Vacancies in Nigeria at Save the Children, March 10th 2015
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children. We work in 120 countries. We save children's lives; we fight
for their rights; we help them fulfil their potential.
We work together, with our partners, to inspire breakthroughs in the way
the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change
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We have over two million supporters worldwide and raised 1.9 billion
dollars last year to reach more children than ever before, through
programmes in health, nutrition, education, protection and child rights,
also in times of humanitarian crises.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Emergency Human Resources Coordinator
Location: Nigeria
Key Areas of Accountability
Representation:
- Assist HPM in developing and maintaining contacts with other key
INGO players to undertake a regular review of their terms and
conditions of their salary structures and of the security procedures
within emergency operations.
Human Resource Management:
- Assist the HPM in the development of needs for development /
training for Humanitarian staff to effective respond to emergencies.
- Identify training courses and their costs and maintain a list of available courses.
- Research training opportunities as prioritised by the SMT or as requested by supervisors.
Recruitment:
- Carry out emergency recruitment as per policies in place
- Maintain strict timelines in recruiting emergency staff
- Maintain a database of recruitment related advertising agencies - including websites, professional forums, and costs.
- Receive applications from prospective candidates and maintain an applicant database.
- Develop a standard induction pack for emergencies and maintain an induction schedule for new staff.
Administration:
- Maintain leave-tracking and performance review schedule for all field staff.
- Maintain Personnel files for Humanitarian staff and supervise emergency staff records and files in other sub-offices.
- Review T&C on a six monthly basis with HR Manager.
- Review the staff health policy and working conditions of emergency staff every six months with the HPM and HR Manager.
- Arrange for visas for emergency staff travelling externally.
- Provide admin support to supervisors to arrange training opportunities for staff.
- Supervise general administrative duties (Support Service Officer) for the Humanitarian team.
Staff Health and Safety:
- Maintain records of all incident reports.
- Provide relevant information necessary for the management of the
combined accident and workmen compensation and group life insurance
cover for staff.
- Registration of staff with Health Management Organisations (HMO) and administration of other necessary updates with the HMO
Child Safeguarding:
- Work with Child Safeguarding Adviser, Field Managers and Child
safeguarding focal points at the field offices on implementing
strategies to strengthen Child Safeguarding Policy compliance.
- Training staff and consultants in the CS Policy (awareness raising, management systems, prevention, monitoring, and response
- Maintain basic management and statistical information regarding
child abuse and exploitation cases; monitor and analyze data on
incidence, identify trends and impact of our prevention strategy
- Conduct or support the child safeguarding investigations and
ensure complaints and investigation reports are sent to Country Office
- Monitor the progress of all child safeguarding cases and prepare monthly CS reports
- Ensure all new emergency employees at the Field Offices and Abuja have had a thorough CS and Code of conduct policy induction
- Ensure that beneficiaries of SCI programmes are made aware of
the conduct they can expect of SCI staff in line with the requirements
of the CS policy and how to raise their concerns safely and
confidentially by working with Programs Units
Skills & Experience
- Administrative & General Skills:
- Level of Education - Degree
- Specified Study Area - HR/ Law/Administration / Social Sector
- General Communication & Interpersonal Skill Level - Excellent
- Language Requirements - English - Excellent
- Level of IT Expertise Required - Excellent
Experience Expectations:
- Desired Number of Years Prior Experience in a Similar Role - 2
- Ability to work in emergency situations
- Staff & Performance Management HR Administration
Job Title: Nutrition in Emergency Adviser
Job ID: #882091
Location: Abuja
Job Descriptions
- The Nutrition Adviser is the technical lead in this emergency.
- The Nutrition Adviser will participate in the Nutrition working
group, lead on sectoral consultation and representation, review of
current nutrition programming in Nigeria, guiding assessment design,
recruitment of initial staff, training of assessment teams and the
finalisation of approach for the Nigerian humanitarian response.
- The Nutrition Advisor will lead sectoral input into individual
proposals and the development of the humanitarian response strategy.
They will define what inputs will be needed, design the training and
management processes for the response. As resources become available,
the nutrition advisor will lead on programme start-up, staff recruitment
training and support to nutrition manager and staff as they come on
line. The Nutrition advisor will then revert to the more usual TA role -
providing a monitoring and mentoring role to ensure the quality of the
nutrition components of the response.
Main Responsibilities
Programme Support:
- Review the current nutrition programming approach in Nigeria and
ensure appropriate incorporation into the humanitarian response design
and start-up
- Lead on the definition and organisation of multi-sectoral and
stand-alone nutrition technical assessments as appropriate (including
community needs, and capacity assesment for nutrition programming).
