Consortium Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Coordinator / MEAL-координатор/ка

Plan International Germany is the consortium lead and will contract the Programme Coordination Unit members through Plan International Ukraine as host agency. This unified single programme coordination unit consists of the Consortium Coordinator, MEAL Coordinator, and the Finance Coordinator, as well as the Child Protection Coordinator and the Gender & Inclusion, Safeguarding and Participation Coordinator. The Coordination Unit does not directly implement programme activities but provides consortium-wide leadership, coordination, quality assurance, financial oversight, technical support, monitoring, and donor reporting for the programme.

This position is responsible for the technical leadership and guidance of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning activities under the programme, according to gender- and age-sensitive quality standards. He/She will ensure a coherent monitoring approach across the implementing partners and programme regions – together with the MEAL specialists of the different consortium members. 

He/She will report to the Consortium Coordinator of the Coordination Unit. 

Main Responsibilities

1. Consortium MEAL Leadership and Systems Strengthening

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the consortium-wide Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) framework across both programme components.
• Coordinate the development, review, and adaptation of MEAL systems, standard operating procedures, methodologies, tools, guidance, and reporting frameworks in collaboration with consortium technical specialists and MEAL focal points.
• Ensure a harmonised and coherent MEAL approach across consortium members and implementing partners while allowing for contextual adaptation where required.
• Establish and maintain consortium-wide standards for data collection, management, analysis, storage, protection, and reporting.
• Promote the integration of gender-sensitive, age-appropriate, inclusive, child-centred, and conflict-sensitive approaches throughout all MEAL systems and processes.
• Ensure MEAL systems generate timely and reliable evidence to support programme quality, adaptive management, accountability, donor reporting, and strategic decision-making.
• Lead the development and maintenance of consortium-level information management systems, databases, indicator tracking tools, and reporting platforms.

2. Monitoring, Evaluation and Data Quality Assurance

• Provide technical leadership for the design and implementation of baseline, midline, endline, and final evaluations, including methodologies, tools, sampling approaches, data collection processes, ethical approvals, analysis plans, and reporting requirements.
• Develop guidance and provide technical support to consortium members and implementing partners to contextualise and apply approved monitoring and evaluation methodologies.
• Ensure programme indicators, logical frameworks, and results frameworks are consistently monitored and reported across all consortium members.
• Establish and oversee data quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy, consistency, completeness, reliability, and integrity of programme data.
• Conduct regular reviews of data collection systems, monitoring processes, and information management practices and recommend improvements where required.
• Analyse programme performance data and generate actionable insights to support programme management and continuous improvement.
• Review and provide technical feedback on monitoring reports, evaluation reports (and any other report as relevant), and indicator performance data.
• Conduct field visits to programme implementation locations to support monitoring activities, data quality assurance, partner capacity strengthening, and programme learning.
• Provide technical input into the recruitment, onboarding, and capacity strengthening of programme-funded MEAL staff within consortium member organisations and implementing partners, as requested.

3. Accountability and Community Feedback

• Lead the development and strengthening of consortium-wide accountability mechanisms, ensuring programme participants have safe, accessible, child-friendly, gender-sensitive, and inclusive opportunities to provide feedback and raise concerns.
• Support consortium members and implementing partners to establish, maintain, and monitor effective (child-friendly) feedback and complaints mechanisms in line with organisational and donor requirements.
• Ensure community feedback, complaints, and accountability data are systematically analysed and used to inform programme adaptation, decision-making, and service improvement.
• Promote meaningful participation of children, young people, caregivers, and affected communities in programme monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes.
• Ensure accountability approaches are integrated throughout programme implementation and regularly reviewed for effectiveness and accessibility.

