About the job

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.

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

• Experience in designing and conducting research, assessments and evaluations.
• Eperience in data collection, data management, and analysis.
• Demonstrated proficiency in statistical analysis and modelling using STATA software.
• Demonstrated ability to use MS-Office (in particular Excel).
• Demonstrated ability to use ATLAS.ti qualitative software.
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner.
• Demonstrated report writing skills.
• High level of fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• Ability to give professional support and direction to others.
• 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.

• Work with the Research and Evaluation Specialists to manage research, assessments, and evaluations, ensuring high-quality delivery on time and within budget.
• 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.
• Prepare Ethics Review submissions, ensuring inclusive, gender-sensitive, and child-safe participatory research practices.
• 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.
• Conduct responsible data management, data cleaning, and statistical and qualitative analysis under the guidance of the Research and Evaluation Specialists.
• Draft research reports, journal articles, and learning products, such as policy briefs and evidence-to-action briefs, for diverse audiences.
• Present research findings at conferences and forums to support organizational learning and evidence-informed decision-making
• 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.
• 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.
• Support the Head of R&E to write research proposals and pitches, and secure research partnerships and funding.

• Proficiency in statistical analysis and modelling using STATA software.
• Ability to use MS-Office (in particular Excel).
• Ability to use ATLAS.ti qualitative software.
• Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner.
• Report writing skills.
• High level of fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• Ability to give professional support and direction to others.

• Master’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Social Sciences or relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Experience in designing and conducting research, assessments and evaluations.
• Experience in data collection, data management, and analysis.
• Strong thematic background knowledge in at least one of health and nutrition; education; child protection; child poverty; and/or child rights governance
• 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.