Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a leading protection agency with a mandate to protect, advocate and promote durable solutions for displacement affected populations. DRC has been operating in Ukraine since 2014, currently DRC employs over 650 staff in Ukraine and will continue significant scale-up in 2024 to implement emergency response in the Protection, Livelihoods, Shelter/NFIs and Humanitarian Disarmament and Peacebuilding (humanitarian mine action) sectors, using direct interventions, support to duty bearers and civil society organizations (CSOs), and partnerships with CSOs. DRC will continue and adapt its durable solutions portfolio to the evolving context.

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently looking for a highly qualified Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Assistant for Kharkiv area.

About the job

This role has an area focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines within the area. The role contributes to the development of area strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. The role provides support and/or technical guidance to base operations. Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Monitoring

• Carry out quantitative and qualitative data collection activities at field level

• Support the design and piloting of monitoring tools to be used during activities and assistance

• During monitoring activities ensure beneficiaries are treated with respect, confidentiality and informed consent

• Carry out data collection work

• Refer on potential vulnerable cases to Monitoring & Evaluation Officer or sensitive issues that might be observed at field level

• Keep supervisor informed of any safety incident that might take place

• Solve problems and conflicts that might occur during monitoring and respond to minor complaints coming from beneficiaries

Reporting and information

• Submit weekly and monthly reports to the Monitoring & Evaluation Officer on achievements and challenges related to monitoring

• Protection cases identified and referred in coordination with the protection team

• Produce periodic monitoring reports to ensure programs have accurate and useful data to inform project development

• Participate in the internal evaluation of the program

Accountability

• Ensure that the activities are compliant with DRC accountability principles

• Support the implementation of DRC’s complaints mechanism

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to have strong analytical skills, understanding of a range of methods for monitoring, evaluation and assessment, and research methodologies; to have the ability to build support from staff across teams and across members, and to build the capacity of others. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

• Minimum 1 year of direct experience of monitoring and evaluation
• Training in quantitative methodologies, including database management.
• Strong analytical skills and an understanding of a range of methods for monitoring, evaluation and assessment to promote evidence-based learning.
• Demonstrated ability and understanding to design, commission, and manage assessment methodologies and techniques such as focus group discussions, key informant interviews, observations to name a few.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to analyze data and summarize it for a range of different audiences.
• Excellent skill in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to build support from staff across teams and across members, and to build the capacity of others.
• Proven ability to coordinate effective resource allocation to ensure quality programmes.
• Experience of working within budget constraints.
• Experience of qualitative research techniques

Desirable

• Experience in international development
• English proficiency

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer:

Contract length: 3 month probation period with possibility of extension

Band: I – Non-manager

Designation of Duty Station: KHARKIV

Start date: as soon as possible

Application process:

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English.

Applications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 1 March 2024

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website drc.ngo.