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Research and Knowledge Management Specialist
Organization Save the ChildrenLocation AfghanistanType FULL TIMEPosted 15 May 2026Deadline 23 May 2026 ⚠️
Monitoring and Evaluation
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Full Description
**TITLE: Research and Knowledge Management Specialist.**
**TEAM/PROGRAMME: REALM**
**LOCATION:** **Kabul**
**GRADE**: 3
**CONTRACT LENGTH: Fixed Term**
**CHILD SAFEGUARDING:**
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
**ROLE PURPOSE:**
Save the Children International works in all contexts to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and create lasting change in children’s lives.
Save the Children’s ambitious strategy for 2022-24 places a strong emphasis on the key role of research and evidence in driving up our impact for children, both in our programmes and in our policy, advocacy and campaigns work.
The primary role of the Research and Knowledge Management Specialist (RKMS) is to:
- Design, lead, commission and conduct research, evaluations and studies relevant to Country Strategic Objectives
- Leading and coordinating Knowledge management and learning processes and systems in Afghanistan CO with an overall objective of ensuring we have efficiency of knowledge capture, sharing, learning and sustainability of the institutional memory.
**SCOPE OF ROLE:**
**Reports to:** Research, Evidence and Learning Manager
**Staff reporting to this post:** None
**Direct:** 0
**Indirect:** 0
**Budget Responsibilities:** None
**Role Dimensions:** The role holder reports to the Research, Evidence and Learning Manager and is a member of the Research, Evidence, Accountability, Learning and Monitoring (REALM) team. The role holder liaises closely with other REALM Team Members, Program Development and Quality Team members, Program Implementation, Advocacy, Communication, Campaigns and Media staff at country, area and provincial level.
**KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:**
***RESEARCH AND EVALUATION (50% LOE)***
**Research and Evaluation Leadership and Design**
- Work with project teams to develop research and evaluation Terms of References for strategic studies at the country, multi-country, regional and global levels.
- Design, conduct and commission single strategic studies at the country, multi-country, regional level and global level.
- Design, conduct and commission meta-analysis and evidence reviews to fill knowledge gaps on priority topics.
- Work with the Advocacy and Campaigns and MEAL team to design and conduct Influencing Impact Studies.
- Lead, project manage and monitor both short and long-term research and evaluation studies to ensure they are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
**Data analysis and evidence synthesis**
- Conduct quantitative data and qualitative data analysis for single studies.
- Conduct meta-analysis using statistical methods to integrate data and summarize the results of multiple studies across thematic areas, regions and time.
- Conduct systematic evidence reviews using rigorous methodology, including steps to minimise bias in the identification of relevant research, the selection of studies for inclusion and the collection, analysis and interpretation of their findings.
- Work with the REALM team to collate secondary data and conduct descriptive analysis to identify and define emerging issues relevant to country strategic plan.
**Partnerships, funding & new business**
- Participate in and develop internal and external Research and or Knowledge Management Networks and Communities of Practice.
- Work with the Research, Evidence and Learning Manager, REALM team and new business development colleagues to write new proposals.
***KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (50% LOE)***
**Report Writing and Knowledge Translation**
- Produce research, evaluation and evidence synthesis reports, and as required, submit journal articles for external publication.
- Work with the REALM team to produce learning products such as fact sheets, evidence to action briefs, policy briefs, policy position papers etc
**Thought leadership and capacity building**
- Stay abreast of child-participatory/led, innovative, robust, credible and right-fit research methods and communicate these with team members.
- Champion robust use of evidence and a learning culture where evidence is built systemically into the design, approval, implementation and review of programmes and policies.
- Work with the REALM team to monitor Country Office’s Research, Evidence and Learning Agendas and learning agenda implementation plans for priority topics, and support the generation of evidence that fills priority evidence gaps
- Support technical advisors and project teams to use standardised indicators and measures that enable meta-analyses across projects and are valid, reliable, sensitive and culturally appropriate in terms of acceptability and interpretability in different contexts and communities.
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