Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Hiring Organization: Mercy Corps
Location – Locality:
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 06/03/2024
About
Mercy Corps
Mercy
Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better
world is possible.
In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we
partner to put bold solutions
into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger
communities from within.
Now, and for the future.
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 an 8-year
Resilience 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. The
Position holder 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.
Essential
Responsibilities
Strategy
And Planning
Support
development and roll-out of USAID Nawiri monitoring and evaluation strategy and
tools.
Participate
in platforms for 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
Maintain
professional and personal conduct that brings credit to Mercy Corps and does
not jeopardize its humanitarian mission.
Other
duties as assigned from time to time by supervisor.
Supervisory
Responsibility
M&E
Assistants, Temporary Research 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 project 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. The position holder 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.
