Monitoring and Evaluation Manager Ukraine

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 9 (NRC) contracts.

Background

The Norwegian Refugee Council has been present in Ukraine since 2014, helping more than 700,000 people with food, shelter, water, sanitation, and legal assistance. Rapid change of situation in February 2022 during which whole Ukraine became affected by the conflict required significant scale-up of emergency programmes.

Today NRC is providing support to people affected by armed conflict and those fleeing in search of safety.

Prior to the escalation in armed conflict in February, NRC’s operations focused on government-controlled areas (GCA) of the Donbas Region (Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts). With the temporary relocation of NRC’s staff and operations to Central and Western Ukraine, NRC will continue to support populations in the East with emergency, life-saving food, NFI and emergency shelter assistance to people trapped in hot zones. In the West, NRC established a temporary national HUB in the Ivano-Frankivska region and is establishing area offices in Ternopil and Dnipro. Additionally, NRC is planning to establish field offices in Lviv and Mokachevo. The Western response will focus on assisting people on the move with cash and ICLA services and provide multi-sectoral support to key transit points. The Eastern response will initially focus on procurement and delivery of food and key relief items to Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.

We are seeking highly qualified, resilient, dynamic professionals to respond to Ukraine crisis and support people in Ukraine and refugees in the neighbouring host countries.

Your passion, skills, and experience can make a big difference.

Duties & Responsibilities

The role of the Monitoring and Evaluation Manager is to lead the strategic direction and quality assurance of monitoring and evaluation in the country office. The M&E Manager should design and implement a strategy, SOPs, and budget for M&E which ensures the CO is meeting and exceeding M&E minimum standards. Plan for and generates the evidence and learning required to feed into programme and strategic decision making.

Below is a summary responsibilities, please download Job Description for further details.

1. Responsible to develop the CO monitoring, evaluation and learning strategy and process, responding to contextual challenges but also ensuring alignment with the regional strategy and global M&E framework, policy and strategy
2. Develop CO specific M&E SOPs responding to contextual challenges, according to NRC’s M&E minimum standards ensuring necessary resources
3. Technical input to programme monitoring and evaluation plans, including methodological guidance and resource planning
4. Ensuring the roll out and use of global and regional M&E developments at the CO level. Also leading new technical developments to respond to M&E needs in the context
5. Provide technical M&E support, guidelines and capacity building across the CO
6. Line manage CO M&E staff and capacity building for area office M&E staff
7. Ensuring learning moments are institutionalised in the CO, with systems in place for analysing and using M&E data and supporting programme and CMG to interpret and use learning for strategic and programme decision making. This includes contributing to the development, learning and adaptation of a multi-year programme strategies.
8. Lead the processes and design of country office and programme level monitoring and evaluation systems ensuring the learning is integrated, accurate and relevant
9. Ensure planning and quality control of all monitoring and evaluation activities throughout the PCM cycle, including technical support for Theory of Change, M&E plans, indicator reference sheets, data quality assessments and evaluation processes
10. Ensuring systems /processes are in place to ensure high quality reporting in NRC’s Global Output and Outcome Reporting System (GORS)

Skills & Experience

• 5-7 years of demonstrated management experience in design, implementation, and oversight of monitoring, evaluation, and research for large to mid-scale international projects or programmes
• Advanced degree in economics, research methods, social sciences or a related field
• Technical competency and prior experience implementing various monitoring and evaluation methodologies and approaches
• Understanding of data and information needs for program management and decision making
• Experience in working with local partners and civil society; and supporting partners to implement M&E
• Strong experience in facilitating trainings and capacity building initiatives particularly working with partner organizations
• Excellent analytic, communication, interpersonal, writing, collaboration, problem-solving, planning/organizing, and facilitation skills.
• Advanced experience in qualitative and quantitative data analysis and tools
• Language requirements: Fluency in spoken and written English
• Strong analytical and computer skills, including MS Office suite required. Experience using additional software such as PowerBI, CommCare, Survey CTO, Kobo, ODK, etc. preferred
• Experience within supporting M&E for one of NRC’s core competencies is an asset
• Knowledge of Ukrainian or Russian is highly desirable
• Knowledge of the context in Ukraine is an asset

Access to a Schengen visa is required for positions in Ukraine

What We Offer

• Duty Station: Ukraine, exact location to be confirmed
• Unaccompanied contract
• Travel: 30%
• Contract: 12 months with possibility of extension
• Salary: According to NRC’s Salary Scale. NRC offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including R&R.

NRC is very grateful to those who have responded thus far and continue to heed to our calls for support. This is going a long way in addressing the diverse needs, priorities, and concerns currently affecting the people of Ukraine.

Applications will be reviewed on ongoing basis. Due to large response, NRC will not provide feedback to those candidates who do not meet criteria and/or not follow the application process.