Short term consultancy assignment
· Commencing February 2025, concluding March 2025
· Pacific – remote/flexible
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About the project:
Save the Children is the world’s largest independent child rights organization, making a difference to children’s lives across 100+ countries. The Pacific Coalition for the Advancement of School Safety (PCAS S) programme (2022–2025) is a regional initiative aimed at building comprehensive school safety and climate resilience through advocacy, monitoring, and capacity-building across the Pacific.
This role will play a crucial part in the monitoring, evaluation, learning (MEL) functions, focusing on using evidence-based insights to influence policy and decision-making, ensure robust project monitoring, and effectively communicate project outcomes to key stakeholders.
A place to make a difference:
Save the Children is seeking a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Consultant will support the PCASS project by ensuring that advocacy efforts are evidence-based and that monitoring, and evaluation (M&E) processes provide actionable insights to drive project improvements. The consultant will support the achievement of Output 3. A regional monitoring mechanism for the advancement for Safe Schools in the Pacific is established< /em> for the PCASS project. They will work closely with government bodies and partners to promote comprehensive school safety and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in line with the project’s goals.
In this consulting assignment you will: key responsibilities (maximum 6 short bullets)
· 1 Analyse existing safe schools monitoring and reporting systems with PCASS countries
· 2 Develop a regional monitoring framework, conduct the baseline assessment, develop the indicator guidance document to guide regional reporting structures.
· 3 Propose a process or template and approach to regional reporting for national governments.
For detailed information, the full Terms of Reference are available here.
< em>This consultancy requires:
· 1 Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, Development Studies, Monitoring & Evaluation, or a related field.
· 2 At least 2-5 years of experience in MEAL roles, ideally in the context of education, disaster risk reduction, or development projects.
· 3 Strong MEL experience, including data collection, analysis, reporting, and feeding lessons learned into decision-making processes.
· 4 Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex project data into accessible formats for various audiences.
· 5 Demonstrated ability to engage with government officials, partners, and donors in developing MEL tools.
· 6 Proficiency in using MEL tools and frameworks, and experience in designing and implementing data-driven monitoring and reporting systems.
Does this sound like the place for you?
We’d love to hear from you. To apply please send an application that includes:
· A letter expressing interest, outlining the experience and expertise of the individual consultant or consulting agency relevant for the work
· A copy of CV(s) or details of expertise in your research institution, or consultancy firm/agency, if applicable
· Sample of previous research work/s, relevant to this consultancy
· Contact details of at least two references
· An operational plan detailing how the work will be done and how the objectives above will be met, including total budget (maximum 2 pages)
Applications must be received no later than COB, Friday the 24th January 2025 and must be sent to John Lilo, Regional Safe School Lead at john.lilo@savethechildren.org.au.
Save the Children A ustralia is a child-safe organisation. All consultants are required to undergo an International / National Police Check, a Working with Children Check where necessary, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.