Recent Job Vacancies at Save the Children, 3rd May, 2018

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Save the Children is a leading international organization helping children in need around the world. First established in the UK in 1919, separate national organizations have been set up in more than twenty-eight countries, sharing the aim of improving the lives of children through education, health care and economic opportunities, as well as emergency aid in cases of natural disasters, war and conflict. In Nigeria, Save the Children has been working since 2001. The early focus was on getting children actively involved in shaping the decisions that affect their lives. Today, Save the Children is working in seven federal states - Zamfara, Yobe, Jigawa, Katsina, Kano, Bauchi and Kaduna - focusing on providing basic healthcare and protecting children. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Project Manager, Reach Locations: Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara The Organisation We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. Role Purpose

• The Program Manager will provide oversight to the REACH project team in Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara states on planning, monitoring, report writing and budget and award management in order to meet timelines within the life of the project.

Key Areas of Accountability Programme Management:

• Effectively and efficiently work with all REACH staff and local partners to ensure timely reporting of narrative and financial reports to the country office.
• Maintain good communication with staff and local partners
• Work together with the Program team and local partners to develop and track implementable project workplan and budgets in line with project objectives and plans
• Work closely with the project staff and monitor implementation of project workplan and reporting of activities
• Submit quality project narrative reports on timely basis to country office

Planning and Budgeting:

• Provide guidance on activity plans, budgets and financial management and reporting to project staff and local partners in all project implementation states
• Provide guidance on budgeting, forecasting, rephrasing, tracking/monitoring and reporting
• Follow up with country office Awards and Finance to ensure timely disbursements of funds to local partners and assessment and vetting of local partners where appropriate.

Representation and relationships:

• Represent REACH project on stakeholders meetings in the states where necessary.

Skills & Experience Administrative & General Skills:

• Minimum of a Bachelors' degree with at least 5 years’ work experience or a Postgraduate qualification with 3 years’ experience in program management

Essential:

• At least 5 years programme management experience with INGO in Nigeria
• At least 3 years in Adolescent sexual health programme management.
• Effective planning, analytical, report writing and financial skills
• Very good understanding and skills in advocacy and in promoting gender equality, child rights, community empowerment, community development approaches, analytical & research skills, experience in conducting research, data analysis and knowledge management
• Proven supervisory skills and coaching for direct reports.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal) and excellent writing skills

Desirable:

• Experience working in Northern Nigeria
• Fluency in Hausa

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice) Accountability:

• Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
• High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
• Holds self and others accountable

Ambition:

• Creating best-in-class EA function
• Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively

Collaboration:

• Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Designing more effective project management systems
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

    Job Title: Community Engagement and Advocacy Coordinator Locations: Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara Job Type: Full-time The Organisation We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. Role Purpose

• The Community Engagement and Advocacy Coordinator will lead the community mobilisation and participation in the REACH project in the implanting states.
• S/he will contribute to Save the Children’s efforts to influence and bring about change in state Government social protection policy through developing the awareness, attitudes, behaviours and policies related to the rights of children in the project states.
• In addition, S/he will coordinate the functional tasks necessary for meeting the goals and objectives of the collaborative partner community engagement and advocacy division and ensuring that the participants involved in our community engagement and advocacy efforts receive strong support and have high quality personal experiences.

Key Areas of Accountability Strategy Development:

• Formulate key community engagement and advocacy messages and targets from lessons learned, assessments, research and evidence gained through REACH project implementation and wider analysis.
• Support development of an advocacy strategy for the REACH focusing on short and long term objectives and related to wider issues on social protection and Adolescent Sexual health
• Ensure that voices of children form the basis of Save the Children’s advocacy strategy.
• Acquire information and understanding of social policy, Adolescent Health and Development policy and the child right acts and adapt strategies as necessary.
• Maintain a strategic overview of sexual and reproductive health issues affecting adolescents relevant to REACH, monitoring trends in the external environment and inputting to organisational strategy and planning processes.
• Keep a watching brief on policy makers and other key players in relation to social protection and Adolescent sexual health issues and identify opportunities to raise awareness and influence policy change.
• Contribute to all efforts to raise/nurture CSO coalitions and champions at the state level.

Community Engagement and Participation:

• Facilitate development of community-specific action plans (with state and LGA and CBO involvement) and provide technical guidance throughout their implementation.
• Provide support in organization and implementation of the community-level activities of the CBO partners including: community meetings, capacity building activities, briefings, and community awareness raising and information campaigns. etc.
• Organize community-based awareness-raising and education events and campaigns. Explore local media opportunities for broadcasting community activities.
• Provide support in establishment of community monitoring groups with participation of CBO Partners, community dwellers, other NGOs.

Advocacy and Influencing:

• Develop good knowledge of state government structures, parliamentary and political processes and key decision making structures and how to influence them.
• Undertake a range of communications and other activities to inform and persuade policy makers, including donors and politicians, of the value of Save the Children’s policy recommendations.
• Work with M&E team to build systems for research, analysis and documentation that underpin evidence based advocacy and influencing in the state.
• Develop dissemination and communication strategies for key advocacy messages.

