Learning Officer
2 Reporting to Country MEL Manager
3 Department Monitoring Evaluation & Learning
Physical location Kampala

Job Summary
The RMNCAH Program Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) officer will be primarily
responsible for daily implementation of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning activities for
Reproductive Maternal, Neonatal Child and Adolescent Health program. The activities will include
designing a MERL system, conduction evaluations and rapid assessments, work planning, tracking
progress of projects within the program area, development of data collection instruments, tracking of
the RMNCAH strategy, proposal development, documenting best practices and impact series,
writing/reviewing required donor and program progress reports and liaising with stakeholders on
technical matters.

Key Responsibilities
• Design a monitoring, evaluation, research and learning system for the program, including development of data collection and reporting tools and generation of reliable data for results-based management of the program.
• Develop data analytics and visualization tools to present data in compelling ways to the different stakeholders including the donors.
• Design, implement and disseminate qualitative and quantitative research studies, including routine exit interviews as well as rapid assessments of progress and quality of the different projects within the program.
• Participate/lead in the preparation of work plans, budgets, M&E plans, performance frameworks and program performance reports.
• Provide hands-on-technical support for conducting DQAs, data cleaning, analysis and review of routine program data at all levels to identify improvements in performance trends along process and outcome indicators and link it to effective interventions.
• Provide technical support in the institutionalization of quality improvement approaches into routine RMNCAH service delivery with aim of identifying processes and performance gaps, suggesting and implementing changes/interventions to address gaps and monitoring the outputs of the interventions to identify effective interventions and developing change packages that will be scaled up to different communities and health facilities in the program implementation area.
• Conduct outcome harvesting to identify, describe, verify and analyze outcomes at all levels
• through tracking milestones and evaluating the relationship between the achievements and

key program/project outcomes.
• Support the program and project implementation teams to engage key stakeholders in
• periodic program reviews to validate implementation strategies; jointly define a pathway to change; analyze performance trends along the program indicators and articulate necessary course corrections.
• Conduct periodic assessment of the assumptions underlying project theory of change and results frameworks to enable evidence-based adaptive management
• Monitor program context to maintain an updated assessment of risks and assumptions and to support scenario planning for proactive decision-making.
• Taking lead in data capture and reporting using monitoring tools to track program indicators as per the performance framework including timely and accurate publication of program achievements and financial reports in IATI and AIMS.
• Provide M&E summaries to the program implementation team to facilitate documentation of best practices and dissemination of lessons learnt, to the key stakeholders and donor
• Build capacity building of program and project staff on Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning
• Ensure that all MEL activities have a gender and youth sensitive dimension
• Represent Amref Uganda RMNCAH program at relevant/delegated international, national and subnational platforms