Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Consultant– temporary (3 months)

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Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Consultant– temporary (3 months)

Max 24 hours per week | The Hague, Netherlands
International Programme Department

Save the Children Netherlands is hiring a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) officer for a temporary replacement. The duty station is The Hague, Netherlands.

About Save the Children:

More and more children worldwide are being oppressed by war, poverty and natural disasters. The most vulnerable among them often pay the highest price. Save the Children is committed to these children. We believe in a world where children can grow up healthily, have the opportunity to learn and play and are protected from violence and exploitation. We are where they need us. All over the world and in the most difficult circumstances. In times of crisis, we are one of the first organizations to provide life-saving assistance to children and their families. We provide safety, a place to play, education and stand up for their rights.

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What will you do as MEAL consultant?

As a key member of the international programme department, the MEAL consultant collaborates with the Programme Quality team lead and the other MEAL colleagues in ensuring the application and implementation of an integrated approach for MEAL within Save the Children’s Netherlands portfolio, Strategy and Theory of Change.

The position leads the development of MEAL for proposed and ongoing programmes and projects, in close collaboration with programme teams. He/she plays a key role in measuring and demonstrating our impact on children by contributing to increasing quality in our programming and helping us to be accountable to children and key stakeholders.

This position also structurally supports one project: the multi-country project Right2Grow (remotely supporting the programme in six countries).

Your tasks include the following:

1. Design and implementation of MEAL in the SCNL Programme portfolio (70%)
2. Lead/advise on the development of the MEAL frameworks for high value proposals, in close collaboration with programme teams and facilitate the use of various design methodologies as appropriate;
3. Advise and support MEAL staff in country offices and partner organisations on design and implementation of MEAL;
4. Support programme managers in the design and implementation of MEAL, and use/analysis of MEAL data within their portfolios;
5. Ensure sound analysis of evaluation findings and feedback of recommendations to improve programme quality, and use of evidence in programme design;
6. Manage evaluation processes, including managing consultants for external evaluations;
7. Ensure the incorporation of accountability mechanisms in the programmes and projects and guide programme managers in the analysis of accountability data and consequent adaptations as appropriate;
8. Facilitation of Knowledge Management and continuous learning (10%)
9. Collaborate in documenting and sharing lessons learned and best practices from interventions across the programme portfolio within SC Netherlands, by contributing to the quarterly research and evaluation brief.
10. Technical lead/support for MEAL policy, standards, procedures and tools (15%)
11. Contribute to the strengthening of the SC Netherlands MEAL system, particularly supporting the continued improvement of the organizational MEAL framework with standards, processes, and systems, including quality benchmarks compiled from practice, and ensure that these standards are rolled out.
12. Representation (5%)
13. Represent SC Netherlands in (inter)national meetings and platforms both internally and externally with the view to bringing learning from these events;

Functie-eisen en profiel

Who are you?

You are a monitoring and evaluation professional with knowledge and understanding of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods. You are ideally experienced in downward accountability processes. You are a dynamic, analytical and pragmatic individual able to work in teams as well as independently.

You understand and are committed to Save the Children's aims, values and principles.

What's on your resume?

• Master or post-master studies in a relevant subject

• At least 5 years’ experience in roles with various levels of responsibility in humanitarian and development contexts
• Evidence of analytical ability, for example through experience in programmatic research, monitoring and evaluation, reports and publications
• Practical experience in project/programme qualitative and quantitative monitoring and evaluation. Knowledge of lobby and advocacy monitoring is an asset
• Experience in working with tools and approaches for downward accountability
• Experience in working in consortia, and Strategic Partnership is an asset
• Knowledge, understanding and analytical skills on Outcome Harvesting methodology
• Experience in MEAL design for successful proposals
• Ability to provide constructive, critical and clear feedback to reports
• A high level of spoken and written English and Dutch, with French being a big plus

• Flexible working style, self- motivated and ability to work autonomously

Requirement: you must be entitled to live and work in The Netherlands. Save the Children cannot offer a work permit.

Ons aanbod

What do we have to offer you?

• What you do helps millions of children worldwide. Direct or indirect;
• Hourly rate in consultation
• Start date: preferably 15 October 2025.

Offers are subject to positive references and the submission of a recent Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG).

Why do we ask for references and a VOG?

Save the Children participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.

As a children's rights organization that fights abuse – in whatever form – we first of all want to be able to guarantee that our own employees are not guilty of this or have done so. That's why we participate in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. And we purchase standardized references when you apply for a job with us. By applying you agree to this.

What kind of employer is Save the Children?

In the Netherlands you work together with approximately 130 colleagues, but you are also part of an international network of more than 25,000 colleagues in 120 countries. We are the world's largest children's rights organization, but that doesn't mean our organization is impersonal. We make sure that everyone's voice – just like that of the children we fight for – is heard. That every colleague can be themselves and develop further.

At Save the Children, we are proud of our diversity. That is why we invite everyone to apply for a job with us, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religious and/or cultural background, personality and/or other visible and invisible characteristics. We celebrate our differences because they allow us to grow together.

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Application procedure

Are you excited? Send your application (your CV and a motivation letter) before October 10 to Geert Jan van Dijk (Manager national & international program’s): Geert.Jan.van.Dijk@savethechildren.nl. Unfortunately, we will not process applications that come to us in any other way. We will try to respond to your application within 2 weeks of the closing date.

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