Your mission

War Child is looking for a:
Mercer Evaluation Consultant

• 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.

About the role

What you will do

• 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.

• 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;

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

• 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. 

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

• 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.

Your profile

What we offer

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

• 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.

How to Apply

Budget 

Interested Mercer Evaluation consultants should submit a detailed financial proposal outlining their daily professional rates, estimated level of effort (in days), total consultancy cost, and VAT status, where applicable.

Application Requirements 

Technical proposal, consultant CV(s), financial proposal and two professional references. 

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

Please note that CVs and applications sent by email will not be considered. Applications must be submitted through the official application channel only.

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By submitting your application you certify that all of the statements made in your application are true, complete, and correct and are made in good faith. You understand that falsifying, misrepresenting or intentionally withholding information will be grounds for rejection of your application or withdrawal of any offer of appointment or, if an appointment offer has been accepted, this will be ground for employment sanctions, such as, but not limited to, instant dismissal. In addition, you understand that you need to submit a Criminal Record Certificate and that, if you fail to submit it, no employment relationship can be established.

Disclaimer

• Only applications received via our website are processed.
• If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, we reserve the right to remove the vacancy from our website before that date. In such a case, any responses received after that time are not processed.
• It could be that during our selection process the closing date for the vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.

About us

The War Child Alliance Foundation is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to supporting children affected by armed conflict. We work alongside partners, governments, educators, caregivers and communities to strengthen children’s wellbeing and learning, protect them from harm, and ensure that war does not define their futures.

Central to our approach are evidence-based methodologies, using research and learning from thirty years of experience to build evidence of what works and expand effective approaches across different contexts.

Our global teams work across different countries and regions, bringing together expertise and experience from diverse contexts. War Child currently operates in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine, and Yemen. We also have Member Alliance offices in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Children in Conflict in the US. https://www.warchild.net/


Safeguarding and Integrity
Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm. All (prospective) employees will be expected to be compliant with and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, our Code of Conduct and PSEA: Adults at Risk Policy. You can find the Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk policy here: Integrity & Safeguarding - Home
 
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) and Belonging (DEIB)
We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring that all our people and job applicants are treated fairly, irrespective of where, what or whom they were born, or of other characteristics. We want to offer a safe and inclusive workplace where all our people, especially those who are currently marginalised or underrepresented, can be themselves at work.