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 is one of the largest organisations working for children in the world. Founded in 1919, we are now present in nearly 120 countries worldwide. Our mission is to drive breakthroughs in caring for children around the world to achieve rapid and lasting change for them. We believe that every child deserves a future. In the Pacific, and around the world, we help children have a healthy start, learning opportunities, and protection from harm. We do all we can for children - in everyday life and times of crisis - to change their lives and the future of us all.

A place to make a difference:

You will be part of the Pacific PDQ team and be responsible for leading our Pacific MEAL Uplift initiative, including overseeing the rollout of support to our country offices to improve the delivery of high-quality monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, tools, practice and processes across the region.

This is being offered as an initial 9-month fixed term contract on a full-time basis, with strong potential for further extension beyond this or transitioning into a permanent contract.

You will make an impact in the following areas:

• Oversee the Pacific MEAL Uplift initiative, including coordinating the sequencing and timing of the pilot and rollout, working with a range of Head Office and Country Office stakeholders and reporting on progress towards agreed outcomes.
• Identify and promote ongoing MEAL capacity building requirements and opportunities, guided by the MEAL Technical Competency Framework, MEAL diagnostic results, and the capacity goals of the MEAL Uplift initiative.
• Provide distance and face-to-face 1:1 and group training and coaching/mentoring on MEAL systems, tools, processes. This also includes sensitisation to software (KOBO & PowerBi) for data collection and analysis, as well as improving basic data literacy and use of databases and reporting systems.
• Co-lead Regional MEAL Community of Practice to provide guidance and learning.
• Develop MEAL frameworks, tools and processes to measure performance and quality.
• Support the design of technical assessments and feasibility studies, as well as research and evaluations
• Provide advice and feedback on high priority / strategic donor reporting projects, programmes and opportunities.
• 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:

You are highly analytic, a systems thinker, and bring significant experience in MEAL capacity-building and you have exceptional inter-personal and cultural-sensitivity skills. You are someone who thrives in agile environments and you can work to tight deadlines while managing multiple stakeholders.

This role suits those who champions capacity building, including training, supervising, coaching and mentoring, and who work to continuously adapt and improve approaches to deliver results. You will be determined to make a difference.

This role requires:

• 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 and processes, including program monitoring, data collection and use.
• Experience in MEAL capacity building, including training, supervising, coaching and mentoring, as well as strong facilitation skills.
• Experience in organisational change management processes
• Advanced knowledge of 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 visualisation tools like PowerBI or Tableau.
• Willing to travel to country and field offices in the Pacific.

A place to belong:

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:

• Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.
• Internal employment and development opportunities
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
• Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We've established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion and allow you to bring your whole self to work (if that's what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Committee).
• 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

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We'd love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.

Position Description - Regional MEAL Technical Advisor

For more information about this position, please contact Adele Harmer at [email protected] using the subject line: Pacific Regional MEAL Technical Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.

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 at [email protected] using the subject line: Pacific Regional MEAL Technical Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We're dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported - 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.
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.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Pacific Regional MEAL Technical Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs for further support.