Job Title:
Economic Advisor
Grade:
3
Reports to:
Senior Advisor impact and (quantitative) evidence
Child Protection Level:
2
INTRODUCTION
This post sits within the Impact, Innovation and Evidence (IIE) team, in the
Programme Policy and Quality (PPQ) department. The team is the central place to
coordinate and support how we leverage knowledge, innovation and best practice,
through rigorous monitoring and evaluation and operations research. The team
oversees and supports the continued development and rolling out of Save the
Children’s overall Child Rights Programming framework and supports the embedding
across all programme work of cross cutting themes including gender and diversity.
The team will lead Save the Children UK’s agenda to improve the quality and impact
of its work through the use of rigorous evidence and learning.
JOB PURPOSE
To support Save the Children UK to deliver high quality, innovative and impactful
programmes through strengthening how we generate and spread economic evidence
and best value for money, strengthening monitoring and evaluation of programmes
through the application of economic analysis and concepts, supporting wider efforts
to strengthen value for money approaches across the organisation, and bringing
economic analysis more systematically into our programme design and options
appraisal. The successful candidate will support and strengthen the capacity of Save
the Children staff to design, manage and deliver programmes which have economic
analysis built in from the outset and which use these analyses to adapt and improve
the value for money of our programmes.
The successful candidate will collaborate with thematic M&E advisors to bring
economic approaches into programme design and implementation. The successful
candidate will also contribute to how we understand the role of markets and
incentives in strengthening resilience and improving outcomes. The successful
candidate will also contribute to writing proposals for externally funded evaluations
and participate in delivering successful bids.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical support in proposal writing, M&E design, and evaluation
1. Strengthen the use of key economic concepts and analytical tools in
proposals, programme design, and M&E frameworks
2. Support economic and value for money analyses as part of ongoing
evaluations
3. Contribute to writing proposals for external funders with focus on economic
analysis and monitoring and evaluation
Technical support to Country Offices project and programmes
1. To provide high quality technical assistance to country programmes in the
use of economic concepts/ analysis and in monitoring and evaluation
2. Support in the generation and analysis of M&E data during programme
development and design, and implementation.
Capacity building and organisational learning
1. Contribute to thinking across the organisation about how an economic
perspective might influence the strategic direction of Save the Children
2. To provide training and inductions to Head Office teams and Country Office
teams on the use of economic concepts and analyses in monitoring and
evaluation
3. Liaise with IIE senior advisors and with thematic teams, regional and country
offices to ensure economic skills are available for meeting the M&E needs as
they arise
4. Coordinate with M&E and impact advisors to develop and update M&E
training resources and good practice case studies with regard to the use of
economic concepts and analysis
Other
1. Comply with the requirements of SC UK’s child safeguarding policies and
other staff policies.
2. To perform such other tasks and responsibilities as may be required from
time to time in order to ensure the smooth running of the team, the senior
management team, cross departmental teams, the department and SC UK.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

Excellent understanding of a wide range of economic concepts and analytical
techniques to promote evidence-based learning

Excellent understanding of development programme/project design and
planning, options appraisal, and M&E frameworks and ability to consider the
application of economic principles

Significant experience working in the NGO/development context

Good communication skills and ability to describe complex, technical concepts
simply and clearly

Ability to write clear, concise reports, guidelines etc.

Ability to promote change through collaboration, influencing, and the use of
evidence

Ability to design and deliver workshops and support organisational learning in
an international context and for staff members globally

A flexible and initiative-taking attitude with the ability to manage and prioritise
workload

Ability to operate within a predominantly administratively self-servicing
environment

High level of computer literacy with strong abilities in the use of Microsoft
office and statistical software packages

Commitment to, ethical, high quality, meaningful children's participation

Willingness and ability to travel abroad for approximately 5-10 weeks of a
year, at times to remote or insecure locations

Good understanding of accountability principles in terms of donors and
organisational management but critically also to beneficiaries
Desirable
 A higher degree in Economics, the economics of International Development,
equivalent

Expertise in the relationships between gender and economics, markets, and
sustainable development

Expertise in the relationships between resilience and climate change adaptation
(on the one hand) and economics, markets and sustainable development (on the
other)