Monitoring Evaluation & Learning Assistant job at Mercy Corps | Apply Now

• Work closely with the program team and local partners, to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of program activities and results.

• Support the Senior MEL Officer in the development of the MEL tools and prepare tool matrix.

• Coordinate reporting with local partners, specifically tracking deadlines, ensuring adherence to formats and requirements, ensuring reporting quality and accuracy, and periodic report writing, editing, and submission.

• Support the Senior MEL Officer in Compiling progress against indicators and report back to the team according to the monitoring plan.

• Perform spot checks on the program activities, identify learnings to improve on program implementation and report monthly

• Ensure adherence to MEL minimum standard in carrying out her duties, advising and supporting team members in understanding all the standards

• Support the Senior MEL Officer in ensuring that the CCLAP TOLA account is updated with all the indicators, result and the means of verification collected and uploaded in the CCLAP google account

• Support the Senior MEL Officer in updating the Activity Info website as per the achievement during the quarter of the project implementation

• Support the development of community accountability and reporting mechanisms (CARM) for the project and orient project staff as well as local partners on the same.

• Actively participate in household identification and verification of project participants under the CCLAP project

• Under guidance of Senior MEL Officers, H/she will participate in all MEL monitoring and evaluation activities such as market assessment, price monitoring and baseline/endline data gathering needs.

• Ensure adherence to program management minimum standards in carrying out her duties, advising and supporting other staff in the same as required.

• Support the Senior MEL Officer in coordinating the baseline, mid-term evaluation and final evaluation, along with other key research activities. The assistant will for example support the supervision of enumerators during the different data collection and entry exercises.

• Support the Senior MEL Officer in building the capacity of all relevant team members to implement program-monitoring tools, accurately enter program data into relevant databases, and enable them to develop excellent reports and other documents.

• Support the Senior MEL Officer in building the capacity of team members through ongoing training and support on monitoring tools, entering program data into databases, the development of reports and other documents.

Accountability to Beneficiaries

• Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward 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.

• Sensitize communities on the CCLAP’s CARM system and encourage them to share feedback through the promoted channels.

Other:

• Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardise its humanitarian mission

• Perform any other duties assigned.

Ethics and Integrity:

• All Mercy Corps staff are expected to behave ethically and demonstrate the highest level of integrity in their professional and personal life.

• Mercy Corps has zero tolerance for any form of fraud, corruption, abuse, harassment, or exploitation. Any breach of our policies or misconduct will lead to disciplinary action or may lead to termination.