Come join our Pacific team and use your technical expertise to strengthen the quality, consistency and effectiveness of MEAL throughout the region! We are committed to transformative and lasting change for children, their families and their communities in the Pacific. Your role will help our Country Offices improve the way we measure change in the lives of Pacific children!

Save the Children and 54 reasons: A place where your purpose matters.

It takes all types of personalities and talents to drive our organisation– yours included. We value a healthy work-life balance and ensure our people feel connected to each other and our impact. Learn from inspiring people and grow from a connection to our strong local and global networks. From our programs to our support services – this is the place to realise your purpose.

A place to make a difference:

Here you’re empowered to make a difference in children’s lives by learning, sharing and collaborating to find new ways to solve problems. In full-time, permanent role*, you’ll work as a part of our Pacific PDQ team based in either Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Regional MEAL Technical Advisor plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it’s establishing and maintain high-quality monitoring and evaluation systems, tools, practice and processes across the region or developing MEAL frameworks, tools and processes to measure performance and quality, you’ll be contributing to our commitment to children in Australia, the Pacific and around the world

You will make a difference by:

• Supporting the design of technical assessments and feasibility studies, as well as research and evaluations
• Providing advice and feedback on high priority / strategic donor reporting projects, programmes and opportunities.
• Delivering training to ensure staff are equipped for routine data collection, analysis and use of evidence
• Supporting proposal work, including logframe and design aspects of proposal development and donor reporting
• Supporting MEAL emergency preparedness and response within existing country MEAL frameworks, systems, tools and processes.

A place to feel valued

Your deep expertise as a highly analytic, systems thinker, your exceptional inter-personal skills, your ability to thrive in agile environments and your adherence to tight deadlines while managing multiple stakeholders is invaluable. This role suits those who champion knowledge management and who work to continuously adapt and improve our programming, as well as those who are determined to make a difference. We recognise your contribution and provide you the support to ensure you can bring your best, knowing here you have the space and opportunity to grow. Bringing your best every day, means having:

• At least 7 years of experience in a MEAL or related role within a development and/or humanitarian context.
• Experience and knowledge of MEAL systems, including robust and responsible data collection and use.
• Experience and knowledge of evidence generation and learning on what works (and doesn’t work) for children.
• Experience in MEAL capacity building, including training, supervising, coaching and mentoring.
• Advanced knowledge of research ethics and their application, particularly as it relates to children and other vulnerable groups
• Advanced knowledge of research design, complex survey design and analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis, and sampling methods, as experiencing applying these designs and methods in low-resource settings
• Advanced proficiency in KoBoToolbox, including coding of .xls forms
• Advanced proficiency in quantitative data analysis software, including Excel (mandatory)
• Advanced proficiency in data visualization tools like PowerBI or Tableau.

A place to belong

It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

• Opportunity to work on additional projects alongside business as usual
• Individual learning plans to assist in your career development
• Internal employment and development opportunities
• Friendly and flexible work environment
• Agile work environment including working from home
• Child friendly work environment
• Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)
• Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program

For more information regarding our employee benefits, please follow this link.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume by clicking on the ‘Apply’ section.

Applications close 5pm AEST, Monday 6th May 2024.

Position Description – Regional MEAL Technical Advisor

For more information about this position, please contact Adele Harmer at [email protected]. Or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.

*We understand the need for work-life balance. We’ve advertised this role as Permanent, Full-time, but if you’re looking for something slightly different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and individual flexibility plans to ensure we’re providing you a personalised career.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it’s straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment – so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know! We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a workplace suitable for all people and can modify our processes to suit you – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.