Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist

Organization:  Mercy Corps

Website:  Mercy Corps

Title:  Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist

Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 

Compensation: Not Listed

Description:
The Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist is responsible for cross-cutting programmatic information management, monitoring and evaluation, ensuring consistently high quality reports and contributing to quality proposal development.

Design, Monitoring & Evaluation
Lead efforts and collaborate closely with consultants and colleagues in development and establishment of the M&E system serving the needs of the overall emergency program.

Set up and supervise the emergency M&E program, which includes hiring, orienting and supervising M&E staff, as appropriate, and orienting and training emergency program staff on their M&E responsibilities.

Work with the project managers to delineate M&E roles and responsibilities of all relevant staff.

Coordinate and play a role in assessments, as requested.

Provide input as to M&E systems, including the data management piece, and act as a link to HQ M&E technical staff.

Assist the emergency program implementation team in timely and accurate reporting to donors. Coordinate with a variety of teams, HQ, Finance, and Program Directors and Country Director to ensure that reports are timely, high-quality, and responsive to donors.

Advise Development Intelligence Unit to identify methods of analyzing impact data for future program planning.  This would entail a data-based market analysis system appropriate for the conflict affected areas and pertinent to other MC programs for learning about and better serving beneficiaries.

Reporting
Manage the emergency response reporting schedule at the location of deployment, including private and institutional funding reports, resource development factsheets, and concept notes to elicit funding.

Serve as the liaison for fundraising teams in Portland, Edinburgh and Hong Kong in the context of the location of deployment, responding to requests for information, reports, proposals, and other needs, as requested by the Team Leader.

Serve as an informed resource on emergency response, including country and regional issues, and provide project updates to other Mercy Corps departments and external organizations.

Other duties as assigned the Team Leader.

Qualifications:
MA/S or equivalent in international development, political or social science management, statistics, agricultural economics, or other relevant field preferred.

Experience with post-conflict programming particularly in the areas of program development, monitoring and evaluation. This includes experience living and working overseas in a emergency response/relief environment.

Experience in Mercy Corps M&E framework and considerable experience with the reporting requirements of a variety of EC, US and private donors preferred.

Demonstrated experience building M&E systems that enable high quality program implementation and measurement of impact is preferred.

Must have training skills and experience working with a variety of donors.

Must have statistical skills and demonstrated analytical capacity.

Ability to effectively represent the organization and its interests to a diverse range of local and international government officials, local civil society organizations, other international organizations, the media and the public.

Understanding of the current political, economic, social conditions and the historical context of county experiencing the emergency is important, along with the ability to obtain, analyze and act on large amounts of information from a diverse range of sources.

Demonstrated proficiency in using computers, basic software systems, statistical analysis software, and email. Knowledge of communications equipment (e.g., radio and satellite telephone systems), protocols, systems and usage.

Experience working with host governments and their agents, INGOs and national NGOs.

Firm grasp of humanitarian standards and codes.

Fluent in both spoken and written English and be an excellent communicator (written emphasis), Russian language highly desirable

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