Monitoring And Evaluation Specialist III – Youth Agency & Spiritual Formation

This career specialist will be an M&E Specialist for Youth Agency and Spiritual Formation. Within Compassion, this specialist tends to concentrate their designs on factors and outcomes related to youth civic or community engagement, and child/youth Christian growth in a global setting. He/she will be responsible for designing M&E frameworks, survey instruments, training materials, conducting analysis, drafting reports, advising on data visualizations and supporting the M&E technical advising team on implementation of these frameworks in National Offices.

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 outcome measurements for youth agency and spiritual formation programs particularly with a child and youth focus.
• Support overall holistic child development and contribute indicators of growth in Christ and having a vision for change and contribution to a larger compendium.
• Provide ongoing subject matter expertise in using high quality data to measure program inputs, outputs, outcomes in youth agency and spiritual formation.
• Practice quality control in reviewing survey products, analytical dashboards and reports, and data managemen.
• Aid program support team and church partners by providing coaching and knowledge within monitoring and evaluation.
• Lead the development and adoption of partner compliance and adherence to standards, procedures, and policies related to program quality.
• Collaborate with program leaders to provide direction and subject matter expertise regarding intervention milestones and indicators especially in the area of youth agency and spiritual formation.
• Conduct analyses to establish validity and reliability evidence for spiritual formation measurements.
• Monitor partnership dashboards to track critical program dimensions and performance and enable the National Offices and frontline church partners to see meaningful improvements or decline in performance.
• Manage and may lead complex budgeting and planning efforts for baseline surveys and other M&E activities across multiple countries/regions.
• Simplify complex information to report to a variety of stakeholders.

What will you bring?

• Master’s Degree in the social sciences, child/adolescent psychology, theology, statistics, international development, psychometrics or a related field is required.
• At least 5 years’ experience working in an international development setting with an emphasis in Monitoring & Evaluation design.
• Experience in conducting and leading quantitative or qualitative analyses is required. Proficiency with STATA, R, or SAS strongly preferred.
• Experience with coding syntax or programming language.
• Experience with online survey tools (e.g., Survey CTO, Open Data Kit, KoboToolbox) is a bonus.
• Must be able to speak, read, and write fluently in English.
• Fluency in a second language is a plus.

Travel Requirements: Ability to travel up to 25% of normal schedule including international travel. Travelers must follow the vaccination rules 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 at immigration.

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 on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.
• Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotions.