Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Coordinator

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator

YIGA | Karamoja and West Nile

Apply by 5th October 2026 at 5:00 PM (E.A.T)

About Restless Development

We have worked in Uganda since 1997, guided by four goals shaped by young people: Voice and Democracy, Education and Livelihoods, Gender and Sexual Health, and Climate Justice. We support young people to influence decisions, access quality education and sustainable livelihood opportunities, advance sexual and reproductive health and rights, promote gender equality, and lead action towards a just and sustainable future. We currently work in 26 districts across Northern, North-Eastern, Central and Eastern Uganda, with offices in Kampala, Jinja, Moroto and West Nile.

Our approach to safeguarding

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives.

About YIGA

Promoting 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.

YIGA 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.

In 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.

About the Role:

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.

Reporting 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

Job title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Coordinator

Location: Karamoja, Uganda

Geographical coverage: Karamoja and West Nile, including evidence from national-level YIGA activities.

Salary: UGX 73,299,474 Gross Per Annum

Preferred start date: As Soon As Possible

Duration: 1 year, renewable depending on funding and performance.

Reports to: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager

Direct reports: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officers

Expected travel: Regular domestic travel to project locations in Karamoja and West Nile, and national engagements as required.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

MEL systems and measurement

Coordinate 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.

Define 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.

Maintain 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.

Strengthen 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.

Routine monitoring and data quality

Coordinate 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.

Review 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.

Distinguish 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.

Produce 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.

Support biannual joint monitoring and quarterly programme reviews, preparing evidence, documenting findings and tracking completion of actions agreed with programme teams and partners.

Assessments, research and evaluation

Coordinate 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.

Support 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.

Support 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.

Provide 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.

Support 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.

Youth feedback and accountability

Maintain 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.

Track 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.