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- Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant -Wamba, Samburu County (6 months Maternity Cover)
- Livelihoods & Food Security Officer
- Method of Application
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND , Diploma
- Experience1 - 2 years
- LocationTurkana
- Job FieldAgriculture / Agro-Allied 
Program / Department Summary
With funding from USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), Mercy Corps’ Nawiri Program is leading a consortium of Kenyan and international partners on a Eight-year journey to sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition in Turkana and Samburu Counties of Kenya. Through a phased approach that emphasizes evidence gap analysis, as well as partnership, learning, and co-creation, the program takes a robust county-centered design with government leadership, active engagement from communities, the private sector, and civil society. Mercy Corps’ consortium brings together the global leadership, research capacity, technical expertise, and implementation experience necessary to partner with local institutions to test, adapt, and scale evidence-based solutions. Together we will sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations in Turkana and Samburu Counties.
General Position Summary
- The Assistant Livelihoods Officer (ALO) will be a member of the USAID Nawiri Resilient Livelihoods Team and directly responsible for implementing nutrition-sensitive resilient livelihood interventions at sub-county (prioritized wards) level. These include Climate Smart Agriculture (crop and fodder) production, market systems linkages, private sector and financial inclusion support. Assistant Livelihoods Officer will work alongside other USAID Nawiri team members in layering interventions for collective impact at household and community level
- Specifically, the Assistant Livelihoods Officer will be supporting small scale irrigated crops & fodder production for diversified household access to nutrient-dense foods, private sector engagement for access to farm inputs & finance, markets linkages, households economic strengthening that aims at increasing sustained access to incomes (financial inclusion), Climate smart agriculture technologies and improved ecological practices that support Natural resources management. Assistant Livelihoods Officer will work closely with relevant county officials, CSOs and private sector players involved in livelihoods and food security & nutrition within their areas of operation.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Program Management
- Coordinate with the ward/ subcounty level of County Government to mobilize actions and ensure effective communication channels.
- Facilitate community visioning process for resilient livelihoods using community participatory appraisal tools
- Coordinate with community leadership to facilitate activity integration and targeting of participants / groups within selected irrigation schemes.
- Coordinate with County government to build capacity for poor HHs on appropriate crop production systems and relevant climate smart agriculture approaches and technologies
- Facilitate business to business linkages for targeted small scale irrigation schemes / farmers associations / groups that include poor and ultra-poor for increased access to farm inputs, finance and markets.
- Facilitate Increased access for poor and ultra-poor HH to productivity enhancement inputs, climate smart agriculture and post-harvest technologies
- Support small-scale vegetable production gardens utilizing home garden techniques (permaculture) to promote nutrition dense vegetables for enhanced household consumption and income generation targeting poor households
- Participate in monitoring and evaluation of project activities
- Coordinate with the livelihoods officer to develop activities workplans and reporting
- Coordinate with public and private service providers (crop husbandry, inputs suppliers, aggregators, local financial institutions etc) to reach USAID Nawiri participants.
- Collaborate with Nawiri health and nutrition staff to integrate nutrition messaging into crop and livestock production training curriculum.
Community and County Engagement
- Mobilize sub-county and ward level meetings with relevant stakeholders.
- Lead community engagement and mobilization activities within the Ward(s) of operation
- Support the facilitation of planning meetings and workshops with government, NGO, private sector, and community partners to revise and customize implementation plans.
- Conduct community mobilization and sensitization meetings with ward and community-level leaders to enhance investment in crop production.
Influence& Representation
- Assist livelihoods and food security officer in activity coordination with local government and other implementers at the Subcounty level.
- Participate in planning meetings and workshops with government, NGO, private sector, and community partners to develop and deliver capacity building of farmers
- Conduct themselves both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to Mercy Corps and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission
Safeguarding
- Actively learns about safeguarding and integrates it into their work, including safeguarding risks and mitigations related to their area of work
- Practices the values of Mercy Corps including respecting the dignity and well-being of participants and fellow team members
- Encourages openness and communication in their team; encourages team members to submit reports if they have any concerns using reporting mechanisms e.g., Integrity Hotline and other options
OtherS
- Promote and adhere to the principle and objectives of the project and Mercy Corps.
- Participate in other USAID Nawiri livelihoods program activities (NRM, Alternative livelihoods)
- Any other duties as may be assigned.
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.
- Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.
