Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Vacancy Announcement

Mercy Corps is an international, non-governmental humanitarian relief and development agency that exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping to build secure, productive and just communities. Mercy Corps began operations in Nepal in 2005, and since then has implemented projects in the sectors of agriculture, food security and nutrition, financial services, youth engagement, and disaster risk reduction/ climate change adaptation.

Mercy Corps currently invites applications from all potential Nepali candidates for the following positions:

Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Officer – 1 (Dhangadhi based)

Please refer to nepal.mercycorps.org for the full position description before applying.

“Fostering a diverse and open workplace is an important part of Mercy Corps’ vision, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, especially women and members of disadvantaged groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Mercy Corps is an Equal Opportunity Employer”.

Interested candidates are requested to submit a CV and cover letter by December 05, 2015 to the address below. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview. Telephone enquiries will not be entertained.

Attn: Senior Human Resources Officer

[Please mention the title of the Position on the subject of the e-mail while applying]

Email to: jobs@np.mercycorps.org

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Position Title: Senior M&E Officer

Duty Station: Dhangadhi

Position Category: Full-time AND Regular 

Salary Level: Officers - Level (4)

Current Employee: New Position

Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. In Nepal, Mercy Corps works to build the absorptive, adaptive, and transformative potential of vulnerable individuals and communities across the country. Through a systems-based approach to market development, financial services access, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and youth engagement, Mercy Corps builds resilience among target communities. After two major earthquakes hit Nepal in April 2015 within 3 weeks of each other – effecting more than 8 million people – there’s been massive destruction to houses, productive assets, businesses, and basic infrastructure in rural villages. The disaster has disproportionally affected poorer residents who lived in mud and stone houses that crumbled and are in hard-to-reach areas of mountainous terrain that can be cut off during the monsoon by flooding and landslides. Mercy Corps’ core approach to response and recovery programming is to meet immediate needs and help communities rebuild their lives in a manner that reduces their vulnerability to future shocks and stresses.

POSITION SUMMARY

Mercy Corps is now seeking a highly motivated and experienced person to join our Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team. The Senior M&E Officer is a key national staff position for Mercy Corps Nepal’s earthquake recovery strategy. Working with the country-level M&E Specialist and M&E Manager, the Senior M&E Officer will play a formative role in developing a rigorous and effective monitoring, evaluation, and database management system that supports current recovery programming, as well as take a leadership role in the developing the M&E systems for future recovery programs. He/she is responsible for crossâ€cutting programmatic M&E, knowledge management, and information dissemination and utilization for ongoing program improvements, internal and external reporting, and facilitation of causal framework design in proposal development. This includes the creation and testing of measurement tools for both quantitative and qualitative monitoring, as well as design of discrete assessment measurements. The Senior M&E Officer is also responsible for capacity building of the program team and maintaining and strengthening collaboration between M&E, program staff, and management to ensure that high quality and timely reports are generated and program decisions are made based on evidenced established through M&E.

Mercy Corps Nepal utilizes mobile data collection through a tablet-based application, and the Senior M&E Officer will lead on mobile form authoring and testing. Additionally, the position requires management and analysis of cloudbased datasets for timely, and often real-time, visualization and utilization. Mercy Corps’ M&E team will continue to develop an end-to-end standard for mobile data, which includes building and maintaining dashboards of program progress and performance. The Senior M&E Officer will be heavily involved in coordination with tech partners, as well as rolling out internal approaches to utilization of tech solutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Development Studies/Social Works/Sociology/Finance, Economics or relevant topics.
• At least two years of M&E or relevant research experience for NGOs or other international development agencies.
• Proven ability to design both qualitative and quantitative data collection tools and provide relevant analysis.
• Proven ability to build staff capacity in data collection and analysis.
• Sufficient English language skills (written and speaking) to communicate with international stakeholders and prepare reports on program progress.
• Statistics skills and experience working with statistical software strongly preferred, in particular R Statistics Package.
• Confidence with new software packages, open-source platforms, web design, and/ or XLS Form syntax for survey authoring.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to project villages, often in remote locations.
• Strong curiosity for understanding and working effectively within the complex cultural, political, security, and social environment of Nepal.
• Excellent communicator, multiâ€tasker, and able to work in ambiguous situations. S/he will be a tolerant and flexible individual able to work in difficult and stressful environments and follow procedures. S/he will be a teamâ€player with a positive attitude toward problem solving and conflict resolution.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to both field and Kathmandu offices in developing program-level M&E systems that meet donor requirements and Mercy Corps minimum standards, as well as feed into a standardized countrywide M&E system and strategy.
• Develop data collection tools and protocols and oversee data collection events, including data collected through mobile applications.
• Provide oversight and development of program databases, including migration of data from cloud-based aggregation platforms to internal databases.
• Design analysis protocols and conduct analysis to monitor program progress and measure program impact. This includes linking of analyzed data to both internal and web-hosted dashboards that visualize program progress.
• Build the capacity of all relevant team members, including partner team members, to develop and maintain an excellent M&E system.
• Regularly conduct project site visits to provide handsâ€on training to field staff on how to capture and organize information for accurate documentation and reporting.
• Assist the program team with timely and accurate reporting to donors
• Coordinate and play a role in assessments as requested.
• Develop project documentation and communication plans/strategies.
• Take lead role and provide technical support to district project team and partner staff to collect project learning’s and good practices.
• Write a variety of communications and promotional materials including developing and editing success stories/case studies and keeping an updated “results to date” sheet.

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNINGS: 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 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.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: M&E Officer

ACCOUNTABILITY: Project Manager, Position Description, Project Objectives, Mercy Corps methodologies,

REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: Project Manager

WORKS DIRECTLY WITH: Project Manager, Mercy Corps Team and Partner Staffs.

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