JOB DESCRIPTION

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places – over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

The Role

Save the Children’s Impact & Evidence (I&E) division is committed to ensuring that all children in rural America have a healthy, strong foundation to thrive as learners and in life. Our contribution to a full cradle-to-career continuum is focused on the early years, birth through elementary school; and our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities.

Save the Children is seeking an Advisor, Grade Level Proficiency. In this role, you will be supporting the design of high quality educational programs and strategies to accelerate learning outcomes for children across rural America. You will work closely with state based program implementation, Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning (MERL) staff to ensure program quality standards are met, and you will collaborate with fundraising colleagues to drive program growth and development. The ideal person for this position will have extensive content expertise in school-age education, experience working in rural communities, and deep knowledge of effective practices for advancing education outcomes for children throughout the elementary years.

Location

Remote – United States

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Design and Refine Program Models (45%)

• Develop new, and refine existing models, strategies, and resources to broaden impact and fill programmatic gaps
• Collaborate across teams following the organization’s processes to ensure programs are culturally relevant, backed by research and best practice, and aligned to community needs and insights
• Establish standards for high quality implementation and collaborate with other teams to determine options for customization
• Collaborate across teams to work with local educational agencies (LEAs), state educational agencies (SEAs), and to innovate and adapt approaches, to align strategies, and meet common goals
• Collaborate with other teams to utilize lessons learned to inform program design, refinements, and to enhance results

Build Capacity to Implement Programs (25%)

• Develop and deliver trainings, technical assistance, and other resources to program implementation staff.
• Lead onboarding processes for school-age program Lead Associates and other staff supporting school-age programming; support recruitment and onboarding on an ongoing basis.
• Provide technical advice to support project implementation and to identify and resolve challenges
• Build programmatic competencies of program implementation staff, promoting best practices and ongoing professional development and learning through community of practices and standing technical assistance meetings

Data Entry and Analysis (20%)

• Collaborate with program implementation colleagues to monitor quality of program implementation, ensuring programs are on track to meet key metrics (Renaissance STAR, reach expectations, other grant deliverables)
• Provide guidance to ensure accurate data entry into monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Support program implementation with analysis of data (Renaissance reports, reach numbers, metrics for quarterly reports, etc.)
• Analyze and summarize program implementation data (program observations, site visit summaries)
• Collaborate with Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) colleagues to inform annual goals, targets and reach
• Collaborate with Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) colleagues to analyze programs’ impact on 3rd grade reading, math scores, and other key metrics

Support Program Growth (10%)

• Collaborate with the Marketing and Growth team and program implementation to support the cultivation of partnerships and/or relationships with external organizations, donors and other key stakeholders
• Contribute to the development of funding proposals, marketing content, donor meetings, proposal reviews, presentations and other external relations that require technical expertise

Required qualifications for the role

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience

• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite, Canva, Learning Management System (LMS), and SharePoint
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English and Spanish

• Willingness to travel regionally up to 30%
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• This position may require the incumbent to operate a motor vehicle to fulfill certain essential functions of the job. The incumbent should maintain a valid driver’s license and remain in compliance with any Save the Children policies pertaining to the safe operation of motor vehicles.

Preferred qualifications for the role

• Master’s degree in education
• Experience with curriculum development for elementary grades
• Experience developing and leading trainings for elementary education
• Experience coaching and supporting adults in an education or related area

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 – NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $91,800 – $102,600 base salary

• Geo 2 – Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $83,725 – $93,575 base salary
• Geo 3 – Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $74,800 – $83,600 base salary

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record. Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here).

About Us

We are looking to build an inclusive team at Save the Children. We offer a range of outstanding benefits to support this goal:

• Flexible schedules and time off: Flexible schedules, generous PTO, 11 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays, and hybrid working opportunities
• Health: Competitive health care, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
• Family: A variety of paid leaves: caregiver, parental/adoption, critical child illness and fertility benefits
• Employee Rewards Program: Annual merit increases and/or additional incentives for eligible employees
• Retirement: A retirement savings plan with employer contributions (after one year)
• Wellness: 15 safety and wellness days annually (if hired on or after July 1, safety and wellness days prorated to 8 days), mental health benefits and support through Calm and company-hosted events
• Employee Assistance Program: free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals, and follow-up services
• Learning & Growth: Access to internal and external learning & development opportunities and mentorships

Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in you.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

If you require disability assistance with the application or recruitment process, please submit a request to [email protected].