M&E assistant

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors. The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world's largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs.

NRC is looking for Monitoring & Evaluation assistant in our office in Severodonetsk.

Job description:

• Adherence to NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Support in standardizing M&E across projects
• Support in data management and development of clear information flow between program and M&E staff, and stakeholders
• Liaise with peer organizations and other stakeholders, and M&E staff in partner agencies to facilitate lessons learned and coordination
• Support the M&E unit in new initiatives, should these arise during the employment period
• Contribute to identification of, and designing of protection response to identified risks and needs in the context of the program implementation
• Support in developing data collection methodology and tools, and in actual data collection
• Assist program staff and M&E unit with data collection, data validation, data analysis and interpretation
• Support and contribute to the development and maintenance of data management system through documentation and implementation of standardizes information flow of M+E activities and reporting
• Reply to general information requests with accurate information
• Support and contribute to the development and maintenance of accountability system, including complaints and feedback mechanism, as needed
• Conduct technical/training sessions for relevant NRC program staff in relation to M&E activities and tools, as needed
• Support and conduct learning sessions with relevant NRC program staff in relation to M&E findings
• Assist with the implementation of other M&E activities
• Ensure proper filing of documents
• Organize and schedule meetings and appointments, maintain contact lists
• Ensure that monitoring data are reported in a timely manner to relevant program and managerial staff
• Perform any other tasks as requested by M&E Coordinator

Qualifications:

• Experience working in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts desirable
• Proficient knowledge of Ukrainian and Russian languages
• Good organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Good written and spoken English
• Good knowledge of the software programs (MS Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection, data analysis and validation
• Strong analytical and research skills
• Knowledge of data analysis and visualization solutions such as Power BI is an advantage
• Knowledge of GIS software (e.g. QGIS) is an advantage
• Experience with handling insecure environment
• Minimum of 6 months experience in data collection and/or data analysis, or administrative assistance
• Knowledge of different data collection methodologies
• Knowledge of mobile data collection tools is an advantage

Personal qualities:

• Ability to work under pressure, independently and with limited supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines in multiple tasking environments
• Good coordination and communication skills
• Skills in solving problems
• Displaying self-motivation and initiative
• Responsible, punctual, attentive to details, prompt, well-mannered, decent and willing to work
• Planning and delivering results
  
• Working with people
• Analyzing
• Handling insecure environment
• Coping with change

We offer:

Contract period: by the end 2019 with the possibility of extention.

Salary/benefits: According to NRC country policy, medical insurance, training opportunities

Duty station: Severodonetsk, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine

The deadline for application is 22.04.2019