Вакансія: Junior Monitoring, Evaluation and Communications Specialist
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Kyiv is seeking a qualified professional for the project “Mental health and psychosocial support for veterans and vulnerable groups in Ukraine” to fill the position of the:
Junior Monitoring, Evaluation and Communications Specialist (full-time, Kyiv)
(internal SAP code: Junior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist)
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the communities in the north, east and south of Ukraine have been particularly affected, with more than 14 million people having forced to flee their homes.
People affected by the war, veterans as well as and especially women and children, are often left alone with their trauma and burdens resulting from the various war experience. Holistic psycho-social therapy approaches are not yet available nationwide. On behalf of the German government, GIZ Ukraine strengthens structures to provide needs-adapted mental health and psychosocial support to the people affected by the war; here in particular to veterans and their families, women and children, IDPs, people with disabilities, and elderly people.
Objective: Gender-responsive MHPSS services for vulnerable groups are strengthened.
Approach: The project is working with regional and municipal administrations, non-governmental organizations, local universities, and rehabilitation centers, to incorporate psychosocial services into local structures, with a regional focus on the oblasts: Kirovohradska, Dnipropetrovska, Kharkivska, and Kyivska. Psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, teachers, and specialists are receiving training to deepen their core skills, thus expanding counselling and support services to persons with war trauma and other war related experience (such as torture and violence). Cooperation among Ukrainian and international actors is also being strengthened to create synergies and use resources more efficiently.
AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Junior Project Coordinator is responsible for:
• Providing technical and administrative support to the project team in day-to-day operations.
• Supporting the development of necessary tools for monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to measure impacts and outputs from activities of the project.
• Supporting to ensure quality and consistency of information and data provided by project partners for M&E.
• Supporting the M&E action plan and ensuring implementation and follow up in close coordination with project coordinators.
• Contributing to project communications and visibility (C&V), ensuring that tasks are completed on time and to a high standard: drafting content (social media, articles, human-centered stories), preparing photo/video material, and conducting content collection missions.
• Coordinating and overseeing online communications and social media activities.
• Supporting the preparation and implementation of visibility events in cooperation with the cluster communications team. • Ensuring consistency of communication materials with MH UA Project and Resilient Society Cluster branding and messaging. • Acting as liaison between the project team and the cluster communications team on C&V matters.
• Supporting digital collaboration and innovation within the project.
The Project Assistant reports to the Project Director
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Academic degree in Social Sciences, Communications or similar.
• Academic and/or first professional experience in M&E, Communications, PR, preferably with international stakeholders.
• Good understanding of social media context and media relations.
• Very good working knowledge of digital tools and technologies for information processing, communication, content creation, problem solving, and computer applications (e.g. MS Office) as an independent user.
• Excellent social and communication skills.
• Excellent language skills (written and oral) in Ukrainian and English are required, German is an asset.
• Ability and willingness to travel on a regular base within (Eastern) Ukraine and abroad.
We offer:
• Official employment.
• Salary fixed in EUR, performance-related bonuses and 13th salary.
• Medical insurance, 29 vacation days annually.
• Language classes, hard and soft skills trainings.
• Individual and group psychological support.
• Possible remote (up to 10 days per month) and flexible work.
• Meaningful and valuable work, international environment.
Employment conditions: Full-time position with 40-hour working week. The place of assignment is Kyiv. The contract duration is until September 30th, 2026. Prolongation is possible. The starting date of assignment is October 1st, 2025. GIZ is an equal opportunity employer and offers an attractive and challenging working environment with opportunities for skill enhancement.
Application: Application comprising of the candidate’s CV and a cover letter in English language explaining the motivation to apply for the job is to be sent to [email protected] until COB September 12th, 2025. By sending the application the candidate gives the consent for the personal data processing for recruitment processes solely. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next stages of the recruitment process.
Candidates are requested to submit their documents with the following title:
• Surname Name_CV
• Surname Name_Cover letter
By sending the application the candidate gives the consent for the personal data processing for recruitment processes solely. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next stages of the recruitment process.
