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Program / Department Summary
Mercy Corps helps communities develop their own ideas to solve Haiti's most daunting problems by using innovative approaches to bring Haitians new social and economic opportunities and to make their country more secure, productive, and just. Established in January 2010, Mercy Corps Haiti is based in Port-au-Prince with satellite offices in Nippes and Cap Haitian. There are 70 staff implementing programs in economic development, agriculture, natural resources management, and humanitarian response. Mercy Corps’ economic development work is guided by the principles of pro-poor development and demand driven strategies. Mercy Corps takes a progressive approach to economic development that leads communities and entrepreneurs from relief to sustainable livelihoods to long term economic growth.

General Position Summary
The Deputy Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager is a key position in Mercy Corps Haiti, under the supervision of the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Manager, the Deputy Manager will assist the Manger and Program Managers to implement and/or revise the monitoring plans and Indicator Tracking Tables for Mercy Corps’ programs. They will work in surveying, data analysis, and reporting according to the needs of the programs. They will be involved in the daily collection and input of program information and monitoring data, and will help ensure that program deliverables are met and the quality of the programs are high. They will also be the focal point for accountability to beneficiaries working closely with the Program Managers to ensure fundamental policies are followed within the programs.

Essential Job Responsibilities
STRATEGY & VISION
VISION
? Assist in Developing country MEL strategy and providing leadership to field offices in developing individual program level M&E systems that inform and improve each program, as well as feed into the broader nation-wide M&E system and country strategy.
? Participate in the development of an M&E team country team and also the M&E officers assigned to each program in developing and maintaining a system that improves the country’s ability to analyze and represent impact to donors, government, colleague agencies, and communities themselves.
? Take responsibility of MEL for specific projects upon strategic demand of the leadership
? Follow and promote country M&E strategy and system, supporting M&E priorities and aligning individual program level M&E systems accordingly.
? Ensure all program level M&E adheres to Mercy Corps MEL Policy
? Support the manager on internal quality assurance on MEL standards and support as needed in programmatic level improvement
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? Follow and promote country M&E strategy and system, supporting M&E priorities, and aligning individual program level M&E systems accordingly.
? Ensure all program level M&E adheres to Mercy Corps’ MEL Policy
? Support the Manager on internal quality assurance on MEL standards, and support as needed in programmatic level improvement
? Participate in country wide MEL meetings, and as needed serve as back-up to the MEL Manager to participate in agency-level working groups

TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING
? Support the capacity building initiatives for MEL and program team members across all programs. Support in mentoring on foundational MEL skills, MEL technologies/mobile data collection, data analysis as directed by the MEL Manager
? With the support of the MEL Manager, ensure country – level Standard Operating Procedures for TolaData are up to date, and check quality of program evidence linked to the system

M&E SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
? Utilize existing MEL practices, tools and systems to improve the country’s ability to analyze and represent our programs’ cumulative impact to donors, government, colleague agencies, and communities themselves.
? Work closely with the MEL Manager and MEL Officers to identify opportunities for automation and effective use of MEL technologies to increase efficiencies in MEL practices
? Maintain MEL system/s with utility and program quality in mind, providing managers and their teams real time information that can steer program implementation as well as informing donors and strategic program direction and that helps strategize future program interventions.
? Work with MEL Manager to address shortfalls in M&E that affect program implementation

PROGRAM LEARNING
? Participate in periodic pause and reflection sessions on program progress, synthesize program learning, disseminate to intended stakeholders within and outside Mercy Corps.
? Support program managers to identify and document best practice and evidence behind it, as well as scale up promising opportunities.
? Support efforts to evaluate and strengthen analytic capacity within the programs, identify and capture learning and best practice, share across programs and partners as necessary.
? As required, conduct project site visits to provide hands-on training on how to capture and organize information for accurate documentation and use of data for decision making, report and dissemination.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN MEL
? Assist in program development to incorporate Mercy Corps’ standards on design, monitoring, and evaluation.
? Support, supervise and ensure quality in MEL activities within individual programs as requested.

TEAM MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
? When required, provide backstop support for the MEL Manager for MEL team management.
? Support in developing the capacity of the team, deepening the understanding of their roles and assist with staff orientation, career development, professional development through trainings, performance management and others.
? Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback informally and formally via regular one-on-ones and performance reviews.
? Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.

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 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 projects.
Supervisory Responsibility
N/A
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager
Works Directly With: Program managers, Director of Programs, Head of offices, Finance and Compliance team, Operations, and HR

Knowledge and Experience

? BA/S or equivalent, preferable in statistics, social science research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, international development, or other related fields.
? 2-3 years of experience in the areas of program development and monitoring evaluation
? Experience working in Microsoft Office applications including Excel is required, knowledge of mobile data collection, data analysis and visualization packages is preferred
? Ability to manage and meet deadlines.
? Ability to work independently and multi-task
? Excellent Communication and organizational skills.
? Knowledge of Sphere standards and other training in humanitarian response preferred.
? Oral and written fluency in French required, with good knowledge of English


Success Factors
The ideal candidate will have a strong curiosity for understanding and working effectively within the complex cultural, political, security and social environment of Haiti. He/She will be an excellent communicator, multi-tasker, and able to work in ambiguous situations. He/She will be a tolerant and flexible individual able to work in difficult and stressful environments and follow procedures. The successful candidate will be focused on team-building and capacity-building of national staff; be a strategic thinker, have strong skills in design monitoring and evaluation of development programs and maintain a sense of humor.

CV+Cover Letter

2023-07-04