Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer - COVID-9 COPE for Farmers and Farmers' Wives

Mercy Corps Indonesia will reach ~500,000 smallholder farmers (20% are women) and 1,000 farmer’s wives in 10 districts in three Provinces through distribution crop protection and contraception products, dissemination of information on product knowledge to support the proper use, time, and dosage of crop protection and contraception products, providing access to accurate, timely and contextualized COVID-19 health messaging.

General Position Summary

Under the leadership of the Program Coordinator, The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer will base in the program location and responsible to support the development of program’s MEL system, including strategies and tools for measurement, data management protocol, and evidence-based learning and decision making. The MEL Officer will responsible to implement and improve program MEL in consultation with National MEL Coordinator. S/he will monitor program activities and indicator tracking in close collaboration with the other team members, collecting lessons learned as well as supporting the development of narrative progress and evaluative reports for the program.

Essentials Job Function

Collaborate closely with the MEL Officer of Recovery Program and consult National MEL Coordinator in developing and establishing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning systems that serve the needs of the program, including:

• Support the development and refinement of the MEL Plan including Result Framework, Logical Framework, Indicator Plan and Program Participants tracking plan. And implementation of the MEL Plan for program activities, outputs, and outcomes, including appropriate methodologies and data collection frequency.
  • Develop data flow map and information management plan;
  • Develop digital data collection tools, include data visualization system/dashboard;
  • Support the collection, aggregation, storage, and analysis of indicator data for dissemination and use;
  • Develop, maintain, and implement a data analysis plan for reflecting on outputs, outcomes, goal, and assumption indicators.
  • Revisit and revise MEL Plan to ensure its relevancy over the life of the program.
  • Establish and regular update of program Indicator tracking in TOLA
  • Regular tracking of Program Participants’ Sex and Age Disaggregated Data (SADD)
• Manage program data and files in accordance with the MCI standard filing structure in the Synology storage platform or MCI Data Center;
• Develop and conduct MEL capacity building and training plans for program team and partners as needed, and serve as a resource for program staff, advising on activity design and evidence-based programming;
• Lead and support in the program’s reporting requirements, including weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports as well as evaluation design and implementation;
• Represent Mercy Corps Indonesia (MCI) and the program, and build positive, fruitful relationships when engaging with the program’s stakeholders and beneficiaries, including farmer business groups, government officials, private sector actors, donor officials, media, etc. Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credibility to MCI without jeopardizing its humanitarian/development mission.

Report Directly to: Program District Coordinator

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, or other relevant field;

• Minimum 2 years’ experience working in monitoring and evaluation, especially for agriculture and disaster management programs;
• Familiar with research methodologies or have experience in project research;
• Have experience conduct baseline-end line survey would be an advantage;
• Have experience on writing MEL Report;
• Proven experiences Working with the digital data collection tools;
• Proven experiences on data analysist with proper software;
• Cultural sensitive and able to work effectively with a wide range of people in community level;
• Demonstrated, developed facilitation and engagement skills;
• Knowledge on disaster response and recovery will be an advantage;
• Computer literate; excellent skills in MS Office, especially MS Excel in particular and Internet navigation are required.

Please send your CV together with the form on this link with position applied on the email subject to hrd@id.mercycorps.org (Please Specify province in the job application). The vacancy will be closed on 31 July 2020 and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview. We look forward to hearing from those who are interested in taking this opportunity to grow and develop with us.