JOB DETAILS:
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.
Mercy Corps has built a reputation for innovative economic development programming, particularly working with startups, and hosts a venture capital arm called Mercy Corps Ventures.
The Program / Department / Team
The Jobtech Alliance is an ecosystem-building initiative around inclusive jobtech in Africa launched in late 2021. Utilizing a systems change approach, the initiative is built around two workstreams: (1) We create an enabling environment for the sector to thrive through research and community-building, as well as work on funding, policy, and sector representation; (2) We deliver a range of acceleration activities with jobtech platforms across ten countries in Africa which enable entrepreneurs to build greater scale, impact, and inclusivity in their solutions. In Uganda, we have a particular focus on connecting refugees to livelihoods opportunities on jobtech platforms, which involves working both with startups and refugee-led organizations.
The Position
The Results Measurement & Insights Associate will work hand-in-hand with the Results Measurement & Insights lead in delivering on the Jobtech Alliance’s ambitious results measurement agenda and providing insights for learning and research. We are measuring the impact of both our acceleration activities with startups in Uganda and beyond, and our wider systems change work. Our results measurement system requires working directly with startups, users, and refugee-led organizations. This role offers significant learning and fast growth opportunities, working on setting up the results measurement systems, with a view to taking on additional responsibilities. You will work closely with the venture-building team and have regular touchpoints with startups and partners, as we aim to equip you to be able to closely work with startups and partners. Expect us to move fast, make mistakes, learn a lot, and restart a few times. The role will be based in Kampala, though with scope to travel (~10%) across different African markets.
Key Responsibilities
RESULTS MEASUREMENT TOOLS SET UP & MAINTENANCE (25%)
– Set up, maintain, and update tools for data collection and measuring the impact of the Jobtech Alliance at the level of the jobseeker, business, and ecosystem.
– Set up, maintain, and update systems from data management, analysis, and dashboarding.
RESULTS MEASUREMENT IMPLEMENTATION (35%)
– Support teams to efficiently use the results measurement systems.
– Ensuring all needed data is collected and following up with teammates for missing data (startup business and user-level data as well as Jobtech Alliance community surveys responses).
– Support the Refugee-Led Organizations with data needs.
– Fulfilling internal Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning data requests.
INSIGHTS GENERATION AND DISSEMINATION (30%)
– Conduct data analysis for reporting and supporting acceleration activities.
– Develop data insights reports and sections of donor reports.
– Sharing data learning with internal teams, and where suitable startups and partners.
CONTENT, LEARNING, & RESEARCH PROJECTS (10%)
– Contribute to research projects responding to key learning themes.
– Set up, maintain, and update tools for collecting data for research projects.
Supervisory Responsibility
None
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Results Measurement & Insights Lead
Works Directly With: Refugee-Led Organizations, Jobtech for Refugees Project Manager, Start-ups, External partners, Venture Building Managers, Finance/Contracts Manager, Mercy Corps country teams, Mercy Corps Youth Employment Technical Support Unit.
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
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in data science, results measurement, market insights, research, or equivalent.
• Great knowledge of the use of statistical analytics tools (i.e. R, Python).
• Proven track record of setting up and maintaining Monitoring & Evaluation systems to assess impact achieved by private sector partners.
• Excellent analytical capacity, with the capacity to bring clarity to others and make quick decisions.
• Excellent EQ and communication skills, with the capacity to work collaboratively with others.
• Great desire and will to learn.
Job application procedure
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More Information
- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
