MEAL Officer – Ukraine

Mission

In Ukraine, Geneva call is launching a multiyear program to answer to the current situation aiming in the short term to build knowledge among all parties involved in the conflict; and over the middle-long term to leverage policy development and enforcement of norms related to the protection of civilians and public infrastructure and negotiating humanitarian access. Overall, Geneva Call aims to develop humanitarian engagement with armed parties and communities as a means to create space for dialogue on the protection of civilians. Geneva Call works in the whole territory of Ukraine.

Geneva Call consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages and opinions. Geneva Call is an inclusive working environment for all its staff. Applications are particularly encouraged from all qualified candidates without distinction on the grounds of race, colour, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

Role

The MEAL Officer will be responsible for the Ukraine programme’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) activities. The MEAL Officer contributes to overall programme quality through the strategic planning and implementation of all MEAL processes and activities required to improve Geneva Call’s programme quality over the course of project implementation and ensure and demonstrate positive impact on the protection of civilians. The MEAL Officer is directly responsible for assessing and measuring quality and accountability of Geneva Call engagement work in Ukraine. The MEAL Officer is also responsible for designing MEAL tools, data collection, analysis, reporting and follow up in collaboration with project teams.

Core responsibilities

• Support project teams to ensure appropriate data collection and management, including cleaning and validation.
• Develop project MEAL plans based on project logframes and indicators.
• Monitor overall project implementation, including field visits to verify data.
• Support in the development of MEAL tools, including developing assessments, baselines, monitoring and evaluation systems, data analysis and report writing.
• Support project teams in ensuring that programme related actions are taken based on MEAL findings and feedback from beneficiaries.
• With support from programme team colleagues, provide high quality project information to both internal and external stakeholders, extracting detailed project data relevant for reporting.

Main qualifications

Education and experience

• Master’s Degree in social sciences, humanitarian and/or development studies, communications, or relevant field.
• Minimum 3 years equivalent work experience in a humanitarian organization.

Technical skills

• Understanding of proposal management, including project design and proposal writing;
• Familiarity with standard grant management tools such as logical frameworks;
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation as it links to implementing successful projects, both day to day and measuring and demonstrating impact;
• Ability to design, implement and evaluate data collection tools and analysis;
• Good level of proficiency in Word, PPT, KoBo Toolbox and PowerBI or equivalent.

Languages

• English (C1-C2)
• Ukrainian / Russian (B2-C1)

**Qualifications

• Ability to work under pressure, travel frequently in conflict-affected areas and to handle numerous tasks simultaneously;
• Capacity to think critically and produce high-quality reports and analysis;
• Strong inter-personal, communication and leadership skills;
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.

Performance management

The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with the GC Performance Management p. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

• The Job Description
• The individual Work- and Professional Development Plan
• The Competency Framework

Conflict of interest

Any candidate affiliated to, or openly supporting, one or more interest groups opposed to the Foundation’s principles and values, or whose previous position could engender safety issues for co-workers at Appel de Genève / Geneva Call, will be excluded from this selection process.

Conditions

• Position : MEAL Officer
• Type of Contract: Fixed term contract, National position
• Activity rate: 100%
• Work place: Lviv, Ukraine (subject to change according to context)
• Preferred start date: May 23rd, 2022