Save the Children in Indonesia is changing for the better. We've begun to build a national organization that aims to be a strong, local, and self-sustaining voice for children in Indonesia. To this end, SC Indonesia has been designated as a “Prospect Member”. As ‘Prospect Member’ Indonesia has been identified as part of the next way of new member development, which focuses on strengthening and localizing our voice for children in strategic middle income countries. Indonesia has been authorized by member ballot to start fundraising locally as a first step towards building a financially sustainable local organization. Future work will also involve developing a strong local governance structure and building key partnerships with local government, the private sector, local civil society among others. Success of the pilot phase will set the Indonesia on a pathway to full membership.
We are currently seeking to fill the following position:
Head of Evidence & Impact
1 (One) position based in Jakarta
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Head of Evidence & Impact will lead the overall monitoring, evaluation, accountability & learning (MEAL) framework for the entire country program. The role will have a focus on higher level analysis of our collective achievements towards our country strategic plan. The role will provide technical expertise to improve evidence generation and learning that will demonstrate the wider impact of YSTC work on children’s lives in Indonesia. The role will serve as a mentor position to other senior MEAL colleagues across the country in both humanitarian and development intervention areas.
The Head of Impact & Evidence will inform and influence senior management and fellow thematic technical advisors to facilitate evidence-based decision-making based on an efficient and reliable data management system. The role will also help strengthen country office’s research and evaluation capability, providing capacity building to area teams to advance their analytical and adaptive programming techniques with sound principles of quality child rights programming. This position will institutionalize evidence generation and learning practices so that YSTC can become a thought leader in selected thematic areas in both humanitarian and development settings.
We are looking for a highly analytical person who can articulate complex issues with intelligibility to a wide number of stakeholders, including senior management, donors and other Save the Children member offices around the world.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- 7 plus years of experience with and knowledge of principles and current approaches to MEAL in relief and development programs, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
- A graduate in a related field, for example but not limited to, research, statistic, analysis. Work experience will always be considered in lieu of education.
- Experience in facilitating the capacity building efforts of diverse colleagues, including local partner agencies.
- Demonstrated ability to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring and other formal and non-formal methods
- Understanding of data and information needs for program management and decision making.
- Credibility and influence (externally and internally) through depth and breadth of expertise; the ability to give professional support and direction to others; seek, review and apply best practice from elsewhere.
- Intellect, creativity and judgement: original ideas; creative approach; sound judgement, encourage ideas, initiative and innovation in others.
- Personal effectiveness/self-management: time, pressure, flexibility, adaptability, commitment to own development;
- Leadership and vision: clear vision; ability to secure commitment to vision; initiate and manage change; to earn credibility; to inspire colleagues; to accept responsibility; integrity and fairness;
- Considerable proven experience in undertaking and leading the production of policy, research and evaluation outputs in similar organisations (Save the Children)
- Knowledge and demonstrated experience of designing and managing high level researches and evaluations
- Extensive experience in analysing the situation of children using the child rights programming/ principles framework
- Proven track record of policy influencing with partners, government and civil societies/key stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to think critically, strategically and analyze complex information and offer creative, practical and effective solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, and an ability to produce and disseminate research and evaluation outputs to variety of audiences using effective approaches
- Willing and able to travel to support field teams as security permits
Closing date for application is up to June 25th , 2019
