**This fixed term role is supported by grant funding that is approved for a one-year period**
- Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands the mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
- Supports overall holistic child development and provides ongoing subject matter expertise in collecting, advising on the collection of, and using high quality data to measure program inputs, outputs, and outcomes. Aids partnership facilitators, program support team and church partners, by providing coaching and knowledge within monitoring and evaluation. May provide technical advice on monitoring and evaluation too national office, regional, and global staff. Growing depth and breadth of knowledge in field of expertise educates others regarding industry standards, national policies and best practices.
- Develops national or global level tools and instruments for use throughout the monitoring function that enable the program team to conduct empirical assessment to keep track of progress through generation of monitoring and evaluation reports. Analyzes high quality baseline/needs assessment data to inform program design.
- Serves as a subject matter expert regarding partner compliance and adherence to national or global standards, procedures, and policies related to program quality; especially data collection of child, church, and intervention focused data.
- Collaborates with partnership facilitators, national, regional, or global program support team members and leaders, to provide insight and expertise regarding intervention milestones realization, financial report status, child development milestone monitoring, partner maturity progress and such other programmatic aspects. This leads to the realization of partnership outcomes or to realization of global outcomes in line with Compassion's theory of change.
- Monitors all child focused dashboards to track critical program dimensions and performance and enables the National Office to see meaningful improvements or decline in performance. Conducts complex analysis and interpretation of dashboard metrics movement and makes recommendations to the partnership facilitator, program support, and the National Office Leadership Team as needed.
- Is responsible for budgeting and planning for all data collections and other monitoring and evaluation activities in the National office and/or assigned region. This includes leading training for Frontline Church Partner staff, Partnership Facilitators, or external data collectors on high quality data collection.
- Drawing on field experience and exposure, may advise program managers, field office staff, and leadership concerning relevant programmatic issues when requested and contribute to or lead multi-departmental project, creative thinking, and analysis teams.
- May coach and provide expertise to other professionals and support staff in the monitoring and evaluation discipline.
- Accountable for supporting, upholding, and engaging in Compassion's core "Cultural Behaviors" in all internal and external communication and relationships.
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
- Seven years Relevant experience working in this or a related field.
- Certification from a nationally or internationally recognized organization in a related field.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Seven years relevant experience in monitoring, evaluation, research or learning
- Certification from a nationally or internationally recognized organization in a related field
- Experience designing and implementing high-quality data collection and measurement for programs
- Experience analyzing baseline, needs assessment and dashboard data and producing recommendations
- Experience developing M&E tools, instruments and dashboards for program monitoring
- Ability to budget and plan data collection and M&E activities
- Willingness/ability to travel up to 25%
- Commitment to child protection policies and ability to report and support responses to incidents
What We Do
Compassion International is a Christian child development ministry aimed at releasing children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty in Jesus’ name. We are church-based: Compassion believes the Church is God’s chosen instrument to bring hope to a hurting world. We believe the strategic placement of local churches makes them best suited to address the holistic needs of the children in their communities. And only they can effectively deliver the Jesus-based teaching and whole-life care that children in poverty deserve. Compassion partners with 8,000+ churches in 25 countries around the world to deliver our holistic child development program. We are child-focused: Compassion’s ministry is focused on the individual child and his/her development. We offer this assistance irrespective of caste, creed, class or religion. At Compassion, we believe entire communities will feel the positive impact of our presence because what happens in the life of a child ripples throughout his or her environment. We are Christ-centered: Jesus is the core of our ministry and his life and teachings shape our programs. They reflect the spiritual commitments of our staff. And they guide how we love people, respect communities and cooperate with nations. We are committed to integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest professional and biblical principles in all aspects of our ministry and maintain the highest industry standards for our allocation of funds. Compassion and Compassion International are registered trademarks of the United States government
