Job Title: Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer
Hiring Organization: Mercy Corps
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 06/03/2024
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 long term impact.
About
Energy 4 Impact
Energy 4 Impact is a Platform within Mercy Corps that seeks to reduce poverty in Sub Saharan Africa by accelerating access to clean energy, helping businesses and communities make better use of that expanded access, and working with the private sector to support the sustainability of these efforts.
Energy 4
Impact values access to energy not as an end in itself but for the difference
it makes to people’s lives every day, in terms of agricultural development,
economic growth, humanitarian recovery and climate resilience, and all
strategic outcome-level goals of Mercy Corps’ Pathway to Possibility.
Energy 4
Impact supports the development and growth of privately owned SMEs, and micro
businesses, which deliver renewable energy products and services to the poor in
rural and urban settings. We advise energy access SMEs on commercial, financial
and engineering matters and help them secure the resources they need to grow.
We run pilots to test new products, business models and expand into new
markets.
E4I
exists because of our concerns for global inequality and climate change – this
is the core of what drives us. We aim to be a caring, compassionate
organization respectful of difference, and to treat our staff fairly and to
help them develop as professionals and as people.
Position
Summary
The
Senior MEL Officer will lead on MEL for a number of programs, supporting the
MEL Manager to ensure quality, credible, and transparent MEL across their
programming, including adherence to the Mercy Corps MEL minimum standards. They
will have excellent experience and skills in all aspects of MEL: data
collection, analysis, visualisation, and reporting, and will excel at
communicating MEL outputs to programme and unit managers for the purposes of
data-driven decision-making. They will direct MEL activities of partners,
ensuring quality and timely delivery of data and other deliverables.
Essential
Responsibilities
MEL
roles:
Lead on
the designing, developing, and implementing MEL systems, including development
of MEL plans, frameworks, processes, and data collection tools for all the
programs and projects in the organization.
Lead on
to the design MEL plans and systems, identify key performance parameters for
new programs and projects and ensure the effective use by staff, partners, and
stakeholders as necessary.
Work with
program managers to define MEL plans, theories of change, log frames, targets,
implement donor’s requirements, create long term plans, contribute to program
budgeting process, etc.
Lead on
the development of appropriate monitoring, tracking, and reporting systems,
tools and templates that enhance the monitoring of project outputs, generate
quality evidence on project impact and promote and ensure use of data for
decision-making processes.
Support
field officers and other staff to use standard indicators, tools, and forms (as
appropriate) and integrate good MEL practices across projects.
Undertake
regular reviews of programs and the development of necessary recommendations
for program delivery.
Undertake
field visits to provide support for proper application of MEL frameworks and
tools.
Support
in recruitment, training and capacity building of external enumerators and
project implementation partners where required.
Oversee
and provide quality control to local partners, where partners are implementing
MEL activities on our behalf. This includes the development of all MEL
documents, tools, and deliverables; site visits for the purposes of in person
support and quality control; and working with the partner and E4I program team
to address challenges that arise during implementation.
Develop
research tools for conducting both qualitative and quantitative surveys and
develop training for the use of such tools.
Support
Program Managers in the formulation of baseline measures, targets, and results,
during project implementation.
Work
closely with the business development and communication departments in
developing and disseminating program results, best practices, and success
stories.
Review
the quality of existing social and economic data in the project areas, methods
of collecting it and the degree to which it will provide robust data for
results-based evaluation.
Report
MEL updates and performance across the programs.
Keep
abreast of the latest industry developments in MEL and network with other
organizations for best practices and technical assistance, including
representing the Mercy Corps & Energy 4 Impact at MEL-related conferences
and events.
Data
Analysis And Database Management Roles:
Support
the Data Analyst on the design and maintain databases that improves E4I’s
ability to inform program implementation, analyse data, identify trends, and
present impact to key stakeholders.
Ensure
all relevant program staff are able to utilise the database to analyse program
information and results. Develop the necessary tools for the field team to feed
in data to the database in a way that minimizes entry errors.
Review
data being collected in order to locate and fix problems with data entry or
integrity and manage regular synchronizations with field level data.
Support
the management of project databases to facilitate timely information updates,
data quality assurance, sharing of information, learning, and data use for
decision-making.
Support
the preparation of data reports (tables, charts, narratives, visuals) at
regular intervals and ad hoc as needed to respond to requests for information,
inputs to project work plans and semi-annual reports, and other internal and
external data analysis and reporting requirements.
Conduct
continuous data analysis of enterprise/business performance from program data
and produce cross-sectional reports reflecting different growth variables
including but not limited to sales, employments, profitability etc.
Provide
analytical expertise with regards to identifying and confirming patterns and
trends in data, understanding the economics of supporting different types of
business, cost per unit of result, etc.
Provide
indicator performance visualizations and support in narrative report writing
and dissemination as required.