Title: Assistant MEAL Officer

Location Baidoa/rooving to Bardale-

Position Status Full-time

Program / Department Summary

The Position will support FSL emergency program designed to support vulnerable households severely affected by the drought in Baidoa and Bardale districts of Bay region. The project will deliver emergency lifesaving and life sustaining consumption and livelihoods support.
The MEL unit exists to strengthen the monitoring efforts of the programs and provide a technical support service to program. The MEL will also support specific activities that help quantify, analyze, and document the impacts and outputs of the programs including data collection, data management, data analysis, and mapping.

General Position Summary

MEL Assistant officer is responsible for providing support and participating in country-level monitoring and evaluation (M&E) department activities, ensuring quality in the portfolio’s M&E, and timely delivery of M&E reports, as well as information management via Mercy Corps’ proprietary Tola systems. The MEL Assistant Officer role supports and promote coordination of the technical areas across MEL staff and programs, specifically activities lower juba region; and s/he will be based in Baidoa/rooving to Bardale. The MEL Assistant will also support capacity building of other Mercy Corps staff and stakeholder in the respective program area on themes related to monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning and adaptive management. Ensure participants accountability through the established country program CARM system adhering to the standard operating procedures and Mercy Corps globally CARM minimum standards.

Essential Job Responsibilities

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

• Participate in evidence based adoptive program management through indicator tracking and supporting Tola update of the program activities

• Manage and progressively updating the program IPTT and provide regular update.
• Participate program stakeholders’ engagement and participant targeting process and ensure processes ae followed.
• Support program record retention by ensuring all program files in the respective program locations are up to-date
• Conduct continuous and periodic monitoring such as PDM, field visit, verification exercise and program files review.
• Participate in data collection to measure performance of indicators, generating learning at different stages of the program implementation.
• Regularly monitoring program activities implemented in Bardale and compile monitoring/ progress report and submit to the Senior MEAL Officer monthly.
• Support implementation of assessments and surveys, train, and orient external parties i.e. data collectors.
• Assist in maintaining proper and standardized filing system for storing program documents according to Mercy Corps Program Management Minimum Standard.
• Regularly update data storage platform i.e., G-drive and ensure the information are up to date.
• Any other responsibility assigned by supervisor.

Security

• Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country.
• Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies

Organizational Learning 

• Under the direction of the Senior MEL officer and in coordination with the Program lead, support efforts to promote and share internal learning.
• Contribute to the knowledge management repository with best practices in M&E and ICT and ensure that it is accessible to all Mercy Corps team members and partners.

Accountability to PARTICIPANTS

• Support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to program participants as per Sops and guidelines, while actively engaging all communities as equal partners.
• Work closely with CARM, Gender, and Human Resources to ensure that accountability issues are incorporated in all work.
• Respect local laws, customs and MC’s policies, procedures, and values always and in all venues.

Supervisory Responsibility

None

Accountability

Reports Directly To: Senior MEL Officer

Works Directly With: MEL and Program teams