MEL Assistant – Kigezi (3 positions)

(MEL Assistant – Kigezi)

Role: MEL Assistant
Location: Kigezi Sub-region (Regional Hub)
Vacancies: 3 positions available

About the Location:
Operating in the southwestern corridor out of Kabale, the Kigezi sub-region presents a unique geographic terrain for monitoring and evaluation. MEL Assistants in this zone will travel frequently across the region’s hilly landscape to collect data directly from hard-to-reach community health points, keeping data collection accurate and timely despite localized field challenges.

Reports to

Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor

Job Purpose

Under the leadership of the MEL Advisor, M&E Assistant will work with the cluster team members, the health facility data clerks, to ensure that clean and complete project data is collected weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, and annually is collected and reported in a timely manner in the respective data management systems. He/she will implement strategies for improved data demand and utilization at the facility and district level for improved program performance.

Duties and Responsibilities

Ensure timely and consistent data collection and reporting from all health facilities in appropriate systems with the PEPFAR MER indicators and their data sources into PEPFAR Uganda Data Management System (HIBRID) weekly and monthly donor High-Frequency reporting requirements and MOH into the District Health Information System Ver 2.
Strengthen health facility data collection, quality, analysis, and use for micro-planning and decision-making, through training and supportive supervision
Summarize and present performance data to the district teams on weekly, monthly, and quarterly intervals.
Participating in Quality Improvement meetings at district and facility levels where possible.
Train, mentor, and coach data clerks health facilities to use, and link EMR, MOH DHIS2, and any other relevant databases to produce PEPFAR-required data for reporting
Implement strategies for scale-up of patient unique identifiers for patients to inform national scale-up of the program
Training and support the districts, health sub-districts, and facilities in data management systems, including DHIS2, data entry, generating data queries, data visualizations, pivot tables, DHIS2 data validation rules and analysis, report management, district/facility dashboards, etc.
Facilitate the interpretation and use of M&E data, through the quarterly district level and facility level review meetings between the project, the district health team and health care workers
Facilitate implementation of capacity building through workshops and on the job trainings on HMIS strengthening, data collection and reporting, conducting data quality audits and subsequent data quality improvement for districts HMIS/ District Biostatisticians, data clerks and the health workers
Troubleshoot data-related problems, work to reconcile/clean inconsistencies in weekly, monthly, quarterly data reports from project-supported health facilities in DHIS2, HIBRID and KP/PP combination tracker
Ensure utilization of standard operating procedures and data collection tools, systems, guidelines by health facility staff and data clerks to ensure harmonized data collection approaches across supported facilities and districts that promote completeness and accuracy.
Provide technical support to data clerks at the facilities ensure high quality record keeping at health facilities
Ensure that data collections tools are available at the facilities and of the appropriate latest nationally approved versions.
Provide technical support to data clerks at the facilities ensure on-time data entries into patient electronic medical records system (EMR).
Provide onsite support in the maintenance, troubleshooting of the patient level Electronic Medical Record (EMR)/data bases at the supported sites
Utilize the approved tools and processes for data visualization and use
Respond to requests for standard and ad hoc data reports as required in a timely manner
Work closely with district and facility teams to implement the work plans, focusing on meeting data and analytical needs
Take Lead on generation of the quarterly district reports
Support audit tool updates at site level, quality assurance and merging to produce district audit tool
Support audit tool review meetings at both facility and district level
Represent JCRC in facility and district technical and programmatic meetings
Any other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Job Qualification/ Requirement

The ideal candidate must possess a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Quantitative Economics, IT or relevant field
Additional training in data management packages is an added advantage
Five years of experience in data management.
Experience in navigation of DHIS2 and USG data requirements.
Previous experience in supporting busy TB, TB/HIV district data systems is an added advantage
Good interpersonal skills and can work in teams.

Application Procedure

Interested and qualified applicants should submit applications clearly indicating the position applied for and preferred area of work by REGION in the subject line.

Applications should be addressed to:

The Head Human Resources
Joint Clinical Research Centre
Plot 101 Lubowa Campus off Entebbe Road
P.O Box 10005
Kampala-Uganda

Email: jobs@jcrc.org.ug

The application deadline is Friday, 2nd October 2026 at 05:00 pm.

Strictly two documents combined in one PDF are required:

Application letter
CV not exceeding 6 pages

Note: JCRC is an equal opportunity employer.