NRC has been present in Ukraine since 2014, assisting displaced and conflict-affected people and scaling up the response following the escalation of the conflict in February 2022. In 2025 NRC supported 340,000 people across Ukraine through the provision of legal aid, protection, education, shelter, livelihoods and multi-purpose cash assistance interventions. NRC works in areas with high severity of needs in the east, south and north of the country. NRC's programming also has a strong focus on localisation and partner-led implementation, aiming to strengthen the role of national and local actors in delivering humanitarian assistance.

Within this context, NRC participates in a consortium bringing together international and national partners to deliver cash-based assistance to conflict-affected populations across Ukraine. The consortium is supported by a dedicated Consortium Coordination Unit, led by the Consortium Manager, to ensure coherent, quality and accountable programme delivery across all members.

The first project under this consortium is a coordinated, complementary and harmonised unified cash transfer response, delivered by NRC, Acted and Right to Protection (R2P) alongside eleven sub-implementing partners. The project aims to supports people in meeting their basic needs across high-severity areas based on the Ukraine humanitarian response plan. Assistance addresses the immediate basic needs of vulnerable households close to the frontline, enables rapid emergency response to strikes and evacuations, and supports the most vulnerable internally displaced persons facing barriers to accessing government allowances. A harmonised division of responsibilities ensures each consortium member leads on a specific cross-cutting priority, promoting technical ownership, peer learning and consistent standards across all partners

The role of the Consortium MEAL Technical Officer is to support the Consortium Manager in ensuring the effective implementation of NRC’s Monitoring, Evidence, Accountability and Learning systems at the consortium level. 

The position provides direct technical support on output and outcome monitoring and reporting, as well as evaluations, while coordinating MEAL focal points of each consortium members and supporting sub-implementing partners as needed.

The Technical Officer ensures that quality data and evidence are collected, analysed, and used to inform programme learning and adaptation, and supports harmonisation of MEAL systems across the consortium projects and consortium members.

1. Support implementation and harmonisation of MEAL systems, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and standards at the consortium level, taking into account NRC’s and donor requirements.

2. Provide technical support to consortium programme and MEAL teams on output and outcome monitoring, and, where needed, evaluation and learning.

3. Ensure evidence from outcome monitoring and community feedback mechanisms (CFM) is captured, synthesised, and used for programme adaptation and learning across the consortium.

4. Mentor MEAL staff on consortium harmonised tools, methodologies, and digital MEAL systems.

5. Support consortium members’ MEAL staff in data collection, analysis, and harmonised reporting.

6. Support in ensuring an effective data management system through data quality check, analysis and learning sessions.

7. Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures, and a specific responsibility for the MEAL policies and procedures.

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8. Contribute to Grant Opening Meetings, Project Review Meetings, and Grant Closure Meetings by providing MEAL technical analysis and overview of Actuals versus Targets achievements. 

9. Assist in the identification of lessons learned generated from the consortium projects or initiatives.

10. Ensure quality data are reported to Donors / externally by double checking existing consortium data

11. Create MEAL matrixes and Indicator Tracking Tools (ITT) for the consortium.

12. Create project-specific reporting templates or aggregation tools to gather required data from consortium members and implementing partners in a timely manner.

13. Act as focal point for specific MEAL components, under the lead of the Consortium Manager.

14. Support the consortium in developing tools necessary to complete data collection related to outputs, outcomes, and results including baseline / endline / post-distribution surveys and participatory assessments (with external consultant assistants when necessary), qualitative interview guides, focus group discussion guides, and other types of assessments as needed 

15. Train consortium MEAL staff on data collection tools, outcome monitoring methodologies, and safe data practices.

16. Carry out any other tasks relevant to the function or the position as delegated by the line manager.
    
     

Generic professional competencies:

• Minimum 3 years of MEAL and/or information manager experience, preferably in emergency or post-conflict settings.

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Statistics, Information Systems Management, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or a related field. 

• Good understanding of MEAL principles and current approaches in relief and development settings, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

• Good knowledge and experience implementation of quantitative and qualitative data collection, training, supervision, sampling, analysis and sharing results (visualisation).

• Experience in mobile and online data collection systems and in data management and analysis platforms.

• Experience handling sensitive community feedback in line with data protection principles.

• Experience in contributing to participatory discussions, learning workshops, and capacity-building activities.

• Fluency in spoken and written English.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office - standard applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook) is required and experience using Microsoft 365 tools is an advantage (SharePoint, OneDrive...).

  Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
  
   

• Familiarity with the political and humanitarian context in Ukraine.

   

• Knowledge of Ukrainian or Russian is an asset.

   

• Experience implementing MEAL systems in a consortium is an asset.

• Experience supporting MEAL for cash modality is an asset.

• Experience with capacity-building / capacity-sharing with local organisations in related topics is an asset.

• Experience with statistical analysis using languages such as Python, or R is an asset.

• Experience in data collection, analysis and visualization tools (DHIS 2, KOBO, Advanced EXCEL, Power Bi).