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Save the Children

Global independent charity improving children's lives

Asesor/a Técnico/a Senior de Educación

EducationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBogotá, Bogota, ColombiaCOP10.1MIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A professional academic qualification in education, social sciences, humanitarian management, or another relevant related field, with significant experience in the Education sector.
  • At least 5 years of experience directing the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programs in Education, as a program manager and/or technical advisor.
  • Knowledge of Colombia's Education sector and familiarity with its education systems.
  • Extensive experience developing and winning complex, multi-year proposals, including developing theories of change, logical frameworks, and budgets.
  • Experience in program design, monitoring, and evaluation, including designing pathways for sustainable impact at scale.
  • Knowledge of interconnections between education and other sectors, and willingness to collaborate across areas such as psychosocial and mental health support, livelihoods, public health, and child protection.
  • Experience working with donors and developing proposals, planning, and budgets for key donors including BPRM, ECHO, GAC, SIDA, BHA, and NMFA.
  • Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including influencing, negotiation, coaching, and capacity development, and the ability to work with culturally diverse teams.
  • Experience in strategic development and planning, including evidence-based decision-making.
  • Experience in context, capacity, and policy analysis, and regional or international influencing and advocacy to promote accountability for children's rights.
  • Skills in networking, representation, and partnership-building to promote learning, strengthen civil society, and mobilize resources.
  • Ability to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn, and share what works and what does not for children.
  • Experience promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion; adapted and safer programming; children's rights; disability; or migration and displacement.
  • Fluency in English and a high level of English writing skills.
  • Must be a Colombian citizen or a foreign national legally authorized to work in Colombia.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical Education strategy, ensuring high-quality programs based on evidence, good practices, and innovation and aligned with Save the Children's national and global priorities.
  • Guide teams and partners, strengthen their capacities, and ensure approaches incorporating inclusion, gender, disability, ethnicity, resilience, child participation, and children's rights.
  • Lead technical design, planning, and proposal development for new funding opportunities, promoting integrated, sustainable, and innovative programs.
  • Identify trends and opportunities in Education and contribute to resource mobilization and new business development.
  • Support program monitoring and evaluation, conduct field visits, identify lessons and opportunities for improvement, and promote research, innovation, and knowledge management to strengthen intervention impact.
  • Strengthen Save the Children's position as a leading organization in Education by developing strategic relationships with donors, government, partners, and other stakeholders.
  • Represent Save the Children in coordination and relationship-building forums and promote partnerships to expand impact for children.

Desired Qualifications

  • A specialization in related areas.

About the Company

Save the Children

Global independent charity improving children's lives

Save the Children is a global, independent charity that helps children in crisis and everyday life. It works in about 120 countries by running programs and campaigns that aim to keep children alive, protect them, help them develop, and let them participate in society. The organization directly delivers services and also advocates for policy changes, working with local partners and communities. Its approach combines field programs with advocacy and partnerships to reach millions of children—last year more than 55 million were helped through its work. What sets it apart is its large international footprint, its clear focus on children’s rights, and its commitment to transparency, collaboration, and integrity while pursuing concrete, measurable changes. The goal is to ensure every child has the right to survival, protection, development, and participation, and to drive immediate and lasting improvements in children’s lives.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Toronto, Canada
Founded
1919

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