Mercy Corps Jobs – Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer

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Organisation: Mercy Corps Uganda
Duty
Station: Kitgum, Uganda
Reports
to: Monitoring, Evaluation,
Learning, and Communications Manager
About
Mercy Corps:
Mercy Corps drives high
quality, analytical work in tough places. We have been operating in Uganda
since 2006 and currently manage a breadth of programs in Acholi and Karamoja
sub-regions with funding from a basket of donors. We partner with a range of
private, public and civil society actors to systemically broaden opportunity
for people across northern Uganda. Much of our work focuses on crowding-in
private sector actors to deliver highly demanded but poorly supplied products
and services that enhance the growth and competitiveness of the agricultural
sector and improve the overall quality of life for the poor. Our work is
market-oriented and consistently innovative and dynamic.
Job
Background:
Mercy Corps – Uganda’s
primary approach of our results-driven programs focuses on market facilitation.
Our efforts aim at crowding in potential market actors in agricultural
production and marketing, health and nutrition service delivery as well water
and sanitation services.  We rely on our program officers to report
direct effects of our programs and help identify the indirect benefits our
programs have on the community. We achieve this by embedding M&E into our
program staff’s regular activities and reporting. The data they collect is then
synthesized to develop best practices for Mercy Corps Uganda. They also
identify learning opportunities that will help guide our program development.
Job
Summary: The Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning Officer under the guidance of the Manager will be
responsible to the program teams in identifying areas for relevant data
collection and in the adoption of sound data collection practices. They will
lead efforts to ensure programs are rigorously collecting quality data by
helping establish systems and by building robust data collection tools that
enable us to measure our impact against indicators and targets. The MEL Officer
will assist teams present data in a way to inform program implementation and
for donors, government, and beneficiaries. Alongside the MELC Manager, the MEL
Officer will guide project teams in creating clear project monitoring plans to
measure outputs and outcomes.
The MEL Officer will also lead
in-house surveys. The survey concepts and questions will be developed with the
program teams. The MEL Officer will assist with the hiring and training of
enumerators, coding of the data collection software, and overseeing the data
collection process. If paper surveys are used the MEL Officer will format the
paper survey, develop the data entry software, and oversee the data entry.
At the request of the MELC
Manager, the MEL Officer will collect supplementary data for informative
reports. This can include collecting qualitative data including by leading
focus groups and collecting stories from the field.
 Key
Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Follow
    all Mercy Corps policies, procedures, grant compliance and documentation
    requirements
  • Implement
    and make sure all respective donors M&E rules and regulations are
    respected
  • Stay
    up-to-date on all program activities and data collection
  • Maintain
    an active advisory role with each program team to help guide them towards
    robust and relevant data collection
  • Create
    monitoring tools that collect quality data to record ouputs/outcomes and
    to measure impact
  • Assist
    with data preparation and presentation, including through data
    visualization techniques
  • Take
    part in on-going M&E training and support for all Mercy Corps programs
  • Prepare
    a weekly report of all completed and planned activities
  • Conduct
    site visits to collect supplementary data both independently and in teams
  • Lead
    in-house surveys and all necessary associated tasks
  • Maintain
    professional relationships with local and provincial government officials,
    local NGOs and civil society organizations, local religious leaders and
    other notables to ensure support for and acceptance of Mercy Corps’
    programs
  • Maintain
    close working relationships with donors, other humanitarian and
    development organizations, and local partners, including representing Mercy
    Corps at local meetings as required
  • Be
    adaptable and flexible to take new tasks and new assignments as requested
    from time to time
  • 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
  • Assist
    other finance functions and offices when ever need arises
  • Any
    other tasks to be assigned by the supervisor .
Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant should hold a bachelors degree or equivalent in
    economics, statistics, math, computer science or another relevant degree.
  • Possession
    of a masters degree or equivalent in economics, statistics, maths,
    computer science or another relevant degree
  • A minimum of three years work experience in M&E related
    field. 
  • Strong
    knowledge of M&E tools and methodologies. 
  • Computer
    literacy Skills i.e.  Microsoft
    Excel and Word
  • Fluent
    communication skills in English – both written and oral is required 
  • Experience
    collecting primary data;  both quantitative and qualitative
  • Experience
    working in teams on data-focused projects
  • Good
    Analytical and report writing skills 
  • S/he
    should be able to work independently and when required be able to come up
    with creative ideas to resolve monitoring & evaluation-related
    problems
  • Comfortable
    working on a geographically dispersed team
  • A
    can-do team player attitude
  • Excellent
    interpersonal relation skills
  • Familiarity
    with STATA, MATLAB, Formhub, ODK, Nvivo, and/or Dedoose
  • Fluency
    in Acholi or Karamojong
  • Experience
    teaching the importance of data collection and the identification of
    learning opportunities
  • Familiarity
    with value chains, results chains, and/or market facilitation
  • Experience
    leading data collection teams
  • Experience
    creating data collection tools
How
to Apply:
All candidates should send
their applications including a cover letter clearly stating your salary
requirements, CV (with 3 referees), a 1-3 page writing sample, and copies of
academic qualifications/certificates to: HR/Admin Manager, Kampala Head Office,
Uganda or via E-mail to mcuganda@ug.mercycorps.org
with the subject line; Communications Officer clearly indicated.
NB: Please note, only
short-listed candidates will be contacted by Mercy Corps. Women candidates
encouraged to apply. Selected applicants will be given a homework assignment to
present and discuss with a small team of MC staff at either the Kampala Head
office or one of the field offices (Kitgum, Kaabong, or Kotido).
Deadline:
1st August 2013
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