Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Assistant-Mercy Corps عودة إلى الفرص

Location: Tunis, Tunisia

Position Status: Full-time

Duration: Until March 8, 2022

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.

The Position

The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant is responsible for monitoring operations of the relief

projects’ M&E system to support program management and accountability functions. He/she contributes toward the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the Design, Monitoring, & Evaluation unit as well as the overall Mercy Corps programming.

Essential Responsibilities

ACCOUNTABILITY

• Understand how to address all feedback received face-to-face
• Document all feedback received face-to-face and share with the CARM Officer
• Sensitize community members on the available feedback channels.
• Promote and learn the use of M&E and ICT best practices.

MONITORING, EVALUATION, LEARNING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

• Conduct post-delivery monitoring exercise regularly, compile reports and share with team members.
• Participate in recruiting enumerators for post-delivery monitoring
• With the Senior MEAL Officer and MEAL Manager, support Mercy Corps Tunisia in the implementation of a holistic MEAL system that uses open-source software and flexible cloud solutions to more accurately collect, monitor, verify and document program activities.
• Participate in tracking performance indicators, ensuring adherence to Mercy Corps’ M&E best practices and minimum standards, including the use of standardized indicators, form templates and documentation methodologies.
• Support in ensuring accuracy and comprehensiveness of country-level reporting on indicators such as beneficiary numbers, design for impact indicators and other information as needed.
• Participate in an office-wide M&E agenda, with prioritized subjects of strategic assessment and evaluation.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

• Assist in maintaining proper and standardized filing system for storing program documents according to Mercy Corps Program Management Minimum Standard.

SECURITY

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

Accountability 

Reports Directly To: Senior Mel Officer 

Works Directly With: All Tunisia staff

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 Qualification & Transferable Skills 

• Diploma in development studies, research, statistics, economics, monitoring and evaluation, project management or other relevant field required.
• 1-2 years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation with reputable organization
• Excellent written English skills, with proven ability to produce final documents for team members consumption
• Experience with theoretical and practical background in research or MEAL and knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and techniques used.
• Experience with data management including the ability to structure and collate data sets for ease of analysis.
• Demonstrated understanding of intermediate statistics and ability to summarize and make predictions from multiple data sets.
• Actively promote communication, learning and accountability.
• Ability to work effectively with an ethnically diverse team in a sensitive environment.

Success Factors 

1. Commitment to local capacity building and the ability to engage local stakeholders in program design and implementation.
2. Ability to work simultaneously on multiple tasks and keeps to deadlines.
3. Knowledge and understanding of the Tunisian people’s culture and political set up.
4. Strong team player and effective communicator.
5. Willing to interact effectively with international and national personnel and other partners.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives. 

We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact. 

We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct elearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.