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Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

1 month ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Mercy Corps Full time

Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict.

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.

Supervisory Responsibility

None

Accountability

Reports Directly To:

Head of Learning, Monitoring & Evaluation, Learning, and Data Management, with a technical reporting line to the MEL Manager.


Works Directly With:
MEL team, and Program teams where data & analyses are being generated.

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders


Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work.

We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of our field projects.

Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

Required:
Master's or Bachelor's Degree in International Development, Statistics, Economics, Business Management, or another analytical field.
3 to 5 years professional experience with data analysis

Proven experience in working with MEL systems to produce analysis related to the economics of supporting different types of business.

MEL experience within social enterprises or private sector enterprises are highly preferred.
Strong knowledge of data quality assurance, analysis, and reporting.

Experience with monitoring and evaluation systems and frameworks for international development programs, including developing performance indicators, data collection and analysis systems and tools.

High level of competency in managing data information.
Strong analytical skills.

Certified advanced excel skills is required with the ability to create excel based tools using complex formulas, pivot tables, create graphs etc.

Understanding of statistical software and data management required. Experience with programming for data analysis and visualisation is favourable (e.g., Python, R, Excel VBA, PowerBI, Tableau).
Highly adept with data analysis, presentation, statistics, and English language verbal & written communication.
Experience with mainstreaming gender indicators into MEL plans/frameworks is an advantage.
Capacity to produce high-quality briefs and reports.
Ability to see patterns in data and understand the cause and effect.

Desired:
Working on analysis of data sets that relate to energy in humanitarian or development contexts.
Work in contexts and with staff from around Africa and internationally.

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