USAID BRACED Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Career Jobs – Mercy Corps

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Job Title:         Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Organization: Mercy Corps
Project Name: USAID Building
Resilience and Adaptation to Climate extremes and disaster (BRACED Program
Duty Station: Uganda
About Mercy Corps:
Mercy Corps is an International NGO that exists to alleviate poverty
and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
Mercy Corps has been fully registered in Uganda as an operational NGO.
Currently Mercy Corps has an office in Kampala and is implementing Food
Security programs which comprise of Water and Sanitation, Livelihood and
Agriculture and Conflict Mitigation Management Program in North and North
Eastern Uganda. We implement programs in the northern districts of Pader,
Kitgum, Agago, Lamwo, Kaabong, Abim and Kotido with funding from USAID, USDA,
Walmart Foundation, SDC, DFID as well as other private donations.
About USAID BRACED Program:
Mercy Corps was awarded a market-development focused 5-year USAID/Food
for Peace-funded program working in the northern half of Karamoja called
Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate extremes and disaster (BRACED).
The project supports the immediate needs of program beneficiaries while also
promoting long term development by spurring systemic improvements in key
economic sectors in the Districts of Napak, Moroto, Kotido and Kaabong. Since
January 2015, BRACED has been supporting private Businesses ranging from agro
vets, entrepreneurs Ag-input retailers and also the SACCOs in providing
financial services to assist rural population to access secure savings and
business loans to strengthen businesses in a bid to build their resilience to
shocks and stresses.
Job Summary: The Monitoring
and Evaluation Officer (M&E) will work closely with the Project Managers
and Program Director to track, analyse and document learnings for the BRACED
activities. The M&E Officer will help create tracking tools to ensure team
members and community members are reaching their goals. S/he will work with
teams to identify critical knowledge gaps and carry out targeted research on
those areas, engaging external assistance, when necessary.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:   
Monitoring and Evaluation:
  • Develop tools to simplify data gathering
    and reporting and ensure teams gather and report necessary data
  • Assist program staff in monitoring and
    evaluating the progress and impact of work including setting and measuring
    benchmarks along results chains;
  • Manage program data; including information
    that is collected by programs, this will include database support and
    design.
  • Development and maintain a central
    database to track all PMP-required project information, and provide to the
    program manager, on request
  • Prepare data analyses to be used in
    monthly program strategic reviews, annual reports, and other evaluations.
  • Quickly learn and administer the DPMELC
    system and TOLA as the monitoring and evaluation systems used by Mercy
    Corps
Applied Learning and Research:
  • Lead applied learning activities in the
    M&E field including conducting M&E trainings, evaluations, reviews
    etc.
  • Keenly analyze and share data and
    information for effective decision making
  • Coordinate program/project lessons learnt
    and develop key actions of improvement
  • Actively participate in conducting
    research activities on specific subjects critical to team success and
    recommend hiring of external support where necessary;
Capacity Building:
  • Facilitate capacity building of staff on
    DMELC system and TOLA, stakeholders and beneficiaries on assessment,
    monitoring and evaluation
  • Carry out a one-to-one for project staff
    on how to use developed data collection tools
  • Support program staff to develop
    monitoring and evaluation tools
Communication and Publication:
  • Contribute data, analysis and write-ups to
    regular organizational publications and reports;
  • Work closely with the Monitoring and
    Evaluation officer to develop publishable communication material about
    BRACED in Karamoja;
Other: 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;
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps Monitoring
    and Evaluation Officer career job should hold a Bachelor’s degree
    preferably in BSc (Economics), BSc (Statistics), B. Quantitative
    Economics, B. Population Studies or Development studies with a certificate
    level qualification in computer applications.
  • A minimum of three years of related
    professional experience
  • Demonstrable quantitative skills,
    including familiarity with database management and analysis
  • Superior writing and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated skills in networking,
    assessing information needs and developing appropriate tools
  • Excellent reporting, communication and
    representation skills
  • Knowledge of Uganda’s economy and business
    environment, particularly in the context of rural development and
    Karamoja.
  • Skilled in promoting organization learning
    and knowledge acquisition and sharing
How to Apply:
All prospective Ugandans who wish to join Mercy Corps are encouraged to
send their applications via email including a cover letter clearly stating your
salary requirements, CV (with 3 referees), and copies of academic
qualifications/certificates to ug-mcjobs@mercycorps.org addressed to the Senior
HR and Legal Manager, Mercy Corps Uganda.
Deadline: 2nd June
2017
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