SENIOR M&E OFFICER- ISLAMABAD

Essential Job Responsibilities:

The incumbent will be required to:

• Assist in the preparation of the MEL plan and implementation to ensure adherence to Mercy Corps’ Minimum Standards, including the use of standardized tools, indicators, and documentation methodologies.
• Support the M&E teams in designing/updating M&E tools, as well as in guiding data collection and analysis as required
• Contribute to the development of research proposals, study designs, and concept notes under the guidance of the M&E Manager/Technical Lead.
• Support the preparation of research protocols, sampling strategies, and data collection methodologies; assist in completing ethical compliance documentation.
• Support M&E unit in design and implementation of assessments and other pre and post data collection and analysis tools.
• Actively support in any additional evaluation MEL activities including but not limited to baseline surveys, mid-term, PDMs, end-line surveys, evaluations, household surveys
• Regularly document lessons learned, best practices, program data analysis summaries, and evaluations and provide evidence-based information, success stories, case studies and other high quality, results-based documentation.
• Participate in SR staff meeting, review presentation of PR unit and finalize minutes of meeting, follow up with SRs on given timeline
• Support M&E unit in regular data analysis of all SRs and preparation presentation for different meetings
• Support M&E unit in preparation of monthly field monitoring plan after detail data analysis and support M&E team in conduction of field monitoring visits
• Follow-up of identified issues to ensure they are timely addressed
• Carry out field monitoring visits in line with the M&E Plan to ensure that the data collection tools are properly used in the field and data entry is being done on the required formats/systems following deadlines
• Review of M&E reports of M&E officers and prepare a summary of findings along with proposed way forward, for submission to the Senior Coordinator Monitoring and the Technical Advisor PPM
• Provide on-site technical support and capacity building to field teams for the implementation of project activities.
• Conduct follow-up of the recommendations made in the previous visits
• Facilitate data review meetings, learning sessions, and periodic reflection exercises to support program learning.
• Coordinate with the M&E Officers to timely identify the issues in project implementation. Follow-up of identified issues to ensure they are timely addressed 
• Led the process of desk review, verification, cross-check, the monthly and quarterly reports and prepared feedback on the reports in consultation with the Senior Coordinator Monitoring and provided technical support to the M & E team
• Develop the capacity of the team, deepen understanding of their roles and assist with career development.
• Ensure monitoring data and research outputs are regularly compiled and shared to inform program adjustments and decision-making.
• Support the development or maintenance of visual dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools to track program performance.
• Provide day-to-day technical support to field M&E teams to ensure timely and high-quality data submissions.
• Responsible for compiling and analyzing data and developing summary reports and sharing with PR unit
• Guide field M&E staff in implementing data management processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency of data submitted.
• Use digital data collection tools (such as Kobo, ODK, or CommCare) for designing, deploying, and troubleshooting digital forms.
• Conduct training and refresher sessions on M&E tools, indicator definitions, and data quality standards.
• Assist in the analysis of monitoring and research datasets using Excel, SPSS, or other statistical tools where required.
• Support to PR unit in GF, LFA, CCM and other review missions
• Document case studies and success stories and prepare and/or contribute to the development of various project documents
• Follow all policies and procedures of Mercy Corps, including Safety & Security Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Any other task or responsibility assigned by the Project Coordinator