Collaboration & Representation:

• Develop strategic relationships with other agencies engaged in advocacy and policy work in the state.
• Develop and maintain a network of external contacts with key individuals in the government, NGO sector, civil society and the media.
• Build the capacity of state team and partner agencies in advocacy and communications.
• Where required, represent Save the Children at various policy forums and advocacy opportunities in the state and at national levels.
• Where required, act as a spokesperson for Save the Children to a variety of external audiences including policy makers and the media.

Programme Development:

• Support the programme team in the development of research methodologies, data analysis, report writing and publication.
• Ensure clear links between programmatic approaches and advocacy strategies.
• Write regular progress reports, including annual impact monitoring reports.
• Perform other tasks, as required.

Requirements, Skills & Experience Essential:

• High degree of analytical skill, ability to influence and to communicate key advocacy messages effectively and convincingly to a diverse audience in the state.
• University degree in Social Sciences or Communications or a related field.
• 3-4 years’ experience in community engagement, advocacy and policy development.
• Good understanding of the possibilities and tactics for influencing decision and policy makers, politicians, donors, and other key actors.
• Knowledge of the media and its role in raising awareness and shaping public policy.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences at local and national levels.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with partner agencies and key contacts in the government, NGO, civil society and media sectors.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility, adaptability and ability to work effectively as a member of a team..
• Good computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, email / internet).
• Fluency in Hausa language
• Commitment to the values, mission, aims and policies of Save the Children.

Desirable:

• Experience in training others in community engagement and advocacy techniques and influencing tactics.
• Prior work experience in community engagement and advocacy in Northern Nigeria.
• Knowledge of the policies, functions, structures and decision-making processes of key national institutions with regard to Adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
• Experience working with adolescent on sexual and reproductive health will be an added advantage.

Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice) Accountability:

• Accuracy and timeliness in all areas of responsibility
• High level of accuracy in work, and ability to analyse complex sets of relationships and situations
• Holds self and others accountable

Ambition:

• Future-orientated, thinks pro-actively

Collaboration:

• Working effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

    Job Title: Adolescent, Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) Coordinator Locations: Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara The Organisation We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued. Role Purpose

• Save the Children is seeking an Adolescent, Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) coordinator who will provide leadership in the implementation, coordination and monitoring of all ASRH interventions and activities under the REACH project in Gombe, Katsina and Zamfara states.
• The REACH project aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health of adolescent girls and boys in hard to reach communities in Gombe, Zamfara, and Katsina states. S/he will focus on the improvement of quality of sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents including young mothers/parents at the community and facility-levels to receive the knowledge, skills and services they need to delay early childbearing and/or care for a healthy pregnancy, care during birth and postpartum period, practicing healthy timing, spacing of subsequent pregnancies and being informed of available modern contraceptive methods.
• The ASRH coordinator will work under the direction of the ASRH Advisor, provide oversight to local implementing partners, and also work closely with the field offices team, as well as the project director at the country office in Abuja,

Key Areas of Accountability Programme development and implementation:

• With the direction of relevant thematic leads, s/he will support the development of concept notes, work plans, budgets and other related activities of REACH within the programme in liaison with the project Director
• Ensure all ASRH plans and activities in the states are properly coordinated with the local implementing partners, and within the SCI management & operation systems
• Lead and coordinate the implementation of ASRH activities in the states in close collaboration with the implementing patners and Gender Equality Advisor
• Ensure conduct of quality trainings on ASRH to target health providers and partners towards improving the quality of health facility services to adolescents (Use of the Age & Life-stage Counselling Tools, Youth-Friendly Health Services, Interpersonal Communication Skills, Organizing Young Mothers’ Support groups, others). It is envisioned that this will include developing and/ or adapting training materials and tools as necessary.
• Work with the local partners to Implement the Mothers’ support group series of activities of the Adolescent First-time mothers/parents intervention
• Work closely with the ASRH and Gender Equality Advisors to ensure that gender transformative approaches are implemented and that gender equality is mainstreamed throughout all activities and interventions
• Emphasize the importance of normative change at implementation level in order to achieve project outcomes
• In collaboration with the REACH Country office team, ensure that quality quarterly reports and other documentation of ASRH interventions and activities are written in a timely manner and submitted to the Project dorector for vetting.
• Work with the business development team and RH technical advisors, where applicable to make technical contributions to proposals which have an ARSH component and ensure high quality narratives for submission.

Advocacy and Coordination:

• S/he will coordinate ASRH networking, and in close collaboration with community engagement and advocacy coordinator, work towards strengthening linkages/coordinating with relevant stakeholders and government agencies (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Youth and Development at state level, SPHCDA as well as other NGOs implementing ASRH activities), mobilizing partners and stakeholders in the establishment of technical working groups for ASRH in the State.

Behaviours (Values in Practice) Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Experience and Skills Essential:

• A Master's degree in Public Health or its a related field
• 3-5 years of working experience in ASRH (specifically normative change and understanding adolescent behaviors) and family planning in developing countries
• Strong understanding of gender equality principles
• Experience in monitoring programs and participating in evaluation
• Knowledge of the primary health care system with in depth familiarity and knowledge about ASRH activities in the state.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team setting with minimal supervision
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced work environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluency in English

Desirable:

• Fluency in Hausa will be an added advantage
• Programming experience in the North of Nigeria
• Experience in implementing gender-transformative approaches to health.

       

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