Consultancy: Mercer Evaluation Consultant

War Child Alliance; Amsterdam; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

War Child Alliance invites a Mercer Evaluation Consultant to review and refine job documentation across global teams. You will assess roles using Mercer IPE, help calibrate a coherent global job architecture, and ensure consistent grading across countries while engaging HR stakeholders for validation.

The role emphasizes governance, parity, and clear career pathways, with a consultancy arrangement and a focus on international NGOs.

Qualifications

• Mercer IPE knowledge or willingness to be trained.
• Experience with global job architecture and grading.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with documentation discipline.

Responsibilities

• Review, update, and create job descriptions using standard templates.
• Evaluate roles using Mercer IPE methodology and document rationales.
• Coordinate with HR teams across countries to ensure consistency.
• Develop and calibrate a coherent global job architecture and career framework.
• Provide governance input on grading decisions and progression pathways.
• Produce clear evaluation summaries and handover materials.

Skills

Mercer IPE

Global job architecture

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Analytical thinking

Job description drafting

Education

Degree in HR/Organizational Psychology

Job description

Your mission

War Child is looking for a: Mercer Evaluation Consultant

War Child Alliance is undertaking an organizational review and strengthening of its global job architecture, role clarity, and reward framework to support organizational effectiveness, consistency, transparency, and sustainable workforce planning. War Child seeks an experienced consultant to review and update and create job descriptions and evaluate all existing and created job profiles using Mercer International Position Evaluation (IPE). The assignment covers roles across all War Child countries. The consultant will work closely with the HR Project Specialist, in collaboration with the existing consultant, country HR teams and relevant stakeholders, to ensure that all roles that are reviewed and created are unified and evaluated consistently, objectively, and in alignment with organizational design principles and sector practice.

The purpose of this consultancy is to:

• Review, update, and facilitate the creation of Job Profiles.
• Clarify role purpose, responsibilities, scope and accountability through consultation with relevant managers;
• Evaluate job profiles using Mercer IPE methodology;
• Co-develop the development and calibration of a coherent global job architecture;
• Ensure consistency and defensibility of grading outcomes;
• Strengthen organizational clarity regarding role scope, accountability, and career progression;
• Provide independent expertise and challenges on role design and grading decisions.

What you will do

A. Review, Create and Analyze Job Documentation

• Collect existing job descriptions and relevant supporting documentation in coordination with the HR Project Specialist and country HR teams;
• Review and update assigned job descriptions using the agreed organizational template, ensuring accurate articulation of role purpose, responsibilities, reporting relationships and scope;
• Maintain a consolidated register of job descriptions, including document versions, review status and outstanding information requirements;
• Coordinate assigned work with the HR Project Specialist and stakeholders to ensure continuity and avoid duplication;
• Review existing job descriptions, organizational structures, grading outcomes, and supporting documentation;
• Assess role purpose, scope, accountability, decision-making authority, and organizational impact;
• Participate jointly with the HR Project Specialist in meetings with relevant managers to validate role content, clarify responsibilities, and incorporate agreed revisions.
• Identify inconsistencies, overlaps, duplication, or grading anomalies.
• Ensure alignment between role levels, grading, and organizational design principles.
• Support discussions with relevant stakeholders on job description content.

B. Mercer IPE Evaluation & Calibration

• Conduct Mercer IPE job evaluations for identified roles;
• Participate in joint review and calibration of evaluation assessments.
• Ensure consistent application of Mercer dimensions, including:
  • Impact
  • Communication
  • Innovation
  • Knowledge
• Provide rationale and documentation supporting grading outcomes.
• Support discussions with relevant stakeholders on evaluation findings;

C. Job Architecture & Career Framework Support

• Support the development/refinement of job families and career pathways;
• Differentiate roles across operational, specialist, advisory, managerial, and leadership tracks;

D. Advisory & Governance Support

• Provide independent advice on:
  • grading consistency
  • organizational comparability
  • role differentiation
  • progression frameworks
• governance and reward implications
• Support HR and leadership teams in understanding and applying evaluation outcomes.

E. Documentation & Reporting

• Produce clear evaluation summaries and grading rationales;
• Develop recommendations for improving role clarity and grading governance;
• Provide final documentation and handover materials.

DELIVERABLES

• Updated job descriptions for assigned roles, incorporating peer review feedback and agreed input from relevant managers;
• Evaluation summaries and grading rationales;
• A consolidated job description registers documenting collection, revision and review status;
• A summary of completed work, outstanding actions and issues requiring further review;
• A consolidated handover of job descriptions, evaluation records and supporting documentation.

DURATION

An estimated timeline will be agreed upon during the inception phase. (negotiable)The duration and level of effort will be agreed at inception, considering the number of roles and countries covered, the status of existing documentation, work already completed, consultation requirements, and Mercer training required. Delivery will be phased against agreed priorities and milestones.

Your profile

Education

• Relevant degree or equivalent professional experience in human resources, employment relations, organizational psychology, business, or a related field is desirable.

Experience and Technical Knowledge

• Proven expertise in Mercer International Position Evaluation (IPE) is a plus;
• Significant experience in global job architecture and grading frameworks;
• Experience evaluating specialist, managerial, and leadership roles;
• Strong understanding of organizational design and workforce structures;
• Experience in international NGOs, humanitarian, development, or complex matrix organizations;
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and analytical skills.
• Experience in reviewing and drafting job descriptions and analyzing role responsibilities and organizational structures;
• Strong analytical, written communication and document management skills;
• Ability to provide constructive peer review and work collaboratively with HR colleagues and managers across countries;
• Experience in international NGOs or multi-country organizations is desirable;
• Knowledge of Mercer IPE is desirable. Candidates without prior Mercer experience must demonstrate the ability to acquire and apply the methodology through induction by the HR Project Specialist or an agreed Mercer training course.

Languages

• Fluency in English is required for this role.
• Additional languages may be useful depending on stakeholder groups and organisational context, for example Arabic, Dari, French, Spanish, or Ukrainian

What we offer

• Location: This opportunity is open to candidates Globally; professional proficiency in English is required.
• Type of Contract: Consultancy.

Why You Should Apply

• Meaningful Impact: Contribute directly to improving the lives of children and families affected by conflict through quality education and long-term, sustainable change.
• Professional Growth: Join a dynamic organisation that values learning, innovation, and professional development, with opportunities for capacity building and growth through the role and War Child’s global network.
• Global Reach: Play a key role in scaling a ground-breaking programme across multiple conflict-affected contexts worldwide.
• Collaborative & Inclusive Culture: Work alongside passionate, mission-driven colleagues in a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace that prioritises safety, fairness and equal opportunity for all.

Reporting and Management

The consultant will report to the HR Project Specialist , War Child Alliance Foundation.