Вакансія IWPR: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Ukraine

IWPR is seeking a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Ukraine

Contract type:  Fixed Term Contract, until December 31, 2027 (with possibility of extension depending on funding availability). 
Application deadline: 7 August 2025 (the role may be closed earlier if we find a suitable applicant)
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine. Remote work is possible, with a requirement to travel to Kyiv and other locations across Ukraine up to six times per year.
Start date: ASAP

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ABOUT IWPR

Founded in 1991 and operating currently in three dozen countries around the world, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) is an independent non-profit organization that supports journalists and civil society to help drive change in countries experiencing conflict, crisis, and transition. IWPR has been active in Ukraine since the 2014 initially responding to the need for more balanced conflict reporting and journalists’ safety and security skills. Programming since then expanded to include a wide range of interventions among which anti-corruption and government accountability initiatives; fostering capacity building and collaboration between civil society and media; countering disinformation; promoting Ukrainian agenda internationally; documenting war crimes; frontline and court reporting; media emergency support; and capacity building of regional media and investigative journalism centers.

Since January 2025, in Ukraine IWPR’s projects are mainly focused on providing institutional and operational capacity building assistance to the civil society watchdog organizations and independent investigative media and on strengthening the capacity of Ukrainian journalists to provide updated and in-depth coverage of judicial processes taking place across the country, including war crime court proceedings. Main donors are the Norwegian Agency for Development and Cooperation (NORAD), and UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Several new funding opportunities have been also discussed and applied for with different funding organizations. More information about IWPR Programming in Ukraine is available on IWPR website. and on IWPR Ukraine social media.

THE ROLE

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Officer for IWPR Ukraine will oversee MEL efforts for all current and future programs in Ukraine. This position is local to Ukraine and will focus on designing, adopting, and implementing MEL frameworks tailored to each program or project. The allocation of time and effort for each program will depend on its size and complexity. Collaboration will be key, with the MEL Officer coordinating with project staff, partners, the Ukraine IWPR Country Director (CD), the Project Manager (PM), Subgrant Managers and the Principal IWPR MEL Manager, who will provide guidance and backstopping to ensure quality and alignment to organisation standards.

This position will play a crucial role in ensuring successful execution of IWPR’s MEL framework, with a specific focus on data collection and analysis, donor reporting, sub-granting, and MEL capacity building and learning for project partners. While the initial appointment is for two years, it may be extended based on funding availability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As an approximately guideline the split of work in this role is: Project MEL planning, data collection and analysis (including subgrants MEL) – 40%; Reporting to IWPR and Donor – 30%; Knowledge sharing and learning – 30%.  This will vary according to project and organisation priorities.  Duties and expected outcomes include:

• Developing and implementing program monitoring and evaluation procedures, MEL plan with clear indicators, baselines, and targets to ensure effective monitoring of project progress and results towards achieving program goals. Participate in design, collection, and analysis of baseline and end-line data. 
• Work closely with program team members and partners to ensure data is collected regularly, analysed effectively, and integrated into project decision-making. 
• Lead the preparation of timely and accurate internal and external reports, including reports to the donor, ensuring that all MEL data is presented effectively to demonstrate program impacts. 
• Coordinate with project partners in collecting relevant quantitative and qualitative data to report on key performance, context, and outcome indicators. 
• Provide capacity building and training on MEL methodologies, data analysis, and reporting to staff and partners as needed. 
• Input, manage, and ensure the accuracy of data within IWPR’s online database and other forms of data collection/analysis tools like Microsoft forms, spreadsheets, dashboards.
• Keep project data well-organized, up-to-date, and accessible to team members and stakeholders.
• Ensure robust qualitative and quantitative data collection processes, using both traditional methods and participatory approaches.
• Oversee the development of data collection tools and conduct quality assurance of the data collected from sub-grantees and partners.
• Facilitate learning reviews with project team and stakeholders, including beneficiaries and partners and IWPR colleagues across portfolios, to gather insights, share findings, agree and discuss lessons learned and support new planning and adaptations of the intervention.
• Innovate and refine MEL tools and methodologies, ensuring they are aligned and with project needs, and donor requirements, easy to be adopted by implementers, and contribute to Global MEL processes, tools, discussions.  Conduct spot checks and validation processes to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
• Write and contribute to donor reports, as well as periodic internal reviews, focusing on the outcomes and impact of IWPR’s interventions.
• Support communications efforts, including collecting information and writing impact reports for IWPR and donor’s use.
• Contribute to commissioning external evaluations if required.

EXPERIENCE

• A University degree in a relevant field. A Master’s degree is preferred. Or qualification by experience.
• At least 4-5 years of experience leading the MEL function of a large project, with a strong focus on donor reporting and managing MEL processes for sub-grantees. Previous experience with the EU, UK, Norad funded projects and reporting requirements is strongly preferred.
• Experience in MEL capacity building, data analysis, development of Theory of change documents, logframes and presenting evidence through both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Familiarity with qualitative evaluation techniques is highly desirable.
• Experience in development programs, anticorruption projects, media and/or civil society sectors is preferred.

SKILLS 

• Fluency in English and Ukrainian, written and spoken, is a must.
• Excellent data analysis and strong report writing skills.
• Knowledge of best practices for MEL and a good critical grasp of the latest thinking in the sector, tools, codes, standards and practice. Understanding of impact reporting, specifically for projects working on media, journalism and information integrity is a strong asset. 
• Confident user of software and applications relevant to MEAL.
• Adept decision-maker and proactive problem solver with a high level of attention to detail.
• Excellent data management/filing organization skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate effective discussions and maintain productive relationships with a broad and diverse group of colleagues, donors and partners. Experience of working in multicultural teams is an asset.
• Willingness and ability to travel across Ukraine (up to 10% of the time, security permitting).

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Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

Principals only. No calls please. Only those who have been selected for interviews will be contacted. IWPR will never ask for payment for recruitment..

IWPR is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, veteran status or pregnancy and maternity.