Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Ukraine

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 5 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 5 (NRC) contracts.

Role and responsibilities

Brief Description of the Role

The M&E Officer (Database) is a member of the M&E Unit, under the supervision of the M&E Coordinator. The M&E Officer will work closely with the members of the M&E Unit, Core Competencies specialists and other NRC Ukraine departments. The overall objective of the M&E Officer is to be responsible for sets of data of CCs and operating in service to CC specialists and other NRC Ukraine departments. They also contributes to the development and execution of programs' need in terms of data in order to control, protect, deliver and enhance the value of data and information products. Data processing and analysis practices being used ensure consistency, comparability and privacy of the data shared. S/he will also ensure that data processing and analysis steps are fully documented and replicable.

Generic responsibilities

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines;
• Adhere to National legislation and NRC policies regarding the administration, protection of private information, data protection and data-sharing;
• Implement delegated portfolio according to a plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Ensure that projects target beneficiaries most in need and explore and assess new and better ways to assist
• Promote and share ideas for technical improvement
• Contribute to the development, implementation, management and administration of databases and related procedures;
• Ensure efficient working relationships with a wide range of different interlocutors (Core Competencies, M&E Unit, including other NRC Ukraine department, NGOs, civil and military representatives);

Specific responsibilities

• Act as a focal point/central instrument for the collection, analysis and dissemination of information relevant to the project activities;
• Responsible for ensuring data cleaning is conducted according to NRC standards and that meaningful statistical analysis and techniques are used to infer results from collected data;
• Provide support and assistance to projects for better use of data to target beneficiaries most in need, explore and assess better ways to assist through providing feedback to relevant specialists;
• Contribute to protection risks and needs analysis;
• Contribute to the design of protection response to identified risks and needs.
• Contribute to development, upgrade, management, and maintainance of project and program-specific databases, spreadsheets and other data tools ensuring continual development and strengthening of the system;
• Provide regular advice/comments for staff on modifying databases and data management to meet the information needs of CC and improve reporting capacity, ensuring to fill gaps through data if any;
• Ensure accurate and consistent data entry. Test databases, correct errors, clean up data and make necessary modifications, ensure timely updates, maintaining clear and complete databases for all Core Competencies;
• Ensure backups and data protection procedures of collected data, maintaining proper filing structures to ensure data integrity and availability;
• Contribute to donor and project/program reports, including but not limited to analysis of monitoring data (e.g. output and outcome), GORS, ITT, data on needs, gaps analysis, assessments, field reports, statistical, Power BI reports, etc.;
• Manage all the tracking procedures to ensure that aid is accounted for in compliance with NRC and donor requirements;
• Maintain accurate documentation of the Core Competencies project activities (e.g. monitoring data, assessments, compiling beneficiary records, tracking distributions, all cash and no cash transactions);
• Contribute to mobile data collection (MDC) system: development of forms required and their integration into data processing systems. Overall, ensure technical coordination of the process and deliver clrifications on technical aspects on MDC (where needed);
• Contribute to the development and support of a new standardised approach in data management in NRC Ukraine;
• Support implementation and development of the data/information flow processes in the Country Office;
• Facilitate the preparing and provision of data visualisations as needed (e.g. maps, charts, etc.);
• Other duties as assigned by the M&E Coordinator

Competencies

1. Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies:

• Degree in statistics, computer science, computer engineering, information systems/technology or related discipline (or two years of equivalent work experience)
• Proven experience in information management/data management
• Demonstrated experience in database (or spreadsheets for data storage) design, development and follow-up support
• Demonstrated knowledge of MS Excel
• Knowledge of Power BI, Tableau or similar visualisation tools is highly desired
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Basic written and spoken English
• Experience working in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Skills in solving problems is highly desired
• Responsibility, independence, attentiveness, ability to handle stress, diligence
• Displaying self-motivation and initiative
• Good team player

Context related skills, knowledge and experience:

• Proficiency in KOBO, ODK or similar mobile data collection tools is highly desired
• Strong analytical skills with a critical thinking mindset
• Data literacy and data fluency

Behavioural competencies

• Planning and delivering results
• Working with people
• Analysing
• Communicating with impact and respect

We offer:

• Type of contract: national employment contract till the end of 2022.
• Salary/benefits: According to NRC salary scale, terms and conditions.
• Duty station: to be defined (Ternopil or Dnipro, Ukraine).

This position is for Ukrainian nationals only.