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Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

Job Summary:

As the Russian invasion expands in Ukraine, an enormous humanitarian crisis is developing across the country and region. The United Nations (UN) estimates that more than four million Ukrainians will be forced to flee the country if there is no cessation of the invasion, while millions of others will be displaced internally within Ukraine. Neighboring countries are quickly easing entry restrictions and preparing to host large numbers of refugees, as cars are lined up for miles on the Ukrainian sides of borders.

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

CRS is hiring for this position for 6 months, with the opportunity to extend. CRS will also consider consultancy agreements for candidates who prefer this option.

Job Summary:

As the Russian invasion expands in Ukraine, an enormous humanitarian crisis is developing across the country and region. The United Nations (UN) estimates that more than four million Ukrainians will be forced to flee the country if there is no cessation of the invasion, while millions of others will be displaced internally within Ukraine. Neighboring countries are quickly easing entry restrictions and preparing to host large numbers of refugees, as cars are lined up for miles on the Ukrainian sides of borders.

CRS is seeking to hire an Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Manager for the emergency response. As a member of the CRS Moldova project team, and in close coordination with Caritas Moldova, you will oversee MEAL activities for Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) emergency response that serves conflict-affected Ukrainians in Moldova. Your MEAL experience will ensure that the project consistently applies adaptive management and best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.

CRS is hiring for this position for 6 months, with the opportunity to extend. CRS will also consider consultancy agreements for candidates who prefer this option.

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

1. Ensure application of standardized MEAL tools and approaches across the emergency response with respect the MEAL Policies and Procedures.
2. Monitor program implementation progress on a regular basis against CRS quality standards and international humanitarian principles through monitoring visits, data quality audits, spot checks against reports and review of implementing reports.
3. Provide technical support to program staff for the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities, data management and integration of cross-functional issues.
4. Lead on program assessments and surveys
5. Foster a learning environment, lead learning and knowledge management within the response
6. Ensure that Program data are protected and shared according to CRS and donor principles.
7. Encourage the integration of good ICT solution to ease the process of collecting, management, analyzing and protection.
8. Ensure gender disaggregation data analysis to promote gender mainstreaming among the projects.
9. Help identify, assess, and strengthen partners’ MEAL capacity

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in related field. Some experience can be substituted for some education.
• Minimum of 3 years of MEAL experience
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis

Required Languages – Written and spoken proficiency in English required. Proficiency in Russian and/or Romanian is a plus.

Travel - Must be willing and able to travel within Moldova, including to border areas, up to 50%.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment.
• Strong relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively with culturally diverse groups.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to write reports
• Proactive, results-oriented, and service-oriented
• Communicate strategically under pressure

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management experience in emergency programming is highly desirable.
• Project management experience in the areas of cash-based programming, shelter, child projection is highly desirable
• Experience engaging with partner organizations.
• Experience contributing to the development of technical proposals.

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff)

These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Integrity
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation
• Builds Relationships
• Develops Talent
• Strategic Mindset
• Accountability & Stewardship

Supervisory Responsibilities: To be determined.

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Project team, Beneficiary Accountability Officer, MEAL officer, Chief of Party, Technical Advisors

External: Caritas Moldova staff, Ministry of Labor and Social Protection officials, local government officials, community, and Church leaders, UNHCR, working group coordination coordinators

To apply, please send your CV and Cover Letter in English to CRSApplicationsMD@crs.org. Please apply as soon as possible.

***Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. We welcome as a part of our staff people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need. CRS’ processes and policies reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

Disclaimer:  This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

CRS' talent acquisition procedures reflect our commitment to protecting children and vulnerable adults from abuse and exploitation.

CRS is an Equal Opportunity Employer