Monitoring & Evaluation Officer - Ukraine Refugee Crisis Response Hub at Plan International

Location: Nigeria (Remotely to start with. May be required to work in one of the response countries at a later stage)
Type of Role: Fixed Term
Functional Area: Humanitarian
Reports to: Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) Specialist
Travel Required: Up to 60% time sometimes at short notice
Effective Date: April 2022

Role Purpose

• The conflict in Ukraine is resulting in a major humanitarian crisis with over 3 million people having fled to neighboring countries, and millions displaced within Ukraine. Plan International is responding to the crisis and working in partnership with civil society organisations in Poland, Romania, and Moldova to meet the key needs of those affected by the crisis as well as host communities.
• This position will play a key role in the support to country level activities and ensuring high quality information and analysis is provided across the Plan International federation. The postholder will provide M&E leadership, technical support and guidance to Plan International teams and
• partners in Poland, Romania, and Moldova. The position will initially be remote but may well be based in one of the 3 countries in the future.
• The Ukraine Hub is a service-oriented structure to support initiation of activities, and to help find solutions to problems as and when arise. Creative thinking and identifying work arounds to problems faced will be a critical element of the role.

Dimensions of the Role

• The position will develop Plan International’s approach to monitoring & evaluation across all response locations, in close collaboration with our partners.
• The role is the primary point of contact for staff and partners in Poland, Moldova, and Romania on all M&E support requirements.
• The post holder will ensure Plan International is following the organisations’s MERL standards.
• The post holder will represent Plan International in external fora, ensuring the organisation is seen as a leader in gender focused programming in humanitarian response.

Accountabilities

• Provide technical leadership to teams in Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the formulation of a joined up M&E Framework, approach and plans for the entire Ukrainian Response.
• Ensures all M&E work has a strong gender focus in line with Plan International’s Global Strategy.
• Ensure that the different capacities, vulnerabilities and coping mechanisms of girls and boys are considered and analyzed.
• Socialise the MERL Chapter of the Emergency Response Program Manual for use in the Ukrainian Response
• Support preparedness activities across all response locations.
• Develop M&E capacity building plans and provide training, coaching and mentorship to program staff and partners.
• Identify key data visualisation approaches to maintain profile of the response activities and to support learning and improvements.
• Capacitate staff and partners to collect quantitative and qualitative data, ensuring disaggregation by sex, age, and disability.
• Provide input to the regular response sitreps.
• Foster use of the Child friendly Complaints and Feedback Mechanism toolkit and the Adolescent Consultations toolkits to meaningfully involve children, adolescents and young people throughout the response phases.
• Build and maintain relationships with relevant government departments, UN agencies and NGOs.
• Actively contribute to M&E Coordination Mechanisms. Support partner organisations take a co-leadership role in relevant Working Groups as and when requested by partners.
• Establish / maintain new / existing relationships with key donors
• Support development and submission of quality proposals in response to identified opportunities.
• Support response teams to develop case studies and reports of innovation in the response and key successes.
• Contribute to relevant global advocacy and policy objectives with documented learning and evidence.

General:

• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility.
• This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

Key Relationships
Internal:

• Programme technical leads.
• Ukraine Hub
• National Organisations
• Global Hub departments including humanitarian, finance, legal, funding)

External:

• Civil Society Organisations
• UN Agencies
• Institutional Donors
• Embassies

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge
Essential:

• Significant experience in implementing M&E activities in a variety of humanitarian crises, particularly displacement and refugee settings.
• Strong understanding of implementing processes, approaches, tools and methodologies that facilitate and deliver M&E in these context, and organizational learning, that is up to date with best practices in the sector.
• A theoretical and practical understanding of gender attitudes and power dynamics, including why they exist and how they change, and how these attitudes and dynamics shape MERL approaches and methodologies.
• Experience providing M&E technical support to teams and partner organisations.
• Experience of capacity building with a variety of audiences.
• Able to analyse large amounts of data and generate powerful reports and information from them.
• Understand and consistently apply ethical MER practices
• Excellent communication skills. Fluency in English, written and spoken.

Desirable:

• Proficiency in Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, or Moldovan languages.

Plan International's Values in Practice:
We are open and accountable:

• Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
• Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
• Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
• Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
• Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people

We strive for lasting impact:

• Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
• Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
• Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
• Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.

We work well together:

• Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
• Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
• Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
• Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.

We are inclusive and empowering:

• We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential
• We respect all people, appreciate differences and challenge equality in our programs and our workplace
• We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives.

Physical Environment:

• Based remotely, working in a virtual hub. Required to travel to operational locations on a regular basis, sometimes at short notice.

Level of Contact with Children:

• Low contact: No contact or very low frequency of interaction.