MEAL Assistant

Work Arrangement:

Job Description

Responding to the world’s worst humanitarian crises in a great variety of roles, the International Rescue Committee’s staff is a force for humanity and hope. If you’re skilled and passionate, we’d like to add your energy to ours.

We are one of the world’s largest humanitarian agencies, provide relief, rehabilitation and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of natural disaster, oppression and violent conflict in 42 countries. We are committed to innovation and creative partnerships.

Active in public health, education, livelihoods, women's empowerment, youth development, and protection and promotion of rights, we assist people from harm to home.

Country Background: Between February 7-23, 2022, an IRC team undertook a scoping mission covering Poland and Ukraine to better understand the context, humanitarian and civil society landscape, and anticipated service gaps in the event of an escalation of conflict in Ukraine. As of February 24th, the IRC has pivoted to an emergency response, and have identified partner agencies in Ukraine and Poland to facilitate immediate assistance that can be used where it is the most needed. Simultaneously, the IRC is establishing operations across Ukraine to complement partner response services either in breadth or scale.

Job overview: Reporting to and technically supported by the M&E Officer, the M&E Assistant carries out well defined tasks that will contribute to strengthened monitoring efforts of IRC programs with the aim of optimizing monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning capacities of the IRC mission in Ukraine to ensure high-quality programming for our clients and support the global ambitions of IRC Strategy 100.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Monitoring Activities

- Collaborate with program to ensure routine data collection as per the M&E/MEAL project workplan. - Support the field organization of data collection survey, client satisfaction survey, and client feedback collection systems. - Perform initial data review for a specific project and/or geographical area or sector. - Input and maintain up-to-date monitoring and client databases. - Produce simple reports. - Other related duties as assigned.

Key working relationships:

Position reports to: Directly reports to MEAL manager and also work closely with CRA Manager

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: Program Officers, Assistants, HR, Field Coordinator External: IRC current and potential clients.

Requirements

Apply knowledge of procedures and systems to perform the requirements of the job; skills and knowledge typically acquired through a combination of job-related training, some on-the-job experience and some formal education including:

- Formal education is preferred but not a requirement. - Ability to undertake M&E/MEAL activities based on guidance from the supervisor. - Possess a basic understanding of Monitoring and client feedback mechanisms and functions. - Experience and/or coursework in monitoring & evaluation research methods, and quantitative and qualitative analysis is a plus. - Experience working with communities, youth and adults of diverse backgrounds. - Good written and verbal communication skills. - Fluent in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel and Word. - Willingness to travel to various regional and field-level offices. - Language Ukrainian, Russian – fluent; English – working knowledge.

Professional Standards

The International Rescue Committee is determined to protect the people it serves and staff from all kinds of harm, including sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment. It is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe. IRC builds diverse and inclusive teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

IRC workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces its safeguarding policies to protect adult and child clients from any form of exploitation and abuse, including sexual exploitation and abuse, and its staff from sexual harassment and violence.

Where misconduct is alleged, IRC follows a Zero tolerance approach and takes all necessary actions and corrective measures. IRC investigation unit comprises of experts and trained investigators that ensures professional survivor-centered investigations are conducted if allegations of safeguarding violations are reported through the safe and accessible reporting channels that IRC makes available to its staff, partners, and clients.

These commitments are set out in IRC’s Safeguarding Policies, accessible in English and in Ukrainian language via this link: https://rescue.box.com/v/irc-safeguarding-policies

IRC is an active member of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) set-up in Ukraine. IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

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