**Introduction**

**Announcement: Roster of Sectoral Experts – Ukraine (STOOS Consulting)**
STOOS Consulting is building a **national roster of sectoral/technical experts in Ukraine** to collaborate on upcoming **evaluations, third-party monitoring (TPM), assessments, and research studies** for UN agencies, INGOs, and donors. STOOS is an international MEAL, research, and advisory firm operating in complex and fragile contexts, delivering **evidence-based, gender- and conflict-sensitive** analysis to improve programme quality and accountability.

**Purpose of the Roster**

- 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.

**Key Duties and Tasks**

- **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.

**Sectors / Fields of Interest**
We welcome experts in the following areas (you may select more than one):

- **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.

**Requirements / Profile**

- **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).