Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist – Ukraine

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

The conflict in Ukraine is resulting in a major humanitarian crisis with over 3 million people having fled to neighboring countries, and millions displaced within Ukraine. Plan International is responding to the crisis and working in partnership with civil society organizations, including in Ukraine, to meet the key needs of affected populations including internally displaced people (IDPs).

The MERL Specialist will oversee capacity building, quality assurance, and processes for all monitoring, reporting and evaluation and learning (MERL) responsibilities in Ukraine office projects and response strategies. The role will involve working in direct coordination with national civil society partners, interagency partners, and internal partners to implement MERL frameworks, execute capacity exchange plans, and assessments.

This position will play a key role in supporting Ukraine country level MERL activities and ensuring high quality information and analysis is provided across the Plan International federation. The post holder will provide MERL leadership, technical support, and guidance to Plan International teams and partners in Ukraine.

The Individual

We are looking to recruit an innovative individual who has expert M&E knowledge of development and humanitarian work across a wide range of technical areas. You will have significant experience in M&E in disaster and humanitarian settings and a strong understanding of implementing processes, approaches, tools and methodologies that facilitate and deliver M&E in this context. You will have the ability to develop appropriate guidance that is practical for colleagues to understand and use.

To be successful in this role you will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and be able to communicate complex technical MERL concepts and terminology in simple language to experts and non-experts. You will have strong collaboration skills and you will be able to cooperate and negotiate compromises. You will work with diverse employees from across the organisation and have the ability to build a rapport with a wide range of groups. Must be fluent in spoken and written English. Ability to speak Ukrainian is admirable but not compulsory.

Please respond to the requirements of the role in your cover letter. Only CVs and cover letters in English will be accepted.

Location: We will be recruiting globally for this role, but the individual must be based in Kyiv, Ukraine and therefore support with relocation is available.

Type of Role: 12months fixed-term contract

Reports to: Programmes Director

Closing Date: 18th May 2023

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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