technical support to projects and/ or programmes in their design, and evaluation;
• Assist with data extraction, and generate M&E reports, documenting progress and performance;
• Monitor and analyse information and data systems and evaluate their performance to discover ways of enhancing them (new technologies, upgrades etc.)
• Support with the creation and deployment of performance monitoring tools to track project/ program indicators in line with their implementation plan.
• Support with equipping the current team with basic M&E skills where necessary.