Program MEL Officer (SRHR Next Project)

About the role

Amref Health Africa in Uganda is recruiting a full-time Programme Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer for the SRHR Next project, a 2.5-year initiative of 11 Dutch international organizations and local partners focused on strengthening sexual and reproductive health and rights. The officer strengthens evidence generation, analysis and use to support programme performance, learning, accountability and impact measurement, working with partners, district stakeholders and programme teams.

Key responsibilities

• Operationalize the MEL framework, results architecture and MEL plan, and maintain baseline, annual and endline targets
• Measure outcomes and impact using mixed methods, and carry out contribution analysis to distinguish outputs, outcomes and impact
• Coordinate the learning agenda, outcome harvesting, reflection sessions and lessons learned, and convene data-use and quarterly review meetings
• Coordinate harmonized data collection, dashboards and reporting, including AIMS, DHIS2/HMIS and digital data collection platforms
• Plan data quality assessments, spot checks and indicator reconciliation, and analyze performance against targets and coverage gaps
• Support evaluation designs, terms of reference, sampling and quality assurance for baseline, midterm and endline studies
• Mentor partners, district biostatisticians and community actors on data quality and evidence use, and uphold safeguarding and ethical data handling
• Represent the MEL function in technical working groups, consortium platforms and district review meetings

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, ICT, Computer Science, Demography, Public Health, Epidemiology, Social Sciences or a related field; a postgraduate qualification in MEL, public health or research methods is an advantage
• At least five years of relevant MEL experience, preferably in SRHR/SGBV, adolescent health, health systems strengthening or rights-based programmes
• Experience designing outcome/impact measurement, mixed-methods evaluations and analytical donor reports
• Experience coordinating MEL across partners and with district health information systems, including HMIS/DHIS2 and data quality assessments
• Experience with donor-funded consortium programmes, MEL for SRHR/gender programmes, Data Quality Assessments, Power BI dashboards, outcome harvesting, external evaluations and localization frameworks
• Willingness to travel frequently within the programme district

Required skills

• Strong Excel and at least one statistical or visualization package (Power BI, Qlik, SPSS, Stata or R)
• Outcome harvesting, qualitative and participatory methods, and analytical writing
• Knowledge of Theory of Change, results-based management, indicator design and contribution analysis