Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Contract type: 12-months Fixed Term Contract
Hours per week: 35
Salary: £34,032 per annum, plus monthly allowances of £1,368.34 per diem and £500 security hardship allowance.
Status: Unaccompanied position
Are you passionate about strengthening local capacity and championing quality programming? Do you thrive in roles that blend strategic influence with hands-on support? If you're looking for a role that combines technical MEAL expertise with meaningful collaboration and capacity building, this could be your next move.
About the Role
As the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Adviser, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) to deliver high-quality, accountable programming. You’ll work closely with both the British Red Cross (BRC) country team and URCS’s Quality & Assurance department, providing strategic and technical guidance, strengthening MEAL systems, and embedding learning across programmes.
Reporting to the Ukraine Country Representative, and with technical collaboration with the Senior PMEAL Adviser, the key responsibilities include:
- Advising on MEAL strategy, tools, and processes to support URCS operational goals.
- Supporting programme design, evaluations, and learning dissemination.
- Promoting integration of quality standards like Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) and Protection, Gender and Inclusion (PGI).
- Building MEAL capacity through training, mentoring, and collaborative planning.
- Facilitating cross-sector coordination and contributing to institutional learning.
About the team
The BRC as part of its wider response to the conflict escalation on 24th February 2022 is supporting URCS provide humanitarian assistance to those in need. BRC prioritises supporting URCS help people directly impacted by the conflict to recover through effective, direct and inclusive local assistance. BRC also funds work to support access to physical and psychosocial rehabilitation while ensuring implementing partners are sustainable, accountable and transparent with safeguarding embedded through their organisations.
As a member of the International Directorate, you will be part of a team responsible for BRC’s international humanitarian response and disaster management, support to resilience programmes and organisational development of our partner Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (RCRC) around the world. The work of the directorate also includes humanitarian policy and advocacy activities and upholding and promoting International Humanitarian Law. BRC’s international work is carried out in coordination and partnership with the International RCRC Movement.
What We’re Looking For
You will have a strong technical background in MEAL, ideally with international humanitarian or development experience in complex contexts. You are skilled at turning quantitative and qualitative data into actionable insights, and comfortable advising on complex MEAL systems at country level.
- Proven experience designing and implementing MEAL systems in humanitarian or development contexts.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and communicate data effectively.
- Experience delivering training or mentoring in MEAL approaches.
- Knowledge of the international humanitarian system and Movement-wide MEAL standards, including CEA and PGI integration .
- Confidence in influencing and facilitating participatory approaches.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills with partners and stakeholders.
Please note: Due to legal contracting restraints, we are unfortunately unable to consider applications from Ukrainian nationals.
Please read the full Role Profile/ Job Description for more information about this vacancy including responsibilities and full person specification
Closing date for applications is 23:59 (UK time) on 21st September 2025.
Should you have any questions on this role please email us at [email protected] quoting the job title.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits, these include: