Mercy Corps - Job opportunity
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action – helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future. Mercy Corps has been operating in Nepal since 2005, implementing programs in food security, agriculture, market development, financial services, youth engagement, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
“Fostering a diverse and open workplace is an important part of Mercy Corps’ vision, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, especially women and members of disadvantaged groups to apply. Mercy Corps is an Equal Opportunity Employer”.
Mercy Corps invites applications from all interested and potential Nepali candidates for the following position:
1. Position: M&E and Documentation Officer
> Location: Dhangadhi, Nepal
> Position Status: Full-time, Regular
> Salary Level: O1
General Position Summary:
The M&E and Documentation Officer is a key national staff position for Mercy Corps Nepal’s Managing Risk through economic Development Program (M-RED). Working with the country-level PQA Manager and Resilience MERL Advisor for MRED II project, the M&E Officer will play a formative role in developing a rigorous and effective monitoring, evaluation, and database management system that supports current Mercy Corps programming, as well as take a leadership role in the developing the M&E systems for MRED Program. He/she is responsible for cross-cutting programmatic M&E, knowledge management, and information dissemination and utilization for ongoing program improvements, internal and external reporting, and facilitation of Result measurement framework design in proposal development. This includes the creation and testing of measurement tools for both quantitative and qualitative monitoring, as well as design of discrete assessment measurements. The M&E and Documentation Officer is also responsible for capacity building of the program team and maintaining and strengthening collaboration between M&E, program staff, and management to ensure that high quality and timely reports are generated and program decisions are made based on evidenced established through M&E.
Mercy Corps Nepal utilizes mobile data collection through a tablet-based application, and the M&E and Documentation Officer will lead on mobile form authoring and testing. Additionally, the position requires management and analysis of cloud-based datasets for timely, and often real-time, visualization and utilization. Mercy Corps’ M&E team will continue to develop an end-to-end standard for mobile data, which includes building and maintaining dashboards of program progress and performance. The M&E and Documentation Officer will be heavily involved in coordination with tech partners, as well as rolling out internal approaches to utilization of tech solutions. S/He will play a lead role of evidence based program documentation and management of proper data filing and record keeping.
As gender and social inclusion (GESI) and governance cross-cutting components of all Mercy Corps program(s), M&E and Documentation Officer is required to own these components and ensure GESI sensitivity and integration and governance practices are integrated into his/her work area.
2. Position: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
> Location: Dhangadhi, Nepal
> Position Status: Full-time, Regular
> Salary Level: O1General Position Summary:
Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will work directly with the M&E Manager, S/MEO, Deputy Program Manager, Education coordinator, Thematic Leads, Country M&E team and Partner Institutions to help execute STEM II’s monitoring and evaluating system, reporting and coordination needs.
S/he is primarily responsible for data coordination, collection, cleaning and overview in close coordination with MEM. S/he will support the M&E team to ensure effective monitoring and learning from activities in line with project objectives and donor requirement. Under the technical supervision of M&E manager the incumbent will support the STEM II program team to follow the project M&E framework and will be the field focal for M&E component.
As gender and social inclusion (GESI), governance and M&E are cross-cutting components of all Mercy Corps program(s), the M&E Officer is required to own these components and ensure GESI sensitivity and integration, governance practices and M&E systems are integrated into his/her work area.
Application Deadline: 25 October 2019
Application Deadline: 25 October 2019
