Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Coordinator Ukraine Kyiv

This position is open to candidates who have the legal right to work in Ukraine. Please note that we are unable to provide work permits or visa sponsorships for this position.

All NRC employees are expected to work in accordance with the organization’s values. To be dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable are attitudes and beliefs that shall guide our actions and relationships.

The role of the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Coordinator is to establish and implement systems to promote evidence-based decision-making, programme and project performance, and internal management. The MEL Coordinator will contribute to quality programming through supporting access to and promoting use of relevant and timely information (both on the output and outcome-levels) on programme scale, relevance, and effectiveness. Within this context, the MEL Coordinator will provide technical support to in-country staff pertaining to MEL and build capacity to apply effective, cost-efficient and contextualized MEL systems in adherence to NRC global MEL policies and framework.

Generic Responsibilities
1.Team management responsibilities: line management responsibilities for directly reporting staff. This includes the performance management process; setting clear goals aligned to country strategy and priorities, and to follow up and support staff’s achievement; workforce planning, recruitment, staff induction, staff development and Duty of Care.
2.Support and contribute to the development and implementation of MEL systems, including Standard Operation Procedures, guidance and workplans in alignment with global NRC MEL framework and discussions with technical teams.
3.Participate in programme design and proposal discussions, including theory of change development, log frame design and budgeting for MEL as requested.
4.Support programme staff in planning for and executing MEL activities, including, data collection methodology and tools and data management, analysis and use in coordination with technical leads.
5.Support the implementation, dissemination and use of evaluations, assessments and monitoring data in programme development, adjustment or review.
6.Contribute to organisational learning through supporting specific analysis, facilitating lessons learned discussions/debriefs and reports. This includes presenting and discussing output/outcome results on the AO and CO levels, particularly during project review/grants opening/closure meetings and data interpretation sessions using effective visual aids, dashboards, reports, and factsheets as necessary.
7.Capacity building and training of programme and MEL support staff on NRC MEL systems, processes, and requirements.
8. Adherence to NRC policies, and a specific responsibility for the NRC MEL functions policies and procedures

Specific responsibilities
• Ensure planning and quality control of MEL activities including development and implementation of standard operation procedures, guidance and tools for the collection, storage, and analysis of output and outcome data for NRC and donors in alignment with country and global guidelines.
• Develop assessment tools, methodologies, sampling strategies, and necessary guidelines to ensure collection of output and outcome indicators in consultation with other MEL and program colleagues.
• Design and implement relevant learning plans (with support from MEL and program technical leads) on area- -level to assess linkages between the achievement/non-achievement of outputs and outcomes across projects and core competencies, including factors for the results.
• Responsible for managing data quality and compliance, including validation processes for monthly GORs reporting and quarterly project participants counting on the area -level. This includes designing and implementing quality assurance systems to validate data accuracy and completeness.
• Contribute to the design of MEL staffing structure and resourcing, including collaboration with programme staff to identify and plan for monitoring and evaluation needs and budgets.

• Lead the documentation and provision of timely MEL reports/dashboards/factsheets that facilitate evidence-based decision-making, both internally within NRC Ukraine and externally with partners and donors. This includes completion of data analysis of outcome data.
• Identify knowledge gaps and provide capacity building and training for MEL and programme staff to ensure proper functioning of required MEL activities throughout the project cycle management.
• Work closely with partners’ programme/MEL teams, where relevant, to ensure smooth function of the MEL system including internal and external reporting. This includes the adoption of NRC mandatory indicators and donor requirements.
• Facilitate and coordinate third party monitoring requests in collaboration with country-office MEL/grants team as necessary.
• Actively participate in project review/grants closure/opening meetings on AO or CO-levels with inputs on data accuracy, completeness, and quality of NRC and donor requirements.
• Other MEL activities as agreed with senior management and program staff that contributes to quality programming in NRC Ukraine.

Summary of the specific requirement:

 •   Higher education preferably within the field of social sciences, statistics, research, international development or economics, or other related fields of study

•   At least 3 years’ experience in an international NGO

•   Demonstrated experience with and knowledge of principles and current approaches to monitoring and evaluation in emergency and development programs

•  Understanding of data and information needs for programme management and decision making

•  Experience in facilitating the capacity building efforts of diverse colleagues

•  Desirable: experience using SPSS, STATA, Power BI, GIS

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