Full-time, fixed-term conditional consultancy position based in Ukraine.
Integrity is an ethical consultancy and service provider working in challenging and complex environments around the globe.
We help our clients succeed in fragile and challenging environments while building trust and understanding as the basis for transformative change. We work across all phases of the programme and project cycle, delivering ten complementary services: monitoring, evaluation and learning / data and knowledge management / research, evidence and analysis / advisory / project management / communications / technical assistance / capability and capacity development / stakeholder engagement / grant and fund management. Our services are underpinned by the principles on which we were founded, a commitment to providing reliable information and evidence, and expert and high-quality delivery.
Headquartered in London and Washington DC, Integrity also has offices in Jordan, Kenya, and Pakistan. Our multi-national team of over 80 deliver multi-year projects, programmes and consulting assignments to a wide range of government clients, international organisations, foundations and private sector clients.
VISION: To set the international standard for ethically delivered expert services in complex and challenging contexts.
MISSION: We use evidence and learning to provide trusted advice and enable change for a sustainable future.
VALUES:
• Courage: We work on many of the world’s most complex problems. We stand against violence in all its forms. We are unafraid to stand up to illegal or unethical practices.
• Objectivity: We challenge conventional thinking. Our recommendations are not based on assumptions or ideology but evidence and learning.
• Diligence: We incorporate our best individual and collective intellect through rigour, reflection, and collaboration.
• Accountability: We take responsibility for the quality of our work and performance. We hold ourselves to account through clear policy and process, sustained by long-term profitability.
• Sensitivity: We understand the impact of our presence and our work, empathise with people’s situations, and commit to do no harm.
ETHICS: Integrity upholds the highest ethical standards in our work, our employment of staff and our interaction with people. Through adherence to our core values, we ensure the best possible service, and benefit the communities amongst whom we work.
We commit to building a diverse and inclusive organisation where all feel safe and able to progress, contribute and be heard, regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, marital or parental status.
How the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Lead fits into the Integrity Team
The MEL Lead will play a varied technical and management role in delivering Integrity’s projects in Ukraine. Working within the Integrity project leadership team, they will draw on their contextual, technical, and thematic expertise, to deliver assigned projects on time, on budget, to high levels of quality, and in keeping with Integrity’s values and ethics.
As a senior technical member of a project leadership team, the MEL Lead will be expected to report to a Project Director (accountable for the overall performance and delivery of a project) and work in close coordination with a Project Manager (responsible for all elements of contract, financial, operational and risk management) in the performance management and oversight of technical delivery teams.
The specific project focus of the MEL Lead’s work will be determined based on future project wins, with the Terms of Reference updated for the relevant project requirements. These projects will likely include multi-year third-party monitoring (TPM) projects or the MEL components of large implementation contracts supporting the resilience and development of Ukraine.
The MEL Lead is a consultancy position, with a fixed term determined by the project assignment. Successful candidates must be based in Kyiv and prepared to travel to and within Ukraine regularly, in order to meet with project stakeholders and manage team members. If candidates know of any impediment to their ability to travel to and from Kyiv regularly, they must state and explain this in their application.
Scope of Work
The MEL Lead is responsible for the technical design, delivery and learning of monitoring, evaluation, and learning components of selected projects delivered by Integrity in Ukraine.
The MEL Lead provides technical direction, guidance, coordination and oversight across all MEL workstreams for a project. They oversee the technical quality management process, conduct quality assurance reviews, and sign off on key technical deliverables. They will manage technical line reports, strengthen their performance, build their technical competencies and capabilities in line with project needs, provide feedback, and guide learning activities.
The MEL Lead will lead technical engagement with client focal points, working with them and other project stakeholders (including Government, donors, and implementing partners) to ensure project activities’ scope and technical design meet key requirements and specifications. They will advise on the alignment of programme-level theories of change with high-level policy and strategic documents, developing and updating project-level theories of change and results frameworks to fit evolving needs.
The MEL Lead will oversee the development of project workplans, managing teams to ensure these are updated and adhered to, with activities sequenced to allow efficient delivery across the project, and risks or issues are escalated and addressed to allow timely management and mitigation. The MEL Lead will develop appropriate and innovative approaches and methodologies to meet the needs of our clients and reflect contextual sensitivities or considerations on the ground. The MEL Lead should have considerable experience employing quantitative and qualitative data collection methodologies and using analytical tools to clean, extract and analyse the data produced. They will direct and, where necessary, lead the drafting of technical products in English into a finalised form, incorporating inputs from copy editors and graphic designers, as required.
How to apply
If you are interested in applying for this position, please complete the application form at http://www.integrityglobal.com/opportunities and attach a CV and Cover Letter at the bottom of your application.
The closing date for applications is 30 September 2024.However, we will review candidates on a rolling basis and the vacancy may be filled before this deadline. We encourage early applications. Please be advised that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Candidates must have the right to work in Ukraine.