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Join Save the Children UK's Start Network as a MEAL Officer to drive impactful humanitarian work and make a real difference in children's lives.
Overview
Salary £29900 - £36520
Location Farringdon, London/Home-based
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Expires Expires at anytime
Organisation Summary: Save the Children UK is dedicated to changing children's futures by providing health, education, and protection. As a leader in crisis response, we advocate for the needs of children globally and strive for lasting impact, especially for those in hard-to-reach areas. The Start Network, part of our humanitarian efforts, is a unique charity coalition aiming to deliver swift and effective emergency aid, leveraging collective knowledge to benefit those affected by crises.
- Role Summary:
- Support MEAL activities for Start Funds to boost performance, learning, and accountability.
- Enhance evidence-based decision-making and improve crisis response.
- Collaborate with a dynamic team dedicated to humanitarian excellence.
- Role Requirements:
- Prior experience in MEAL within humanitarian or development contexts.
- Strong data analysis skills and proficiency in analysis software.
- Innovative mindset with adaptability to new technologies and workflows.
- Experience with Salesforce or similar CRM systems.
- Excellent communication skills for effective data presentation and stakeholder engagement.
- Proven teamwork and collaboration abilities.
- An undergraduate degree in social science, research methods, humanitarian response, or related fields.
- Spanish language proficiency is desirable.
Join us at Save the Children UK and contribute to our humanitarian mission, with the added benefit of a supportive work environment that encourages flexibility, well-being, and a rewarding sense of purpose.
We are looking for a Monitoring, Evaluation , Accountability and Evaluation (MEAL) Officer to join the Start Network within our Humanitarian Department role to support the ongoing MEAL activities for the Start Funds to enhance its performance, learning, and accountability.
About Us Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About the Team Start Network is an independent charity made up of more than 80 aid agency members across five continents, including international, national and local organisations. Our aim is to deliver more effective emergency aid, harnessing the power and knowledge of the network to make faster and better decisions to help people affected by crises.
About the role The Start Network funds have a robust monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) portfolio to strengthen evidence-based learning, performance and overall accountability towards the people affected by or at-risk of crises, donors, members, and partners. Reporting to the Crisis Financing MEAL Lead, the Start Funds MEAL Officer will play an important role to support the ongoing MEAL activities for the Start Funds to enhance its performance, learning, and accountability.
Job requirements To be successful, it is important that you have: Previous experience delivering MEAL for humanitarian or development programmes, Excellent data analysis skills, Proven experience of embracing new approaches, technology and ways of working, Experience of using qualitative and quantitative analysis software, Experience of using Salesforce or other customer relationship management (CRM) system, Excellent written and verbal communication skills to present data and evidence in a user-friendly form and to stakeholders at different levels, Demonstrable experience of strong teamwork capabilities and collaboration, Undergraduate degree, ideally in social science, research methods, humanitarian response or related fields, Language skills - working proficiency in Spanish.
Benefits Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance. We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work. We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
