Mercy Corps Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (GIRL Program)

Mercy Corps Monitoring & Evaluation Officer (GIRL Program)

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
Driven by local needs, our programs provide communities in the world’s toughest places with the tools and support they need to turn the crises they confront into the opportunities they deserve.
Mercy Corps has had a presence in Kenya since its humanitarian response to the post-election violence in 2008.
We are presently looking for a committed and dynamic individual to take up the following position.

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer – Girls Improving Resilience With Livestock (GIRL) Program
Lodwar – Turkana County

Program / Department Summary: Mercy Corps implements high-quality, analytical development work in very difficult places.

We have been operating in Kenya since 2008 and are presently implementing development programs across the Central, Rift Valley and Northern regions of Kenya.
We are currently launching a 3-year Nike Foundation funded program, focused on improving livelihoods in Turkana and West Pokot (Kenya) and Karamoja (Uganda) regions.
The project, called Girls Improving Resilience with Livestock (GIRL), aims to empower pastoralist girls in the Turkana region to improve their livelihoods and personal agency, as well as increase the food security and adaptive capacity of their households and the resilience of their communities.
Mercy Corps is looking for a qualified professional to fill the position of Monitoring & Evaluation Officer for the GIRL program.

General Position Summary: Reporting to the Program Manager in Kapenguria Field Office, this position is a key part of Mercy Corps’ Program quality assurance, accountability, documentation and learning team.
The position holder will support program in planning and execution of monitoring and evaluation activities, ensuring quality in accordance with accepted standards, providing essential feedback for learning, accountability and decision making.
S/he 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 needs of Mercy Corps and donor reporting requirements.

Essential Job Functions:

• Generate and implement monitoring and evaluation tools.
• Play key role in the development of intervention designs, sector strategies and M&E frameworks.
• Coordinate assessments, evaluations and monitoring surveys in area of operation. This will entail development of Scopes of Work, development of survey tools, trainings and management of data collectors, report write and facilitating results discussion.
• Regularly document and share all learnings from program implementation.
• Maintain an up to date database that reflects progress and donor indicators.
• Build the capacity of all relevant team members to develop and maintain an excellent M&E system, and facilitate periodic reflection and analysis of program monitoring information that feeds into programming and learning.
• Participate in on-going M&E training and support for all Mercy Corps programs.
• Visit sites and partners to collect supplementary data, stories and conduct qualitative research both independently and in teams.
• Maintain professional relationships with local government officials, private sector partners, NGOs, other development organizations, and civil society organizations.
• 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.
• Work with Program Coordinator, Program Manager, Program Officer and other staffs to ensure that activities are implemented on plan and progress towards targets is not compromised.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with partners and government departments
• Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to credit Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its mission.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by his/her supervisor or representatives

Accountability to Beneficiaries: Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts
towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding
international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal
partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Organizational Learning: As part of Mercy Corps’ agency-wide Organizational Learning Initiative,
all team members are responsible for spending 5% of their work time in formal and/or non-formal
professional learning activities.

Accountability

• Reports Directly To: Program Manager
• Works Directly With: All Program staff in Lodwar – Turkana County

Knowledge and Experience:

• Must hold at least a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Agriculture, Demography, Statistics, Business administration or relevant field
• At least 3 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, 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 Ms Access, SPSS, STATA.
• Must be fluent both spoken and written English.
• Pokot language skills a plus.

Success Factors: The ideal candidate will have the ability and curiosity to work comfortably and effectively in the cultural, relatively poor infrastructure of Turkana County.
S/he will be an excellent communicator, have a strong sense of humor, multi-tasker, and able to work difficult and often stressful environments.
How to Apply

Interested candidates who meet the above required qualifications and experience should submit a cover letter, detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) listing three professional references (including a recent supervisor) to hrkenya@ke.mercysorps.org on or before Thursday 25th June by 4.00pm.
The email subject line must clearly show the job title and location they are applying for.
Applications without the right subject heading will be automatically disqualified.
Please do not attach any certificates.

(Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We will only get in touch with shortlisted candidates.)

NB: Mercy Corps does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process.