EXCITING CAREER
Food for the Hungry (FH/U) is a Christian international relief and development organization that has been working in Uganda since 1989. FH is currently operating programs in Asia, Latin America and Africa with support offices in the UK, Canada, Switzerland, United States of America and Japan. FH’s primary goal is to end all forms of poverty World-wide. FH promotes practice of performance, accountability, and risk management in line with FH’s “Transforming Field Experience (TFE)” re-imagination initiative. In Uganda, FH is operational in the Districts of Adjumani, Kitgum, Lamwo, Kween, Mbale, Namutumba and Amudat Districts implementing programs in four main sectors of Education; Food Security and Livelihoods; Health/Nutrition and Disaster Risk Reduction; with the Head office located in Kampala.
FH Culture:
All we do, and how we do it, seeks to promote God’s beauty, goodness, and truth in a broken world. As such, we are defined by our ability to make people’s lives measurably better; our ability to deliver impact is the measure of our collective success. For we know that we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has already prepared in advance for us to do. At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of values called Heartbeat Values.
EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
FH/Uganda is actively seeking for qualified candidates committed to its Heartbeat and Corporate Strategy to fill the career openings below;
Job Title: MEAL Officer (01 Position)
Position Type: Full Time National Staff
Location: Amudat
Reports to: Program Area Coordinator
Contract Length: 1 year
Position Summary:
The MEAL Officer spearheads the monitoring and evaluation process in the programs; assist the program staffs in planning, coordinating, supervising, monitoring and evaluating and documenting project activities in accordance with program documents and administratively to the Area program Coordinator.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Key Result #1: Monitoring and Evaluation system
Key Result #2: Data Collection and Analysis
Key Result #3: Program Monitoring and Report Writing
Key Result #4: Personnel Management
Key Result #5: Program Support
Education & Experience
- College/university degree in Monitoring and Evaluation studies, social sciences, demography, development planning, mathematics, statistics, health & nutrition or similar relevant field
- A post graduate diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation is an added advantage
- Four (4) years or more experience working in monitoring & evaluation of development programs preferred.
- Experience working with development fields such as Education, Livelihood, health and nutrition or child survival programming is a plus.
- Experience implementing formative research methodologies including barrier analysis
- Proven monitoring and evaluation skills in randomized controlled trials
- Proficiency in creating data entry templates and conducting analysis in Epi-Info, MS Access, SPSS, or other statistical analysis software.
- Proficient in MS Office, with strong skills in MS Excel, MS Access, MS word, Power point & e-mail.
- Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks according to deadlines, and reporting requirements
- High level integrity and initiative taking and positive attitude towards learning and sharing.
- Working knowledge of budget management
- Develops and maintains good working relationships between fields, national affiliate and donors
- Effectively and efficiently manages all resources entrusted to him/her for work purposes. Complies to all finance, personnel, procurement and administrative policies of FH
- Ability to work in field conditions. Interest and ability to travel to program areas, sensitivity to gender and ethnic minority issues, commitment and courage to stand by poor and disadvantaged people
- Must have team building skills, personnel management and supervisory skills.
- Understand, respect and practice the set of FH Foundational Principles: Vision, Mission, and Values, including mutual respect; equity and justice; honesty and transparency; solidarity with poor and marginalized people, courage of conviction; happiness; humility and Christianity.
- Vibrant personal relationship with Christ.
Language:
- Proficiency in spoken and written English is essential.
For the full job description, please see link https://rb.gy/9i9oaa
How to apply
Safeguarding & Protection Clause:
FH strives to provide an environment free from Sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment and Fraud in all places where relief and development programs are implemented. FH holds a zero-tolerance policy against Sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment and Fraud. FH expects its employees to maintain high ethical standards, protect organizational integrity and reputation, and ensure that FH work is carried out in honest and fair methods, in alignment with the FH Heartbeat, Anti -Fraud, Safeguarding and associated policies. Violations to stated policies will be subject to corrective action up to and including termination of employment.
Note: All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and may be subject to appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Food for the Hungry Safeguarding, Anti-Fraud & HR policy. In line with this we will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of fraud, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Disclaimer: It has come to our attention that several agencies or persons, are claiming to be acting on Food for the Hungry’s (FH)behalf in recruiting or facilitating the recruitment of personnel. FH does not outsource its recruitment process to any organization or agency which, through website postings, mass e-mail messages or otherwise claims to be doing recruitment on its behalf. FH does not solicit money for any part of its recruitment processes including short-listing, interviews, background, and/or medical check-ups. FH will not be responsible for such fraudulent correspondence or any loss of money or theft which may result from anyone engaging in any fraudulent recruitment activity.
NOTE:
FHU is an equal opportunity employer. All suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply by Clearly stating the position applied for in the Subject line and submitting only electronic copies in one pdf file not more than 25MB of an application letter, a detailed CV, contact telephone numbers, copies of relevant testimonials/certificates, addressed to:
The Human Resources Manager, Food for the Hungry Uganda Email: recruitment-fhuganda@fh.orgnot later than Friday 23rd August 2024 at 4:30pm. Consider your application unsuccessful if you don’t hear from us by 6th September 2024. FHU has policies including a child protection policy that every staff is required to sign.