Supervisory Responsibility
- None
Accountability
Reports directly to: Livelihoods and food security officer
Works directly with: Water resources officer, Livelihoods officers, alternative livelihoods officers, financial inclusion, REAP for nutrition officers, Household economy officers, and Sub-office M&E officers.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Degree/ Diploma in Agriculture related field (i.e., Agronomy, Agro-ecology, Horticulture, Dry land agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture Education & Extension).
- Advanced technical certificate holders from reputable institutions plus proven experience of over 3 years will be considered.
- Minimum 1-2 years of direct implementation of agriculture development activities. Experience working directly with small scale irrigation is an added advantage.
- Good spoken and written English required.
- Must be able to work independently once in the field and show initiative.
- Experience in farmers needs assessment and report writing.
- Demonstrable experience in farmers training and community mobilization
- Experience in community participatory appraisal tools
- Practical experience in partnership building and collaboration with government and other partners
- Good Computer and basic administrative and organizational skills
- Willingness to travel extensively throughout the project area.
- Good understanding of the local context including the local language
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience5 years
- LocationSamburu
- Job FieldProject Management 
Program / Department Summary
USAID's Office of Food for Peace recently awarded funding to a Mercy Corps-led consortium of Kenyan and international partners for a 5-year Development Food Security Activity (DFSA) in Turkana and Samburu Counties of Kenya. Through a phased approach that emphasizes evidence gap analysis, as well as partnership, learning, and co-creation with government, civil society, communities, and the private sector, the NAWIRI program aims to drive sustained reductions in acute malnutrition in both counties. Mercy Corps’ consortium brings together the global leadership, research capacity, technical expertise, and implementation experience necessary to partner with local institutions to test, adapt, and scale evidence-based solutions. The program requires a robust county-centered design with government leadership, active engagement from communities, the private sector, and civil society. Together we will sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations in Turkana and Samburu counties.
General Position Summary
The Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator is a key position for program quality assurance, accountability, documentation and learning. The position holder will support the NAWIRI team in planning and execution of monitoring and evaluation activities at the county level while ensuring quality in accordance with accepted standards, providing essential feedback for learning, accountability and decision making. They will be responsible for providing internal capacity building for program staff at County level on monitoring and evaluation activities as well as reviewing the necessary tools that will feed into the needs of the program and government counterparts. Under the overall leadership and direction of NAWIRI’s M&E Manager, and in close collaboration with the M&E Lead, the MEL Coordinator will be developing partner technical team’s and M&E officer’s capacity in M&E and ensuring effective field-level collaboration, and promoting a culture of M&E for learning and adaptation.
Essential Job Responsibilities
STRATEGY AND VISION
- Seek the active collaboration of consortium partners in M&E as well as their appropriation of the tools, including integration of M&E in core program management functions.
- Ensure consistent utilization of the NAWIRI MIS database for all M&E data submissions.
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
- Contribute directly to achieving the project’s strategic objectives and components through the implementation of a single integrated/harmonized monitoring system.
- Responsible for managing the data collection and coordination with the County team (and consultants if necessary) ensuring a high quality of data collected and the use of evidence to inform adaptive management.
- Coordinate and supervise all enumeration activities in the County level during the annual surveys commissioned by the project.
- Create and instill an M&E culture that promotes the learning and self-critical skills of program staff in the pursuit of project excellence.
- Ensure alignment of M&E activities with program objectives and contribute to the development of annual work plans.
- Support County Program Directors and other technical leads in the preparation of quarterly/annual activity reports and verification of reported data.
- Coordinate and support the implementation of the main M&E phases of the Project Management Cycle (baseline survey, mid-term evaluation and final evaluation)
- Work closely with consortium partners to track implementation of the research agenda, develop milestones for progress and conduct the evaluation of research agenda.
- Plan and conduct Routine Data Quality Assurance (RDQA) for the reported data at County level to ensure adherence to USAID/ Mercy Corps data quality standards.
- Participate in the planning for and review of the baseline, midterm and final evaluation SOP, data collection tools and reports.
- Ensure that lessons learned throughout the project at County level are captured and communicated to internal and external stakeholders through appropriate channels for decision-making.
TEAM MANAGEMENT
- Create and maintain a work environment where mutual respect among team members prevails and where the pursuit of individual and collective excellence is valued.
- Promote individual accountability and commitment by clearly and regularly communicating expectations and providing constructive feedback.
- Train County program team members on their M&E responsibilities and how to use the tools developed.
- Ensure that team members comply with the Mercy Corps Code of Conduct and the Principles of Humanitarian Accountability and immediately report to their Supervisor and National Director any cases of fraud or conduct not in accordance with Mercy Corps policies within the program.
