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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors. 

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs.

We are looking for a highly qualified and motivated Monitoring & Evaluation Officer in our office in Severodonetsk, Ukraine. 

This position supports NRC Ukraine Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Unit in development, coordination, quality control, and implementation of Country office M&E system in practice. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree and at least 1 to 2 years of related experience. 

Duties and responsibilities:

• Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Support M&E Coordinator on establishing and maintaining program level M&E systems
• Support on standardizing M&E system across projects
• Ensure implementation of M&E plans at Country Office level
• Prepare and develop status/project reports as required by management/donors
• Liaise with peer organizations and other stakeholders, and M&E staff in partner agencies to facilitate lessons learned and coordination
• Support the M&E unit in new initiatives, should these arise during the employment period
• Contribute to identification of, and designing of protection response to identified risks and needs in the context of the program implementation
• Support and contribute to the development of a data management system through documentation, implementation and coordination of standardizes information flow of M&E activities and reporting
• Lead data collection, data management, and data analysis according to the CO M&E SOPs and program needs
• Support in data management and development of clear information flow between programme and M&E Unit
• Support in developing data collection methodology and tools, and in actual data collection
• Contribute to budget planning for M&E activities and ensure its tracking, including updating and implementation of spending plans
• Ensure that monitoring data are reported in a timely manner to relevant programme and managerial staff
• Perform capacity building and training of programme staff on M&E technical and conceptual areas, as needed
• Conduct technical/training sessions for relevant NRC programme staff in relation to M&E activities and tools, as needed
• Support and conduct learning sessions with relevant NRC program staff in relation to M&E findings
• Reply to general information requests with accurate and timely information
• Support and contribute to the development and maintenance of accountability system, including complaints and feedback mechanism, as needed
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Support in implementing of other M&E activities, as needed
• Perform any other tasks as requested by M&E Coordinator
• Ensure that M&E plans and matrices at Country Office level are developed and up-to-date

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 1 year of experience working in a humanitarian/recovery context in the related field (M&E)
• Strong background in field work
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts is desirable
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluency in English
• Proficient knowledge of Ukrainian and Russian languages
• Bachelors’ degree in statistics, economics, sociology, finance, or another similar field with a quantitative focus

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Post-graduate certificate in M&E related field such as data collection methodologies, sampling, data analysis
• Knowledge of, and experience on using mobile data collection tools, including KoBoToolbox
• Strong knowledge of the software programs (MS Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Familiarity with qualitative and quantitative methods and analysis
• Strong knowledge of, and experience in data analysis and visualization
• Knowledge of GIS software (e.g. QGIS) is an advantage 
• Knowledge of Power BI  is an advantage 
• Strong analytical and research skills
• Experience in managing analysis, synthesis, documentation and dissemination of lessons for a range of stakeholders
• Capacity to evaluate progress, and recommend necessary recourse for maximizing program progress and impact
• Experience with field level coordination with UN organisations, INGOs, Donors and authorities
• Experience with handling insecure environment

Personal qualities:

• Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines in multiple tasking environments
• Strong coordination and communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Displaying self-motivation and initiative 
• Experience working with complex programs involving short deadlines, multiple tasks, in coordination with multiple partners, to achieve expected results
• Responsible, punctual, attentive to details, prompt, well-mannered, decent and willing to work

We can offer:

Contract period: 12 months with possibility of extension depending on funding 

Salary/benefits: According to NRC country policy, medical insurance, training opportunities 

Duty station: Severodonetsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine

Please note that we will contact only with shortlisted candidates.

The deadline for application is 27.09.2019

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