GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
Working in consortia with GOAL, VSO and Restless Development, the Driving Youth-led New Agribusiness and Microenterprise (DYNAMIC) program will strengthen systems and facilitate creation of sustainable economic opportunities for disadvantaged youth. The goal is to increase the number of youth in secure employment/self-employment and to promote agricultural market systems for youth. DYNAMIC will reach 125,000 out-of-school youth aged 15–24 in eight districts of northern Uganda over five years.
The MEL Officer is a key position in program quality assurance, accountability, documentation and learning unit, which exists to support program design and implementation. The position holder will support planning and execution of monitoring and evaluation, ensuring quality in accordance with accepted standards, providing essential feedback for learning, accountability and decision making. S/he will be responsible for providing internal capacity building for program staff on monitoring and evaluation activities as well as review and development of necessary tools that feed into needs of Mercy Corps and donor reporting requirements.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
• Ensure that MEL systems are in compliance with Mercy Corps standards.
• Assist in program design, planning and implementation to ensure adherence to Mercy Corps’ Minimum Standards, including use of standardized indicators and documentation methodologies.
• Support design and implementation of assessments and other pre, ex-ante and post data collection and analysis.
• Support learning-to-action events, reflection sessions to analyze data for programmatic use and to incorporate lessons learned.
• Assist program to develop and maintain information management system to support data collection, reflection, and reporting.
• Ensure quality control procedures and accuracy of entered information.
• Play key role in the development and review of result chains, sector intervention strategies and M&E frameworks and document changes to generate learnings and ideas for programs.
• Maintain up to date database that reflects progress on mission (including disaggregated beneficiary counts) and donor indicators.
• Remain updated with developments among the Mercy Corps MEL community and agency-wide trends and resources.
• Work with MEL and IT staff to maximize the value and utility of ICT4MEL initiatives.
• 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.
• Other duties as assigned

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
• Must hold at least a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Agriculture, Demography, Statistics, Business administration or relevant field
• At least three years of MEL experience.
• Should understand concepts and demonstrate skills in MEL, project cycle, results chain and frameworks, and participatory monitoring.
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative data collection, reporting techniques. S/he should understand and be able to apply basic measures of central tendency and spread, with excellent writing and analytical skills.
• Should be able to design and implement surveys, have knowledge of commonly used probability and purposive sampling techniques.
• Experience using appreciative inquiry and conflict sensitivity techniques and dynamism in working with multi-cultural team environment.
• Experience with facilitation, capacity building, formal and informal knowledge transfer, partnership strengthening and empowering staff through opportunities for growth and development.
• In addition to Microsoft Excel, should demonstrate fluency in use of at least one data management software including Ms Access, SPSS, and STATA. Must be fluent both spoken and written English. Luo language skills highly valued.

HOW TO APPLY:
Submit your E-mailed application including a cover letter clearly stating your salary requirements, CV (with 3 referees), and copies of academic qualifications/certificates through the Human Resource Manager to mcjobs@ug.mercycorps.org. Deadline for Submission: Close of business on October 16, 2015 Only short-listed candidates will be contacted by Mercy Corps. Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer; female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.