Hello! We’re excited to see you found your way to this job opening. That must mean you share our ambition to ensure learners around the world enjoy their fundamental human right to quality education, without exception. We are hiring a Global Strategic Advisor, Research.
Purpose of the function
As our Global Strategic Advisor, Research, you will be responsible for overseeing VVOB’s research agenda and initiatives, and for developing and strengthening VVOB’s evidence-based practices. As a member of VVOB’s programmes team, the Global Strategic Advisor, Research will work closely with the Global Strategic Education Advisors and the Global Strategic Advisor, M&E at head office, and with relevant staff in different VVOB country offices, to advance VVOB’s research on education programmes and to strengthen M&E systems for better evidence generation.
VVOB is a global organisation with projects in 9 countries. Our head office is based in Brussels, Belgium.
When you join VVOB, you become a key player in VVOB’s mission to ensure quality education as a key enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals. We implement our projects with one shared passion: to ensure the improvement of quality education. To achieve its mission, VVOB focuses on the professional development of teachers and school leaders. We do this in close partnership with ministries of education. Our approach has been globally recognised: we are a winner of the D4D prize, a finalist of the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes and are featured in the 2023 HundrED Global collection. We are ambitious and committed; we are curious and innovative when facing complex challenges; we focus on results and have fun together; we sometimes make mistakes but learn from them; we act with integrity and respect; and above all, we are a team!
Research is a key component of VVOB’s new Learning Unlimited strategy. Our interventions are informed by the best available evidence from research and practice. Monitoring, evaluation, and research helps us identify what works best – and what doesn’t. That’s why we invest in monitoring, evaluation, and research as an integral part of our interventions to better understand, apply and scale approaches. We share our learning with our partners and other stakeholders for wider use and scaling.