Advisor, MEAL Migration and Displacement at Save the Children International: Global Remote Opportunity | Apply by 23 November 2026

Overview

Save the Children International invites applications for the position of Advisor, MEAL Migration and Displacement. This role supports a major global programme focused on protecting migrant children and strengthening services along migration routes. The initiative is a joint effort involving the International Organization for Migration, Save the Children, and UNICEF, covering Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Somalia, and Tunisia with funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. Save the Children leads the programme monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning component across participating agencies and countries.

The successful candidate provides strategic and technical leadership in developing monitoring frameworks, strengthening data collection systems, coordinating inter-agency learning, and ensuring that programme activities deliver measurable results. Responsibilities include establishing monitoring tools, coordinating inter-agency working groups, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, facilitating learning sessions, strengthening accountability mechanisms, contributing to donor reports, and providing capacity-building support to programme teams and partners.

Who can apply

Applicants should possess substantial experience in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning within complex humanitarian or development programmes. Candidates need a background in leading MEAL functions across multiple organizations or countries, designing evaluation systems, conducting research, developing measurable indicators, and preparing technical reports. Experience in cross-border migration, child protection, and displacement programming is particularly desirable, while knowledge of migration routes in the Central Mediterranean, Horn of Africa, and East Africa is an advantage. Arabic language skills are also desirable.

Candidates must have English proficiency as the required working language. Applicants must hold the legal right to work in the country where the position is based for the entire employment period and be based in an approved Save the Children International office location worldwide, with availability required within the GMT plus or minus three hours time zone.

What you get

The position offers a fixed-term contract with an 80% level of effort, running until 30 June 2029. The working arrangement is hybrid or remote with flexible working options available, and international travel is expected to be very limited.

Key dates

The application deadline is 23 November 2026 at 01:59 AM. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and the vacancy may close earlier if sufficient suitable applications are received.