M&E Assistant; Mercy Corps

Title: M&E Assistant

Grade: Level 5 Grade A This is local position

Duty Station: Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Employment category: Full Time-Regular

Program / Department Summary

Mercy Corps works to empower vulnerable communities in Tajikistan to become healthy, productive and resilient. Towards this goal we work on economic growth, youth and migration, health and WASH, and climate change and disaster risk reduction. Mercy Corps is currently expanding its program in youth sector, including required monitoring and evaluation (M&E) program support. The M&E unit exists to strengthen the monitoring efforts of Mercy Corps’ programs. The M&E unit will provide a technical support service to programs. The aim of the M&E unit will be to assist programs in specific activities that help quantify, analyze, and document the impacts and outputs of Mercy Corps programs including data collection, data management, data analysis, and mapping.

General Position Summary

The M&E Assistant will be involved in the daily collection and input of program information and monitoring data. The Monitoring Assistant will also assist in data management, analysis and reporting. In addition, the Monitoring Assistant will help the M&E Officer and program teams in surveying, data analysis, and reporting (including to donors, Mercy Corps headquarter and the host government). The M&E Assistant will support the M&E Officer and program teams to ensure M&E related minimum program management quality standards are met by the programs.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Participate in the development of component and program work plans, M&E plans and tools.
Collect monitoring data as directed including conducting interviews and surveys; this will include working with groups of short-term personnel and facilitating data collection and logistics.
Enter monitoring data into computer-based data collection system according to schedule, and or supervise this process.
Work with M&E Officer and program teams to track that program-based monitoring activities are being performed according to schedule.
Work with the M&E Officer and program teams to implement evaluation activities (including baseline, end-line) and directed research projects.
Work in collaboration with the M&E Officer and program teams to provide timely reports and data summaries.
Carry out regular field visits to monitor the quality of program implementation and provide feedback to M&E Officer and technical staff.
Assist in other tasks or duties assigned by the M&E Officer.

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

SECURITY

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

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

As part of Mercy Corps’ agency-wide Organizational Learning Initiative and our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

ACCOUNTABILITY TO BENEFICIARIES

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field programs
Ensure effective implementation of community accountability reporting mechanism (CARM) in target communities
Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission.

Supervisory Responsibility: None

Accountability: Accountable to position description, internal policies and procedures

Reports directly to: M&E Officer

Works directly with: Program Managers, program team and operations

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Two to three-year experience working on monitoring and evaluation in international development or public sector
Experience working with the computer in Microsoft Office applications including Excel is required. Skills in other programs, such as Access or statistical packages is also desirable.
Excellent skills using the computer keyboard (numbers and letters).
Attention to detail and patience to double check data entry is essential.
Good basic math skills are essential and general knowledge of statistical principles is preferred.
Comfort and ability to talk to and interview people in a respectful manner while professionally representing Mercy Corps is essential.
Strong spoken and written Tajik skills are required. Spoken and written English is a plus.

SUCCESS FACTORS:

The ideal candidate will have a natural curiosity for quantifying and articulating the impact of Mercy Corps’ programs on individuals and in communities. A successful candidate will have skills and a passion for data collection, entry, and analysis as well as the ability to mentor others in these areas. This position requires the ability to work effectively in a team as well as assume individual responsibility for supervision and specific reporting tasks

At Mercy Corps, we believe that building diverse teams is vital to creating larger impact and encourage individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences, especially WOMEN, to apply”

TO APPLY: Please send your cover letter and CV, salary requirements with the subject M&E Assistant to

Email: tj-hr@mercycorps.org

DEADLINE for ALL APPLICATIONS: 23 September 2021

Only short listed candidates will be contacted for an interview