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Summary

Save the Children’s U.S. Programs (USP) division is committed to ensuring that all children in rural America have a healthy, strong foundation to thrive as learners and in life. Our contribution to a full cradle-to-career continuum is focused on the early years, birth through elementary school; and our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities. Save the Children also does whatever it takes to be there for children in emergencies and crises. Whether natural or manmade, Save the Children is committed to supporting as long as it takes to help children and families recover from their losses, restore their lives and build resilience for years to come.

Save the Children is seeking an Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation to develop and implement strategies for quantifying and measuring progress and outcomes for our in-school and afterschool programs. Some of our program information is currently stored in large, complex relational databases. You will be a “go to” person for analysis of these data. You will also develop strategies to collect, manage, analyze, visualize, and report survey, program, and secondary data outside our larger databases, merging datasets and writing programs to accomplish data management tasks as necessary. You will lead analyses and visualizations of secondary data from the U.S. Census Bureau, state departments of education, the CDC, and more. This is a great opportunity for someone who loves wrangling and visualizing complex data.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Monitoring and Evaluation (20%)

• Facilitate the design of logic models and evaluation frameworks for assigned programs
• Advise program design teams in selecting indicators and setting ambitious yet realistic indicator targets to measure program progress and achievements with a focus on outcomes for children
• Inform the design, development, and maintenance of data collection systems
• Design other data collection instruments including survey questionnaires and protocols for interviews and observations

Analysis and Reporting (80%)

• Lead data aggregation, analysis, and visualization to identify program needs, document program progress, and inform real-time decision-making
• Contribute data, language and visual elements for internal and external reports and presentations
• Lead internal, and coordinate external, evaluations for assigned program portfolio, ensuring proper methodology is used, deliverables are met, and practices meet ethical requirements.
• Respond to data requests from Save the Children grant writers, communications experts, and senior leaders
• Produce program monitoring reports including Rural Education’s annual results
• Run statistical tests that provide insight into the effectiveness of Rural Education’s programs

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Demonstrated experience with data collection, program monitoring, analysis, reporting and visualization
• Intermediate quantitative data analysis skills and intermediate background in inferential statistics
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite, advanced proficiency in excel
• Professional proficiency in Tableau or PowerBI
• Proven experience working with education data
• Proven experience working with large federal dataset, such as data from the U.S. Census Bureau
• 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 and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 5%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with R, STATA, SQL or other statistical programming software
• Experience implementing Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)-compliant data handling protocols

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 $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
  • Geo 2-Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary
  • Geo 3-Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision, and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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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.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

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. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

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.