4. Learning, Evidence Generation and Adaptive Management

• Lead consortium-wide processes for identifying, documenting, analysing, and disseminating lessons learned, good practices, innovations, and implementation challenges.
• Promote a culture of evidence-based programming, learning, reflection, and continuous improvement across the consortium.
• Facilitate learning workshops, reflection sessions, peer exchanges, after-action reviews, and other learning opportunities to strengthen programme quality and effectiveness.
• Support consortium members and implementing partners to use monitoring, evaluation, and accountability findings to adapt programme strategies, activities, and approaches.
• Generate evidence and analytical products that support programme management, strategic decision-making, advocacy, donor engagement, and future programme design.
• Ensure evaluation findings, recommendations, and management responses are tracked and integrated into programme implementation and decision-making processes.

5. Capacity Strengthening and Technical Support

• Strengthen the technical capacity of consortium members and implementing partners to implement high-quality MEAL systems and processes, e.g. through monthly MEAL meetings with relevant consortium staff members.
• Develop training materials, guidance documents, tools, and learning resources related to monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, information management, and data quality.
• Deliver training and ongoing technical support to MEAL staff and programme teams across the consortium.
• Convene and facilitate regular consortium MEAL coordination meetings to support harmonisation, peer learning, technical exchange, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Provide responsive technical assistance to consortium members and implementing partners on emerging MEAL priorities, challenges, and donor requirements.
• Support programme teams and technical specialists to ensure gender equality, inclusion, safeguarding, and child participation principles are effectively integrated into programme design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

6. Results Reporting and Knowledge Management

• Lead the consolidation, analysis, and interpretation of programme performance data across consortium members and implementing partners.
• Maintain consortium-wide indicator tracking systems and ensure timely and accurate reporting against programme targets and outcomes.
• Support the Consortium Coordinator in preparing high-quality quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and final donor reports by providing robust evidence, analysis, indicator results (with progress against logical framework), and programme performance information.
• Consolidate findings from monitoring activities, assessments, evaluations, accountability mechanisms, and learning processes into consortium-level performance reports and results summaries, including donor reports.
• Produce and disseminate MEAL products, including dashboards, analytical reports, learning briefs, case studies, evidence summaries, and knowledge products, as relevant.
• Ensure programme evidence, lessons learned, and knowledge products are systematically documented and shared across consortium members, implementing partners, donors, and other relevant stakeholders.[MA1] 

The responsibilities outlined above are not exhaustive and may evolve over the course of programme implementation. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties, consistent with the role’s purpose and level of responsibility, as reasonably assigned by the Consortium Coordinator.

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

• Coordination Unit, including Consortium Coordinator & technical specialists
• Consortium Steering Committee
• Programme Management Steering Committee
• Technical Programme Committee 
• Plan International Ukraine as hosting agency
• Plan International Germany, esp. Programme Specialist and M&E Specialist
• MEAL teams of consortium members and implementing partners

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge

Education

• Degree in social sciences, statistics, economics, international development, public policy, monitoring and evaluation, or another relevant field.

Experience

• Minimum eight (8) years of progressive experience in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) within humanitarian, development, or nexus programmes. 
• Demonstrated experience leading MEAL systems in complex, multi-stakeholder consortium environments, including coordination across international NGOs and local implementing partners. 
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining MEAL frameworks, tools, and systems for large-scale programmes, including harmonised multi-agency indicator systems. 
• Experience designing and implementing participatory MEAL methodologies, including consultations and feedback processes with children, youth, and vulnerable populations in humanitarian contexts.
• Extensive experience managing baseline, midline, endline, and final evaluations, including evaluation design, methodology development, and oversight of external evaluators. 
• Strong experience in Child Protection and/or MHPSS programme MEAL, including outcome monitoring in sensitive and protection-focused programming contexts. 
• Proven experience establishing and managing Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) systems, including community feedback and complaints mechanisms (CFRM), with child-friendly, gender-sensitive and inclusive approaches. 
• Experience ensuring data quality assurance, verification processes, and audit/spot-check readiness.
• Experience strengthening MEAL, AAP, and information management capacity of consortium partners through training, and technical support. 
• Experience supporting donor reporting processes for institutional donors, including consolidation of results frameworks, indicator reporting, and performance analysis (e.g. GFFO, BMZ or equivalent). 
• Experience working in emergency and/or conflict-affected settings, more specifically experience in Ukraine and engagement with civil society organisations is highly desirable. 
• Experience developing and managing information management systems, dashboards, and consolidated reporting platforms across multiple partners.

