MEL Officer/ Аналітик з консолідованої інформаці

Job Title:                          MEL Officer  

Reports To:                     Area Manager

Technically reports to: MEL Senior Manager 

Location:                          Dnipro

Background

Global Communities, formerly CHF International, is an international non-profit organization that works closely with communities worldwide to bring about sustainable changes that improve the lives and livelihoods of the vulnerable. Global Communities is responding to the crisis in Ukraine, delivering humanitarian assistance through a community-led response. Global Communities’ response is designed with the goal of saving lives, reducing suffering, and addressing urgent needs while supporting communities to lead their own response and setting them up for recovery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  

The Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Officer is accountable for the performance of project programmatic monitoring and evaluation systems.  

The MEL Officer is responsible for: 

1) implementing and maintaining the M&E systems, plans and tools;  

2) monitoring program progress towards indicator targets and impact;  

3) facilitating collaboration, learning, and adapting (CLA) into all program activities;  

4) conducting regular monitoring visits to program locations; and  

5) supporting data collection, analysis, and reporting, and ensuring data quality.  

Specific responsibilities:  

• Implement and maintain MEL systems to ensure program activities are tracked, reviewed in line with the overall program goal and implementation plan and have the desired impact to achieve program goals and objectives.  
• Ensure implementation of MEL plan in the assigned program area, including various data collection activities.   
• Conduct regular monitoring visits to program locations using structured monitoring tools.
• Provide technical support to partner CSOs, including verifying data for program reports and monitoring partner-organized program activities.  
• Contribute to the design of MEL tools, forms and data collection standard operating procedures to track program activities, outcomes, and learning processes.  
• Support the MEL Manager in building MEL competencies of program and partner staff to ensure accurate data collection, monitoring, data analysis and interpretation and reporting.  
• In coordination with the Data Systems Management Team, support data processing including data transfer, entry, verification and cleaning.  
• In coordination with the Data Systems Management Team and the MEL Manager, support data collection activities conducted by third parties, such as consultants and/or enumerators, including data collection quality control.
• In close collaboration with the MEL Manager, ensure collaboration, learning and adapting informs all strategies and implementation activities through constant feedback loops.   
• Coordinate with other program teams and stakeholders to share lessons learned and facilitate internal and external learning activities and events as appropriate.  
• Contribute to HQ, cluster and donor reports particularly on program progress towards indicators.
• Cary out other MEL-related tasks, as required. 

QUALIFICATIONS    

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.  
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience, such as research, data collection, MEL, etc. 
• Previous experience working with MEL plans on USAID and/or BHA programs is preferred.  
• Demonstrated experience and capacity in managing large volumes of data from various sources and use of quantitative and qualitative methods.  
• Advanced Excel skills, including for data cleaning and analysis.
• Proven knowledge and experience using software for data collection, analysis and visualization, such as ONA, CommCare, Kobo ToolBox, PowerBI, etc.  
• Experience with humanitarian assistance programs is preferred, in particular funded by USAID / BHA.     
• Able and willing to travel regularly within Ukraine to conduct monitoring visits and attend team meeting in Kyiv, when required. 

LANGUAGE SKILLS     

Professional proficiency in written and spoken Ukrainian is required. Professional proficiency in English and Russian is preferred. Must be able to read and interpret documents and communicate with others as necessary to perform job duties effectively.     

WORKING CONDITIONS   

Able to sit at a computer and operate a keyboard, for extended periods of time. 

Regular travel to program locations to monitor program activities and support partner CSO in various territorial communities in Dnipropetrovka oblast (up to 30% of time). 

Global Communities is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability.  

Global Communities is committed to ensuring a safe and respectful environment for all staff, representatives, partners, participants, and anyone with whom Global Communities interacts worldwide, especially children and adults at risk. All Global Communities staff and representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of breach of our safeguarding policies. In addition, it is Global Communities’ policy that it is the responsibility of anyone engaged with Global Communities to proactively build a safe and supportive environment in our work. All our staff and representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.