Summary

Save the Children is seeking Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEAL) candidates for several upcoming opportunities to lead and manage all aspects of health/nutrition programming within Ethiopia. This senior leadership position will provide overall strategic direction in the design, management, implementation and overall quality assurance of the project.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor will develop, implement, and continuously improve monitoring and evaluation systems for all project activities. The Advisor will incorporate best practices to ensure information collected is accurate, timely and disseminated appropriately in high quality reports. The M&E Advisor will use these findings to improve the program and achieve the objectives. This person will also be actively involved in promoting learning through documentation of lessons learned and developing approaches for community analysis and using data for making decisions.  The position reports directly to the Chief of Party (COP) and will be a member of the Senior Management Team.

This position is contingent upon donor approval and funding.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

•  Provide leadership, training and mentoring to develop M&E Plans, M&E tools, survey design, methodology, and data analysis to assess program impact;

• Develop systems for capturing and documenting data and relevant information on project activities, beneficiaries, outputs, outcomes, and impact;

•   Design methodology and coordinate research activities for project operations and assessments;

• Effectively rollout M&E collection and reporting systems to all staff and partners through training, site visits, manuals, and other technical support as needed;

• Capture appropriate cost and financial information to track money indicators, including benchmarking information to analyze program effectiveness and cost effective inputs;

•  Ensure programming is aligned to targets and indicators contained in project proposal, and use the information from the M&E systems and tools to improve the program effectiveness;

•  Support all project reviews and evaluation activities, including coordinating mid-term and final evaluations, and supporting donor and external reviews;

•  Provide on-going support to maintain M&E systems; identify skill gaps and build capacity among project team;

•   Serve as a key expert and primary contact for M&E strategies and implementation for this program.

•   Provide advice, guidance, and coordination to Save the Children, the Ministry of Education, and other collaborating organizations in the implementation and strengthening of M&E systems for the education program activities supported by USAID.

•  Prepare high quality, accurate and timely reports for Save the Children, project partners and donors as required;

•  Represent the project with USAID, the Ethiopian government, donors, and partners;

Undertake any other tasks as assigned by the Chief of Party

Required Qualifications

•  Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics or related field is required;

•   Advanced training in quantitative methodologies, including database management; experience in qualitative research techniques a plus;

•   Minimum of five years’ experience in monitoring and evaluation related to USAID education projects;

•    Strong analytical skills and an understanding of monitoring, evaluation and assessment tools to promote evidence-based learning;

•   Ability to analyze complex data and summarize it for a range of audiences;

•   Ability to gain support from staff across teams and to build the capacity of others;

•    Sound strategic thinking and planning skills, including ability to think creatively and innovate and to set priorities, manageable work plans and evaluate progress;

Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

KEY COMPETENCIES

Generic Competencies

·      Child Rights: Promotes an enabling environment for participation, and accountability to children

·      Be the Innovator: Promotes innovation to find new and better approaches to driving progress for children

Deliver Results at Scale: Promotes a clear focus on impact in a project and programme design, management, and oversight

Generic Competencies

• Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
• Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalised children and adolescent
• Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery

Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peerS,

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SC Health and Safety policies and procedures.

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. The duty station of the position holder will be in Addis Ababa This role is offered on the basis of national terms and conditions only.

The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.