Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager HRO-447 At INTEGRITY

Full-time, fixed-term conditional consultancy position based in Ukraine.

Introducing Integrity

Integrity is an ethical consultancy and service provider working in challenging and complex environments around the globe.

We help our clients succeed in fragile and challenging environments while building trust and understanding as the basis for transformative change. We work across all phases of the programme and project cycle, delivering ten complementary services: monitoring, evaluation and learning / data and knowledge management / research, evidence and analysis / advisory / project management / communications / technical assistance / capability and capacity development / stakeholder engagement / grant and fund management. Our services are underpinned by the principles on which we were founded, a commitment to providing reliable information and evidence, and expert and high-quality delivery.

Headquartered in London and Washington DC, Integrity also has offices in Jordan, Kenya, and Pakistan. Our multi-national team of over 80 deliver multi-year projects, programmes and consulting assignments to a wide range of government clients, international organisations, foundations and private sector clients.

VISION: To set the international standard for ethically delivered expert services in complex and challenging contexts.

MISSION: We use evidence and learning to provide trusted advice and enable change for a sustainable future.

VALUES:

• Courage: We work on many of the world’s most complex problems. We stand against violence in all its forms. We are unafraid to stand up to illegal or unethical practices.

• Objectivity: We challenge conventional thinking. Our recommendations are not based on assumptions or ideology but evidence and learning.

• Diligence: We incorporate our best individual and collective intellect through rigour, reflection, and collaboration.

• Accountability: We take responsibility for the quality of our work and performance. We hold ourselves to account through clear policy and process, sustained by long-term profitability.

• Sensitivity: We understand the impact of our presence and our work, empathise with people’s situations, and commit to do no harm.

ETHICS: Integrity upholds the highest ethical standards in our work, our employment of staff and our interaction with people. Through adherence to our core values, we ensure the best possible service, and benefit the communities amongst whom we work.

We commit to building a diverse and inclusive organisation where all feel safe and able to progress, contribute and be heard, regardless of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, marital or parental status.

How the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Manager fits into the Integrity Team

The MEL Manager will play a varied technical and management role in delivering Integrity’s projects in Ukraine. Working within the technical delivery team, they will draw on their contextual, technical, and thematic expertise, to deliver assigned projects on time, on budget, to high levels of quality, and in keeping with Integrity’s values and ethics.

As a technical member of a project delivery team, the MEL Manager will be expected to report to the MEL Lead (responsible for the overall technical design and delivery of a project) and work in close coordination with a Project Manager (responsible for all elements of contract, financial, operational and risk management), and a MEL Officer(s) in support of technical delivery of the project.

The specific project focus of the MEL Managers’ work will be determined based on future project wins, with the Terms of Reference updated for the relevant project requirements. These projects will likely include multi-year third-party monitoring (TPM) projects or the MEL components of large implementation contracts supporting the resilience and development of Ukraine.

The MEL Manager is a consultancy position, with a fixed term determined by the project assignment. Successful candidates must be based in Ukraine, with a strong preference that this position be based in Kyiv, and be prepared to regularly travel to and within Ukraine, in order meet with project stakeholders and manage team members. Security provisions, risk assessments, insurance, and travel plans will be produced to ensure the safety and security of all travelling personnel, with specific arrangements made for any work-related trips. If candidates know of any impediment to their ability to travel to and from Kyiv regularly, they must state and explain this in their application.

Scope of Work

The MEL Manager will support the technical design, delivery and learning of monitoring, evaluation, and learning components of selected projects delivered by Integrity in Ukraine.

The MEL Manager provides support to the technical delivery, design and coordination of all MEL workstreams for a project. With the oversight of the MEL Lead, they will lead the development of the projects MEL system(s) and support technical engagement with the client and other stakeholders (including Government, donors and implementing partners) to ensure the scope and design of the project’s activities meet key requirements and specifications.

The MEL Manager will contribute to the design and implementation of appropriate and innovative methodologies, manage ongoing quantitative and qualitative data collection, and take a lead role in using analytical tools to clean, extract and analyse the data produced. They will lead the drafting and finalisation of the technical products in English, incorporating feedback from the MEL Lead and Project Director, as required.

The MEL Manager will work according to project workplans, coordinating with other team members to ensure these are updated and adhered to, with activities sequenced to allow efficient delivery across the project. The MEL Manager will escalate risk and issues to the MEL Lead to allow timely management and mitigation.