REPRESENTATION
- Develop the necessary relationships and partnerships with consortium partners
- Identify, build and manage trusted partnerships with consortium agencies, local government and other stakeholders
- Maintain good working relationships with donors and other development organizations and represent Mercy Corps at meetings when necessary
- Effectively communicate the program's best practices to build Mercy Corps' positive image with development stakeholders
- Conduct themselves in a professional manner at all times.
SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES
- Actively learns about safeguarding and integrates it into their work, including safeguarding risks and mitigations related to their area of work.
- Practices the values of Mercy Corps including respecting the dignity and well-being of participants and fellow team members.
- Encourages openness and communication in their team, encourages team members to submit reports if they have any concerns using reporting mechanisms e.g. Integrity Hotline and other options
OTHER
- Conduct themselves 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
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 PARTICIPANTS
- Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards 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.
- Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.
Supervisory Responsibility
- County M&E Officers
Accountability
Reports Directly to: Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Works Directly with: MEL officers, Technical Leads & Field Director from Turkana
Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills
- BA/S or equivalent in public health, monitoring and evaluation, development economics, international development, sociology, or business/project management.
- 5+ years of professional experience in monitoring food security and nutrition focused projects.
- Experience with GIS software use in development programming.
- Strong, documented analytic and statistical skills.
- High degree of computer literacy and typing proficiency; Excel and Word skills.
- Experience in supporting and strengthening government/county nutritional M&E system and clear understanding of government devolution structures.
- Fluency in written and oral English. Must be able to read and interpret documents,
and communicate with others as necessary to perform job duties effectively.
- Job TypeContract
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND , Diploma
- Experience
- LocationNairobi , Samburu , Turkana
- Job FieldICT / Computer  , Internships / Volunteering 
Program / Department Summary
- The operations department is committed to implementing and maintaining the highest standards of efficiency and integrity in daily administration, logistics, procurement, asset management and IT for field offices Kenya. The overriding objective for all Mercy Corps (MC) operations activities are the prompt and effective provision of on-time solutions MCs’ beneficiary populations in compliance with MCs’ and donor policies, procedures, regulations and specifications.
General Position Summary
- The primary role of the IT Intern(s) is to support the IT infrastructure at Mercy Corps Kenya's Country office (Nairobi) and Field Offices. The IT Intern(s) will assist in ensuring the proper functioning of equipment and networks to meet organizational needs and demands. The intern will support daily IT operations, assist with network troubleshooting, provide basic IT training, and help with IT documentation. They will work under the guidance of the ICT Systems Administrator.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Assist with daily IT operations including user support and troubleshooting of hardware and software issues.
- Provide first-level support to staff for IT-related problems and escalate more complex issues to the ICT Systems Administrator.
- Assist in setting up and configuring new computers, laptops, and other IT equipment.
- Support the installation, configuration, and updating of software and applications on user devices.
- Assist in maintaining an inventory of IT assets, ensuring records are accurate and up to date.
- Support the implementation of IT policies and procedures and ensure compliance with IT standards.
- Assist in conducting regular maintenance checks on IT equipment and report any issues to the ICT Systems Administrator.
- Provide basic IT training to staff, including how to use common software applications and best practices for IT security.
- Assist with ProSource Vendor Data Administration (VDA) setup and troubleshooting.
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 towards 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.
- Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values always and in all in-country venues.
Safeguarding
- Actively learns about safeguarding and integrates it into their work, including safeguarding risks and mitigations related to their area of work
- Practices the values of Mercy Corps including respecting the dignity and well-being of participants and fellow team members
- Encourages openness and communication in their team; encourages team members to submit reports if they have any concerns using reporting mechanisms e.g., Integrity Hotline and other options
Supervisory Responsibility
- None
Accountability
- Reports Directly To: ICT Systems Administrator
- Works Directly With: Operations Officers, ICT Assistants and Program Staff in identifying IT needs.
Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills
- Enrollment in or recent graduation (within a year) from a recognized academic institution in Kenya with a Degree or a Diploma or a certificate.
- Ability to support both hardware and software requirements in local area networking (LAN)
- Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work independently and cooperatively with team members is required.
- Ability to troubleshoot, plan and design low maintenance systems.
- Ability to troubleshoot and maintain both wireless and cable connections is required.
