Essential Responsibilities
STRATEGY AND PLANNING
Support development and roll-out of USAID Nawiri monitoring and evaluation strategy and tools.
Participate in platforms for the program management and collaboration at county and sub-county level and promote evidence-based county and program adaptive management. Support program targeting, design, integration, layering and sequencing and support tracking of resilience programing at county and sub-county level.
Provide M&E leadership to Program teams and M&E Assistants at sub-county level and ensure program implementation coherence and integration.
RESULT BASED MONITORING & EVALUATION
Conduct data collection, collation, review, validation, and analysis of program data at county, sub-county, and Ward Level.
Support the County Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator to roll-out M&E Plan at county and sub-county level.
In conjunction with the County MEL Coordinator, development of supportive supervision and mentoring plan for the program team on data collection, entry, analysis and use for decision-making.
Support learning initiatives at county and sub-county level including facilitating documentation of lessons learned and success stories.
In collaboration with the MIS team, conduct program participant registration and maintain updates program participants databases to at county, sub-county and Ward-level.
Support in conducting regular Routine Data Quality Assurance (RDQA) in collaboration with the program team for the reported data to ensure adherence to USAID/ Mercy Corps data quality standards.
Support County Program team in the preparation of quarterly/annual activity reports and verification of reported data.
Participate in county government M&E system strengthening strategy at sub-county and ward level including roll-out of Actionable Context monitoring system at county, sub-county and ward-level including ensuring data use for planning and decision-making at all levels.
Participate in annual surveys, Qualitative Inquiries (QI) and Post Distribution Monitoring Surveys intended to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of USAID Nawiri programing at county level and meet required BHA reporting requirements Ensure adherence to Mercy Corps program management minimum standards and Community Accountability Mechanism (CARM)
CAPACITY BUILDING
Facilitate program teams in periodic reflection and analysis of project monitoring information that feeds into USAID Nawiri programming and learning and sub-county and ward-level.
Support timely production of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual donor reports based on agreed performance indicators and timelines.
Build the capacity of all relevant team members to implement program-monitoring tools, accurately enter program data into relevant databases, and enable them to develop excellent reports and other documents
PROGRAM ADVISORY
Maintain an active advisory role with the program team to help guide them towards robust and relevant data collection, validation, analysis, and decision-making.
Actively participate in all implementation monitoring, providing timely feedback on quality-of-service delivery at any point.
Establish and maintain strong working relationships with partners and government departments.
Support the process of testing and adopting relevant technologies for improving the efficiency of the program’s MEL function. This will include supporting testing and rollout of Mobile Data Collection tools (Ona), CommCare, GIS/GPS technologies for Mapping, and managing MCK’s internal data management platform; Tola Data.
OTHER
Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission.
Other duties as assigned from time to time by supervisor
Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills
Must hold at least a bachelor’s degree in Social Science, Statistics, International development, Health, Agriculture, or relevant field (with coursework in M&E, research and evaluation methodologies, statistical analysis or organizational development) or similar field of study.
At least 2-4 years of program monitoring and evaluation experience
Experience working with USAID funded projects and familiarity with USAID/FFP M&E guidance and requirement is an added advantage
Should understand general MEL concepts and demonstrate skills in MEL system (i.e. Theories of Change, Results Frameworks/Logical Frameworks, MEL Plans and Data Collection tools);
Must have good writing and analytical skills
Should have knowledge of quantitative and qualitative data collection, reporting techniques. S/he should understand and be able to apply basic measures of central tendency and spread
In addition to Microsoft Excel, the incumbent should demonstrate fluency in use of at least one data management software including SPSS, STATA, and Power BI/Tableau for visualization.
Must be fluent in both spoken and written English. Understanding of local language will be an added advantage
Qualified applicants from the USAID Nawiri targeted sub-counties will have an added advantage.
Success Factors
A successful M&E Officer will have the ability and curiosity to work comfortably and effectively. S/he will be an excellent communicator, multi-tasker, with the ability to work effectively in complex environments. S/he must have the confidence and humility to work effectively with a diverse group of people – as well as be sensitive to political and cultural nuance.
Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions
The position is based in the County/Sub-County Office, Samburu/Turkana County with frequent travels to activity field sites.
Ongoing Learning
In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.
We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact.
We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.
Local qualified candidates in Samburu are highly encouraged to apply
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