Technical Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of MEAL systems design, results-based management, logical frameworks, theories of change, and performance monitoring frameworks. 
• Strong understanding of consortium MEAL governance models, including harmonisation of indicators, reporting standards, and multi-agency coordination mechanisms. 
• Knowledge of participatory monitoring and evaluation approaches, including child participation principles, ethical engagement of children and young people, and inclusive feedback methodologies.
• Knowledge of Accountability to Affected Populations principles, including community engagement, feedback loops, and complaints and response mechanisms. 
• Strong knowledge of ethical standards for data collection, including safeguarding, informed consent, child participation, and protection of vulnerable groups. 
• Knowledge of data protection principles, confidentiality standards, and responsible data management (including safe storage, sharing, and access protocols). 
• Strong understanding of humanitarian principles and international standards, including CPMS, Sphere Standards, Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), and the Red Cross/NGO Code of Conduct. 
• Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods, sampling techniques, and mixed-methods evaluation approaches. 
• Understanding of gender equality, inclusion, safeguarding, and conflict sensitivity and how these are integrated into MEAL systems and analysis. 
• Knowledge of information management systems, database structures, and data visualisation principles for programme decision-making.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong skills in participatory assessment and inclusive MEAL approaches, particularly with children, young people, caregivers, and other vulnerable populations, ensuring ethical, safe, and meaningful engagement in data collection and feedback processes. 
• Strong ability to design and manage consortium-wide MEAL systems, frameworks, and reporting, ensuring coherence across multiple implementing partners. 
• Advanced skills in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, interpretation, and synthesis into actionable programme recommendations. 
• Strong skills in developing and maintaining information management systems, dashboards, and consolidated data platforms (e.g. Excel, Power BI, Kobo/ODK, SPSS or equivalent tools). 
• Strong data quality assurance skills, including data validation, verification, cleaning, and oversight of audit-ready MEAL systems. 
• Ability to design and implement AAP systems and feedback/complaints mechanisms, ensuring accessibility, inclusivity, and child-friendly approaches. 
• Excellent facilitation skills, including leading learning events, reflection workshops, and consortium-level MEAL coordination forums. 
• Strong donor reporting skills, including preparation of high-quality analytical inputs, results reporting, and performance summaries for institutional donors. 
• Excellent report writing, communication, and presentation skills, including the ability to translate complex data into clear insights for technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Strong organisational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in complex, fast-paced consortium environments. 
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, with demonstrated ability to work across diverse organisations and cultures. 
• Strong capacity strengthening skills, including training of staff and partners on MEAL and related systems. 
• Ability to support adaptive management processes by linking evidence, learning, and decision-making.

Languages

• Fluency in Ukrainian and English is essential (and eliminatory).

Behaviours 

• Demonstrates strong commitment to Plan International’s values, safeguarding principles, humanitarian standards, and rights-based programming. 
• Promotes accountability to affected populations, transparency, and ethical use of data across all programme processes. 
• Actively contributes to a culture of learning, reflection, and evidence-based decision-making across the consortium. 
• Demonstrates strong integrity, discretion, and professionalism in managing sensitive data, including protection-related and child-related information. 
• Builds strong collaborative relationships across consortium members, implementing partners, and communities, promoting trust and shared ownership. 
• Demonstrates sound judgement and solution-oriented thinking in complex operational and data environments. 
• Remains adaptable, organised, and effective under pressure in fast-moving humanitarian contexts. 
• Promotes inclusion, gender equality, localisation, child participation, and meaningful engagement of programme participants in MEAL processes.

Plan International’s Values in Practice

We are open and accountable

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

We strive for lasting impact

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

We work well together

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

We are inclusive and empowering

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

Physical Environment

The holder of the position will be working in a typical office environment and might travel to any of the implementation regions (pending security situation). 

Level of contact with children

Mid contact: Occasional interaction with children

Submission of applications

To apply for this offer, please send via e-mail [email protected]

- A full CV
- A cover letter