The expected salary range for this position is $99,800.00 - $124,750.00. 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 be an M&E Specialist for Education & Livelihoods-related programming (e.g., economic development, literacy, numeracy, Technical & Vocational Training). They will be a subject-matter expert responsible for designing Education & Livelihood M&E frameworks, survey instruments, training materials, conducting analyses, drafting reports, advising on data visualizations and supporting the organization on implementation of these frameworks in National Offices. They will also co-lead Communities of Practices. This position will report to the Senior Manager of M&E Design and will collaborate with other members of the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) team as well as with other teams across the organization.

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 high-quality monitoring & evaluation frameworks for education, economic development, or livelihoods interventions and programs, including finding high-quality surveys and tools or designing survey questions, when needed.

• Support the rollout of child and youth outcome measurement, which includes supporting translation/adaptation of survey instruments, updating survey items or scales as needed, supporting data collector training as needed, conducting validity and reliability analyses, among other tasks.

• Provide subject-matter expertise in education, economic development, or livelihoods.

• Build surveys for survey platforms such as SurveyCTO or ODK. This includes yaml file creation and iteration.

• Co-lead at least one Community of Practice

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

• Collaborate with Compassion’s Data Insights team on visualizations that will allow stakeholders to meaningfully engage with the data and draw accurate conclusions.

• Utilize high-quality quantitative or qualitative methods, as appropriate, to monitor and evaluate projects.

• Champion holistic child development and provide the organization with ongoing subject matter expertise in using high quality data to measure program inputs, outputs, and outcomes.

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 evaluation or research.

• Experience in designing education, economic development, or livelihood programming and research or evaluation is required.

• Experience with online survey tools and conducting quantitative analysis using a statistical software package is required.

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

• Fluency in a second language is a plus.

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

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.

Working Environment: Remote, work from home.

Travel Requirements : Ability to travel up to 25% of normal schedule including international travel. T ravelers must follow the vaccination rule 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 in immigrations.