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We make sure that young people’s voices are heard and that they have the power to mobilise action in their communities to respond to long-standing challenges. Across Karamoja, West Nile, Eastern and Central Uganda, we support young people to influence the decisions that affect their lives while strengthening the systems and institutions that enable them to realise their full potential. We also coordinate the Uganda Youth Collective, a national platform of over 600 youth-led organisations working together to amplify youth voices and influence policies through the National Youth Working Group. We are committed to creating an organisation that walks the talk on power shifting, using the power shifting checklist, both internally and externally.\n\nAbout YIGA\n\nPromoting Youth Inclusion in Governance and Decision-making in Uganda (YIGA) is supported by the Royal Danish Embassy under PACER and runs through December 2027. Restless Development leads the consortium with Media Challenge Initiative (MCI) and Karamoja Youth Effort to Save the Environment (KAYESE). Building on implementation in Karamoja, the project is expanding to Arua, Terego and Madi-Okollo in West Nile, alongside activities that bring regional youth priorities into national discussions.\n\nYIGA addresses the information gaps, limited opportunities and institutional barriers that prevent young people from influencing decisions about their communities. It helps young people understand local government planning and budgeting, gather evidence on public services, and raise their priorities with elected representatives, officials and community leaders. At the same time, it helps these leaders involve young people in decisions and respond to their concerns through practical action plans and regular follow-up.\n\nIn West Nile, this includes training Youth Accountability Advocates and youth councillors, supporting community barazas and Youth Leader Connect meetings, and monitoring service delivery with local governments. MCI’s Youth Information Hub+ combines a physical hub in Arua and Karamoja, mobile and digital engagement approaches and digital resources with civic films, radio, storytelling and media literacy activities. Evidence from both regions will inform the State of Youth Civil Society in Uganda report and National Youth Working Group discussions. Throughout, YIGA seeks to turn informed youth participation into decisions and services that better reflect young people’s needs.\n\nJob Summary: The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator will coordinate YIGA’s monitoring, evidence generation and learning across Karamoja, West Nile and consortium partners. The role will ensure that teams use consistent tools, produce reliable data and understand whether young people are gaining civic knowledge, influencing decisions and receiving responses from local governments and community leaders.\n\nReporting to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, the Coordinator will supervise MEL Officers and provide technical support to programme teams and partner MEL staff. The role will work closely with the Programme Manager on performance reviews, reporting and improvements to delivery. Priorities include establishing benchmarks for the West Nile expansion, tracking youth feedback and official responses, supporting the evaluation across both regions, and turning findings into clear recommendations for programme and policy decisions\n\nKey Duties and Responsibilities: \n\nMEL systems and measurement\n\nCoordinate implementation and improvement of the consortium MEL framework under the MEL Manager’s guidance. Align indicators, data collection tools and reporting templates with the YIGA proposal, West Nile expansion and agreed donor framework.\n\nDefine indicators clearly, including the unit counted, disaggregation, evidence source, collection frequency and responsible person. Help partners apply the same definitions across Karamoja, West Nile and national activities.\n\nMaintain a consolidated indicator tracker and data flow process. Check that revised targets and geographic coverage are formally agreed before they are used in reports, and raise inconsistencies for resolution.\n\nStrengthen digital and paper-based data collection, secure storage and access arrangements. Keep an organised evidence archive so reported results can be traced to their source.\n\nRoutine monitoring and data quality\n\nCoordinate monitoring of youth training, civic information, participation platforms, local government action plans and feedback mechanisms. Track changes in knowledge, active participation and government responses alongside activity delivery.\n\nReview and consolidate partner submissions, checking completeness, accuracy and consistency. Verify source records during field visits and agree corrections and support needs with the teams responsible.\n\nDistinguish unique participants from repeat attendance, physical participation from digital reach, and content distribution from evidence of use. Prevent double counting across hub activities, films, radio, dialogue and training.\n\nProduce clear performance updates by region, district and partner, with age, sex and disability disaggregation where appropriate and ethically collected. Explain gaps and limitations rather than presenting uncertain figures as verified results.\n\nSupport biannual joint monitoring and quarterly programme reviews, preparing evidence, documenting findings and tracking completion of actions agreed with programme teams and partners.\n\nAssessments, research and evaluation\n\nCoordinate the rapid assessment in Arua, Terego and Madi-Okollo, combining primary findings with relevant secondary data. Establish usable benchmark values and document how they compare with existing Karamoja measures.\n\nSupport the gender and youth inclusion assessment of local governments, ensuring that findings provide a clear basis for Meaningful Youth Engagement training, action plans and follow-up.\n\nSupport commissioning and delivery of the end-of-project evaluation under the MEL Manager’s guidance. Ensure that the scope covers both regions through a common framework while recognising differences in implementation duration and context.\n\nProvide technical support to the State of Youth Civil Society in Uganda study, including methods, data quality, validation and documentation. Coordinate with advocacy colleagues and partners so the findings can inform national engagement.