Senior Advisor, Evidence & Strategic Learning (P4)

Summary

The Senior Advisor, Evidence & Strategic Learning (SD), will work closely with program teams and other stakeholders to ensure knowledge and learning are captured and shared to drive quality and impact across Department of Hunger and Livelihoods (DHL) programs. You will contribute to new business development positioning and quality program design by driving thought leadership and learning efforts for DHL. The position collaborates with the DHL Senior Management Team (SMT) and technical advisors to gather, analyze, and share programmatic evidence, successes, impact and challenges relating to food security, livelihoods, youth and climate interventions.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Positioning and Design Support for New Business Development (75%):

• Drive positioning using key learnings from existing programs and facilitate evidence-based design drawing on best practices from internal and external sources.
• Elevate research findings and programmatic successes internally and to key external audiences.
• Together with technical colleagues, develop and apply frameworks and approaches that differentiate Save the Children’s work, including use of Common Approaches.
• Collaborate with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) and Knowledge Management and Communications colleagues in DHL to drive data analysis and documentation of program successes and challenges and elevate findings internally and externally. Collaborate with the Advisor, Program Development to prepare two pagers and evidence and learning summaries for key external stakeholders and audiences, including USAID and USDA.
• Develop a workplan for DHL’s thought leadership, ensuring relevant technical and support staff involvement. Contribute to thought leadership activity planning and implementation for food security and livelihoods within DHL and for youth and climate in collaboration with DHL and other International Programs (IP) colleagues.
• Represent Save the Children at external events to elevate our work in food security, livelihoods, youth and climate.
• Facilitate evidence-based program design, including leveraging the research and learning generated through IDEAL and the AAs to support technical innovation and program quality of DHL portfolio.
• Collaborate with technical colleagues to develop and apply frameworks and approaches that build on Save the Children’s strengths and differentiate us.
• Elevate relevant common approaches, including Household Economy Analysis, within DHL and as part of proposal development process.
• Support the development of proposals through technical contributions, writing, monitoring and evaluation plans or budgets, and proposal direction as appropriate.
• Coordinate gathering of evidence of impact for climate and youth or other cross-cutting proposals relevant for DHL.

Strategic Support for DHL (25%):

• Lead updating of and reporting on Safety Nets and Resilient Families goal, in coordination with goal sponsor (Head, DHL).
• Coordinate development of Department-wide strategies and collaborate with IP colleagues on strategic planning for climate programming.
• Facilitate sharing of learning on food security, livelihood, youth and climate programming within DHL as well as with relevant SCUS and SCI colleagues, including Country Offices, through webinars, discussion groups, or other learning events and fora. Participate on movement-wide working groups on behalf of DHL as needed.
• In coordination with the Managing Director, Strategy and Program Development and the Head of DHL, work with stakeholders across SCUS and SCI to develop strategy documents and plans.
• Together with the Advisor, Program Development, plan monthly DHL all-staff meeting content and coordinate use of the forum to share technical and program learnings as appropriate. In addition, coordinate planning of technical content for DHL retreats.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Proven technical and/ or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to direct the operational activities of a unit or team, or provide technical advice, guidance and management related to various size programs, grants or projects.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 20% of the time.
• Demonstrated proficiency in food security concepts and multi-sectoral programming.
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluence in French or Spanish
• Experience with MEAL and program quality oversight
• Understanding of Save the Children Common Approaches relevant to food security, livelihoods, youth and climate, particularly Household Economy Analysis (HEA)
• Familiarity with USAID, USDA, GCF or other relevant food security, livelihoods, youth, and climate donors

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $108,800 – $121,600 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $98,600 – $110,200 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $88,400 – $98,800 base salary

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more.

About Save the Children

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond.  As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.