Job Title: Program Advisor

Organisation: World Renew

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

World Renew envisions a world where people experience and extend Christ’s compassion and live together in hope as God’s community. World Renew serves as the development, disaster response, and justice arm of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. The aspects of World Renew’s work are three-fold: Community Development, Disaster Response & Rehabilitation Advocacy.

Job Summary: The Program Advisor provides strategic leadership and technical support for the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement of World Renew Uganda’s development, resilience, humanitarian and peacebuilding programs. The position strengthens partner capacity, ensures high quality programming, leads monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) systems, supports proposal development, and ensures evidence-based decision-making that demonstrates impact to communities, donors and World Renew.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Program Quality and Technical Leadership (25%)

• Provide technical leadership to partners in project planning, implementation and adaptive management.
• Ensure all projects comply with World Renew standards, donor requirements and national policies.
• Promote integrated programming across food security, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction, climate resilience, peacebuilding, gender and social inclusion.
• Support partners in annual planning and project reviews.
• Facilitate technical backstopping visits.
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) (35%)
• Lead the development and implementation of World Renew Uganda’s MEAL system by:
• Designing project Results Frameworks, Logframes and Theory of Change.
• Developing MEAL plans for every project.
• Developing indicators and Performance Measurement Frameworks.
• Ensuring baseline, midline and endline studies are completed.
• Designing data collection tools.
• Conducting data quality assessments (DQAs).
• Supporting digital data collection platforms (ODK, KoboCollect, SurveyCTO or CommaCare).
• Developing dashboards for project performance monitoring.
• Analyzing project data and generating evidence for management decisions.
• Ensuring accountability mechanisms (complaints and feedback systems) are functional.
• Leading project evaluations and learning events.
• Promoting knowledge management and documentation of best practices.
• Producing quarterly and annual performance reports.

Partner Capacity Strengthening (15%)

• Assess organizational capacity of implementing partners.
• Develop institutional strengthening plans through mentoring partner staff in Project management, Results-Based Management, MEAL, Financial accountability, Safeguarding, Gender integration.
• Facilitate organizational learning.

Proposal Development and Resource Mobilization (10%)

• Support project design.
• Lead technical proposal writing.
• Develop logical frameworks and MEAL sections.
• Develop monitoring plans and indicator tracking tables.
• Contribute to donor concept notes.
• Support donor reporting.

Grants Management and Reporting (10%)

• Review partner reports.
• Monitor implementation against workplans.
• Ensure donor compliance.
• Coordinate project review meetings.
• Track key performance indicators.
• Support grant close-out.
• Representation and Networking (5%)
• Represent World Renew in relevant technical working groups.
• Build relationships with government, donors, churches, NGOs and consortium partners.
• Participate in coordination meetings.
• Promote learning and visibility of World Renew programs.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Education Required

• A Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following areas Development Studies, Agriculture, Monitoring & Evaluation, Statistics, Economics, Social Sciences, Public Health, International Development, Project Planning & Management.

Preferred

• A Master’s Degree in Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Planning & Management, Development Studies, International Development.
• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in international development.
• At least 5 years managing donor-funded projects.
• Demonstrated experience establishing and managing MEAL systems.
• Experience working with institutional donors such as Global Affairs Canada, USAID, USDA, EU, Embassy funds, UN Agencies or Dutch Ministry.
• Experience supporting local partner organizations.
• Experience in humanitarian response and resilience programming is desirable.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates who meet the above requirements should send their application letter, detailed CV, and copies of academic and professional certificates, and contact details of three referees to via Email to:

wruganda@world-renew.net

with “Program Advisor” in the subject line by 11th September 2026.

Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews

Deadline: 11th September 2026

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.