Norway: Senior Education MEAL Advisor

Save the Children is the world's leading independent organisation for children. We work in 120 countries. We save children's lives; we fight for their rights; we help them fulfill their potential. We work together with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children Norway leads the education global theme in the movement and has a large education programs in multiple countries and contexts. To lead our education results reporting systems, we are searching for a:

SENIOR EDUCATION MEAL ADVISOR

Permanent position

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Senior Education MEAL Advisor is responsible for overseeing, coordinating and further developing Save the Children Norway´s education results reporting system and practices, documentation of learning and evidences. The post-holder will ensure that Save the Children Norway has a clear understanding of education results and acts upon the learnings of our education programs.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Strategic development and oversight

• Develop overall guidance and quality assurance of the monitoring and results reporting component of SC Norway education programs.

• Ensure cohesion of education results framework across various donors and contexts and its alignment to Save the Children education global thematic priorities.

• Support in the thematic evaluations and research of education program.

• Lead the disaggregation of education enrollment data on marginalized and vulnerable groups (children with disabilities, ethnic and linguistic minorities, girls/boys etc.

Planning, monitoring and reporting of Save the Children education programs

• Lead the design and development process of education programs through preparation of result frameworks and ensuring the MEAL section has been clearly articulated in the proposals.

• Lead the collection of education results on the large framework agreements with institutional donors: issue guidance and quality-assurance of collection of baseline, mid-term and end-line data. Support the collection and analysis of education results for individual awards.

Capacity development and technical support

• Work closely with education advisors in Oslo and in country programs to build MEAL capacity.

• Lead development and/or refinement and contextualization of tools for data collection against Save the Children menu of education indicators.

• Provide technical support to country offices on result reporting and documentation of evidences.

Accountability and learning

• Support in the dissemination of key education results and data to improve organizational learning and better impact for children’s learning to internal and external audiences.

• Document key accountability practices and lessons learned reported by country offices for sharing and dissemination

• Organize internal forums so as to share key results, learnings and new developments across global education programs.

Qualifications and experience:

• Demonstrated experience from developing and implementing education monitoring and evaluation systems in developing countries and/or humanitarian contexts is essential.

• Demonstrated experience from working in quantitative methodologies, including database management, preferable in education. Highly computer literate with advanced knowledge of excel and preferably one statistical analysis package such as SPSS or STATA.

• Fluency in English required. Knowledge of other languages is an advantage.

• Ability to think strategically around own portfolio of work and create synergies with other stakeholders internally and externally.

• Ability to adjust to new environments and work effectively in networked organisations.

• Have the ability to listen to others

What we offer

• Enriching and meaningful work in an international dynamic organization
• Good career opportunities
• Positive and exciting work environment

Save the Children Norway offers a challenging position among highly competent and engaged colleagues. Work location will be in the Oslo office and the position reports to Education Director in Oslo. Terms and conditions will be agreed during the recruitment process.

Please note: Save the Childre requires Certificate of good Conduct issued by the police.

For more information, please contact Education director, Nora Ingdal, phone +47 900 67 537 or Head of HR Unit, Ingrid Johannessen, phone +47 413 00 101.

Application with resume needs to be completed through our electronic application system online by the 3.May 2016. Please follow the link to complete your application.

Please apply here:

https://reddbarna.easycruit.com/vacancy/1624485/35866?iso=no