Head of Impact, Innovation and Influencing

About the role

The Head of Impact, Innovation and Influencing at Save the Children's country office in Madagascar supports strategic positioning with donors and partners and leads project design so that the country strategy is delivered in line with child rights programming principles. The role also ensures a robust Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) system generates, uses and shares evidence, and builds the capacity of technical specialists through mentoring and coaching. It reports to the Country Representative, with dotted-line reporting to the Director of Impact, Innovation and Influencing.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Child Rights Situation Analysis and the Country Strategic Plan, aligning it with global strategy and child rights principles, and promote ownership of the strategy across the office.
• Position the country office for funding and partnerships, and lead the design of evidence-based proposals with MEAL frameworks, gender-sensitive approaches and adequate budgets.
• Deliver high-quality development and humanitarian programmes, monitor programme KPIs, and ensure quality standards and child safeguarding are applied throughout the project lifecycle.
• Build and lead a team of technical specialists, coordinate with global, regional and member technical advisors, and oversee the quality of donor and member reports.
• Provide strategic oversight of the MEAL function, integrate results frameworks, indicators and monitoring tools into the programme cycle, and strengthen knowledge management and accountability mechanisms.