Organization: Mercy Corps
Location: Jijiga
Grade: Mid level – Mid level
Occupational Groups:
Education, Learning and Training
Monitoring and Evaluation
Closing Date: 2025-01-19

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a well-known international organization driven by the conviction that a better world is achievable. In more than 40 nations worldwide, we collaborate to implement audacious solutions that help people overcome suffering and forge stronger communities from within during times of tragedy and adversity. For the present and the future.

Since 2004, Mercy Corps has been working in Ethiopia to promote innovative and revolutionary ideas. It collaborates closely with the government, private sector, and civil society actors to create a more resilient nation while making sure that programs are informed and responsive to participants and stakeholders. With the introduction of Pathway to Possibility, Mercy Corps Global Strategy,The national office is ready to put its three-year plan into action, which aims to strengthen the resilience of communities affected by war and climate change by developing market systems that provide better livelihoods, access to food, and safe and clean water so that people can survive emergencies. Our approach in Ethiopia is centered on the following four result areas: 2) Pastoralists, farmers, and households have access to safe, nutritious food that is produced sustainably; 3) Social cohesion and inclusive governance processes are established in communities affected by crises; 4) People have equitable, long-term access to clean water and sanitation for domestic and productive use; and 5) Economically marginalized populations have improved and diversified their livelihoods, income, and assets. We now work in six regional states: Gambella, Afar,South Ethiopia, Somalia, Oromia, and Amhara. Mercy Corps Ethiopia collaborates with a wide range of donors, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the European Union, GAC, Hilton Foundation, the United Nations (UN), JOA, Sweden, EKN, and other foundations, to enable individuals to overcome crises, improve their lives, and permanently change their communities.

Overview of the General Position

Within RLP’s quality assurance, accountability, and learning roles, the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Specialist is essential. The role helps the program design and carry out monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities. It also ensures that the program is of a quality that meets recognized standards and offers crucial feedback for learning, accountability, and decision-making. In addition to reviewing and developing the required tools that support RLP, Mercy Corps, and donor reporting requirements, s/he will be in charge of internal capacity building for program personnel regarding monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities.

Responsibilities

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

• Support the design, testing and implementation of all MEL system components for programmes in the RLP portfolio.
• Support the refining of programme logic and approaches, including developing intervention designs, sector strategies and MEL frameworks to adequately incorporate MEL considerations into the
• In conjunction with the MEL Manager and GIS/Data advisor, he/she will plan, coordinate, and supervise all assessments and evaluations for the programmes he/she is responsible for. This will entail development of Scopes of Work, development of survey tools, trainings and management of data collectors, report write and facilitating results discussion (or recruit and supervise evaluation local consultants where necessary)
• Regularly document and share all learnings from programme
• Provide relevant inputs into activity, monthly, quarterly, annual, and other programme
• Validating and verifying core indicators against the different sources of information, including review, validation and analysis of incoming results and data
• Maintain an up-to-date database that reflects programmes’ progress against all indicators (including disaggregated participant counts) and ensure the same is updated and linked as evidence in Tola Data and SDC RDM.
• Visit sites and partners to collect supplementary data, stories and conduct qualitative
• Facilitate regular review, reflection and analysis of programme monitoring information that feeds into programming and learning, for adaptive
• Support consortium partners to coordinate monitoring of progress against implementation and results measurement.
• Participate in on-going MEL advisory and support for all RLP staff and

• Work with RLP Programme Managers and other staff to ensure that activities are implemented on plan, through regular planning and review
• Maintain an active advisory role with the programme teams to help guide them towards robust and relevant data collection and management.
• Actively participate in implementation, providing advice and feedback for monitoring data and quality results at any

COLLABORATION AND LEARNING

• Build a collaborative network of relationships with implementing partners and other stakeholders to encourage learning networks that promote shared learning, aligned approaches, and mutual accountability to quality data collection and
• Contribute to the development and implementation of knowledge management to further stimulate use of evidence for learning, strategic adaptive management, and high-impact
• Work closely with the programme ’s study partners to define and execute a study strategy and ensure that MEL data is available to feed into a greater learning agenda for the programs they are responsible
• Contribute to programme visibility and advocacy work by assisting in dissemination of programme results and learning
• Coordinate closely with implementing partners to ensure our activities and data are shared and synced up together and tell one cohesive global
• Connect best practices and learning from within the programme and across the target corridors to ensure an evolving and effective learning system for improving programme
• Work with RLP programme teams to capture lessons learned during implementation and feed this information into thought leadership and documentation opportunities and into ongoing programme management and programme
• Collect and compile impact stories and evidence from the programs on a regular
• In coordination with programme teams, drive the capacity building of programme staff on design and MEL concepts through training and new hire orientation, including designing and delivering formal

DATA MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING

• Provide support and training to enumerators/staff for routine monitoring and post-distribution data collection, livestock market actors tracking, and capturing lessons learned for data-driven decision making.
• Support the process of testing and adopting relevant technologies for regular livestock actors’ and routine monitoring data collection and improving the efficiency of the programme ’s MEL function. This will include supporting rollout of RLP Mobile Data Collection (Commcare), PowerBI use case, GIS/GPS data collection for Mapping, provide evidence for RDM, Tola Data, SharePoint, and managing MCETH’s internal data management
• Serve as technical support for tools for data management systems and real-time data flow, utilizing appropriate This includes learning and testing data collection forms and tools as well as working with Data/GIS advisor to support real-time information flow.
• Assist program teams in setting up appropriate summary statistics, success stories, best practices, and review and reflection sessions and link them to tracking program Help develop the appropriate MEL workflow.
• Understand, maintain, and support the MEL information and data management system that improves MC’s ability to implement quality programs through better data collection, management, analysis, and presentation of data, and represent impact to donor, government bodies, peer organizations and communities using standard
• Collaborate with the program and finance teams to prepare and submit periodic government reports.

OTHER EXPECTATIONS IN THE ROLE

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

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our programme 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, evaluation and learning of our field projects.

Reports Directly To: RLP Program Manager-Ethiopia

Works Directly With: MEL Manager, Data/GIS Advisor, Trade Corridor Coordinators & RLP Field Staff, Country PaQ team, Implementing Partner Staff.

Qualification

• Must hold at least a bachelor’s degree in economics, Agricultural Economics; Demography, Statistics, Business management, or any other relevant
• At least 4 years of leading MEL activities in a development programme
• Experience in leading learning and MEL activities in developmental and humanitarian contexts
• Understanding of the use of technology in M&E, data collection, program participant feedback or other programme functions (e.g., mobile devices and platforms, mapping )
• Experience in designing and implementing practical monitoring, evaluation and learning and data management.
• Demonstrated experience capturing learning and evidence, reporting, experience in using mobile based technologies for data collection (Commcare is preferred.)
• Demonstrated experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
• Experience in and understanding of M&E role in adaptive
• Experience conducting M&E across
• Must be fluent both local language and

Success Factors

 The ideal candidate will have the ability and curiosity to work comfortably and effectively. S/he will be an excellent communicator, have a strong sense of humor, multi-tasker, and able to work in difficult and often stressful environments.

Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions

The position is based in Jigjiga, Ethiopia and requires up to 50% travel to support programs activities, which may include travel to insecure locations where freedom of movement is limited and areas where amenities are limited.

Ongoing Learning

In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.

We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact.

We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

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