MEAL Specialist

Danish Refugee Council

Mykolaiv, Ukraine

Experience: 0 to 3 Years

Skill Required: Monitoring and Evaluation

This role is in support of all International Non-Government Organizations (INGOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working under the ABA project in Kherson, and ensures compliance to consortium procedures and guidelines. The role contributes to the development of consortium strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. The role provides support and/or technical guidance to consortium operations while overseeing consortium MEAL activities. The person filling this role will also:

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and continuously update accountability strategy and lead on implementation of programme wide feedback and complaint mechanism with support from the Community Feedback Mechanism Officer.
  • Ensure that consortium members are supporting all efforts towards accountability, specifically to beneficiaries and in line with international standards, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of implementation.
  • Ensure the development of appropriate monitoring, tracking and reporting systems, tools and templates that enhance monitoring of program outputs and quality, generate quality evidence on program outcome and promote and ensure use of data for decision-making processes.
  • Develop and improve systems that strengthen the consortium’s ability to analyze, improve, and represent impact internally and externally and most of all to communities themselves.
  • Design and manage evaluations in compliance with DRC’s evaluation policy, from development of ToRs, to advising management on approval of final report, to dissemination of evaluation.
  • Regularly present key findings to the Chief of Party for further development.
  • Responsible for the development of log frames, IPTs, and MEAL plans in pursuit of high impact and cost effective program strategies and activities.
  • Participate in the project Kick-off meeting, review meetings and close-out meeting in order to highlight cross-project components aimed at replicating good practices and strengthening synergies between partners in the consortium.
  • Manage joint cross-sectoral assessments, evaluations, baseline and end line studies etc.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Monitoring and evaluation, information management or any other relevant field.
  • Proven experience in effectively working with a variety of donors’ requirements including ECHO, EU, OFDA and UN agencies.
  • Proven ability to create and utilize qualitative and quantitative M&E methods and analyses in organizational planning.
  • Full professional proficiency in English.
  • Native proficiency in Ukrainian and Russian.

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