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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.
Mercy Corps is seeking a Monitoring Evaluation Accountability Learning (MEAL) Officer for the ongoing five-year USAID-funded Kenya Feed the Future (FtF) Livestock Market Systems (LMS) Activity for northern Kenya.
MEAL officer will support the Strengthening Community Capacities for Resilience and Growth Component This activity will contribute to USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative and improve households’ income, productive assets and resilience to drought and other shocks.
Specific areas of focus include strengthened and sustained rangeland and water management; strengthened drought risk management; strengthened conflict management; improved and sustained health, nutrition, and hygiene practices; improved literacy, numeracy, and life skills; and collaborative action and learning for community empowerment.
General Position Summary
The MEAL Officer is responsible for cross-cutting programmatic information management, monitoring and evaluation, ensuring that information collected is used to improve on-going programs, and is incorporated into consistently high quality reports and program adaptations.
The MEAL Officer will support the program team in planning and execution of monitoring and evaluation activities, ensuring quality in accordance with accepted standards, providing essential feedback for learning, accountability and decision making.
Essential Responsibilities
STRATEGY INPUT AND OVERSIGHT
RESULT BASED MONITORING & EVALUATION
LEARNING
CAPACITY BUILDING
PROGRAM ADVISORY
Supervisory Responsibility: None
Accountability
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
Success Factors
A successful MEAL Officer will have the ability and curiosity to work comfortably and effectively.
S/he will be an excellent communicator, multi-tasker, with the ability to work effectively in complex environments.
S/he must have the confidence and humility to work effectively with a diverse group of people – as well as be sensitive to political and cultural nuance.
Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions
The position is based in Isiolo and shall be supporting Marsabit county thus require regular travel in this counties.
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