KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• Develop and implement a comprehensive MEAL system that aligns with USAID requirements and supports the project’s goals. This includes defining indicators, establishing data collection methodologies, developing tools, and ensuring data quality assurance processes.
• Lead the design and management of data collection systems to track project performance against established indicators. Ensure the integration of gender and social inclusion metrics into the MEAL framework.
• Oversee regular monitoring and evaluation activities, including baseline, mid-term, and final evaluations. Ensure that these evaluations provide actionable insights for adaptive project management.
• Monitor project activities to ensure alignment with the project’s results framework, conducting field visits for data collection, validation, and quality assurance.
• Capture lessons learned, document best practices, and facilitate learning sessions with the project team and stakeholders to promote continuous improvement and adaptive management.
• Recruit, supervise and train MEAL staff.
• Generate and submit accurate and timely reports, including monthly indicator reports, quarterly progress reports, and annual reports, ensuring compliance with USAID requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and capacity-building support to project staff and partners in implementing MEAL systems and utilizing data for decision-making and reporting.
• Work closely with the COP to coordinate and lead mid-term and final project evaluations, ensuring they meet USAID standards.
• Ensure the application of global best practices, including USAID’s Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) framework.
• Build local capacity for sustainable data collection, analysis, and reporting by training and mentoring project staff, local partners, and community stakeholders.

General:

Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice) Accountability:

• holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• University degree required. Graduate degree in public health, international development, social sciences, statistics, economics, demography, or other relevant field preferred.
• 6-8 years of senior experience in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning for large-scale international development projects, preferably in maternal and child health, family planning, nutrition, or health systems strengthening.
• Strong leadership and management skills, with experience recruiting, developing and managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Fluency in Spanish and English required.
• Strong data management, analytical, and report-writing skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and concisely to diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in building local capacity in MERL methodologies.
• Strong experience and knowledge of USAID M&E guidelines, systems, and reporting requirements including Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) principles, approaches, and their application to project learning and adaptation.
• Experience with participatory community-led approaches to project design and implementation.
• Experience with adaptive management and learning and reflection-based programming approaches.
• Strong oral and written communication skills; excellent demonstrated inter-cultural, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Commitment to child rights and to the aims and objectives of Save the Children.

ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS:

• Updated CV
• DPI of both sides
• Updated RENAS certificate
• Proof of Covid-19 Vaccination
• Updated criminal and police records.

(Documents in a single PDF and separate CV.)

IMPORTANT: If you do not meet the previously indicated requirements, you will not be taken into account in the application.

POSITIONING STATEMENT:
Save the Children believes that its safeguard principles and policies are of great importance and is committed to rigorous procedures to ensure that all of our staff and programs are safe, especially for children. Therefore, all candidates will be subject to strict internal and external checks. Interested candidates and candidates of all genders, aged 18 and over, from indigenous peoples, women and individuals are encouraged.