Mercy Corps recrute un(e) Responsable du suivi, de l’évaluation et de l’apprentissage en Haïti.
Essential Responsibilities
M&E Management and Technical Leadership
- Design and revise strategic MEL documents, including the M&E Plan, learning agenda, theory of change, performance indicator reference sheets, logframe, indicator performance tracking table, data protection standard operating procedures, and sex and age disaggregation plans.
- Set up and oversee all principal MEL system components, including protocols and data flows for monitoring and evaluations, data and information management, MEL budgets, staffing, competency building and technology systems.
- Design and oversee the implementation of participant-based surveys, including the scope of work, sampling strategies, questionnaires, analysis plans, statistical processing and analysis.
- Promote collaboration, learning and adaptation through intentional and routine periodic learning initiatives sessions to share, discuss and use monitoring data, document and disseminate lessons learned and evaluation findings, support program management to conduct program improvements informed by data.
- Coordinate research and learning initiatives by team or partners to contribute to program’s learning and adaptation needs
- Ensure that the Program Managers is alerted to any issues that prevent full implementation of the Activity in line with the Theory of Change.
Data and Information Management
- Design and oversee the set-up of an information management system, including processes and technology solutions for data collection, storage, processing, analysis, visualization, and reporting for all activity indicators and additional data needs for learning, adaptation and reporting. Actively seek out opportunities for automatization and efficiency gains in information management.
- Design and implement data flows that align indicator definitions, tool matrices, databases and sampling frames to ensure traceable, timely, comprehensive, high-quality and demand-responsive data collection and processing in compliance with Mercy Corps requirements.
M&E Team Management and Capacity Building
- Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect, accountability and clearly communicated expectations where team members strive and are equipped with the resources to achieve excellence.
- Develop and oversee the implementation of a career development strategy for M&E and partner staff, that promotes MEL competencies and a culture of learning through systematic analysis and reflection of program data.
- Actively provide mentorship and training to program and MEL teams to improve their competencies in quantitative methods, qualitative methods, information management, critical thinking, data communication, problem solving, facilitation and data literacy
- Train teams in appropriate methods for both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods, including surveys, focus group discussion and key informant interviews and lead qualitative data collection in participating communities as needed.
Internal and External Coordination and Representation
- Represent Mercy Corps in M&E, MEL Tech and research forums with the broader humanitarian and development community.
- Develop positive working relationships and coordinate/collaborate with partner organizations and international and national agencies active in the target areas.
- Collaborate closely with the Strategic Learning Advisor, HQ- or region-based MEL and research teams and research team, lead and/or collaborate with external evaluators on the design and roll out of the program baseline and evaluations, while setting up effective systems for learning.
- Contribute to Mercy Corps’ country-wide Community Accountability and Reporting Mechanism (CARM), by adapting tools to the program according to community context, identifying CARM focal points in each office, and representing the program on the CARM committee.
Supervisory Responsibility
Senior MEL Officer and the field MEL officers.
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Director of Programs
Works Directly With: Deputy Director of Programs, Program Managers, MEL Department, Finance Manager, Operations Director (and associated Managers), CARM department, HQ based desk teams, and TSU staff, regional humanitarian response team.
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 Qualifications & Transferable Skills
- BA/S or equivalent, preferable in statistics, business administration or international development. MA/S in relevant field strongly preferred.
- 3-5 years of experience (2 for Manager) in the areas of program development and monitoring and evaluation, including relevant experience building and managing an M&E system and team, relevant experience supervising qualitative and quantitative data collection and data validation exercises, and building staff capacity.
- Must have extensive training skills and experience working with a variety of donors, especially USAID.
- Excel and Word skills are essential; data collection instruments such as Kobo, Power Bi
- Ability to manage and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work independently on multi-task load.
- Excellent Communication and organizational skills.
- Internationally recognized qualification in project or program management or a commitment to obtain the qualification in the early months of work.
- Knowledge of Sphere standards and other training in humanitarian response preferred.
- Fluent in French and Creole. English is desirable.
Deadline : 30/09/2023