Monitoring and Evaluation Officer (multiple openings-Baragoi, Wamba, Maralal)

  • Contractor
  • Samburu, Kenya
  • TBD USD / Year
  • Mercy Corps profile




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Mercy Corps

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The Program / Department Summary

USAID’s Office of Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) awarded funding to a Mercy Corps-led consortium of Kenyan and international partners for a 5-year Development Food Security Activity (DFSA) in Turkana and Samburu Counties of Kenya. Through a phased approach that emphasizes evidence gap analysis, as well as partnership, learning, and co-creation with government, civil society, communities, and the private sector, the USAID Nawiri program aims to drive sustained reductions in acute malnutrition in both counties. Mercy Corps’ consortium brings together the global leadership, research capacity, technical expertise, and implementation experience necessary to partner with local institutions to test, adapt, and scale evidence-based solutions. The program requires a robust county-centered design with government leadership, active engagement from communities, the private sector, and civil society. Together we will sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations in Turkana and Samburu counties.

General Position Summary

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer is a key position for program quality assurance, accountability, documentation and learning. The position holder will support the USAID Nawiri team in planning and execution of monitoring and evaluation activities at the county level while ensuring implementation quality in accordance with accepted standards, providing essential feedback for learning, accountability and decision making. S/he will support the program adaptive management agenda i.e., collaborating, learning and adapting. Support county and sub-county teams in rolling-out a responsive M&E system that can provide updated and relevant information for effective program implementation. Support capacity building of program staff, County Data Focal Point Officers and M&E Assistants on data collection, analysis and visualization as well as strengthening the existing systems to be able to produce reliable/quality data and support data platforms, used for decision-making at sub-county and ward level. There are multiple openings for this position to be based in USAID Nawiri Sub-County offices in Turkana (Turkana North and Turkana South) and Samburu (Samburu North, Samburu East and Samburu West). Indicate your preferred location in your application

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

Supervisory Responsibility

M&E Assistants

Accountability

Reports Directly to: County M&E Coordinator with administrative oversight from the Field Director

Works Directly with: USAID Nawiri Program Quality and Learning team, all program staff and implementing partners at county and sub-county level.

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.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct elearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.

How to apply

HOW TO APPLY

For detailed job description, please visit: https://bit.ly/3JiGLf7

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Deadline for receiving applications is 28th February,2022

Mercy corps does not charge fees at any stage of the recruitment process


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