Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Team Lead – Ukraine
For over 30 years, and through our work in more than 100 countries, the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) has sought to strengthen legal institutions, support legal professionals, foster respect for human rights, and advance public understanding of the law and citizen rights. In collaboration with government agencies, the judiciary, lawyers, bar associations, legislatures, and civil society, we design programs that are responsive to local needs and that prioritize sustainable solutions to pressing rule of law challenges.
To learn more about our work in Ukraine, please visit https://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/rule_of_law/where_we_work/europe_eurasia/ukraine/
Job Summary
ABA ROLI is looking to hire a local Ukrainian expert to fill the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Team Lead position for the new five-year cooperative agreement “Healing & Accountability through Human Rights Activity” funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The purpose of this new activity is to help Ukrainians achieve justice and address social divisions resulting from Russia’s full-scale invasion. The activity will support processes aimed at accountability for war crimes, foster dialogue on difficult questions related to post-conflict recovery, and begin healing and reconciliation using human-rights-based approaches, including transitional justice tools. This position is based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The M&E Team Lead is key personnel on this activity and part of the senior leadership team. This position is critical to the success of the activity implementation by providing leadership on adaptive management through innovative and cutting-edge practices. The M&E Team Lead supports the Chief of Party (COP) in ensuring that interventions are evidence-based and that the activity gathers appropriate data to inform adaptive management.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develops and implements complexity-aware methods, such as outcome mapping, sentiment analysis, and most significant change stories, to enable ABA staff to reassess the Activity’s TOC assumptions on a regular basis.
- Develops and implements program monitoring and evaluation practices, including the Monitoring, Evaluation, Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (MECLA) plan, to monitor all project activities and progress towards achieving program goals, using a variety of complexity aware approaches including but not limited to outcome mapping
- Works closely with other team members and partners to ensure information collection for monitoring implementation; supervises data analysis and facilitates its use in managing for program effectiveness.
- Reports as needed, including monthly, quarterly, and annual progress on all project activities to technical team and Chief of Party.
- Coordinates with project partners in collecting relevant data to report on key performance, context, and outcome indicators.
- Develops all required data collection tools and templates, including identifying and requesting administrative data relevant to the program, and develops and maintains a secure system for storing and organizing all program data.
- Facilitates regular pause and reflect sessions and learning activities in furtherance of the CLA objectives of the project.
- Establishes effective procedures for collecting and responding to feedback from beneficiaries, and reporting to USAID a summary of beneficiary feedback and how it was addressed.
- Implements trauma-aware, conflict sensitive approaches to data collection and train staff and partners on implementing these approaches.
- Develops HEAL’s learning agenda.
- Responsible for compliance with USAID Ukraine MECLA requirements.
- Provides MEL capacity building to staff and partners as needed.
- Participates in design, collection, and analysis of baseline and end-line data.
- Designs external evaluation approaches and manages evaluations.
- Supervises uploads of M&E data and productsto ABA M&E systems.
- Supervises and mentor other MEL staff as assigned.
Required qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience leading the MEL for a large project and expertise in developing and operationalizing a comprehensive MEL plan, managing routine monitoring system, and USAID reporting.
- A minimum of 8 years of M&E experience in international development projects with a Master’s degree or 5 years of M&E experience with a PhD.
- Fluency in English (both spoken and written); professional proficiency in Ukrainian is desirable.
Please apply by Friday, November 15th.