Mercy Corps Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Officer Jobs in Kenya
About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have a long-term impact.
Program / Department
Mercy Corps began working in Kenya in 2008 and has built a robust and diverse portfolio working to enable Kenyans affected by poverty, climate change, resource scarcity and conflict to be healthy, and productive and to drive peace and development of their communities.
To do this, we deliver integrated programming to strengthen market and governance systems, innovate urban youth employment opportunities, respond to climate-related shocks, address the root causes of conflict, and build the resilience of vulnerable populations – in particular youth, women, adolescents, and marginalized communities.
Mercy Corps is seeking a Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer for our Mobility and Movement- Cross border Resilience in Moyale program (MM-CBRM). MM-CBRM seeks to enhance the effectiveness of conflict prevention and mitigation, disaster risk reduction and management, and resilience building in cross-border communities in selected border areas in the Horn of Africa. The program is led by Life and Peace Institute in consortium with Mercy Corps, ALCHA, and Pastoralist Concern
The Position
The Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer position plays a key role in Mercy Corps’ Program quality assurance, accountability, documentation, and learning team specifically supporting the MM-CBRM program. The position holder will support the program in planning and execution of monitoring and evaluation activities, ensuring quality following accepted standards, and providing essential feedback for learning, accountability, and decision-making.
The Senior MEAL officer will be responsible for providing internal capacity building for program staff on monitoring and evaluation activities as well as review and development of necessary tools that feed into the needs of Mercy Corps and donor reporting requirements.
Essential Responsibilities
Strategy Input and Oversight
Support development and implement monitoring and evaluation tools.
Play key role in the development of intervention designs, sector strategies and M&E frameworks.
Support inputs into program review documents.
Support the refining of the program logic and approaches, to adequately incorporate Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) considerations
Lead the design, testing and rolling out of all MEL system components for the MM-CBRM
Result Based Monitoring & Evaluation
Validating and verifying core indicators against the different sources of information.
Review, validation, and analysis of incoming results data from grantees;
Visit sites and partners to collect supplementary data, stories and conduct qualitative research both independently and in teams.
Work with the Program Manager and other staff to ensure that activities are implemented on plan and progress towards targets is not compromised through regular planning and review meetings;
In conjunction with the PaQ team, s/he will plan, coordinate and supervise all assessments and evaluations for the MM-CBRM program. This will entail development of Scopes of Work, development of survey tools, trainings and management of data collectors, report write and facilitating results discussion (or recruit and supervise evaluation consultants where necessary);
Coordinate reporting with consortium partners, specifically tracking deadlines, ensuring adherence to monitoring formats and requirements, ensuring reporting quality and accuracy, and periodic report writing, editing, and submission.
Develop Data Quality Assessment Plan
Actively participate in any additional evaluation M&E activities including but not limited to baseline surveys, mid-term, end line surveys, evaluations, household’s surveys
Ensure adherence to program management minimum standards in carrying out his/her duties, advising and supporting other staff in the same as required.
Learning
Regularly document and share all learnings from program implementation.
Maintain an up to date database that reflects progress and program indicators.
Facilitate regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring information that feeds into programming and learning, for adaptive management – Contribute to learning/research agenda
Capacity Building
Build the capacity of grantees to develop and maintain an excellent M&E system;
Support timely production of weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual donor reports based on agreed performance indicator.
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
Facilitate regular reflection and analysis of program monitoring information that feeds into programming and learning, for adaptive management – Contribute to learning/research agenda
Program Advisory
Maintain an active advisory role with the program team to help guide them towards robust and relevant data collection.
Actively participate in all implementation, providing advice and feedback for quality results at any point.
Establish and maintain strong working relationships with partners and government departments.
Participate in on-going MEL advisory and support for all MM-CBRM program staff and local partners;
Advise and support the process of testing and adopting relevant technologies for improving the efficiency of the program’s MEL function. This will include supporting rollout of Mobile Data Collection (Ona), GIS/GPS technologies for Mapping, and managing MCK’s internal data management platform TolaData.
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.
Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills
Must hold at least a bachelor’s degree in social science, Statistics, Business administration or relevant field
At least 4 years of program monitoring and evaluation experience
Should understand concepts and demonstrate skills in monitoring and evaluation, project cycle, results chain and frameworks, participatory monitoring
Should be able to design and implement surveys, have knowledge of commonly used probability and purposive sampling techniques
Must have good writing and analytical skills
Should have knowledge of quantitative and qualitative data collection and 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 the use of at least one data management software including MS Access, SPSS, and STATA.
Must be fluent in both spoken and written English.
How to Apply
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