- Must understand, follow and implement existing policies on IT equipment use and best practices.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience1 year
- LocationSamburu
- Job FieldData, Business Analysis and AI  , Project Management 
The Program / Department Summary
USAID’s Office of Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) awarded funding to a Mercy Corps-led consortium of Kenyan and international partners for an 8-year Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Turkana and Samburu Counties of Kenya.Through a phased approach that emphasizes evidence gap analysis, as well as partnership, learning, and co-creation with government, civil society, communities, and the private sector, the USAID Nawiri program aims to drive sustained reductions in acute malnutrition in both counties.
Mercy Corps’ consortium brings together the global leadership, research capacity, technical expertise, and implementation experience necessary to partner with local institutions to test, adapt, and scale evidence-based solutions. The program requires a robust county-centered design with government leadership, active engagement from communities, the private sector, and civil society. Together we will sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations in Turkana and Samburu counties.
General Position Summary
The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Assistant will work as part of the county M&E team responsible for program quality assurance, accountability, documentation and learning. They will be involved in day-to-day implementation of the M & E system sub-county level including data collection, collation, entry, analysis and use for decision-making. The Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant will conduct quality assurance activities of field-based data collection mechanisms, program implementation and community accountability process. In addition, they will supervise enumerators during annual household surveys, Post Distribution Monitoring and Qualitative Inquiry Assessments at county level. The assistant will support M&E systems strengthening at sub-county level including, training and mentoring Community Health Workers (CHV), Ward Development Committees (WDC) and other field-based data processes to produce reliable/quality data and support platforms for data use platforms for decision-making at sub-county and ward level.
Essential Responsibilities
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: MONITORING AND EVALUATION
- Support in roll-out of USAID Nawiri monitoring and evaluation strategy and tools at the Sub County level.
- Collect program routine monitoring data and follow-up with the program team on data collection and reporting.
- Support roll-out and supervision of data collection through Annual Surveys, Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) and Quality Inquiry Surveys.
- Timely entry of monitoring data into mobile and computer-based data collection systems and working with MIS officers to resolve data quality issues observed.
- Support Monitoring and Evaluation activities to ensure that program-based monitoring activities are being performed according to schedule.
- Support and collaborate with the M&E Officer to provide timely reports and data summaries.
- Assist to maintaining a clear and transparent filing system at the Sub County level office.
- Support the process of testing and adopting relevant technologies for improving the efficiency of the program’s MEL function at the Sub- County level.
- Strengthen Sub-County Government M&E and Data Use Platforms including Review Meeting, Data Quality Assurance, Mentoring and Supportive Supervision.
- Other duties as assigned from time to time by supervisor.
SAFEGUARDING
- Actively learns about safeguarding and integrates it into their work, including safeguarding risks and mitigations related to their area of work
- Practices the values of Mercy Corps including respecting the dignity and well-being of participants and fellow team members
- Encourages openness and communication in their team; encourages team members to submit reports if they have any concerns using reporting mechanisms e.g., Integrity Hotline and other options
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.
- Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC’s policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.
Supervisory Responsibility
None
Accountability
Reports Directly to: M&E Officer at the Sub County level, with technical oversight from the MEL Coordinator and administrative oversight from the Sub County Lead
Works Directly with: USAID Nawiri Program Quality and Learning team, all program staff and implementing partners at sub-county level.
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
- Must hold at least a diploma in Social Science, Statistics, International development, Health, Agriculture or relevant field (with coursework in M&E, research and evaluation methodologies, statistical analysis or organizational development) or similar field of study.
- At least 1 year of program monitoring and evaluation experience (Entry Level Fresh Graduate)
- Experience working with USAID funded project and familiarity with USAID/BHA M&E guidance and requirement is an added advantage.
- Should understand general MEL concepts and demonstrate skills in MEL system (i.e. Theories of Change, Results Frameworks/Logical Frameworks, MEL Plans and Data Collection tools).
- Must have good writing and analytical skills.
- Should have knowledge of quantitative and qualitative data collection, reporting techniques. In addition to Microsoft Excel, the incumbent should demonstrate fluency in use of at least one data management software including SPSS, Power Bi, Tableau and STATA.
- Must be fluent in both spoken and written English. Understanding of local language will be an added advantage.
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND , Diploma
- Experience3 years
- LocationTurkana
- Job FieldAgriculture / Agro-Allied 
Program / Department Summary
With funding from USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), Mercy Corps’ Nawiri Program is leading a consortium of Kenyan and international partners on a Eight-year journey to sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition in Turkana and Samburu Counties of Kenya. Through a phased approach that emphasizes evidence gap analysis, as well as partnership, learning, and co-creation, the program takes a robust county-centered design with government leadership, active engagement from communities, the private sector, and civil society. Mercy Corps’ consortium brings together the global leadership, research capacity, technical expertise, and implementation experience necessary to partner with local institutions to test, adapt, and scale evidence-based solutions. Together we will sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations in Turkana and Samburu Counties.
