Role Specification & Details
About Amref Health Africa
Amref Health Africa is an established and forward-looking organization operating within Uganda's marketing, sales & pr sector. Recognized for its dedication to operational excellence, integrity, and stakeholder value, the organization fosters an empowering work environment with a mission to deliver sustainable impact, professional growth, and service excellence nationwide.
About This Role / Role Overview
The Program MEL Officer is a core operational position at Amref Health Africa, responsible for executing strategic responsibilities, maintaining high quality standards, and driving organizational success in Kampala. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams, implement industry best practices, and contribute directly to the long-term mission and growth objectives of Amref Health Africa.
Key Duties & Responsibilities
- •MEL framework and results architecture: Operationalize the contextualized Theory of Change, indicator reference sheets, indicator definitions, disaggregation requirements, results framework and MEL plan across the three result areas; maintain baseline, annual and endline targets and clearly document assumptions and data limitations.
- •Outcome and impact measurement: Apply mixed methods approaches to measure programme outcomes and contributions to impact across the three result areas, triangulating routine data, qualitative evidence and community feedback to demonstrate changes in SRHR service utilization, knowledge, agency, social norms, policy implementation and accountability.
- •Contribution analysis: Assess the programme’s plausible contribution to observed outcomes by examining implementation intensity, trends, context, alternative explanations and ToC assumptions. Distinguish outputs, outcomes and longer-term impact; avoid attributing district-level changes to the programme without adequate evidence.
- •Country learning agenda: Coordinate learning questions on adolescent-responsive and disability-inclusive services; knowledge-to-action and service uptake; youth participation, accountability and advocacy; the One Programme Approach; localization and sustainability; and climate-sensitive service continuity in flood-prone Butaleja.
- •Learning and adaptive management: Coordinate the programme learning agenda, outcome harvesting, reflection sessions and documentation of lessons learned, emerging outcomes and promising practices. Facilitate evidence sharing and application of learning to improve programme effectiveness and adaptive management.
- •Evidence use and adaptive management: Convene and facilitate routine data-use sessions, quarterly partner reflection and performance review meetings; present concise interpretation of findings, identify bottlenecks, maintain an action-and-learning tracker and verify that decisions lead to corrective actions.
Qualifications & Requirements
- ✓Routine monitoring and digital systems: Coordinate harmonized data collection, verification, analysis and dashboards for Amref and implementing partners; ensure timely updating of approved programme results databases and Amref systems, including AIMS where applicable, and appropriate use of DHIS2/HMIS and digital data collection platforms.
- ✓Data quality and assurance: Plan and conduct regular data quality assessments, spot checks, source-document verification, indicator reconciliation and joint monitoring with districts and partners; document errors and corrective actions, ensure consistency of numerators, denominators, reporting periods and disaggregation.
- ✓Performance analysis and forecasting: Analyze programme performance against targets, assess coverage and equity gaps across facilities and target groups, identify implementation risks, and support realistic forecasts and recovery plans; integrate findings on commodity continuity, referral pathways, quality of care and service readiness.
- ✓Reporting and evidence synthesis: Coordinate the preparation of timely, accurate and analytical programme and donor reports, ensuring data quality, consistency with agreed indicators and targets, and credible documentation of achievements, outcomes, contributions to impact, lessons learned and programme adaptations.
- ✓Support national reporting into the SRHR Next Programme MIS, AIMS and other global reporting platforms.
- ✓Lead development and maintenance of programme performance dashboards and visualization products for internal management and donor reporting.
Key Skills & Competencies
Strategic PlanningStakeholder ManagementOperational EfficiencyProject CoordinationReporting & AnalysisUganda Compliance
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