Pacific Regional Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Technical Advisor

There’s something special about spending your days alongside like-minded people, just as committed to purposeful work as you. At Save the Children Australia, we attract bright and big-hearted people who are inspired to make a difference. Together, we are fearless in our pursuit of making lasting change for the children and communities who need it most.

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:

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:

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:

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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 adele.harmer@savethechildren.org.au. 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.

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.