General Position Summary
The Livelihoods and Food Security officer (LFSO) will be a member of the USAID Nawiri Resilient Livelihoods Team and directly responsible for implementing nutrition-sensitive resilient livelihood interventions at sub-county (all wards) level. These include Climate Smart Agriculture (irrigated crop and livestock) production, market systems linkages, private sector and financial inclusion support, enabling market systems to last mile communities to support ultra-poor, strengthening diversified efforts for improved Household Economies. The officer works alongside other officers in layering interventions for collective impact at household and community level. Specifically, The officer will be supporting livestock and small-scale irrigated crop and fodder production for diversified household access to nutrient-dense foods, private sector engagement, households economic strengthening that aims at increasing sustained access to incomes (financial inclusion), Climate smart agriculture approaches and improved ecological practices that support Natural resources management. The officer will work closely with relevant county officials, CSOs and private sector players involved in livelihoods and food security & nutrition within their areas of operation.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Program Management
- Coordinate with the different levels of County Government to mobilize actions and ensure effective communication channels.
- Coordinate with community leadership to facilitate activity integration and targeting of participants.
- Lead implementation of livestock, crops interventions including coordination with target communities and partners at the sub-office level.
- Directly oversee crop and fodder production through irrigation in selected irrigation schemes
- Collaborate with Nawiri health and nutrition staff to integrate messaging into crop and livestock production training curriculum.
- Design and lead TOT training sessions to Community Mobilizers / Champions in collaboration with Government counterparts.
- Liaise with other project teams and staff at the sub office level to ensure that all Nawiri interventions are well-coordinated and prioritized
- Coordinate with Markets and Alternative Livelihoods team members to identify private sector partners or opportunities for new enterprises that improve farmer access to input and output markets.
- Coordinate with public and private service providers (animal health, crop husbandry, etc.) to reach Nawiri participants at the Sub-office level.
- Support County livelihoods coordinator in the review and development of work plans and necessary reports.
- Collaborate with the M&E team to support monitoring and evaluation on effectiveness and impact of livelihoods activities at the Sub-office level and make recommendations for improvements.
Community and Sub - County engagement
- Mobilize sub-county, ward level and village meetings with relevant stakeholders.
- Support the facilitation of planning meetings and workshops with government, NGO, private sector, and community partners to revise and customize implementation plans.
- Conduct community mobilization and engagement meetings with ward and community-level leaders to implement USAID Nawiri livelihoods activities
- Support community visioning process for resilient livelihoods
- Support with collaborative partnership with other development partners and identify potential opportunities for linkage
Influence & representation
- Collaborate with Consortium partners, sub grantees, local government, and other implementers, as well as with other Mercy Corps programs working at the sub-office level.
- Facilitate planning meetings and workshops with government, NGO, private sector, and community partners to revise plans and promote partner acceptance/buy-in at the sub-office level
- 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
Safeguarding
- Actively learns about safeguarding and integrates it into their work, including safeguarding risks and mitigations related to their area of work
- Practices the values of Mercy Corps including respecting the dignity and well-being of participants and fellow team members
- Encourages openness and communication in their team; encourages team members to submit reports if they have any concerns using reporting mechanisms e.g., Integrity Hotline and other options
Others
- Promote and adhere to the principle and objectives of the project and Mercy Corps.
- Participate in other USAID Nawiri livelihoods program activities (NRM, Alternative livelihoods, Financial Inclusion)
- Any other duties as may be assigned.
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.
- Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.
Supervisory Responsibility
- Supervision of assistant livelihoods officers
Accountability
Reports directly to: County Resilient Livelihoods Coordinator
Works directly with: Climate Smart Advisor, alternative livelihoods and inclusive markets advisor, County & sub office M&E officers, BOMA Nawiri project officers, and save the children household economic officers.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Degree in agricultural related field or Diploma with over 3 years’ experience
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience directly implementing agriculture / livestock interventions at the field level in Kenya ASALs.
- Demonstrable familiarity with Kenya’s ASAL, agriculture crop and livestock, resilient livelihoods, and natural resources sectors.
- Proficient analytical skills that demonstrate an understanding of the current concepts, priorities, and issues in program monitoring, data collection, and evaluation.
- Team player who takes initiative and is a problem-solver.
- Effective verbal and written communication, multitasking and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage priorities independently
- Understanding of the Turkana Local context including the local language is an asset
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