Research and Evaluation Coordinator at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

Save the Children International works in all contexts to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and create lasting change in children’s lives. Save the Children’s ambitious strategy places a strong emphasis on the key role of research and evidence in driving up our impact for children, both in our programmes and in our policy, advocacy and campaigns work.

The Research and Evaluation (R&E) Coordinator is a member of the Centre R&E Team. The primary role of the Research and Evaluation (R&E) Coordinator is to:

• Provide R&E team coordination and administrative needs.
• Enable staff in SC offices and partners to deliver robust and ethical research, evaluation and evidence generation.

Note that this role has limited direct involvement in conducting research, evaluations or other types of studies.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Significant years of experience in managing research, assessments and evaluations, including research proposals, pitches and partnerships.
• High-level fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• High-level management and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience with procurement, contracting and budget management
• Experience working securing and maintaining partnerships, especially academic partners
• Demonstrated ability to use project management-related tools and MS-Office (in particular Excel).
• A flexible and initiative-taking attitude with the ability to manage and prioritise an unpredictable workload
• Experience working effectively with diverse colleagues and managing teams in a remote-working environment.

Desirable

• Strong thematic background knowledge in at least one of Save the Children’s breakthrough areas: Survive, Learn and Be Protected; and themes (health and nutrition; child education; child protection; child poverty; and/or child rights governance).
• Experience working for an international humanitarian or development agency.
• Experience and knowledge of Save the Children’s structure, mandate and child focus.