MEAL & IM TA II, Ukraine

Описание

**This position is contingent on funding confirmation**

CRS Moldova and Ukraine 

About CRS 

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion, or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding. 

CRS Moldova and Ukraine 

Building on a modest pre-existing presence, the Moldova and Ukraine Country Office (CO) rapidly expanded its programming following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Between 2022 and 2025, CRS reached over 500,000 people through a comprehensive emergency, recovery and development strategy encompassing shelter and infrastructure, winterization, basic needs, education, livelihoods, protection, and care reform. The CO also prioritized strengthening partner capacity and fostering local leadership to amplify impact and reach millions more. Looking ahead, priorities include diversifying programming for the most vulnerable, integrating systemic outcomes for scale, and deepening partnerships across both countries. CRS’ portfolio is resourced by institutional donors and private emergency funding. 

In Ukraine, CRS has provided technical support and accompaniment to Caritas Ukraine (CUA) in managing the . Government (USG) Department of State (DOS)-funded program Multi-Sector Assistance to War-Affected People in Ukraine since February 2024. The next phase of the project is expected to significantly broaden its scope and scale, delivering critical services to a larger number of war-affected communities. Through capacity sharing and accompaniment, CRS supports CUA on all aspects of implementation including program management, technical sectors, MEAL, grants management and reporting, operations, compliance and risk management. The support is led and coordinated by a Project Director, with active involvement from the Country Office senior management, programming and operations teams, as well as regional and global advisors, and strategic engagement of agency senior leadership. 

This position is focused on and based in Ukraine. 

Job Summary

As MEAL Technical Advisor II, you will lead the provision of technical support on Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and Information Management (IM) for Caritas Ukraine for the USG DOS funded program, Multi-Sector Assistance to War-Affected People in Ukraine.

Your MEAL and IM-related technical knowledge, advice and guidance will ensure that strong systems and practices are in place to track program progress, assess performance and results, and support learning, adaptive management, and reporting. You will work with partner staff through close accompaniment to ensure MEAL systems and practices are aligned with donor requirements and CRS/Caritas program quality, management and MEAL standards and best practices. Your technical knowledge, management experience, and strong relationship skills will help advance CRS and partners’ work to support the most vulnerable and conflict-affected people across Ukraine. 

Roles and Key Responsibilities

Provide technical solutions to CRS and CUA teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, ensuring high-quality implementation of MEAL activities. Provide guidance and technical oversight for the development and implementation of high-quality MEAL systems and processes, including ICT4MEAL/IM systems, to ensure project design, start-up, implementation and close-out are in line with program quality principles, CRS and partner MEAL standard and policies, donor MEAL guidelines, and industry best practices. Provide technical support to design and deploy effective IM systems, digital tools for data collection, and data analysis and visualization that facilitate use of data and quality reporting. Contribute to or lead the periodic review of data quality and MEAL and IM systems for large and complex emergency programming and support CRS and partner staff to identify and apply corrective actions. Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports. Strengthen MEAL capacity of staff and partners through training, mentoring, and development of learning strategies, curricula, and practical tools. Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions. Participate in coordination forums for MEAL to collect and share best practices and promote CRS and partners’ work.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree International Development, Humanitarian Assistance, Information Management, MEAL or related field

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 

Demonstrated application of technical principles and concepts in MEAL and IM, including applying data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation, in multisectoral humanitarian programming, preferably with an international NGO. General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.  Experience working with partner organizations on project management and accompaniment, capacity strengthening and institutional development. Experience in business development, project design and proposal development in including technical writing and production of MEAL-related technical documentation.  Experience in mentoring, coaching, facilitation, and training applying adult learning principles and practices. Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles. Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings. Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment Strong written and oral communication skills Excellent facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented Experience with information management, database design and management, including concepts of relational databases and hands-on experience with one or more RDBMS preferred. Experience in PowerBI and one or more of the following digital data collection tools strongly preferred: CommCare, KoBo Collect, RedRose Collect. Expertise in statistical software such as Stata, R, or SPSS preferred. Experience using both quantitative and qualitative MEAL approaches strongly preferred Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.

Required Languages: English fluency (written and verbal) is required, knowledge of Ukrainian or Russian is an advantage.

Travel: up to 30% of field travel within Ukraine, primarily to partner offices. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: To be determined.

Key Working Relationships: 

Internal: Project Director, Program Team, Head of Programs, Country Representative, BD/Grants Management Coordinator, Head of Operations, Deputy Head of Operations, CRS Global/Regional staff, Humanitarian Response Department staff

External: Caritas Ukraine national and local offices, institutional donors, local government, USG, United Nations and international NGOs, humanitarian clusters and working groups in Ukraine