Save the Children UK
£32,725 – £38,500
Save the Children UK is looking for a Research, Evidence and MEAL Adviser to join our Humanitarian Leadership Academy
• Do you have experience of conducting research and evaluation on programme impact – ideally of social change, capacity building or learning programmes? • Do you have experience of working with and developing indicators and monitoring tools? • Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?
If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!
About Us The number of children requiring humanitarian assistance is rising as the climate crisis, entrenched conflict, and fragility, forced migration and infectious diseases all lead to an increase in the frequency, duration, and severity of catastrophic events. With needs continuing to grow and rapidly outpacing available resources, humanitarians around the world are once more forced to do more with less. Recognising the changing humanitarian risk landscape, the need to stay relevant, and to step up for greater impact, Save the Children has adopted a bold vision for the future of its humanitarian work and as part of this, there is an important role for SCUK to play in identifying and supporting next-generation collaborative initiatives that will ultimately deliver impact for disaster-affected children and their families.
The Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) as part of SCUK’s humanitarian department provides high-quality humanitarian capacity strengthening for the movement, as well as the wider sector, as part of our shifting the power agenda. The HLA’s mission, as a team within the humanitarian department, is to enable people around the world to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries, by providing quality learning opportunities. The HLA’s approach spans from focused needs-based learning in countries hit by crises to the huge international reach of our learning platform, Kaya. They are a global team that has a full suite of in-house skills to provide and develop the offer; technical and learning experts, platform specialists, a digital and design studio, communications support and more. The HLA enables SCUK to offer the most effective and impactful humanitarian capacity strengthening resource for both the Save the Children movement, the wider humanitarian sector and beyond.
Job Purpose As the Research, Evidence and MEAL Adviser you will support the HLA to ensure its learning solutions, products, approaches and methodologies are of the highest quality and underpinned by robust evidence, impact and research systems. Through this role you will contribute to ensuring that the team’s learning solutions and approaches are able to meet the known or anticipated learning needs of individuals, organisations and the sector in the future.
Key Accountabilities:
• Ensure REMEAL plans, frameworks and systems are in place and operational in all regions as per HLA REMEAL strategy.
• Manage and coordinate on high-value external consultancies delivered by the REMEAL team to improve HLA’s understanding of impact as well as research supporting decision making
• Collaborate with the HLA’s teams to strengthen and analyse evidence for effective team learning as well as storytelling
• Establish and manage effective relationships with key stakeholders and partners within the humanitarian learning sector to provide cutting edge solutions to demand
• Contribute to REMEAL and Data capacity training internally and externally
• Responsible for the design, development and support the Regional Programme Officers in implementing the monitoring, tracking, accountability and reporting systems, tools and templates for the learning solutions and products functions, and for HLA strategic areas Project manage the development of a monitoring and evaluation framework for the appropriate areas of the wider HLA work.
• Advise and support in the design and collection of quantitative and qualitative data collection and ensure consistency across the teams learning solutions, products and services, and the wider SC Movement as part of the HLA data management system
• Provision of relevant data and information to support the development of compelling communications to advocate for humanitarian capacity building and to market learning programmes drawing on qualitative and quantitative data gathered
• To conduct/manage discrete research and MEAL projects for the team as and when required as well as design, commission and manage research and MEAL projects for external clients including in relation to relevant research publications
• Contribute to proposal development including in relation to data collection procedures and indicator development where necessary
• Develop the appropriate internal and external relationships to ensure the team is keeping up to date with sector initiatives and developments
• Contribute to the report writing for internal and external audience
• Build network and partnerships with external researchers, evaluators, agencies, networks and organisations from across all regions.
• Contribute to supporting strong ways of working across the new team, as well as taking individual responsibility for building an inclusive and supportive team culture
• Ensure that the HLA’s future internal portfolio is underpinned by comprehensive and standardised MEAL to inform both our work as we all provide learning and standards for our clients
• Develop metrics for measuring the success of learning solutions and propose changes based on results
• Develop mechanisms to demonstrate that all our learning design and delivery is backed by high quality evidence, that includes monitoring data as well as robust evaluations
Person Profile Experience and Skills
• Experience of conducting research and evaluation on programme impact – ideally of social change, capacity building or learning programmes
• Experience of working with and developing indicators and monitoring tools
• Strong project management skills; well organised, able to juggle multiple priorities and deliver to deadlines
• Experience of designing and implementing new policies, processes or procedures in a team which improve the way the team functions
• Strong written, visual and verbal communication skills with experience of supporting creation of marketing and communications materials, research related products and visuals for different audiences
• Exceptionally high standards of customer service with proven experience of delivering highly professional services to stakeholders
• Experience of writing successful proposals/tender documents
• Strong problem solving and organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with people from a range of backgrounds and cultures Abilities
• A ‘can do’ attitude, ability to work on own initiative and to deliver results against tight deadlines with good quality results • A flexible approach to working and ability to respond at short notice to a wide variety of tasks
• Ability to travel internationally, occasionally at short notice, and to remote and insecure locations Aptitude
• An understanding of and commitment to humanitarian work
• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity
Note: This role can be based internationally outside the UK provided it is in a country with an SC office from which you would be able to work – the salary will be based on local pay structures if not based in the UK. Please Note:
To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Ways of Working: Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.
On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.
Flexible Working – We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview. Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be “Free to Be Me”. We are mot looking for just one type of person – we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.
We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences – of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability – help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.