\n\nSupport additional approved studies where evidence gaps justify them. Prepare terms of reference and tools, coordinate field access and review deliverables while protecting the independence of external evaluators.\n\nYouth feedback and accountability\n\nMaintain a practical system for recording youth concerns, requests, responsible duty bearers, agreed actions and response status from community barazas, Youth Leader Connect meetings, service monitoring and other feedback channels.\n\nTrack whether local governments and community structures respond in a timely and inclusive way. Distinguish a promise from a completed action and verify reported changes through records and appropriate follow-up with young people.\n\nHelp programme teams use feedback tools that are accessible to young people with different literacy, language and disability needs. Ensure that findings reflect whose views are missing as well as whose views were collected.\n\nSupport teams to communicate responses and progress back to young people. Keep safeguarding disclosures out of routine public trackers and refer them promptly through designated confidential channels.\n\nLearning and use of evidence\n\nUse programme evidence and learning to recommend decisions and improvements to delivery. Present findings in clear language, identify practical actions and follow up their use with the Programme Manager and regional teams.\n\nFacilitate reflection with youth, programme staff and partners to explain why results differ across areas. Record agreed adjustments, responsible staff and deadlines, and review whether changes improve implementation.\n\nWork with communications and advocacy colleagues on learning briefs, case studies, policy inputs and results summaries. Check claims against the evidence and obtain appropriate consent before using personal stories.\n\nSupport the planned impact documentation and change storytelling training for PACER partners, contributing evidence standards and practical tools alongside media specialists. Share useful findings in organisational planning and strategy reviews.\n\nReporting, partner support and team coordination\n\nCoordinate the evidence and results sections of internal and donor reports, consolidating validated partner inputs in time for management review. Explain progress against outcomes, emerging risks, limitations and lessons.\n\nProvide training and coaching to partner MEL staff and programme teams on tools, indicator interpretation, data quality and reporting. Follow up recurring errors and agree workable improvements.\n\nSupervise MEL Officers through clear workplans, regular feedback and technical support. Coordinate with partner MEL focal points through consortium working groups while respecting their own management arrangements.\n\nWork with programme teams to ensure that youth priorities and perspectives are reflected in planning and service delivery follow-up, using monitoring findings to show what has changed and what still needs action.\n\nProvide verified records and analysis for donor visits, evaluations, audits and programme reviews. Maintain clear versions of approved reports, tools and datasets.\n\nEthics, safeguarding and inclusion\n\nApply informed consent, confidentiality and appropriate data protection throughout data collection, analysis and reporting. Collect only necessary personal information and restrict access to identifiable or sensitive records.\n\nEnsure enumerators, staff and youth researchers understand safeguarding, safe interviewing and referral procedures before fieldwork. Report concerns through designated channels and avoid asking untrained staff to investigate disclosures.\n\nReview whether tools and field arrangements allow safe participation by young women, young people with disabilities and those with limited literacy. Raise evidence gaps and participation barriers with programme leadership.\n\nOther responsibilities\n\nUndertake other duties as assigned by the Programme Manager or senior management, including occasional weekend work for which time off in lieu (TOIL) can be taken.\n\nQualifications, Skills and Experience: \n\nEssential\n\nBachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Development Studies, Social Sciences or a related field.\n\nA postgraduate diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation.\n\nAt least 3–5 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, research or learning within NGO or donor-funded programmes.\n\nExperience designing and implementing MEL systems, frameworks and tools, with a strong understanding of results-based management and performance measurement.\n\nExperience collecting, analysing, visualising and reporting quantitative and qualitative data, and translating findings into practical recommendations.\n\nExperience working with consortia or multi-partner programmes and using...","description_format":"text","description_chars":13191,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Government"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-04T22:11:35Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":58,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":0.85,"p_active":0.759,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":45,"reasons":["seen:19","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":20377,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/restless-development-monitoring-evaluation-learning-coordinator","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/restless-development-monitoring-evaluation-learning-coordinator.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T11:32:13Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8135,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1806136},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1806136"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Frestless-development-monitoring-evaluation-learning-coordinator"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Frestless-development-monitoring-evaluation-learning-coordinator"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Frestless-development-monitoring-evaluation-learning-coordinator"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/restless-development-monitoring-evaluation-learning-coordinator\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Frestless-development-monitoring-evaluation-learning-coordinator"}]}