MEL Officer-Kotido at Mercy Corps

Program / Department Summary
The $41 million USAID Food for Peace Activity (Apolou) and the $5 million USAID Resilience Challenge Fund (RCF) Activity support agriculturalists, agro-pastoralists, and pastoralist households living across the districts of Amudat, Kotido, Kaabong, Karenga, and Moroto in Karamoja.
Apolou is implemented by a consortium of actors led by Mercy Corps, including Save the Children, Whave Solutions, four local partners (KAPDA, NARWOA and Riam Riam), TUNADO, FIDA Uganda, Strong Minds and Tufts University’s Feinstein International Centre (FIC). Apolou’s goal is to “improve the overall food and nutrition security of vulnerable households in Karenga, Kaabong, Kotido, Moroto and Amudat districts within the Karamoja region,” and has major 4 objectives as follows:

Inclusive and effective governance contributes to food and nutrition security
Adolescent girls, Pregnant and Lactating Women, and Children under 5 are nutritionally secure
Reduced incidences of WASH related diseases
Improved livelihoods and income support household food security
The RCF program works in the districts of Kaabong and Amudat, with the goal to “Improve the veterinary governance and increase public and private investment in disease prevention, surveillance, control and response systems to strengthen productive assets for improved resilience in Karamoja.” RCF has the following objectives:
Increased domestic resource allocation into animal health services in Karamoja
Central and local government develop animal health services capacity-strengthening plan for the Karamoja region
Disease control plan for economically prioritized diseases (PPR and FMD) developed and implemented
Private sector animal health development strategy developed and rolled out
General Position Summary
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer will work with the Mercy Corps Apolou Activity team as well as our local partner organizations to oversee and ensure the collection of quality M&E data for the program. The MEL Officer will be responsible for supporting the MEL Director to oversee the monitoring and data collection of the project, lead regular and annual field based household and group interviews, analyze data to provide insight to the project team, and contribute to report writing. S/he will ensure that performance monitoring and results reporting tools and processes across the entire program are in place, effectively implemented and well synchronized between the Activity sites. The MEL Officer will supervise a MEL Assistants and may supervise teams of enumerators in data collection, data analysis, and reporting according to the needs of the Activity. The MEL officer will be an integral member of the Activity team learning and reflection processes, leading discussion on beneficiary feedback..

Essential Job Responsibilities
Essential functions
• Work closely with the Apolou team and local partners, to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation and reporting of program activities and results.
• 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.
• Compile progress against indicators and report back to the team according to the monitoring plan.
• Develop accountability and transparency mechanisms for the program and orient Apolou staff as well as local partners on the same.
• Perform spot checks on the team’s data collected and reports each month.
• Actively participate in household identification and verification of households that participate in the Activity.
• Support the MEL Director in coordinating the baseline, mid-term evaluation and final evaluation, along with other key research activities.
• Build 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.
• Build the capacity of our local partner organizations through ongoing training and support on: monitoring tools, entering program data into databases, the development of reports and other documents.
• Design and implement a community workshop to define baseline measures and indicators of progress that the community can use to evaluate the effectiveness of the program.
• Document lessons learned and success stories on the project.
• Ensure adherence to program management minimum standards in carrying out his/her duties, advising and supporting other staff in the same as required.
• Disseminate research learnings and recommendations to team members, beneficiaries and other relevant audiences.
• Other duties as assigned.

Finance & Compliance Management
Ensure compliance with donor and Mercy Corps regulations related to food security programming.

Ethics and Integrity
All Mercy Corps staff are expected to behave ethically and demonstrate highest integrity in their professional and personal life. Mercy Corps has zero tolerance to 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

Security
• Ensure data protection policies are adhered to, establishing security controls for software, hardware and archive beneficiary databases
• Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.
• Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies
Organizational Learning
• As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
• 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.
• Sensitise communities on Apolou’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 jeopardize its humanitarian mission
• Other duties assigned.
• Supervisory Responsibility
• MEL Assistants
• Accountability
• Reports Directly To: MEL Manager
• Works Directly With: MEL Director, other MEL Officers, CLA Manager, Implementation team members , Technical team members
• Knowledge and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in management, statistics, economics, social science or related field.
• At least 3 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation of nutrition, food security, agricultural livelihoods or value chain development programs.
• Good understanding and skills at data management.
• Strong computer literacy with a full knowledge of MS Office applications.
• Strong knowledge of mobile data collection tools and best practices. Experience with case management systems preferred.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members.
• Strong team coordination, listening, and consensus building skills.
• Fluent in both spoken and written English. Fluency in spoken N’Karamojong preferred.
Able to drive a motorbike safely, valid license. Preferred but not required.

Success Factors
• The successful MEL Officer will combine exceptional management skills and experience in building and maintaining partner relationships. S/he will have an ability to think creatively about operationalizing and improving the M&E system of the program. S/he will have proven experience with cross-cultural team and capacity building, individual staff development and strong mentoring skills. Multi-tasking, prioritizing, problem solving and simultaneous attention to detail as well as strategic vision are essential. The most successful Mercy Corps staff members have a strong commitment to teamwork and accountability, thrive in evolving and changing environments and make effective written and verbal communication a priority in all situations. A good sense of humor and the ability to learn from mistakes also goes a long way!
• Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions
• The position is based in Kotido. The region is secure with access to most basic amenities.
• Mercy Corps team members represent the agency both during and outside work hours. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC’s policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all locations.

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