- Define the Nutrition strategy,- assessments approach and
programme design to ensure locally appropriate high quality Nutrition
technical approaches within the Nigerian response.
- Work with the other sector leads and other external sector
agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all
assessments include a specific analysis of children's needs.
- Working with the Humanitarian Manager and Deputy Team Leader,
develop the Nutrition sector response plans, phased master budgets and
contribute to Save the Children's overall response strategy.
- Working closely with the Humanitarian Manager or Team Leader,
support fundraising for the Nutrition sector, including development of
high quality concept notes and proposals, and engagement with donors'
technical Advisers.
- Prepare and oversee Nutrition programme implementation to ensure
timely delivery of programme activities (for example, monitoring
against logframes, individual performance management workplans).
- Prepare timely programme and donor reports on project activities
in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external
donor requirements.
- Working closely with the HR team, identify Nutrition staffing
needs (both national and international) for nutrition programmes, and
ensure rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
- Identify Nutrition programme supplies needs and coordinate with
the logistics team to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan.
- Working closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation team put in
place a sector M & E plan, ensuring this links to reporting
requirements, and capacity build technical field staff in carrying out
the work.
- Working closely with the Accountability lead put in place
accountability activities for your thematic area. Ensure both direct and
remote accountability systems are incorporated into programme design,
ensuring that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered in
Nutrition programme design and implementation.
- To ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are
maintained in accordance with the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of
Conduct.
Capacity Building:
- Review existing programme approaches and training processes for
nutrition in Nigeria. Oversee development and deliver technical training
material that will improve aspects of Nutrition work within Save the
Children, at country level.
- Develop learning plans and training processes for Save the
Children nutrition staff and partners. Mentor and be a role model for
less experienced staff.
- Ensure trainings achieve capability outcomes- all trainings
define what participants will be able to do at the end of the training
and how this ability will be measured and short-fallings incorporated
into staff development plans
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
- Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts
of other agencies and Government, and take a leadership role within
Interagency Coordination forums, such as the Nutrition cluster, ensuring
the specific needs of children are being addressed. This may involve
taking the lead in Nutrition cluster working groups.
- Take steps to document lessons learned, from Nutrition programmes, for wider dissemination.
- In collaboration with senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.
- In collaboration with SC Nutrition colleagues, feed in learning,
experiences and evidence to relevant global advocacy objectives.
- To identify opportunities and material to contribute to
Nutrition communications and media work, acting as a spokesperson when
required.
General:
- Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect
to child protection, code of conduct, health and safety, equal
opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
Qualification
Essential:
- Significant management experience in emergency, fragile state or development Nutrition programmes
- Previous first phase emergency response experience
- Education to Masters level in Public Health Nutrition, or a related subject, or equivalent field experience
- Previous experience of managing a Nutrition team at national level
- Previous experience of Nutrition project management and
programme coordination, implementing Nutrition programmes within donor
constraints, on time and within budget
- Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability
- Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation skills
- Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands on implementation capacity
- Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff in Nutrition technical skills
- Experience of representation and ability to represent SC effectively in external forums.
- Experience of preparing successful funding proposals for donors
- Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong influencing skills and experience in advocacy
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
- A high level of written and spoken English
- The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and
accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
- Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a
good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to
ensure this continues to underpin our support
- Experienced: 3-5 years
Desirable:
- Language skills in English
- Experience or knowledge of working and living in relevant regions/contexts
- Specific experience of designing and managing DFID and ECHO projects
- Specific experience of working in consortia projects.
Job Title: Deputy Team Leader
Job ID: #882106
Location: Abuja
Job Descriptions
- The Deputy Team Leader is responsible for managing the strategic
design and modification of the humanitarian response in line with the
Response Strategy and Master budget. This will include supporting the
Humanitarian Programme Manager to identify needs and resources and
elaborating programme recommendations for the emergency response in line
with Save the Children Nigeria SMT and regional response priorities.
- The post-holder will develop the response strategy and
identification of the necessary resources for the response. The DTL will
support the Humanitarian Programme Manager by ensuring the Technical
Advisor teams provide appropriate design, training and MEAL functions
for programming in North East Nigeria.
- The DTL will establish working relations with other agencies,
looking for opportunities for partnership and harmonisation of approach
and with donors to ensure resources are made available to the response
- The DTL will negotiate the positioning of the humanitarian
response within the Country Programme and support the SMT to ensure the
suitable resourcing of the response. manage programmes or country
support functions and negotiate and network at an international level.
