Fresh Job Vacancies at Save the Children Nigeria

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We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: WASH Coordinator

Location: Borno

Role Purpose

The WASH Coordinator has overall responsibility for an effective implementation of all WASH activities in Borno Humanitarian response.
The implementation cut across community, school and health facilities in coordination with Nutrition, Child Protection, Community Mobilization, Education, Food Security and Livelihoods sectors.

Key Areas of Accountabilty
Technical and Management:

Lead on WASH technical assessments in coordination with other Save the Children thematic areas and/or other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a specific analysis of children’s needs.
Provide inputs to the development of concept notes, proposals, WASH strategy, details implementation plans and master budgets;
Identify priorities and technically assist with assessments, designing and overseeing KAP and other surveys
Identify key gaps in WASH facilities and minimum standards in the WASH interventions by providing technical checking of WASH engineering and hygiene promotion aspects of the programme and proactively promote high-quality WASH technical approaches for the response;
Design and run water supply, sanitation and hygiene interventions as per national and SPHERE standards etc.
Prepare and oversee WASH programme implementation to ensure timely delivery of programme activities.
Develop program management/implementation tools for WASH programs in communities, schools and health facilities

Programme Support:

Working closely with the HR team, identify staffing needs (national) for WASH officers, and ensure timely recruitment and induction of new staff.
Work closely with the Logistics and Finance teams, to identify WASH programme supplies needs and coordinate to put in place a sensible phased procurement plan, budget and supply chain
Coordinate with other partners and other relevant authorities and administration to ensure coordinated implementation;
Participate in WASH Sector Coordination meetings, sharing information from Save the Children programmes
Coordinate with other sectors (Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, Food security and Livelihoods etc.) to ensure integration in program
Work closely with the MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning) team put in place a sector MEAL plan, ensuring this links to reporting requirements, and capacity build technical field staff in carrying out the work

Capacity Building:

Identify learning needs of WASH team and mentor team
Develop capacity building plan for WASH team and implement it in coordination with HR and line manager.
Maintain growth of team through appropriate measures e.g. create learning and sharing environment, on-the-job training
Coordinate with community mobilization team and other sectors for capacity building of community-based organization/groups and volunteers involved in WASH program

Representation & Advocacy & Organizational Learning:

Take steps to document lessons learned, from WASH programmes, for wider dissemination.
In collaboration with senior programme staff, assist in advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.
Attend relevant meetings and represent SCI

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.
Any other tasks assigned by line manager to achieve the objectives of the position.

Qualifications and Experience

Progressive management/coordination experience of working in an emergency and long-term WASH program;
Postgraduate qualification in Public Health, Sanitary Engineering, Public Health/ Civil Engineering or a related subject with specialization in environment or health education. Other related postgraduate qualifications related to water and sanitation.
At least 5 years of progressive experience in WASH programming with 2 years experience in a Humanitarian context
Ability to write a clear and well-argued assessment and project reports
Excellent communication skills and good knowledge of English
Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
The capacity and willingness to be flexible and accommodating in challenging and dynamic working circumstances.

Desirable:

Knowledge of Save the Children systems and ways of working
Experience of USAID/OFDA, ECHO, EU funded project

Skills and Behaviours (our 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 others to do the same
Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
Future orientated thinks strategically

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.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Humanitarian MEAL Manager

Location: Borno

Role Purpose

The primary objective of the post holder is to develop and implement the MEAL framework that will maintain accountability standards and ensure effective monitoring, evaluation and learning of the Humanitarian Response in Nigeria.
The post holder will develop and adapt M&E tools/approaches, build the capacity of the MEAL unit, provide support and guidance to operations teams, clearly define M&E functions across the Operations and PDQ teams, and support the accountability/MEAL team in rolling out the MEAL system across the response in all sectors.
The post holder will guide teams in achieving outcome/impact focused projects and ensure response programme accountability to beneficiaries, local government and non-government partners and SC Members and their donors in line with Save the Children’s, and donors, compliance requirements.
The post holder will represent Save the Children externally to partners and the wider Humanitarian community and will represent the MEAL interests of the Humanitarian Response to County Office level colleagues.
The post-holder will support the business development team in the design of new programs, and development of the MEAL inputs for the Humanitarian Response Plan.
The post holder will coordinate closely with the Technical Advisors at both Response and Country Office level.

Key Areas of Accountabilty
Monitoring and Evaluation:

Develop and implement a framework for monitoring programmes including rapid assessment and baseline tools, project specific monitoring tools, approaches, staff and team responsibilities and frequency of monitoring and evaluation activities
Develop clear, systematic and feasible monitoring plans for projects, based on project logframes (including data collection-frequency and data management)
Provide guidance to the MEAL Coordinator and MEAL staff to collect good quality monitoring data in a timely manner and collate/organize data received for reporting purposes
Assist in data quality assurance and compliance with all grants related reporting requirements and their timely submission.
Support project managers and technical advisors in conducting regular reviews of each project and ensure there is a clear process for staff/teams to raise concerns over programme progress and quality
Ensure that the Humanitarian Response office complies with SCI MEAL standard operating procedures including: the global quality framework, Global Initiative requirements, total reach and the advocacy measurement tool.
Ensure that all programmes are designed and implemented in accordance with international MEAL standards (such as, but not limited to, Accountability Partnership International (HAP-I) Benchmarks, SPHERE, DEC Accountability Framework, and the Core Humanitarian Standards)
Support the PDQ Team bringing together data and findings from across projects and operational regions to form a coherent basis for analysis of impact which promotes learning and strategy development.
Work closely with the regional MEAL team and share best experiences through the community of practice fora.
Support the MEAL team, and Project Managers with technology-driven and innovative systems, including Segovia platform, biometrics, and mHeath.
Develop and implement partner capacity building, including the inclusion of logframes in partner agreements and training for partner staff.

Accountability
Work closely with the Accountability Officer to:

Ensure that accountability to beneficiaries becomes a core element and success indicator for all program activities.
Build on progress to date on integrating accountability to beneficiaries (and particularly children) within programmes through supporting the establishment of feedback mechanisms and producing information materials in a way which mainstreams accountability across all programmes.
Contribute to improvements in existing policies and procedures to enhance effective accountability mechanisms.
Assess how beneficiaries can best be involved at every stage of the programme cycle.
Develop regular trend analysis of complaints on the organisation and sharing for wider learning and improvement.
Coordinate with the Accountability Coordinator at Abuja level to ensure information flow for CRM.

Learning
Work closely with the Country Office Knowledge Management Advisor, the Technical Advisors, and the Response MEAL team to:

Promote learning throughout the Response Team, particularly on issues of programme quality, policy analysis and advocacy. Ensure new analysis and information is constantly available.
Communicate program learning (through document sharing, presentations, etc) internally to provide guidance and technical input on strategic direction and programme design, and externally with key stakeholders (NGOs, government partners, working groups, etc).
Ensure that lessons learned are properly documented and are incorporated into programme implementation and design.
Regularly produce and report on best practices and case studies.
Participate in designing and implementation of studies, assessments and learning in coordination and cooperation with PDQ teams and programme staff.