Monitoring & Evaluation Design Specialist III - International Education & Livelihoods

The expected salary range for this position is $103,800.00 - $129,740.00. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings.

This career specialist will work in the M&E area supporting International Education and Livelihoods. He/she will be a subject matter expert responsible for designing M&E frameworks, survey instruments, training materials, conducting analysis, drafting reports, advising on data visualizations and supporting the M&E technical advising team on implementation of these frameworks in National Offices.

 

PLEASE NOTE: This is a remote, US-based position.

 

What will you do?

• Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

• Act as an advocate for children. Understand and advance Christ's mandate to protect children. Take active steps to help protect against neglect, abuse, and exploitation of children.

• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.

• Design outcome measurements for livelihoods programs particularly with a child and youth focus.

• Support overall holistic child development and provide ongoing subject matter expertise in using high quality data to measure program inputs, outputs, outcomes. Aid partnership facilitators, program support team and church partners by providing coaching and knowledge within monitoring and evaluation. 

• Provide ongoing subject matter expertise in using high quality data to measure program inputs, outputs, outcomes in international education and livelihoods.

• Practice quality control in reviewing survey products, analytical dashboards and reports, and data management.

• Aid program support team and church partners by providing coaching and knowledge within monitoring and evaluation.

• Lead the development and adoption of partner compliance and adherence to standards, procedures, and policies related to program quality.

• Collaborate with program leaders to provide direction and subject matter expertise regarding intervention milestones and indicators especially in the area of international education and livelihoods.

• Conduct analyses to establish validity and reliability evidence for international education and livelihoods measurements.

• Monitor partnership dashboards to track critical program dimensions and performance and enable the National Offices and frontline church partners to see meaningful improvements or decline in performance.

• Manage and may lead complex budgeting and planning efforts for baseline surveys and other M&E activities across multiple countries/regions.

• Simplify complex information to report to a variety of stakeholders.

 

What will you bring?

• Master’s degree in economics, education, social science, agriculture, or a related field is required.

• At least 5 years' experience working in an international development setting with an emphasis in Monitoring & Evaluation design.

• Experience in conducting and leading quantitative or qualitative analyses is required.

• Experience in designing education and/or livelihood programming and research or evaluation is required.

• Some experience in health is a plus.

• Proficiency with STATA, R, or SAS strongly preferred.

• Experience with coding syntax or programming language.

• Experience with online survey tools (e.g., Survey CTO, Open Data Kit, KoboToolbox) is a bonus.

• Must be able to speak, read, and write fluently in English.

• Fluency in a second language is a plus.

 

Travel Requirements: Ability to travel up to 25% of normal schedule including international travel. Travelers must follow the vaccination rules of each country they travel to. Some countries require the health record to be uploaded to their system to receive a QR code to present when arriving at immigration.  

 

Why work here?

• The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.

• Our benefits: Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund, excellent healthcare coverage, and more.

• ​Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals

 Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above.

 

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Salary : $103,800 - $129,740