- They will ensure that all relevant Save the Children policies
and procedures with respect to child safeguarding, safety and security,
code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies are in
place.
- The post holder will play a strategic role in defining the
effective scale up and management of Save the Children emergency
programmes to maximise impact and enable positive change for children.
Main Responsibilities
Programme Support:
- Assume overall oversight of the Nigerian response within the regional emergency response in collaboration with the HPM.
- Ensure the large number of multiple grants (across up to 10
sectors), contribute to the achievement of the response strategy
ensuring strict compliance of programme activities with Save the
Children national and global policies and procedures and with relevant
donor regulations and agreements, SPHERE guidelines and the NGO code of
conduct.
- Lead on Nigeria Response Strategy, country level strategic
planning, action plans, and monitoring to ensure an effective emergency
response and a smooth transition to recovery phase
- Lead on the development of a 24 month master budget for the
Nigerian response, based on direction from the SMT, predicted funding
for the North East response. Take overall leadership on the
implementation of national level budgets of US$ 10-20 million of annual
budget, keeping relevant stakeholders informed and ensuring any
corrective actions are taken.
- In coordination with the TAs and the awards team, ensure the
preparation of timely programme and donor reports on project activities
in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external
donor requirements.
- Work with the TA's develop scaling up plans for programming,
based on existing Nigerian experience and the experience during the
early months of the response
- Establish project monitoring plans and systems for identifying
and tracking the indicators and develop processes/procedures and forms
to support monitoring and inform learning.
- Ensure optimal safety and security management procedures and
practices are in place for the emergency response programme and
continually monitor the safety and security situation, adapting staff
safety and security procedures accordingly in collaboration and
cooperation with the Country Security Manager.
- Oversee effective establishment of a functioning logistics
systems to procure, store and distribute stock, supplies and services
for the timely delivery of project objectives at national level
- Through embedding direct and remote processes into each sector programme design, ensure strong accountability to beneficiaries
- Plan, identify and resource appropriate and effective structure
& staffing needs for entire response (including ensuring that
personnel policies are in accordance with national laws)
- Oversee the development & implementation of staff well-being
(policy) and ensure appropriate staff well-being and R&R policy and
processes in place
Capacity Building:
- Ensure that all programme designs and budgets sufficiently
incorporate pre-deployment training requirements and capacity building
plans and performance management systems are in place. Ensure training
plans include capability statements and measuring systems to allow the
development of the requisite competencies in staff at each level to
ensure timely delivery of a quality of response
- Coach and mentor international and national staff and partners
and link in to wider organisational talent development mechanisms.
Representation & Advocacy & Organisational Learning:
- Represent Save the Children's emergency response on a national,
regional and international level to donors, the media and members of the
humanitarian community.
- Help shape broader sector strategies through influence of and
leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, ensuring the
specific needs of children are being addressed
- Regularly undertake high level representation and advocacy with
Government partners and officials as well as donor representatives.
Establish systems for communication with local Government partners,
relevant line departments and community representations in the project
area(s).
- Lead on organisational level operational practice, innovation and learning in consultation with Humanitarian team.
- Oversee the implementation of Save the Children policies and
procedures with respect to child rights and safeguarding, health and
safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies
Qualification
Essential:
- Extensive experience of working within a senior management role
within a complex country programme in an emergency response or fragile
state.
- Previous experience of managing programme teams in large-scale first phase emergency response is essential
- Education: MA / MSc level (or equivalent field experience)
- Senior management experience of multi-national, multi-sector team at a Country Director level.
- Experience of managing multi-donor, multi-site programmes
(including ECHO, DFID and OFDA) of GBP 5m+ in a first phase response at
regional or country level
- Multi-site security management in insecure environments
- Experience of international level representation with key stakeholders, and co-ordination with other NGOs/UN
- Experience of international media representation and advocacy
- Experience of M&E and beneficiary accountability systems in large complex programmes
- Experience of developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors
- Proven ability to influence change at an operational and strategic level
- Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
- A high level of written and spoken English
- The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and
accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
- Commitment to the aims and principles of SC. In particular, a
good understanding of the SC mandate and child focus and an ability to
ensure this continues to underpin our support
Desirable:
- Fluent in English and Hausa
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications explaining why you are suitable and CV's to:
[email protected] State position clearly in the subject field as applications without appropriate subject will be disqualified.
Note:
- Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Application Deadline 13th March, 2015