Regional Humanitarian Capacity Building Prog & MEAL Officer at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

The Humanitarian Capacity Building team support the humanitarian and emergency response work of Save the Children and the wider sector through the design and delivery of innovative and high quality learning and talent development programmes. We are now recruiting a programme and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) officer to support our East and Southern Africa (ESA) regional hub. This new role will help us evaluate the impact of our work in the region and to learn from it.

You will be able to use a combination of your adult learning, research and analytical skills to support development and delivery of capacity building while identifying needs and creating a compelling case for investing in capacity building. Working as part of a creative and fast moving team you will be able to create systematic and manageable processes that will help us identify the wider impact of our existing learning and talent development programmes. Your work will track the effectiveness of what we do and enable us to target our learning initiatives in a way that has the biggest impact.

This position sits in the East and Southern Africa Humanitarian Capacity Building Team. The role will support humanitarian and emergency response through ensuring that our learning and talent development initiatives are based on robust research, effective evaluation and market analysis while show casing impact of these programmes.

Contract Duration: 1 year

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• 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
• Experience designing and delivering training
• Excellent project management skills; well organised, able to juggle multiple priorities and deliver to deadlines
• Able to build own credibility with senior colleagues in order to influence change
• Exceptional written, visual and verbal communication skills with experience of creating marketing and communications materials for different audiences
• Exceptionally high standards of customer service with proven experience of delivering highly professional services to stakeholders

Desirable

• Experience of writing successful proposals
• Experience of working in an international NGO
• Relevant academic qualification for example, in the field of international development or social/political science

Please apply in English saving your CV and covering letter as a single document, including your salary expectations for this role.

To see a full a job description, please visit our website at www.savethechildren.net/jobs

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Employment is subject to our Child protection standards including background checks and adherence to our Child Safeguarding Policy

Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified talent.

Disclaimer:

Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents
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Regional Humanitarian Capacity Building Prog & MEAL Officer