Mercy Corps is an international non-profit organization which implements high-quality, analytical development programmes in very difficult places. Mercy Corps has been operating in Uganda since 2006. It has and continues to implement programs in Acholi and Karamoja sub regions. Mercy Corps is taking a community-led, market driven approach to address poverty and food insecurity needs through interventions that get to the root causes and contributing factors of economic vulnerability.

Work closely with the program team and local partners, to ensure effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of program activities and results.
Support the Senior MEL Officer in the development of the MEL tools and prepare tool matrix.
Coordinate reporting with local partners, specifically tracking deadlines, ensuring adherence to formats and requirements, ensuring reporting quality and accuracy, and periodic report writing, editing, and submission.
Support the Senior MEL Officer in Compiling progress against indicators and report back to the team according to the monitoring plan.
Perform spot checks on the program activities, identify learnings to improve on program implementation and report monthly
Ensure adherence to MEL minimum standard in carrying out her duties, advising and supporting team members in understanding all the standards
Support the Senior MEL Officer in ensuring that the CCLAP TOLA account is updated with all the indicators, result and the means of verification collected and uploaded in the CCLAP google account
Support the Senior MEL Officer in updating the Activity Info website as per the achievement during the quarter of the project implementation
Support the development of community accountability and reporting mechanisms (CARM) for the project and orient project staff as well as local partners on the same.
Actively participate in household identification and verification of project participants under the CCLAP project
Under guidance of Senior MEL Officers, H/she will participate in all MEL monitoring and evaluation activities such as market assessment, price monitoring and baseline/endline data gathering needs.
Ensure adherence to program management minimum standards in carrying out her duties, advising and supporting other staff in the same as required.
Support the Senior MEL Officer in coordinating the baseline, mid-term evaluation and final evaluation, along with other key research activities. The assistant will for example support the supervision of enumerators during the different data collection and entry exercises.
Support the Senior MEL Officer in building the capacity of all relevant team members to implement program-monitoring tools, accurately enter program data into relevant databases, and enable them to develop excellent reports and other documents.
Support the Senior MEL Officer in building the capacity of team members through ongoing training and support on monitoring tools, entering program data into databases, the development of reports and other documents.