Research and Evaluation Senior Officer at Save the Children

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Research and Evaluation Senior Officer to join our global team.

Team purpose
The Research and Evaluation Unit conducts research, assessments, and evaluations. It operates as a cost-recovery unit, working internally in response to requests from Save the Children implementing and member offices.
Role purpose
The R&E Senior Officer is a member of the R&E Unit, which acts as an internal consultancy conducting research, assessments, and evaluations. The primary role of the Research and Evaluation (R&E) Senior Officer is to conduct: 

• Research and assessments to inform program design; policy, advocacy and campaigning work; and planning and decision-making at the global, regional and country level; and 
• Evaluations of Save the Children’s programs, advocacy and campaigning work around the world. This includes interventions within and across countries, to inform Save the Children on the impact and efficiency of our work and facilitate meta-analysis. 

Job Title: Research and Evaluation Senior Officer 

Reports To: Research and Evaluation Unit Manager

Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available 

Contract Length: FTC - 12 months

Grade: P2

Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers

Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Any

Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.

Language Requirements: English

International Travel Requirements: up to 10% 

Principal Accountabilities
 

• Research Management: Work with the Research and Evaluation Specialists to manage research, assessments, and evaluations, ensuring high-quality delivery on time and within budget.
• Research Design: Support the Research and Evaluation Specialists to design and conduct experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental studies, including developing study sampling, recruitment, data collection, and data analysis protocol and methods. 
• Ethical Research: Prepare Ethics Review submissions, ensuring inclusive, gender-sensitive, and child-safe participatory research practices. 
• Data Collection: Support the Research and Evaluation Specialists to develop survey, interview and focus group discussion tools, as well as sampling, participant recruitment and data collection implementation guidance for enumerators. Train enumerators and oversee data collection processes and quality assurance.
• Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis: Conduct responsible data management, data cleaning, and statistical and qualitative analysis under the guidance of the Research and Evaluation Specialists.
• Knowledge Translation: Draft research reports, journal articles, and learning products, such as policy briefs and evidence-to-action briefs, for diverse audiences.
• Knowledge Sharing: Present research findings at conferences and forums to support organizational learning and evidence-informed decision-making
• Capacity Building: Mentor and train colleagues and teams in research and evaluation methods to build internal capacity. Review and provide technical advice on other studies to maintain quality standards.
• Innovation & Thought Leadership: Stay updated on innovative, best-practice and right-fit research methods, and Save the Children’s global Research, Evidence and Learning Agenda, and program quality/fidelity guidance, quality-assured standardised indicators and measures that enable meta-analyses across projects, regions and time.  
• Partnership and new business: Support the Head of R&E to write research proposals and pitches, and secure research partnerships and funding.
   

Experience and Skills
Essential

1. Experience in designing and conducting research, assessments and evaluations. 
2. Eperience in data collection, data management, and analysis. 
3. Demonstrated proficiency in statistical analysis and modelling using STATA software. 
4. Demonstrated ability to use MS-Office (in particular Excel). 
5. Demonstrated ability to use ATLAS.ti qualitative software. 
6. Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner. 
7. Demonstrated report writing skills. 
8. High level of fluency in English, both verbal and written. 
9. Ability to give professional support and direction to others. 
10. Strong thematic background knowledge in at least one of health and nutrition; education; child protection; child poverty; and/or child rights governance 
     

Desirable

• Experience working in a large NGO preferred
• Strong remote-working abilities.  
• Experience and knowledge of Save the Children
• Fluency in languages other than English, particularly Arabic, Spanish and/or French. 

Education and Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Social Sciences or relevant field or equivalent experience.

Working at Save the Children International

Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.

We know that great people make a great organisation, 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.

The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.

Application Information

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found here via the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.

Our recruitment process:

1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
2. Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
3. Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
4. If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks

We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.