Safeguarding Behavioral Science Specialist at Save the Children

The objectives of this role 

Safeguarding Behavioral Science Specialist is to use behavioral science to identify behaviors that either cause harm or fail to prevent harm, and to design and test intevntions to change these behaviors. Target behaviors could be physical punishment by teachers, failure to do effective risk assessments by staff, or non-reporting of policy breaches.

The role is initially for 1 year to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach, with an outlook of permanent employment after the 1st year. The role can be based anywhere in the world as long as it is in a country where save the children operates, and can be home based.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Demonstrated experience and expertise designing, implementing, and analyzing randomized field experiments in developing countries.
• Strong qualitative analysis or mixed methods for social research skills, including demonstrated knowledge of and experience working with data analysis software such as NVivo, ATLAS.ti
• Strong proficiency in quantitative analysis and software such as STATA, R or similar.
• Flexible, self-motivated, able to manage multiple tasks, team members, and projects efficiently.
• Ability to succeed, detailed oriented, drive projects, and collaborate via a remote working structure.
• Excellent management, organizational, interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Fluency and excellent communication and writing skills with a mastery of English. Knowledge of an additional language such as Spanish, French or Arabic is preferred but not required.
• Role requires affinity with child protection or child safeguarding, but no previous experience in these fields.
• Preferably: previous publications involving behavioral science or related topics