Announcement: Roster of Sectoral Experts - Ukraine

• Create a pool of on-call technical experts in Ukraine.
• Match experts to short-term assignments (inception input, data collection, tool refinement, analysis, reporting).
• Ensure strong local/contextual expertise for sector-specific studies.

• Inception support

• Review ToR and background documents.
• Validate scope, geographic focus, and stakeholders.
• Propose/adapt methodological approaches to the Ukrainian context.
• Technical inputs to tools

• Refine questionnaires, KII/FGD guides, checklists.
• Tailor tools to sector standards (e.g. WASH minimum standards, Education cluster guidance, Health facility readiness).
• Integrate cross-cutting themes (gender, disability, localization, protection, accountability).
• High-level technical data collection

• Conduct KIIs with: cluster/sector leads, line ministries, oblast/local authorities, service providers (utilities, schools, health facilities), INGO/UN staff, CSOs.
• Where needed, co-facilitate FGDs with beneficiary groups and specialized target groups (IDPs, female-headed households, older persons, PwDs).
• Analysis and interpretation

• Validate findings from field teams.
• Provide sector-specific interpretation (e.g. what “adequate winterization” means in a given oblast; what is feasible in partially damaged infrastructure).
• Identify technical gaps and risks.
• Reporting and recommendation refinement

• Draft or review sector chapters.
• Formulate practical, context-feasible and donor-aligned recommendations.
• Align recommendations with Ukraine clusters, government recovery plans, and ongoing humanitarian response.

• Shelter & Settlements / Housing Repair & Light Rehabilitation

• Damage assessment, BoQs, prioritization of vulnerable HHs, multi-storey buildings, collective centres.
• Knowledge of Ukrainian construction norms and municipal approval processes.
• WASH (Emergency & Institutional)

• Water supply in damaged areas, rural water systems, small-scale treatment, water trucking, WASH in collective centres and schools, hygiene promotion.
• Coordination with water utilities and local administrations.
• Health & MHPSS

• Primary health care, mobile/outreach services, supplies, infection prevention and control (IPC), rehabilitation of facilities.
• MHPSS layers, GBV/SEA referral pathways, conflict/stress-related conditions.
• Education (EiE and Early Recovery of Schools)

• School rehabilitation, temporary learning spaces, inclusive education, non-formal education for IDPs, digital/remote learning.
• Work with education authorities at oblast/raion levels.
• Protection / GBV / Child Protection

• Case management systems, safe identification and referrals, PSEA, protection desks, community protection structures.
• Housing/land/property (HLP) issues for IDPs and returnees.
• Food Security, Livelihoods & Early Recovery

• Cash and voucher assistance (CVA), market assessments, support to MSMEs, agricultural recovery, value chains disrupted by the war.
• Linkages to recovery/stabilization and local economic development.
• Energy, Winterization & District Heating

• Household-level winterization kits, heating support, alternative energy, building efficiency.
• Municipal-level constraints and prioritization.
• DRR / Resilience / Mine-Affected Areas

• Risk mapping, business continuity for services, community-based preparedness.
• Social Cohesion, Governance & Localization

• Engagement with hromadas, CSOs, volunteer groups; participatory/complaints & feedback mechanisms; inclusion of local responders.

• Education (sector-specific):

• Shelter/WASH: Civil Engineering, Construction/Architecture, Water & Environmental Engineering.
• Health/MHPSS: Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Health Systems Management, Psychology.
• Education: Education, Pedagogy, Social Sciences.
• Protection/GBV/CP: Social Work, Law, Gender Studies, Psychology.
• Livelihoods/FSL: Economics, Agronomy, Business/Enterprise Development.
• Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work in Ukraine’s humanitarian / early recovery response.
• Prior work with UN, INGOs, clusters, or large national NGOs is a strong asset.
• Experience in assessments, monitoring, evaluations, or TPM preferred.
• Skills:

• Strong analytical and writing skills.
• Ability to work with mixed methods (quant + qual).
• Confident in conducting high-level KIIs.
• Languages:

• Ukrainian (required), Russian (asset), English (for inputs to reports).

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