Jobs at Mercy Corps

Essential Job Responsibilities

STRATEGY AND VISION

• In collaboration with the Team Leader, maintain leadership of the programme’s Influence and Dissemination Strategy and Plan, identifying opportunities for sharing of programme’s evidence and learning.
• Track global policy developments affecting VE in the East/Horn of Africa Region, including policies of regional states, donor policies and UN policy.

INFLUENCE AND DISSEMINATION EVENTS AND PROCESSES

• Work with the programme teams, knowledge and learning partner and global P&A team to plan and produce effective, thoughtful and timely written products that advance policy perspectives important to our mission.
• Work with the programme’s communication partner to ensure the development of appropriate influence tools and materials, including presentations, briefs, videos and animation.
• Lead on the organization of dissemination and learning events, ensuring appropriate and timely communication, branding and representation of stakeholders
• Represent the programme in advancing policy and influence related to P/CVE and violence mitigation and prevention including by building strategic partnerships, holding influencing meetings with government and other stakeholders, and by ensuring the presentation of evidence and research at external events.

PARTNER ENGAGEMENT

• Build networks in CREATE countries and establish and maintain strategic relationships with relevant local and international stakeholders, to continually inform, challenge, and improve Mercy Corps’ influence and dissemination agenda.
• Support CREATE partners in building their advocacy and influence capacities and plans, ensuring they inform and are brought into programme influence and dissemination strategies and events.
• Promote active learning and adaptive management and contribute to agency-level networks and working groups, through documentation and knowledge sharing around best practices and lessons learned in P/CVE programming

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.
• 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 in-country venues.

Knowledge and Experience

• Master’s degree in Communications, Advocacy or Social Sciences.
• At least 5 years experience working on development programmes, in an advocacy or communications role.
• Knowledge of peace building, conflict management or security-related programming an advantage.
• Demonstrated experience working to influence local and national government policies.
• Solutions-oriented individual, with strong strategic thinking capabilities.
• Demonstrated effectiveness building diverse networks of partners to establish cohesive voices and strategies for influencing policy and practice.
• Excellent writing and reporting skills.
• Excellent verbal and inter-personal communications skills.
• Demonstrated sensitivity, skill, and experience working within different cultural settings and navigating public affairs and communications on sensitive issues.

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Essential Responsibilities

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: MONITORING AND EVALUATION

•  Support in roll-out of USAID Nawiri monitoring and evaluation strategy and tools at the Sub County level.
•  Collect program routine monitoring data and follow-up with the program team on data collection and reporting.
•  Support roll-out and supervision of data collection through Annual Surveys, Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) and Quality Inquiry Surveys.
•  Timely entry of monitoring data into mobile and computer-based data collection systems and working with MIS officers to resolve data quality issues observed.
•  Support Monitoring and Evaluation activities to ensure that program-based monitoring activities are being performed according to schedule.
•  Support and collaborate with the M&E Officer to provide timely reports and data summaries.
•  Assist to maintaining a clear and transparent filing system at the Sub County level office.
•  Support the process of testing and adopting relevant technologies for improving the efficiency of the program’s MEL function at the Sub- County level.
•  Strengthen Sub-County Government M&E and Data Use Platforms including Review Meeting, Data Quality Assurance, Mentoring and Supportive Supervision.
•  Other duties as assigned from time to time by supervisor

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.
• Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC’s policies, procedures, and values always and in all in-country venues.

Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

• Must hold at least a diploma in Social Science, Statistics, International development, Health, Agriculture or relevant field (with coursework in M&E, research and evaluation methodologies, statistical analysis or organizational development) or similar field of study.
• At least 2-4 years of program monitoring and evaluation experience ( Entry Level Fresh Graduate)
• Experience working with USAID funded project and familiarity with USAID/FFP M&E guidance and requirement is an added advantage
• Should understand general MEL concepts and demonstrate skills in MEL system (i.e. Theories of Change, Results Frameworks/Logical Frameworks, MEL Plans and Data Collection tools);
• Must have good writing and analytical skills
• Should have knowledge of quantitative and qualitative data collection, reporting techniques. In addition to Microsoft Excel, the incumbent should demonstrate fluency in use of at least one data management software including SPSS, Power Bi, Tableau and STATA.
• Must be fluent in both spoken and written English. Understanding of local language will be an added advantage