Economic Evaluation Advisor at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

The Economic Evaluation Advisor, as part of the Economic Evaluation team, will support Save the Children’s commitment to improve its evidence base to make a difference for children. Understanding the cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our work and incorporating economic evidence into our programming, policy and advocacy is key to our 2022-24 strategic ambition to triple our impact without tripling income. This role will provide support to country offices and thematic teams by leading cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness analyses, conducting trainings to regional and country office teams. It will also include ensuring our research and monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (REALM) and financial systems facilitate the collection and analysis of quality data that supports economic evaluation. You will work closely with other team members to develop and further improve guidance and tools for economic evaluation best practice. You will be expected to help foster a culture within Save the Children of constantly seeking to understand and improve VfM in our work.

You will work with a range of stakeholders in Save the Children offices and across multiple programmes and countries. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder may be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Essential:

• Curiosity, and a desire to use and promote evidence, feedback and learning to deliver improved outcomes.
• Strong analytical understanding of a range of mixed methods for research and impact assessment to generate evidence.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills, for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A proven ability to solve problems and make challenging decisions.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop and maintain relationships with key individuals and groups within and external to the organization.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and maintain focus to achieve results.
• Verbal and written fluency in English.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

Desirable:

• Experience and a track record of success in conducting economic evaluation, especially cost efficiency and effectiveness evaluations, in development and/or humanitarian aid programmes.
• Knowledge and experience in capacity building and enhancing competencies around economic evaluation, research and learning including design, data collection, data entry, analysis, and reporting, across different cultures and contexts
• Additional languages, particularly French, Spanish and/or Arabic.