Reports to: Head of Refugee Finance

Duty Station: Kampala

About Opportunity International

Opportunity International is working to end global poverty by providing a hand up, not a handout. We believe that enabling individuals to create dignified and sustainable work is the foundation for transforming their lives, their children’s futures and their communities.

We support local partner organisations that provide innovative financial solutions to empower people, create jobs and build vibrant communities. We do this through innovative partnerships to provide complementary services to clients. Our products, services and training enable clients to develop businesses, to save and to insure against an uncertain future.

Today, Opportunity International serves more than 10 million families in over 30 countries around the world.

Opportunity Bank in collaboration with Opportunity International now seek to recruit a creative, agile and result driven individual to fill the position of Programme Manager.

JOB DESCRIPTION

1. Project Management

 Create templates for reporting and managing projects. Accountable for quarterly updates to
internal and external collaborators
 Make sure activities are being done on time, in line with project objectives and budget, where
necessary work with Country Lead to revise and reallocate budgets and timelines

 Create indicator protocols
 Main point of donor contact. Compile and submit quarterly narrative and financial reports to
the donor.
 Create and manage partner MoUs; ToRs for external evaluators and work on the M&E
plans and reporting /dissemination of results
 Donor maintenance – includes compliance, safeguarding, branding, impact management
Finance:
 Financial reporting and budgeting, to reconcile finances across Opportunity International
network; code income and expenditure, monitoring spending per project.
 Track funding flows to partners in line with project deliverables
 Monitor expenditure and costs against milestones

2. Business Development
 Part of design team for new proposals and projects ensuring new projects are designed is in
line with Opportunity International best practices, lessons learned and objectives.
 Work closely with international partners and team members to develop new, high quality,
fundable programmes at a country, regional and sector level.
 Support the preparation and submission of funding applications including written
applications, log frames, budgets, and monitoring and evaluation plans.
 Manage budgets in proposal design to ensure they are in line with the overall Programme
Budget and Opportunity International Impact measurement

3. Programme Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Agenda, Impact and Dissemination
 Develop and review documents or reports that capture learnings; integrate learnings into
program activities. Document best practice: lessons learned and evidence base
 Present Quarterly impact /dashboards as part of the of SM calls
 Be part of the dissemination of the programme wide impact
 Field visits for partner review and feedback.

4. External Networking
 Represent Opportunity International to donors and participate in stakeholder and Working
Group meetings
 Increase the profile of Opportunity International UK and lever the experience of our partners
by attending fora and other development and industry seminars.
 Represent Opportunity International UK at local in-country donor offices, facilitating visits
to local partners with the purpose of securing technical or financial support.
 Pro-actively share your learning and knowledge of local partners and their work with staff
and Trustees in the UK, to increase their exposure and facilitate further funding from
different audiences.

5. Team Collaboration
The Programme manager will work closely with the M&E Associates and Refugee Country Lead

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration or a related field.
• Five (05) years plus experience in international project management and experience of coordinating large grants.
• Strong financial management skills and a proven track record in preparing and implementing pipeline analyses and quarterly spending targets (the post-holder will be expected to manage large budgets, ensuring invoices are submitted on time and monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realized milestones).
• Successfully managing complex relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including providing management and advice from a distance.

Personal skills and abilities

• Excellent written communications, including report writing, in English.
• Superior interpersonal and team-building skills.
• Outstanding computer skills, including word processing, excel, mail, and internet.
• Commitment to and understanding of Opportunity International’s mission, vision, and values.

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters, academic documents, together with their curriculum vitae in one PDF Folder clearly stating the job title in the subject line to recruitment@opportunitybank.co.ug   not later than 5:00 Pm on Wednesday 5 March 2025.

Please include your current salary in your application.

CLICK TO SUMBIT YOUR APPLICATION

Reports to: Head Refugee Finance

Duty Station: Kampala

About Opportunity International

Opportunity International is working to end global poverty by providing a hand up, not a handout. We believe that enabling individuals to create dignified and sustainable work is the foundation for transforming their lives, their children’s futures and their communities.

We support local partner organisations that provide innovative financial solutions to empower people, create jobs and build vibrant communities. We do this through innovative partnerships to provide complementary services to clients. Our products, services and training enable clients to develop businesses, to save and to insure against an uncertain future.

Today, Opportunity International serves more than 10 million families in over 30 countries around the world.

Opportunity Bank in collaboration with Opportunity International now seek to recruit a creative, agile and result driven individual to fill the position of Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist.

Job purpose:

The M&E Specialist will monitor Re-Fin activities against the program’s theory of change to
improve the livelihoods of refugee and host communities through financial services, skills
development and market linkages. They will run standard survey tools, ensure data quality
control, and conduct project evaluations and data analysis.

Key Result Areas:

1. Monitoring and evaluation strategy implementation
 Develop and oversee the implementation of the Re-Fin program ME&L strategy in
Uganda, across multiple donor projects.

 Analyze data collected by Opportunity Community Support Agents (CSAs) and conduct
baseline and annual surveys for new cohorts of CSAs.
 Execute the ME&L work plan promptly, refining tool protocols and reporting against
progress on activities and timelines.
 Analyze data output from CSAs, external evaluators and project partners, and generate
key insights for program reporting, operations and implementation of adaptive
management strategies.  
 Liaise with Re-Fin external learning partners contracted for specific third-party studies. 

2. Data collection and presentation
 Work with Opportunity Ag Finance (Comcare) data management platform to develop and
implement data collection tools to capture Re-Fin data needed to execute ME&L strategy.
 Incorporate existing data into Comcare platform.
 Build capacity of the local team in the use of M&E tools.
 Train and support CSAs in data collection and survey protocol when utilizing CSAs for
research or studies.
 Conduct quality assurance on all data collected, ensuring it meets the criteria of
timeliness, accuracy, validity, reliability, integrity, and completeness in coordination with
the data management team.
 Use data to create effective reports, visuals and dashboards to show program impact.

3. Project activities
 Provide technical support, including developing logframe, identifying key indicators, and
creating M&E plans for specific projects or grants awarded in Uganda.
 Organize and facilitate progress review meetings with program teams to assess the status
of program activities, identify challenges, and recommend corrective actions.
 Develop and review documents or reports that capture learnings; integrate learnings into
program activities. Document best practice: lessons learned and evidence base
 Present Quarterly impact /dashboards as part of the of SM calls
 Be part of the dissemination of the Programme wide impact
 Design surveys, lead focus group discussions, key informant interviews, or other
monitoring tools specific to projects in Uganda.
 Draft reports, client stories, or other outputs around learnings on projects for donor
reporting for wider dissemination.

Interested candidates should send their signed application letters, academic documents, together with their curriculum vitae in one PDF Folder clearly stating the job title in the subject line to recruitment@opportunitybank.co.ug   not later than 5:00 Pm on Wednesday 5 March 2025.

Please include your current salary in your application.

CLICK TO SUMBIT YOUR APPLICATION