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Role overview

Save the Children International is seeking a Director, Impact Intelligence to join its global team. This leadership role is responsible for making sure evidence, learning, ethics, and cost-aware decision-making shape how the organisation works for children. The post sits within the Impact Intelligence function, which supports a movement-wide shift toward stronger data use, ethical evidence generation, and learning that improves results at scale.

Team structure and purpose

The Impact Intelligence team supports the Digital, Data & Evidence enabler and helps connect the wider learning ecosystem across the movement. It is made up of four main units and works closely with a fifth:

Insights and Learning
Research and Evaluation
Ethics and Evidence Generation
Economic Evaluation
MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning)

The Director will guide these teams strategically and operationally, ensuring strong standards, tools, and capabilities are embedded in how decisions are made for children.

Employment details

Job title: Director, Impact Intelligence

Reports to: Deputy CEO and Chief Strategy Officer

Work pattern: Hybrid or remote, with flexible working available

Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location

Contract type: Fixed-term contract for 3 years

Grade: Executive

Language requirement: English

International travel: Up to 20%

People management scope: Leads multiple teams with 24 direct and indirect reports

Remit: Global

Right to work: The successful candidate must have an unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the full duration of employment.

What this role is accountable for

This position is expected to shape a coordinated agenda across data, evidence, evaluation, ethics, and learning. The Director will strengthen how the organisation prioritises questions, metrics, and insights that should influence programme choices, operational decisions, and external influencing work. The role also requires improving systems and incentives so learning is expected, supported, and rewarded across the organisation.

Key responsibilities

Set and lead a movement-wide evidence and learning strategy that aligns with the Global Strategy, Theory of Change, and wider inter-agency priorities.
Define governance, responsibilities, and expectations so that evidence use, learning, and accountability are treated as core organisational functions.
Build a culture where impact intelligence is actively valued, resourced, and recognised, including working with HR and resourcing systems.
Shape a connected impact intelligence ecosystem that reduces duplication, improves data quality, and delivers timely insights for country offices, members, and global teams.
Ensure MEAL standards, frameworks, tools, and policies are aligned across entities and connected with wider systems such as Global Indicators, GAR, and digital platforms.
Work with IT, data, digital, and external partners to deliver practical tools such as dashboards and shared repositories, along with quality assurance processes that improve data literacy and use.
Prioritise the organisation’s most decision-critical evidence needs and ensure evidence requirements are proportionate, lean, and focused on major choices.
Align global indicators, MEAL standards, research, evaluation, and economic analysis with the most important decisions, while reducing unnecessary reporting and data burdens.
Create routines that turn monitoring, evaluation, research, economic analysis, and learning review findings into programme design, adaptation, scale-up, and influencing decisions.
Act as the central connector for evidence, data, and learning across programmes, operations, governance, funding, ethics, and digital functions.
Strengthen collaboration between the four units and related functions so that silos, duplication, and disconnected efforts are reduced.
Bring together cross-unit communities and platforms that package insights into clear, usable formats for storytelling, advocacy, and resource mobilisation.
Lead the Insights and Learning unit so evidence is translated into practical recommendations for country offices, members, and senior leadership.
Oversee capacity strengthening across the movement for MEAL, research, learning, and cost-informed programming, especially in country offices and locally led partnerships.
Encourage reflective practice, after-action reviews, learning cycles, and experimentation, while ensuring teams have time and space to learn and adapt.
Ensure strong MEAL architecture and practice across country offices, including staffing models, role clarity, and career pathways for MEAL professionals.
Champion initiatives such as Prime and the Global Indicators so they are fully embedded in programmes and influencing work and used to drive accountability and impact.
Keep accountability to communities, children, and young people at the centre of MEAL practice, including feedback, participation, and transparent communication of findings and decisions.
Lead the Research and Evaluation unit to deliver a coherent portfolio of high-quality studies, evaluations, and evidence syntheses aligned to strategic learning questions.
Oversee the Ethics and Evidence Generation unit so all data collection and research are guided by strong ethical governance, safeguarding, integrity, data protection, and responsible use of emerging technology.
Develop partnerships with research bodies, governments, and peer organisations to strengthen expertise, align with global agendas, and build thought leadership.
Lead the Economic Evaluation unit to integrate cost, cost-effectiveness, and value-for-money analysis into programme and influencing decisions.
Present economic evidence in clear, accessible ways for non-specialist decision-makers and use it to support better choices in tighter funding environments.
Use economic evidence to improve efficiency and reduce workload, keeping the focus on high-impact decisions rather than extra reporting.
Ensure communities, children, and young people help shape learning questions and participate meaningfully in monitoring, research, and evaluation.
Embed diversity, equity, and inclusion across all evidence and learning work, including who produces knowledge, whose voices are reflected, and how findings are interpreted and used.
Contribute to a more diverse and inclusive Innovation & Impact team culture that values different forms of knowledge and lived experience.

Required experience and capabilities

Strong curiosity about how data is gathered and applied, together with a healthy scepticism and a desire to understand best-in-class practice.
Proven experience leading learning and evidence agendas in large, complex, multi-country organisations, including improving fragmented systems.
Interest in how emerging trends and technology can strengthen impact for children.
Deep experience designing and guiding research and evaluation portfolios that align with strategic priorities, including mixed-methods approaches and synthesis for decision-makers.
Experience with ethics and research governance, including responsible data handling and safeguarding in evidence generation.
Experience using economic evaluation or cost-informed analysis in programme and influencing decisions, or the ability to lead specialist teams doing this work.
Strong background in leading diverse, geographically dispersed teams and influencing through matrix structures across units and countries.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate complex evidence into clear recommendations for senior leaders and partners.
Desirable experience in organisation-wide learning or knowledge management initiatives, including digital solutions that support real-time learning and reduce reliance on static documents.
Desirable experience involving communities, children, and young people in co-creating learning questions, monitoring, research, and evaluation in humanitarian and development settings.
Demonstrated commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in research, learning, and evidence work.

Education and qualifications

Advanced degree required; a master’s or PhD is preferred in a relevant area such as international development, social sciences, planning, or statistics.
Desirable: published author of articles or thought pieces related to learning, evaluation, or research in development or humanitarian settings.
Desirable: certification in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) and research or evaluation methodologies.

Values and ways of working

The role is expected to reflect Save the Children’s values in practice:

Accountability: Own decisions, use resources wisely, deliver results, and ensure teams and partners are supported and held to account.
Ambition: Set challenging goals, think strategically, and inspire others with a future-focused vision.
Collaboration: Build strong relationships, value diversity, and work well with colleagues, members, partners, and supporters.
Creativity: Encourage innovation and be willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity: Act honestly, transparently, and with the highest ethical standards.

About the organisation

Save the Children is a global organisation focused on children’s rights, survival, and potential. It operates in 116 countries and employs around 25,000 staff. The organisation aims to place the most deprived and marginalised children first and offers a collaborative, inclusive, and purpose-driven working environment.

Additional information

This is a global executive leadership opportunity with significant cross-functional influence, international exposure, and responsibility for shaping how learning and evidence are used across the movement.

Director, Impact Intelligence