Purpose: Reporting to the Results and Learning Officer, as a core member of the Results and Learning (RAL) team, and working in close collaboration with the teams in the field, the Regional Results and Learning Officer (RALO) is responsible for:
• Ensuring stakeholders have access to accurate real-time data to improve children’s learning and;
• ensuring that data and lessons are generated to demonstrate the ongoing effectiveness and impact of SESIL’s interventions.
The overall aim of the Regional RALO role is to support the effective implementation of the Results and Learning Framework in the 15 SESIL local governments in the West Nile and the East of Uganda. This is a full-time position based in Kampala with some travel to the field to oversee the implementation of monitoring and data collection activities.
Outlined in the RAL framework, the core activities of the RAL team are to:
• Routinely monitor to track progress and inform decisions on adjustments to delivery of CLL
• Oversee learning measurement at baseline and endline (impact assessment) for the CLL pilot
• Collect stories of change to support evidence of programme implementation
• Monitor and track listenership to the re-designed radio lessons through conducting surveys with a sample of parents
• Monitor and report on community engagement activities and their impact on children’s learning and safety
• Lead learning and reflection activities to review achievements, challenges and suggestions for improvement
• Maintain and keep all monitoring, evaluation and reporting documents up to date in the remaining window available for implementation, including the RAL framework and logframe.
• Contribute to donor reporting and results sharing around SESIL’s outcomes, outputs and indicators

Major responsibilities:
The Regional RALO will lead the implementation of the RAL framework in the regions. This will involve the coordination of monitoring and data collection in the regions, including:
• Training field staff on tool use
• Managing monitoring and data collection, including qualitative data. This includes submitting cleaned monthly data sets based on the target sample sizes on CLL and radio surveys to the RALO and RAL Key Adviser to enable the production of dashboards on time.
• Reviewing, cleaning and analysing monthly data from field staff and stakeholders
• Following-up with field staff and stakeholders to problem-solve any issues with data collection, data quality and submission
• Responding to data requests from the centre
• Contributing to the design and testing of tools
Overseeing external data collection for impact assessments in the field

Candidate Specification
Skills, Experience and Knowledge
• Experience and proven technical knowledge and expertise in:
• implementing M&E strategies, frameworks systems and tools.
• Collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data
• A degree in M&E or other relevant fields.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word essential, and other statistical packages highly preferred.
• Experience working with local and international technical advisers.
• Ability to establish priorities, plan and execute personal and project work plans.
• Clear and effective written and oral communication skills in English, including strong report-writing and data presentation skills
• Excellent organizational skills, including reporting and record-keeping, with an eye for detail.
• Understanding of the education sector in Uganda at the local government (district) level and community level.
• Teamwork and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent at thinking strategically and creatively. Able to solve problems, meet/exceed goals and generally “get the job done.”
• Willingness to work outside of regular office hours to meet project objectives and targets, and comfortable with regional and national travel.
• Commitment to, understanding of, and passion for supporting education programming and improving the delivery of quality education services to children in Uganda.
At Mott MacDonald/Cambridge Education we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children and adults at risk are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.

Job Profile
Cambridge Education specialises in improving education systems in low- and middle-income countries, through strategic thinking – policy-level evaluation, analysis and design – and actual programme implementation. We make people’s lives better by helping to improve teaching, learning and the running of education systems. In all our activities, the goal is not a static event, but developing resilient, sustainable improvement processes. We’re global leaders in providing consultancy services to government agencies at national and local level, and to international development agencies and partners as they seek to enhance people’s skills and economic prospects.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate and take positive steps to create an inclusive culture.
SESIL (Strengthening Education Systems for Improved Learning), is a four-year education programme designed to improve the quality and equity of measurable learning outcomes at lower primary level in Uganda.
SESIL is implemented with funding provided by the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and is managed by Cambridge Education.
The programme works with and through the MoES, other central agencies, communities and local governments at the district/municipal or city levels, as well as sub-county, parish and village level in around 15 districts in West Nile and in the Eastern Region of Uganda.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, SESIL aims to:
• Ensure learners in the lower primary grades maintain or improve their progress in literacy and numeracy
• Minimize children’s exposure to the Coronavirus as well as to the increased risk of violence through embedded messaging in alternative learning programmes
As part of the support to ensure continuity of learning, both whilst schools remain closed, and in the longer term once schools have re-opened, SESIL implemented a pilot of a community-led learning (CLL) initiative in 15 Local Governments. The pilot completed in June 2021 May. Annex 1 outlines the CLL approach. The CLL initiative will be scaled-up from September 2021 to reach an additional 110,000 children by March 2022.
To increase learning opportunities for children involved in CLL, SESIL will also:
• develop and broadcast radio programmes targeting children, parents and caregivers, and Community Learning Facilitators (CLFs). The radio programmes will be broadcast across all 15 SESIL LGs and are due to commence from September 2021.
• Implement a community engagement initiative, targeting communities to support their children’s learning and safety in CLL