Advisor, Economic Evaluation & Cost Modeling

Save the Children; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedules and time off

Hybrid working opportunities

Health care

Job summary

Save the Children is seeking an Advisor, Economic Evaluation to strengthen program cost modeling, benchmarking, and evidence-based budgeting for proposals and strategic programs in the United States. The role collaborates with technical, country, finance, and awards teams to reflect realistic unit costs and to support cost-efficiency and value-for-money analyses.

The successful candidate will conduct economic evaluations, synthesize findings for internal and external audiences, train colleagues

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; minimum 5 years in relevant roles.
• Proven experience developing, reviewing, and analyzing program budgets in international development.
• Experience with activity-based budgeting and cost modeling for proposals to donors.
• Demonstrated skills in cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness analyses and familiarity with the 4Es framework.
• Ability to analyze complex quantitative data and translate results into practical recommendations.
• Ability to plan and coordinate research and data analysis projects with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

• Lead program cost modeling to support proposal design and budgeting.
• Develop and maintain internal cost benchmarks from internal and external data.
• Support new business development by interpreting benchmarks and building top-down cost estimates.
• Analyze cost drivers and translate findings into actionable guidance for proposals and programs.
• Embed cost-efficiency considerations in early proposal design and respond to donor thresholds.
• Build capacity of colleagues through mentoring, training, and technical guidance.
• Contribute to tools and templates for cost modeling and benchmarking.
• Plan retrospective economic evaluations of Save the Children programs.

Skills

Cost modeling

Budgeting

Economic evaluation

Data analysis

Proposal design

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in economics/public policy/intl development

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Stata/R/SPSS

Job description

Save the Children is seeking an Advisor, Economic Evaluation to strengthen program cost modeling, benchmarking, and evidence-based budgeting for proposals and strategic programs in the United States. The role collaborates with technical, country, finance, and awards teams to reflect realistic unit costs and to support cost-efficiency and value-for-money analyses.

The successful candidate will conduct economic evaluations, synthesize findings for internal and external audiences, train colleagues