Advisor, School-Age (P3)

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places – over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

The Role

As the School-Age Advisor, you’ll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. In this role, you will support the quality implementation and effective delivery of 21st CCLC and LEAPS elementary education programs across assigned partner sites. You will maintain a small caseload of sites in addition to providing direct supervision and technical assistance to a team of Lead Associates while delivering targeted coaching, management support, and troubleshooting to program partners. By analyzing program data, facilitating training events, and collaborating with project leadership, you will build team capacity and maintain high standards of accountability and program quality.

Location

Remote – United States

 

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Program & Quality Implementation (50%)

• Work independently with minimal guidance to guide and support program staff and site teams, ensuring quality implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Save the Children’s program models according to established standards.
• Apply in-depth knowledge and best practices of out-of-school time and elementary education to solve complex implementation problems and adapt existing solutions for local site needs.
• Visit assigned sites in compliance with the program model to conduct observation, coaching, and mentoring, completing required site visit reports (in-state travel required).
• Ensure accurate and up-to-date data collection and reporting for each assigned site, maintaining high fidelity to educational program models.
• Provide in-person and remote technical assistance for site staff to deliver continuous implementation support.
• Communicate regularly with leadership and team members to resolve complex implementation challenges and share site successes.

Team Supervision, Capacity Building & Operational Support (40%)

• Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division, and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission and supports Save the Children values, while ensuring the working environment continually fosters diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information (program outcomes, site visit metrics, observation data) to provide targeted feedback, model effective practices, and develop quality improvement action plans for underperforming sites.
• Partner with school district personnel and site leaders to troubleshoot educational program implementation issues and build strong local relationships.
• Oversee the planning and execution of onsite and virtual training events, maintaining a trainee database to monitor ongoing professional development needs.
• Ensure state staff and partner teams have access to strong knowledge management tools and resources needed for daily operations, data entry, and practice sharing.
• Collaborate closely with the Project Director to align technical support, coaching, and capacity building with broader grant standards and expectations.

Project Lead for Other Education Initiatives (10%)

• Develop strong inter-sectoral and multi-sectoral community relationships to expand collaboration, share resources, and address local educational gaps.
• Create systematic communication materials (newsletters, program updates) to share best practices with trainees and the broader education community.
• Collect and analyze data on community needs related to summer program gaps and educational access to support future programming.

Required qualifications for the role

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience supervising a team and managing performance
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English