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• With support from the Program Coordinator,
  draft quarterly work plans, procurement plans and budget projections
• Act as the point person for daily
  administrative work including coordinating purchase requests and logistics
• Send draft weekly reports to Program
  Coordinator to ensure regional coordination
• Provide leadership to GIRL team to ensure
  program activities are reaching targets and are high quality
• Attend monthly coordination meetings with
  Moroto Program Managers to ensure coordination across Mercy Corps’
  programs

• Carry out M&E activities to ensure
  compliance with GIRL MEL Plan
• Enter and analyse program data and provide
  reports to Program Coordinator
• Work in close partnership with regional
  M&E officers to ensure synthesis of lessons learned and coordinated
  drafting of annual reports
• Maintain an up-to-date database that
  reflects progress (including disaggregated beneficiary counts) 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 and partnering private sector
  staff
• Visit sites and partners to collect
  supplementary data, stories and conduct qualitative research both independently
  and in teams
• 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.
• 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.

• The ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps
  GIRL Team Leader career opportunity should preferably hold a bachelor’s
  degree in Economics, Agriculture, Demography, Statistics, Business
  administration or relevant field. MA preferred
• A minimum of four years of program
  monitoring and evaluation experience with 1+ years of supervisory
  experience
• Previous exposure and experience in
  program management, planning and process development
• Broad knowledge and understanding of
  M&E concepts and demonstrate skills in monitoring and evaluation,
  project cycle, results chain and frameworks, participatory monitoring
• Ability to train, mentor and support other
  staff in their respective tasks in a professional, respectful and
  supportive manner;
• Positive and professional attitude, able
  to organize, maintain composure and prioritize work under pressure, work
  overtime when necessary and be able to coordinate multiple tasks and
  maintain attention to detail;
• Ability to work as a member of a team
  essential;
• Computer literacy i.e. proficiency in
  Microsoft Excel and at least one data management software including Ms
  Access, SPSS, STATA
• Fluency in written and spoken English
  required
• Fluency in local languages desired –
  Pokoot, Turkana, Karamojong

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