Civilian Security, Team Leader US State Department Monitoring, Evaluation and Audit Services for Reporting (MEASURE) in Ukraine Project

Management Systems International (MSI), a Tetra Tech Company, is a Washington, D.C. metro area management consultancy with a 40-year history of delivering results for our clients. Our expertise is in the fields of monitoring and evaluation; democracy and governance; peace and stability; rule of law and accountability; education; gender and inclusion; strategic communications; and leadership and organizational development. MSI has implemented projects in 90 countries around the world such as Colombia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria and Ukraine, and works domestically. We support clients ranging from the U.S. Government (e.g., the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Departments of State and Labor, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation) to large bilateral and multilateral donors (e.g., the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program). We also work with national and local governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), think tanks, foundations and universities. For more information, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.

Project Summary

Through the U.S. State Department-funded Monitoring, Evaluation and Audit Service for Ukraine (MEASURE) project, MSI is monitoring multiple areas of effort, including the continuity of the Ukrainian government; societal resilience; security and resilience; and accountability. MSI’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) experts, alongside local specialists in Kyiv, are providing a wide range of MEL and audit services including: establishing and operationalizing a performance monitoring framework; undertaking data quality assessments; evaluating USG foreign assistance delivery partners’ program objectives, methods, and procedures; and creating monitoring and assessment tools to track existing and future supplemental funding

**Please note: Only U.S. citizens are eligible for this position**

Position Summary

The Team Leader will conduct the rapid civilian security evaluation in close collaboration with the MEASURE field office team in Kyiv, MSI home office team members and subject matter experts. The Team Leader will lead the evaluation team and contribute to reviewing document/literature, conducting high-level interviews, and analyzing data. The Team Leader will design the evaluation framework, draft the evaluation report and other evaluations deliverables. Data collection is expected to combine in person and remote methods, and travel to Ukraine is expected. The rapid evaluation is due to start in September, with a draft report to be submitted in December 2025.

Responsibilities

• Help design and execute the evaluation work plan and design.
• Participate in the evaluation inception meeting with The Department of State (DoS) Office of the Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia (EUR/ACE) and the Implementing Mechanisms (IMs).
• Conduct a team planning workshop (TPW) with evaluation team members (remote) to review the approved evaluation design/ work plan, including research approach and methods, roles and responsibilities of team members, activity timeline and deliverables.
• Head the drafting of data collection instruments for EUR/ACE review, with inputs from subject matter experts, including pre-testing and finalizing the instruments.
• Support the evaluation manager to coordinate local evaluators and subject matter experts, including training them on instruments and reviewing notes of interviews and group discussions to ensure high-quality data.
• Participate in data collection with other evaluation team members.
• Facilitate weekly check-in calls with evaluation team members and the evaluation manager to share information and insights.
• Serve as the lead author for drafting and finalizing the draft and final evaluation report, including responding to comments from EUR/ACE and IMs.
• Manage presentation(s) to EUR/ACE regarding findings, conclusions, and recommendations from the evaluation.
  
  

Qualifications:

• A master’s degree in a field such as International Relations, Security Studies, Political Science, or Peace and Conflict studies.
• A minimum 10 years of experience monitoring and evaluating civilian programming is required.
• Experience with Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and/or Bureau of Political Military Affairs (PM) strongly preferred.
• Experience leading mixed method evaluations required.
• Experience designing and managing large databases and developing visualizations, analyzing trends and patterns required.
• Experience with do-no-harm participatory research required.
• U.S. citizenship with Security Clearance is required.
• Experience in Ukraine strongly preferred.
• Strong organizational, analytical, writing and oral presentation skills required.
• Oral and written proficiency in English is required.
• Ukrainian language skills strongly preferred. MSI Tetra Tech is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law. Tetra Tech is a VEVRAA federal contractor and we request priority referral of veterans.
  
  

Reasonable Accommodations

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Additional Information

• Organization: 216 MSI